Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. APRIL 21, 18/8—SIXTEEN PAGE 9 RELIGIOUS. The Establishment of a Pa~ pal Hierarchy in Scotland. An Aggressive Policy to Be Waged Against Calvin- istic Puritanism, The Strange Prophecy of Count Cavour, the Great Italian Statesman. He Foretells the Coming of a New Religion, zad Gives His Reasons, Protestantism a Purely Nega- tive Belief, Born of and Prolific of Schism. Repetition of the Last Century of Paganism, with Its Count- less Subdivisions. General Notes --- Personals — Dubious Piety—-Services To-Day. TOE SCOTCIT HIERARCHY. RE-EZSTABLISHMENT OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS IX SCOTLAND ZLondon Times, Anril4. Scotland is the victim of a new ** Papal aggres- glon:™ hut she is bearing the trial with a quietude which does much credit to her good sense. The Jetter from Rome which we published on Monday rave a summary of the Apostolical missive by which the Pope bas created s Roman Catholic BierarchiF for the northern part of the Kingdom. Jle hus formed an Archbishopric of Glasgow. a Bishopric of Aberdeen, another of Dunkeld, a third of Wiston or Galloway, snd a fourth of Argyle and the Isles. The change i not very great, for, prac- 1ically, these paper dioceses havelong existed. and {he Bishops wnohave now received territorial titles have escrciced Episcopal functions as Vicars- Apostolic. They will have now more oflicial Gignity withn their own communion, and, perbaps. more power over their clergy: but katis ali. The new, like the old, Papal aggres- tion i€ a matter of porchment rather than of fact, and most of the Scotch have dispiaved great good sense by attending to more practical affairs. A emall minority of zenlots have, itis true, taken the opinion of counsel as to the legality of the Papsi decree, and they have been advised that itis not legul, vut also that the avplication of it can- ot be punished. In other words, they have learnt that o paver edict is sppropriately met by a papes prohibition. Dut most of the Scotch people evi dentiy see no reason why the Pope should notstyle = highly-respectable ecclesiastic Archbishop of Glasgow; #o long as the title can carry with it no lecal power over unwilling people, his Holinees ouzht surcly to have asgreat liberty of granting titular distinctions as the Free- Musons. And yet jt is somewhut strange to fiud tae Tope busy with schemes for the spiritual government and the corversion of the Scotch. As a nation tney might seem to be facther from Izome than any oth- er people in Enrope. They made their Reformation amodel of completeness. Partly because their character was pecaliarly willful, " partly because therr priesthood had been conspicuous for mora badness even in o bad time, partly because their earhiest Reformers had studied 1 the trenchant school of Genevu, aud partly because their nobles resarced the Church lands with passionate greed, Cutholiciem was ulmost extirpated in ut_least thé tonthern part of Scotland. The people became Puritane in a sense which makes even the Puritan- jsm of England seem lax. Their Covenanters were the gnmmest, most intolerant, intremd. and intercsing _ Zzemots in the whole com- pass of the Christian Church. Even the more Liveral ~ Scotch wouid put up with no Episcopacy, because that form of Church zovernment was linked to the most deadly Xindsof Papal_error. Such wee the theological Dbasixof that Scottish nation which is known to istory, But there was unother Scotland. which the Reformution ecarcely touched, and which lived in_comparative obscurity. The Highlands were severed from hietorical Scotland by ruce. lunuaye, Babits. dress, and_ignorance. They were cut off from the really civilized part of the country by mutual antipathies as well a2 by physical barriers. Macaulay does ot ecxascerate when Le says that Defore 1ne Union the Highland garb scemed to nine Scotchmen out of ten the dress of u thief. In trath, bt 18 precisely what it osnally was. North of the Ihgrland iine. thieving was the most honorable of all occupations, if conducted on a sufli- ciently larze 6cale, The clans anticipated the mazime illustrated by ome modern bankruptcies. Sir Walter Scott did not so much discover as invent ihe picturesgue baroarians woose fanciful chivalry hearrayed in impo-sible tartan. The separation of the Highlands from the Lowlands had the effect * ofJeaving the Catholicism of the Celtic districty atmost untouched for more than a century after the historic section of the country bad become the most Protestant part of Europe.” Indeed, among ihe vastnesées of the Highlands the principles of the Reformation were epread less by the zeul of mis- sionacics than by a percmptory word of command from chiefs who had seen fit to exchange a Pazan version _of Catholicism for a scarcely less mytho- Jozicul variety of the Protestant creed. In later days, no doubt, when the system of clanehip was weakened or extirpated, when the wall of separation between Lowlande and Hiehlands was broken down, and when Presbyterian churches ~ werc planted in many of 1he remotest waetes, tne fervor of the Celtic char- scter made the missionary work essy. Now there are no more zealous Protestants iu the world than those of Inverneeshire and toe Hebrides. Butinto suany of the giens, on the other nand, Protestant- iem never penetrated. They were fervidly Cath- olic at s time when, in the southern part of the island, no Catholic' conld have existed, save in hiding. Indeed, had not large numbers of High- Jandess emigrated to America or eouzht 2 refuge 1s the towns after the Dattle of Colloden and the sanflsfl!llun or the :alt D'l lhcii] tribal lands. o very great proportion of the Highland people would have been Catholic to tnis day. . Byers ae 1t is, rome tracts of country are suM almost 25 Catholic as they were ~before the Mef- ormation. Aggressive Presbyicrisnism and the encompassing intelligence of the dominant fect have failed 0 make any serious_inroads on those strongholds of the old religion. Theycan buast that they have au unbroken tepure of their Teligion. Butitisin the towns that Catholicisi Das its chief positione, for it 18 to Glusgow and Ed- fuburg that the dispossessed Hishlanders flocked tofind work, and, in the Irish, they have heen Jomned by fellow-liborers of kindred ‘sace and re- lizion. Catholiciem has, therefore, considerable firength in Scotland, and it finds 3 steady siream of recruits in new-comers from lreland. It has aleu protited by that tide of relizions zeal which Dae ewept over the whole of Western Europe dur- ing the present eneration, and agitated Catholic elmost as much as Protestant countrics, The new- iy-created territorial Bishops must be sanzuine, bowever: if they believe that their Church will make much impreseion on the hard fibre of Scottish Presbyienans by mere preaching, or that any con- fiderable portion of the pcople iy likely to drift 'k to amore ceremonial form of relizion than the unadorned Puritaniem of the national creed. ree centuries of Calvanistic theology and demo- eratic Church government. acting on the intellect- tal and the mora} temperament of the Scotch peo- Tle, seem to huve destroyed the very capacity of fuch bellgl and ench feelines as gmive strength to tonie. The Roman Church flourishes best among iehiy-emational ruces, gifted with 8 genee of 3uly and an indolent impatience of abetract bought. Wuatever elee the bare ritual and the Eizhly-rationali-ed tesching of the Scofch Fresby- teriamsm have done, they have certainly not de- ‘veloved the emotional side of the national char- L'ugr. or & perception of artistic harmony._or. an sdifference o metapnyeical distinctions. No re- i7i008 f2itn of equal power has ever created o ;E" beautiiul traditions, such as those 1hat loat about the most ignorant _of Cathalic ;‘ A mytnology of Scotch Pres- Flenanism, — if ~ such & creation were 2etically concervable, wonld be as zrim and bare 2sthe moors znd the bogs amid which the Cove- :-n(mmak refuge from the dragoons of Claver- euse and Dalziel. But the moral and the in- tellectual fycunties have undoubtedly been tlrenctlened in a remarkable degree bv the ma- Uonal faith; and the type of character thu crested Sanpive but slender hopes to the new Catholic lerarchy. At the same time, it is ssid that the Catholic dlergy of Scotland have # much more agsrersive Cler than they posseséed a generution aro. te older race of country pricsts scem 1o have tn mocels of quiet and even timid govd-nature. ¥ Wwere educated at one time in & little semi- a7 among the Inlls, and thes usmally went to lamznca, or Dousy, or Rome to finich their Eagjes. Tuot, even when they came back L seile down for life in thew mnative Bens Ctnoy gl ned . the essential {iiliies of" their original peasant mature, they passed agmelriests aud half farmers, {ridiet and blameless exictence. Relizions con- 'Overey of tne uzoressive kind lay far beyond the Jeacetui conception of their daties. and they, 100k 20wt in polieal discussion. But. 1f tney made foconverts and had little general influence, they ed on zood terms with ali their neighbors, and they usually won the respect, if not the friend- ship, of the stray Protestants whom they knewr, A Scotch Georve Eliot might find an unworked mine of quiet, secluded, individual life in the re- ligious communities amid which they passed their unnoticed days. Buot that old race of ecclesiastics secms 1o be Dearly cxtinct. When the Scotch priests now return from Continental seminarics, they bring with them, it is said, the disdain for compromife. the eagernees to win back old pos- Sckrlong, and the vpassionate hatred of heresy which are the mental and the moral eqnipments of Ultramontanism. The same transition occurred Jong 220 on the Continent. In France the easy- £oing Gallicaniam has been replaced by the bitter- est fanaticism in Earope. and itisa continuation of the same change that we ec in_Scotiand. The cstablishment of the new Hierarchy is one of the results. The new priests are much more accom- plished than the old, much better theologinns. aud far more laborious, Thev are making Scotch Catholicism less of a merely inheritea creed snd more of an active political as well as relizious agency. 1t wonld be usclesa 10 waste regrets over what s in accordance with the whole course of Europcan thought, and the result of fundamental changes in the constitution and moral ties of modern society. Bt it is none the less true that 1he conntry Lius lost a zood deal by the substitntion of pricsts whose creed is a call to battle for ec- clesiastics to whom it was a tranquillizing habit. A STRANGE PROPHECY. 18 THERR TO BE A NEW RELIGION? A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer answers the anestion in the afirmative, and gives the follow- ing as bis reasons: In the concluding chapter of the **Memoirs of Count Cavour," which was published simultane- ously in Rome and Geneva last month, the biog- rapher (Col. de ia Motte-Baudin) describes his last interview with the great Italian statesman, and mentions a prophecy which acquires a singu- lar interest, from the fact that Cavour's social and political predictions, which appeared quite as strange and far more premature at first, have since been fulfilled to the very letter. The far-sighted*Italian foretola the downfall of Bonapartism at the time when the *‘Second-of- December Man ™ stood in the zenith of the political Beavena: anticipated the now gereral opinion that the temporal power of the Papacy 1 nnienable by fall twenty years, and knew that slavery had reached the eleventh hour of its existence a gooil while before Alexander L was scizeq with that fit of gencrosity, aud while Dixie was atill the fertile mother of I'residents. Cavonr's last sickness was an azgravation of the hectic decline, which had wasted his strensth for eomie yeare, and while there was yet a shadow of Thope he consulted native and foreign physicians, and waded throush the diswal swamp of patholog- ical literatare with restless enerzy: but when he knew that he was booked for the long jonrney, he proved that with the ekepticism of his stoic ances- tors he had inherited a share of their fortitude, and astonished ‘his friends by his intrepid humor and his calm reflections upon_the future of the world that was about to dismiss him from its portals, and, as he fully believed, withont a retuen ticket. ~+1f you knew how your country will miss you,” Baudin told bim, " you could hardly ne’xo ro- slamed to your fate. Teli me, 18 *Hamlet's alter- nsuve’ really a matter of inditference to youx" “+Lariviere st passe,” end Cavour: **ltaly has pasecd the danzerous ford, and 1 dare fay will be able to muddle alonz on terra frma with- out me. Dut as for myself, speaking iroma specator's rather than from an actor's stund- point, 1 do not deny that I regret my exit from the play-house. I have witnessed some vretty lively performances in my time, but 1 shall wiss the #rand sensation picce. Before the curtan of this century drops we shall have a new religion " AL the rate our Enghsh-speaking fellow- creatures arc manufucturing that article, we shall haven pretty ood stock in hand by that time,” Bandin. aid the old infidet. **I do not mean a pew hiypocrisy. T mean s new rel.gion." ++ Don't you think that the Protestants are in earncgt **Yos, in their protest against Catholicism: so much., ndeed. that they huve protested it out of the better vortion or the world. Lut what they bave substituted for it is purely negative: born of echism and prolific of new schism; skepticism the very soul and essence of it. ““Tut will not that skepticiem prevent the growth of what you call a new religiont” “‘Indced nof. Rotten trecs make excellent maaure for new trees, you know: our old creed bas become a heap of vesetable mold, tne very €oil for a new crecd to germinate in. 'On naked rationalism no such plant_can grow, but the world 13 as far from being rational as from being— -~Being what$” **Trinitarian, if 1 most epeak it out. Of course, Tmean the living portion of the world, not the big petrifiedtrees of Asia." “‘Batamong our own varietics of trecs there are some pretty 7ood-sized oness™” **Yes, {n circumference; bat that is no criterion for their staying power: & bollow oak can often boast of an imposinz girth, Of course, the col- lapse of the old shell ‘Wil “come off. with a crash both audible and sengivle o the ends of the world. It will be_catastrophic, epectacular, and exciting, worth while sceinz. in enort: ond that's what maies me Ioth 10 leave. It's hard toleave on the very eve of 2 phenomenon that occurs only once 000 years or 50." And 5o vou think a few years more would bave been sufficient to—"" “To witness ity Yex, sir. hollow. ™ ToneBut infidels bave battered it in vain ever so ong. +*For good reasons. An old creed can never be superseded by infldelity. which means indifference onthe whole, but by u new creed, " *+1t can, but wiil 1t? And who knows when?'* **During the next thirty or forty years. The decay of an old faith aiways coincides with the advent of & new one. *What makes yon think so3" «+ The bistory of religions. ** The conversation then shifted to comparative mythology and certain topics 1a regard to which M. d"Alembert said that ** prudence ovlizes ong to be shortsighted unless one happeus to_be the King of Prossia.” Bu the above quotations may be sufll- cieat, perhaps moro than #uflicient, to let us rear that Cavour knew wazat he was talking about. The church of his country denonnced him us 2 Voltairian and rancorous infidel. but the type of his infidelity was_generally different from that of the Freuch scofler’s, It was not borne of spiteand scurrilous irreverence, but of a sublime Deismand of idenls which foand o room under the roof of an Ttalian church. Love of truth. of course, implics that abhorrence of untruth which Johneon called an Lonest hate, but Cavour never permitted that hate 10 become personal; he knew how to fight er- ror withont insniting his erring fellow-inen, and hever advanced a_heterodox opinion if he could not back it with reasons which showed that he was speaking within the truth, and which enabied oth- ers to infer what he might forbear to say Baudin himeelf was a Literal. in whose presence he might have dropped any conventional mask: but his answers—even to what lawyers could eall leading questions—are they not sugzestive under- statements of perhaps distressing, but distressing Iy undcniable fact? Ix it not true that on all sides, snd to a degree unparalleled in istory, we find men und women wio are no longer satisfied with their old local religion. thirsting for belicf, and passiopately and restlessly secking for a pew faith? What else means that raoid though ephemeral success of evers new schism, every new pubdivision of the countlexs rects which already exist besides the orthodox churcn, which- ever that may be? Men and women are throwing themeelves wildly upon every new tfeacner, in their restices longing tor peace. fora refuge irom the torments of an unsatistied want: they rosn forward into_¥acuum, into absolute mon-belief, Jike Stuart Mill and Swinburne, or backward intd the gloomy but calmer mizht of Romunism, like Dryden, Dr. Newman, and the Marquis of Bute. We bave no popuiar orthodox preacher, —iha another undeniadle and very suggestive fact cither becanse sifted men bicome heterodox in spite of thcmselves, or because the cloud of or- tnodoxy obscures briliiant talents, which me- dizeval audicnces, standing inawie of that cloud, were perhaps able to sce. Our great theological The old shell Is very orators are appreciated ag oralors rather than s and it fs very provable that our theologians, Beechers, Dean Stanlevs, and Pere Hyaciuths are drawing large audiences rather in Epitz of their theology, and would be quite a8 successful it they preached on Sculiemann's Mycenz or the Coiorado petrifactions. p ) The unmixed, unmodified doctrine of the patris- tic era hus become almost_impossible, cven in Jtaly ond Spain. Even in Southern Europe and the remotest corners of our Spanish_republica the opnlar faith kas dnfted dayward with euch rapid- fty that u divine of the St Augustine type would call our zeneration a race of intiacl; Tiardly 200 years ago_the wilchcrart and demon belief was Full so firmly rooted that wheuevern preacher mentioned the Old Gentleman of many aliases the coneternation of his audience was such that the churca resounded with sighs and groans. Now even a South Mexican priest avoids ullusion fo the great ex-bugbear for fear of provokinz s gizgle. Neither ccumenical councils nor gencral con- ventions and musical revivals can help or disguise the fuct that the eancated classes of Europe and America are—well, it is hard to say what they sre, éxcept that they are not believers in the doctrines of the church which they tolerate and—suute d¢ mieur—eupoort, = Now tnis coudition of things spiritual s pre- citely analogous to that of the isst century of The Stoics, Platomsts, and Pytha- re puzan Protesiants, and. their count- jess eubdivisione corresponded exactly to the sub- divisions of our non-Catholic sccte. The temples, oracles, and augurial establishments were supported by men who did not like to deviate from the costom of theif fathers, and could not deny that some of the augure, haruepices, etc., were estimavle men, whom 1t _would be inhumane if not ungodly to starve. The skeptics bad learned the viluc of tolerance by bilter experience and were t0o lad to beleft in beace to disturb the peace of others; they might yearn for the dieestanlishment of an unbelievable belief, but hardiy knew how to begin; besides, the templés had cost such lols of money and were so beautifui that_iconoclastic tendencics were restrained by a sort of artistic piety. There was no lack of puzan Voitaires, Tom Paines, and Heiprich Ieines: they even hads dramatic Ingersoll, old infdel “Aristophanes. who adapred -*libersl lectures™ for the stage, where poor sinners in Tartarns howled like quadrupeds, while the festive pods got onaneciar epree or aanced Olympic can-cams. One enterprising genius, the sophist Diagorae, raveled through tbe country und drew large honses by arguing slternately for and against the same proposilion, proving and disproving the ex- istence of Jnviter, the creaibility of the “oracles, etcc, in order 10 show the utter futility of positive tenets oo supernataral questions. Such things o provoked blood-cardling anathemas from - Delphi and the palace of poutilex maximus, but Diazoras & Co. replied by manifeston ln Charles Brad- Taugh, and generally had the laugh on their side; they were countenauced by the opea OF tacit sym- pathy of n large majority, and knew that ‘the pricets had_grave reasons 'to dread a plediscite. The orthodox party, on the other haud, tried 10 regain lost zround by revivals, ascribed every pub- lic calamity to the wrath of some negiected zod or demi-god, excited the rubble. by ghastly predic- tions, or fried to tear the liberal market by a stun- ning'miracle or two; but it wouldn't work. Day Jight bad_ndvanced fo far that Clcero wondered how two augurs conld meet with gravity; and the comedian, ‘Terentius, conld make his’ audience Iaugh 111l they shrieked by mimicking the solemn 100k and occssional foxy leer of 3 baruspex. But there were men and women whe refused to join_in that Iaugh, and longed with 21l thefr hearls for the good old time when people had somethini 10 belicve in. when the basis of human hopes and human virtues wss. or scemed to be, something better than a fiement. They turned East and West, dayward and n substitute for their lost faith; they strayed into Judaism and the old Serapis worship of ancient Egypt. The passion of Roman women for Jewinl ries is one of the complaints of Juvenal, and the successfal exorciam of & Jewish Rabbi converted the Empress Popows. Other Orientul religions Were even more successfal the worship of Mithru and Osiris attracted their thousands, and the writ- inge of Roman Listorians arc crowded with allu- sions to their progress. Apuleius describes the Roman women, at_the dawn of a winter day, Dreaking the ice of the Tiber to plunge three times into its sacred stream with all the entlusiasm of our colored Baptists on the bauks of the Chatta- Toochee, dragging themsclves on-bleeding knees around the field of Tarquin. offering to undertake bilgrimages to EZypL 10 seek the holy water for the shrine of Tsis, fondly dreauing that ihey had heard the voice of the zoddess. Even the spiritualistic abberrations of onr cen- tury bad a parallel in the mysticism of the Neo- Platonists, who held scances ¢ la Katic Kine, substituted preternatural revelations for rational science and went into ecstasies about aliezed com- municatione from the epirit world. while philo<o- phers looked on with Zood-humored satire, and tho official miracle-mongers of the established re- ligion, with the envy of a trades-union which sees its monopoly endangered—tout comme chez nous. Thesigne of that time and oureare appollingalike, and Cavour's prediction is, therefore, nothing but a legitimate inference from analogies,’ If the de- cay of an old faith coincides with the ndventof a ey, the advent sermons will be preached before long, and the ensning condict will dwarf that of the Reformation. _The new Reformadoes will not march azainst Italy, bnt against Palestine; against the principle which the author of ** Lothalr™ calis Semitinm. As Cavour eaye. for peonle who, like him, can stand aside, it will be decidediy worth e seemg. ‘hosc who desire 1o refresh their memories fn rezard to the historical paraliel drawn between the Tast century of pasanism and the age in which we Tive, will 6nd suflicient material in Lecky s *istory of European Morsls from Augustus to Charle- magne,” and one of the chapters of Renan's **Apostles.” Nelther Lecky nor Repan, how- ever. look at the situation then #nd now in the tight chosen by Cavour and his commentat “James Anthony Froude, the eminent Enlish histortan, has scnt an elaborate article to the Jnfer- national Eeview of Newjyork, containing most re- markable statements - apon the subject of science and reliwion. He holds that the pregent state of relizions opinfon throughont the world s extremety critical: that theo- logians no longer speal witls nuthority: that those wito uphold orthoduxy cammot ngree on what ground to defend it: {bat materialism all over Europe f respectfnlly. listencd w when it afliems that the claim of revelution cannot be maintained: that the existence,of God and of a future state, the ongin of man, the nature of conscience, and the disTinction befween good and cvil, are all open questions. e saya that no serious consequences, at least in England and Amenca, are yet outward- 1y apparent, and that the entire seneration at Present alive may pass away before the inward change shows it<alf in maried cxternal symptoms but that it is certain that religions opinion g mov. ing witn_increasing £pced along a track swhich it will never retrace, and toward fsues infinitely momentous. LEO’S ALLOCUTION. HE LAMENTS THE LOSS OF THE TEMPORAL DOy BUT HAILS THE NEW SCOTTISH B 3 VENERABLE BRETHREN: As 0on as we were called, through your suffragee. in the past month, toassume the government of the Universal Church, and to- hold here on earth the piace of the Prince of Pastors, our Lord Jesus Cirist, we felt our- seives moved by the greatest apprehension and fear, on account of that thorough knowledge which we experience of our own unworthiness, as well as the weakness of our etrength to bear such o burden, which appearcd the greater on account of the eplendid and Mlustrions fame of our predecessor, Pius IX. Ile, that great pastor of the flock of Christ, always com- batting more and more energetically for truth and jnstice,—so exemplarily sustaining the creat bur- den of the administration of Christianity,—hos rendered not only this Apostolic Chair more re- splendent with his shining virtues, but the_entire Church with love and veneration. And in the enine manner as be has surpassed the wholé serics of Roman Pontiffs in the length of his reigu, so. way we eay, he has surpaesed all in the” public testimony of constant sympsthy and veneration which he experienced. “On the other band. our hearts were fitled with sorrow at the sad condition in which we find not only human socicty, . but also the Cathoiic Church, and 1n an especial manner this Apostolic Sce, violently dexpoiled of her temporal dominions, and reduced to such & degree a# 0 be completely unable to enjoy her full, free, and independent power. And, althongh we felt ourselves compelled to refusc’ the great honor offered ne, yet with what heart could we resist the will of God, which was so luminously made known to us through the har- mony of your ruffrages, secking only the welfare of tlie Catholic Church, and succceding so promnt- ly in completing the clection of the new Pontifl? Forthis reason. then, did we believe ourselves obliged to accept the burden presented to us, obedience to the will of God, in whom we place our trust, firmly hoping thut He who has clevated us to 80 high a position will give power and vigor 1o our weakness. Now, venerable brethren, this being the first time that we have addressed you, in your presence therefore do we declure that “nothing shall be held more_ascred_ by us, with the aid of Divia thau the inviolable' preservation of the Catholic faith, and the most scrupulous charge of the rights of the Charch and the Holy Apostolic See, and the salvation of all men, hecaless of the greatness of the fatigucs for its accomplishment., - To the follflment, then, of this part of onr min- fetry, we confide nonc the less in yonr counsel anid wisdom, whicn we desire may never be wanting to s, and this we wish_you to underetand. not by way of compliment, but as a eolemn declaration of our will. For that' command, narrated in Iloly Writ, which God made to Moses, s deeply fived In our wminds, who, terrified ut the' great wereht Inid upon him, shonld call together seventy of the an- cients of Isracl, that they might divide the work with him, with whose help ana counsel taus to overcome the enormout cares of the government of the people of Israel. Haviug this example before our eyes, being called as leaders and governors, though unworthily, of the whole of the Christian world, we cannot do less than ask 1n you a help to our fatiznes, and comfort to our minds, that you may hold in the Church of God the samé position as the eeventy of Isracl. Besides, we well know that which is said in the eacred Scrivtures, that *‘there 15 rafety where there i3 much counsel; ™ ulso that which the Tioly Council of Trent attests, that the Sov- ercign Pontiff should find assistsuce in the counsel of the Cardinals; we know, finally, that St. Bernard catls the Cardinals the assistants and counselors of the Soverersn Pontiff; and thas we, naving for five and twenty vears had the good fortune to form a part of tie honors of the Sacred College, carry to this throne for you, not only a heart full of “atfection and sympathy, but etill more the consolation of havinz, in the exer- cixe of our duties to the Church. compunions and co-onerators in our obligations and sharers in our glories and honors. oreovar. it 16 with the preatest plessure that we comreunicate to you, venerable brethren, the completton of a work, 1o the ziory of our holy re- ligion, which was undertaken by our glorious pre- decesdor, Pins IX., and which bas already been discuzsed by those among you who form a part of the Sacred Congreaation of the Propagation of the Faithi, namely. the estanlishment of the Episcopnl Hieratchy in the illustrious Kinzdom of Scotiand. We. by the grace of God, have had the consolation of completing the apostolic buil which, on the fourth day of the present month of this vear, we commanded 0 be published. With joy. indeed, are we ahle to answer the most fervent pravers of those beloved children of Jesus Christ, the clerey and faithful of Scotland, who have ever . ghown the greztest devotion towards the Catholic Church und the Chair of St. Peter, and we most firmly hope that this_work of the Holy Apostolic See may be crowned witn heavenly iruits thironsh the mediation and prayers of thosc celest- ia) patrona of Scotland in that region where every day more and MOre suscipinnt montes pacem, pop- ulo et colles justiliam. (The mountains receive peace and the hiils justice for the people. ) Finally, venerable brethren. in no way do we doubt thiat you. united in the same kpirlt with ue, wiil work unceasingly for the defense of the Holy Apostolic Sec and the increase of the lory of Gud, for remembur that common sall be Jur reward in- decd if common are our trials In the interest of the Church. Pray. therefore, humbly with ns that God. rich in His mercies. throuzh the powerful in- terceesion of Ilis immaculate mother, St. Josepn, atron of the Universal Chureh, the holy Apost 5. Peter und Paul, may be propitious in his bou tics, and happily direct our minds and actions through the days of our Pontificate, and, finally. that we may conduct he bark of Peter, which has been confided to us, through the fury of the winds and the waves to the desired port of tranquility and peace, GENERAL NOTES. There {8 only one denomination in New TYork City, the Frienile, who are entirely free from debt. The translation of the Bible into Japanese has proceeded as far a3 Second Corinthisns, The work will be finished in abont two years, Hengler's large circus in- Liverpool, holding be- tween 3,000 and 4,000 people, is crowded at the religious meetings held there every Sunday even- ing. The New England Methodist Conference has voted, **hereafter no transferred munister ehall be htward, in their szarch of & - cxpected to come into membership with the Con- ference who makes an babitual uge of the *weed,’ or go from it in that habit with tiic approval of the Conference. ™ The Preshytery of Newcastle, [England. ia dis- cussing the propriety of admitting to the com- munion persons employed in bar<rooms, especially on Sundays, The Tabernacle in Boston, buill for the revival campalien of Moody and Sankey,fis to be demol- jshed. 1t is far too large for onlinary meetings, and it is said only Mr. Moody curyfll it. The Snb-Librarian of the Bodleian Library, the Rev. 4. W. Nutt, will shortly pubiish the Hebrew Commentary on Issiah, by K. Eliezer, of Deau- gency (lived abont 1310, A.'D.), from a unique MS. In the Bodleian Library. A praver-meeting which recently occnrred at Flint, Micn.. mast have been marked by unusual brevity on the part of those participating, ns four hymne were sung.and 135 persons epoke, all within the brief space of twenty-two m{‘nntca. It sounds strance, but this 18 the day of strange things. Abont three vears sifice s handful of Quakers built a small chapel at Yan Wert, O.. ang. organized themselves into 8 sdgiety. On the let of November last they commenced a series of re- vival meetings, and have just dlosed them with eome 300 conversions. . Great activity is displayed by Protestants in the dis.ribution and sale of the Bibld throughout Italy, Copies can now be rewlily had i the bookstores of Rome. A copy has been blacedfin cach room of the Quirinal. the largest hotel df the city. Col- porteurs, also. zo from city to dity, and eell the Scriptures in the market places. The Presbytery of Glasgow hds commenced an ccclesiastical action againkt the Rev, Fergus Fersu- fon. for alleged heresy. 1€ {3 fhatged with not belleving in any such kalvation g the great mass of Christians have itherto believed 10, and holding that Hel) 18 1ot a place of etern@l punishment, but a loss of sonship to God aud bunjehment from the presence of Christ, and that thel penulty of sin as active suffering cannot be eternal, Hlow far the **XReform " Jews 2o may be jndged from the testimony of the sympathetic JZeformer and Jewlsl Times that 50me of their ministers **not only disbelieve in m}mclT. but opeuly deny the inspiration of the Bible, boldly abolish the doctrine of the Messiah, advacate the abolition of the Abrahamic rite, and complagently countenance the abolition of the Sunday observance, the Pass- over, and even the fasting on Alonement Day.™ Edward Kimball, who has.becured the large amount of S1,500,000 within i few months, for the remova? of cnurch debts, wns at Rondout, N, Y., on Sunday, Murch 23, for the purpose of removing the debt of 544,000 on the Presbyterian church. Only one church of all those aided by hiwm has failed to meet its oblizations. That one, at San Francisco, was divided In_opinions absut the nastor and the policy of the church, and dis- banded. i A new way of making 8 congregation acquainted witb.the Scriptures has_been"devised by u clerzy- man of Tarrytown, N. Y., whois holding Sunday mectings for the purpose of reading larze portions of the Biple withont note or comment, At a re- Cent mecting six books from the Old Testament and_ the whole Gospel according to St. Luke were Tead alond. This wives the people great blocks uf Scripture which eome of them never read before or more than heard of. Sorrow in Baltimore. A dark shadow has fallen on colored ecelesinsticals in that city, for the cruel Mayor has forindden the holding of cake-walks. Some of the brethren und sisters cake-walked not wisely, buta great deal (0o much. They howled, and velted, and screamed hallelujah with such earncstnexs that cake-walking became a nuisance {0 neighborhoods in which it wae practiced. The hard-hearted nction of the Mayor compels the ex- ercise of inwenmty on the part of the colored folks to devise meuns for replenishing exhansted church treasurics without makingan outrageous noise. That eome of the Southern Methodists feel that they have been cheated in the Cape May decluration of fraternity between the Northern and Southern Methodist_bodics is proved by *‘slashing™ artl- cle in the Richmond Adrocafe, It quotes rome re- marks of the Northern denominational press to the effect that the Southern claim on the Government for £150.000 18 unjust and impudent, and It blames the Northern Church for losing the opportumity to promote fraternity. either by favorine the cluim or by silently possing it by. *‘If,” concludes the _Advocale, " **the conjurers fool us again it will be our fault.” At the New York Mcthodist Conference some ex- citement was created by the announcement of the Bishop's decision on the appeal the Rev. C. Gose, from the action of the Ponghkeepsie District, by which 3iss Lent was granied alicense to preach. The substance of Bishop Andrews' decision is, that the discipline of the Church docs not provide for, nor contemplate licensing women to preach, and that the action of the Poughkeepsie Conference without authority of lauw. Loud applause grected the decision. 'The Rev. R. Wheatley ap- pealed from the dectsion to the next General Con- ference, which will meet in 1880 1n Cincinuati. An Enelish paner states that the following Bish- ops of tire Episcopal Chureh, 1n the British Colo- 1mies and the United States, will participate in the Lambeth Conference: The Bishops of Fredericton, ova Scotia, Outario, ~Rupert's Lana, Toronto, Saskatchewdn, Niazara, Kineston (Jamaica), An- tignn, Guiana, Falkiend Tslands, St. Telena, Mar- fteburg. BlomTontein, Cavetown, Colombo, Bom- dney, Dunedin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wi ern New York., Indiana. Nebraska, Loulsiana, Missourt, Albany, Oregon, Mid-Nebrasks, Jersey. lowa, North Texus, Colorado, and 'Hait Muny more are expected to atlond, but 1n nume: ous cases o definite answer is necessarily delayed. The following calcalations +pnoar in .Nature: Easter Sunday falling on April 21, is considered Tate this 3 and it i3 thirteen days after the mean date, butit is to be remarked thatin no year since the introduction of the Gregorian cal- endar into Englund bas the feetival occurred on the latest possible date, April 25, tnoughin two vears, 1561 and 1818, it fell on March which is the other limit. - In 1886, Easter Sundoy will full on Aprll 25, In_the new or_Grezorian style, for the first time since the year 1734, or eightecn vears Defore thisstyie was accepted in England. The only other occasion since_the reformation of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIIL, upon which Enster hus fallen on the latest possible date was in 1666, and after 1886 this will pot again occur till 1043, The Rey. David Macrae, writing from Scotland, pays: **Tere is a case mven yesterday in the Aber. dven Presbytery, showing the kind of upposition that has to be éncountered by those persons who are providing mew means for ascertaininz the truth. Mr, Selkirk, of Aberdeen, acked 8 orother minister his view of Prof. Smith. The other reolied: *Prof. Smith is a child of the devil, and iphteousness,” *Have you read No." ‘Do you know him person- ally ¥’ *1s it right, then, to judge a man in that way whom you don't know, aud whose writings you are not acquainted with? The other replied, *He is & mass of unsanctified learning.’ By ‘unsanctifed learning’ he meant. of course, Jearning that conflicted with instead of confirming the views in which he had been brought up. ™ The Rev, P, 1. A. Braxton, colored, of Tappa- hannock, having made some severe strictures in a Jetter published in & locsl paper recently upon the sun-moving theorics of the Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va.. the latter has written n card in ply, as follows: **Yessns, Eptrons: Yon will please to enter these few lines in your paper in answer to u little upstart in Tappahannock, calling himself the Rev. P. 1. A. Braxton. DPoor fellow, 1 suppose he wants to make himself scen and wants an office among men, but | think he had better set_out and et his soul converted and tnen he will know whether it is best to follow God's teachings or an astronomer's. God's Word and Himself are the proper ones to decide whether the sun moves or not. Poor fellow, he had better try and learn sume of that Scrinture that I have forgotten. I#m most respectfully yours, ¥ Rey. Jous JASPER." A PERSONAL GOD. To the Editor of The Tribune. SwIssVALE, Pa., April 16.—Your correspondent, Otto Wettstein, thinks Prof. Swing has made a n départure in teaching that God is au **essence;’ but, among the earliest. recallections of an educa~ tionin the tenets of the Presbyterian Cburch is that of being taueht that *‘God 1s everywhere present, —a Being whose centre is everywhere, 1is circumference nowhere,” For xo long a time that the memory of man runncth not back to the con~ , one of the most common detinitions of God ie. that Ile **filleth immensity of space.” Orthouoxy teaches, and has always taught, that the Delty is 80 great a mystery that finite reason cannot Dposgibly orasp the idea; and that all the descriptions of Him in the Bible are attempts to bring i o far within the comprehension of men s to impress them with a sense of their duty and responsibility, To any lopical mind, tbere s o more diflicaity in investing with personality the Intinite Power which exists. and which all recog~ nize, m or behind tnis Universe, than {n attriont- ing its wonderful order to an impersonal, unthink- ing ‘*essence.” Al theolozians and philosophers are brought face to face wilh the incomvrehensible. and, therefore, the undefinable; and all ucknowledge thelr. inubility to compréhend or deflne. No dogmatism of the one has ever been more dogmatic or unrenzonable than tne sneers with which Athe- i¢ts attack and demolish a point which no one at- tempts to defend. Orthodoxy says, ** 1. believe in God, but I can- not define or understand Iim.” Atheism charzes it with inconsistency and eelf-stultification because of its failure 10 ao what it mever proposed, and puts on airs of superiority, whea it can no more uncerstand or expiain an’ Incomprebensible uni- verse in which it is compelied to believe. JANE GREY SWISSHELM. PERSONAL. Dr. George Conroy, the Papal delegate to Cana- da, 18 now in California. The Archbishop of Sydney was invested with the pallium by the Bishop of Brisbane, Jan. 13. The Rev. T. I. Candor has accepted an invita- tion tosupply the Presbyterian Church at Clarence, Ia. The Rev.Chatles Tooth, a brother of the Hatchan Rector, hus established o fashionable congregstion in Florence, Ttally. The deatn of the Rev. Eldridge Gerry Brooks, of Philadelphia, one of the most eminent pastors of the Universailst faith, » announced. The Rev. Samuel Eastman, of Swampscott. Mase., nus nccepted the call to the pulpit of the York Street Coneregationsl - Church 1n_Newport, and preached his first sermon there last Sunday. ‘The Bishops of the Northern Methodist Chorch have appoinicd President Foss, of the Middletown University, and the Hon. Will Cambacky. of Indiana, fraternal delegates to the General Con- ference of the Methoaist Episcopal Church, Sontl, which meets in Atlanta, Ga., in May. The Nash- :Lgfla&:mmle assures these brethren a cordial re- The facalty of the Theological Seminary of Ohio, at Gambier, have conferred the dexrce of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Georze W Peterkin, of Bal- g_r:&re, Bl{shap clect of the Diocese -of West Vir- Mesers. Whittle and McGranahan have been carrying on revival meetings at Worcester, Mass. The Jargest churches were found to be too small to ::leel}llb congregations, and Mechanics’ Hall was The late Bishop Selwyn, of Litchficld, England, was in his college days an enthusiastic boatman, He with Bishop“Wordsworth and Deans Garnicr and iferivale, participated in the first inter-univer- sity boat-race. Last month the Rev. J. B. Fitzpatrick, pastor of the Methodist Lpiscopai Church in Tallahassce, Fla., for tae past two yeurs, was formally received by Bishop Fellows into the ministry of the Re- formed Church. - - The Rev.. Emanuei Van Orden, an_independent missionary in_Brazil, has, 0s the resuliof mine months® labor, organized 'a church of nine mem- bers at Rio Grande do Sul. The church unani- mously voied not to admit slaveholders unless they set their slaves free, and onc, a physician, who owned one, did so betore joining. - The Rev. John Baptist Alzoz, D. D. noted for his - work in ecclesiastical cently died at Freiburg, Germany. Iis -book, Unive 1 Uistory of the Christian Churci,” wag issued in 1540, " He was connected with the Univeraity of Freibure, and was called to Rome as a consultor in the Vatican Council. After a pastorate of sixty-two years with the St. George's Episcopal Church, uf Newburg, N. Y., the Rev. Dr. John Brown hae resizmed his_charze on account of the inticmities of awe. It is quite remarkabl: that a Rector should continue so long with one people, he having gone to Newburs in 1815, where there was no Episcopal Church or congregation. 1le is a native of New York, a grad- uate of Columbia College. and In his §7th year. The Rev. Mr. Applegate will be called to the vacani Oniy geven of the present Conerezational minis- ters of New Encland have been pastors of the same churches for ifty years, or from March, 182§, to March. 1878. They ure: Dr. Leonard Bacon, of w [laven; the Rtev. John A. Douglas, of Water- ford, Me.; the Rev. Dr. Jacob Ide, of ‘West Mea- way, Mas. ; the Rev. Dr. Leonard Withineton, of Newbury, Mass,: the Rev, Erastus Maltby, of Taunton,” Mass.: the Rev. Joscoh Merriam, of Rundolph, 0.3 and the Rev. Jacob S. Clark, of Morzan, Vt At Drighton, England, éeveral laymen have fol- :\\":u th ll.\w.vl ‘*clergymen™ of **St, Bartholo- ew’'s™ into the Roman Church. Among themis Mr. Charles Walker. the well-Known ** lizh Church™ wniter, and author of *‘Tne Ritoal Reason Why,” the - **Muss of Sarum in English.” and many other popular books. At Oxford seven members of the university have l{nwred he Church. Ameong them_are Mr. Oliver \n:.\!flll. of Baliul Collere, Mr. Westerman. of Oriel Colleize, and Mr. Johnston of Keble College. ANNOUNCEMENTS. wha was tory, re- An Easter concert and festival is to be given in the Langley Avenue Methodist Church, this evening. The National Camp-Meeting will be held at Clear Lake, Ia., beginning July 10 and closing on the 18th. ¥ g The annual meeting of the Women's Home Mis- sion Tnion will be held atthe First Baptist Church, Tuesday. at 2:30 p. m. ‘The third annual meeting of the Sabbath-School Assembly of the Northwest will commence at Clear Lake, T 14, closing on the 26th. ‘The floating debt of St. Paul's Universalist Church havinz been raised. the sscred editice will be formally dedicated this morning, The Rev. Dr. Ryder will conduct the services, In Hyde Park the usual Easter services will be held. St. Paul’s Episcopal Chaurch is to be cle: antly decorated with flowers. The Flrst Presoy- {;:ri:m Church will also have its share of decora- ons. It is announced that the General Conncil of the Reformed Episcopul Church will meet at Newark, N. J., Muay S, in the Emmanuel Churcn. There are now cizhty-four minfsters in this Church. in- cluding six Bishops, Of the latter two ure in En: gland and oue i3 in Canada. o The new church building of the Third Presby- terian Socicty, at Union Park. will be opened ror worship to-da¥. The old building of this Society, on West Washington street. will be occupied on the sume day by the St. Panl's Episcopal Society, who have purchased the property. The Easter tervice of Trinity Methodist Epis- copal Sunday-school tnis afternoon at :2:30 o'clock promises to be of unusul interest. The pro- gramme of the service. entitled **The Birth. Death. Resurrection. and Ascension of Our Lord, together with the floral decorations, will certainly be very interesting and attractive. The St. John's Reformed Episcopal Church, Tyde Park, has been elegsntlv_decornted Hiowers by the ladies of the Church for the Easter- Sunduy service. The music for this morning will b Yenite. Dudley: Buck Glorla Harrison Te Deum cre Jubilate eg! Homas Offertory, **Christ, the Lorals risen™..] The choir consists of Miss Ella Davis, sopran Miss Ella Bond, alto; Byron Shibley, tenor; A. Cone, basso. For several sears past ** The Exploration Fand and **The Amencan Exploration Socicty, " com- hosed of scholars and ecientists of the first order in nzland and the United States, have been silently prosecuting the most important geoszaphical and archrolozical undertaking of madern times. It 15 0 careful and_thoroughly scientific survey of the Holy Land. Several corpsof engincers and exverts, skilled in the various «ciences. have been very minutely examining the topography, mineralos meteorology, and antiquitics of that country Iymg on either side of the Jordun in which have occur- red_the most importunt events of human history. In duc time. these two gocieties will produce an accurate mav of Old Canaan, more carefully con- strucled than any which has ever been made, of an equul extent of ferritory, in_any other bart of the world. The Rev. O. S, St.John, of Brook- Iyn, N. Y., one of the Secretaries of the American Soclety, il speak this evening in tho Fourth Preebyterian Church, corner of Kueh and Sunerior streets. npon the remarkable results taus far ob- tained by the expeditions which have been sent on this interesting work, Lavinz been activeiy engaged fn it from the bezinning, he will nndonbt- cdly recite many facts of value to all lovers of historical rescarch and biblical criticiem. PIOUS PUNNING. Fretting is & sort of religions swearing at troubles. Gotham claims a very aristocratic clergy, when there s really but one **Tony " Pastor in the city. Tharaoh's heart was hard, but it was pulp com- pared with o paste brash that has laid on the floor over night. A Cincinnati man in bis will generously be- queathed the Christian religion to his friends. There was no quarreling over his corpse. The difference between n aull preacher and o man drilling a rock s, that one isa clerical bore and the othor Is la-borer.— Worcester Press. If any onc wants 1o se¢ how much heroism there is 1n private life, Jet him wait and &ce how many women dare 10 fo to church Easter Sunday with- out new bonnets. Alittle girl askeda minister. my father will go to Heaven:™ ves, my Shild. Why do you aski™ **Well, becanse if he don't have bis own way there he won't stay long, I was thinking. ™ A tencher, affer reading to her scholars o story of n.generous child, asked them what generosity One little voy raised his hand and said, **1 +4Do you think Wi was. Jnow: it'sgiving to others what you don't want yourself. ™ Yes, brother joarnaliets, there will come a time when religious societies will not expect $7 worth of gratuitons ndvertising in return for a ticket en- titiing the hearer to a chance in a ralle for a 89- cent hair-brush. ++TWhat would you call 2 model Sunday-school®" ashed a_Superintendent of a male-content pupil who had threatened to leave. **\ell, one where they paes round_apple-pic every Sunday and have no iesson to learn. That's the bair-pin of a school for me.” Itis easy to believe in Hell, Purgatory, and all such trifies, but what stagpers a man is to hear a friend who has been married about a year apolo- gize for his engar-bowl bewng broken by a cure- fexs servant girl, when there s a strip of stick- img-plaster at ledst thrce inches long on Lis own forehcad. +4See that poor little baby!" emd one lady to another, standing in front of & storc-window the other day. **Ita cruel Hindn motner is setting it arlont on the Gunges in accordance with a Pagan custom.” *-Oh! how can ¥he be fo heartless They were diecnssing a_picture of the finding of the infant Moses by Phariob’s daughter. You need not be afraid of giving too much. The old darky who =ald, **If any 0byou know of any church w'at died of liberality, jes tell me whar fi'te, an® I will make o pilgrimuge “to It, an’ by de oft lizht ob de pale moon 1will crawl upon its moss-covered roof an' write: upon de topmost shingle: ‘Blessed am de dead who die in de Lord."™ «\ho's your pastor, dea Jady from the coniry, addreesing her daughter, who has been sivingin the city for half a year or 0 W1Really, mother, I hardly know. I mever aw him. Le was away on vacation last summer, 2nd now he Das started on hia lccturing tour for toe winter. 1 may be acquainted with him next spring. " tle girl had been absent with her parentstoa cu:xl;:!m:tglin: for two weeks. On her return her arked a_good old Jiltle playmate, Ella Day, entertained her oy show- ing her lier new playthings. At night liitle Mary, 1n saying her prayers, éaid: **Oh Lord, bless Ehia Day, and make her a good girl, g0 as I can take all her playthings away from her and she won't want them back sgain.” y Of what sort of material church: ¢a are soietimes composed may, en from Joowine incident: Ina church fezr New York, -music commit- receutly, a member of the Music Committeo was deputed'to get for the choir, from a **supply ™ Wwho was to flll the palpit, a list of the hymns to be sung. ‘‘‘Tell them, vaid the minister. ‘‘to se- Ject’s long-meter, 2 short-meter, and 8 _common- meter tune.” *‘Yes: but how will a short-meter " agked the music man. The minister couldn't go into explanations, aud it i3 :&: r;mm the music man that the world gets this A good story Is told of the Rev. Henry Jenkine, 8 Welsh Conregationalist, formerly_of Neswsr O., now somcwhere in Minnesota. ~Brc Biother Jenk- ins had trouble with his deacons, One Sabbath morning he rose in his pulpit and eaid: ** Breth- ren, I am going 10 do for you what the desil never did for you." "¢ And what's that?" asked a dea- con. *‘lam going to leave you! ‘When Jonah interviewed the And bannted his in S Aserstit is recorde The truthfulest of jonrnals, ‘Whnat monarch did he symoolize? (A far-fetched joke you'll style it) + It scems to me he mizht have been 'Asort of paunch’s pilot. Sentences must be properly constructed if they are to be understood. A clergyman meant to_say that, while he was preaching, a varishioner of his had died in a state of beastly intuxication, and to draw therefrom a moral les bat he made him- self unhappy by eaying, **And, my friends, that man died while { was presching in a state of benst- 1y intoxication.” Iis congregation requested him to wear the blue ribbun, or clse to look more care- fully after his commas. Priests have atall times contributed their fair share to the world's stock of good sayings., Amonsz these is the happy answer of u Bishop to a clerey- man of less than moderate avilitics, who demanded a licenze 10 preach. **I grant you permission, repiled s Lordship, **but Nature refuses it. Coutra, it was a fin compliment that Lonis XIV. paid to Massillon: ‘I have heard scveral great orators, and been pleased at their discourses; \\'I]xlgnerer 1hear you [ am very ill pleased with my- self Little Annie is too cunning for aoything, and, like moet little folks, she says queer things. A few nights uvo her mother had prepared her for bed, and, kneeling by her mother’s side. she re- peated the Lord's Prayer as usual. She had no sooner concluded it than she repeated it azain rap- idly. ** Annie," said her mother, ‘*whydo you #ay your prayer twice®"" Then_the littic innocent looked up and remarked: ** Well, mamma, I feel just like praying to-night, and to-morrow night I may not!" CHURCII SERVICES. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Enster eervices and sermonat St. John's Church. Ellis avenuc, near Thirty-seventh street. Even- ing subject: **A Home Leason.” ~Services at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne and LeMoyne streets, Bishop Faliows preaches =nd holds confirmation In the evening. ~—The Rev. R. H. Bosworth preaches at Engle- wood this afternoon. Spectal Easter services. —Bishop Fallows preaches at $t. Paul's Charch, corner of Washington and Carpenter streets, this ‘morning. Bishop Cheney preaches in the evening. —Bishop Cheney will hold confirmation services ot Christ Church this morning and make an Easter address, Subject: **Once Dead, but Living Now and Forevermore.” Sunday-school anniversary in the afternoon. ~—The Rev. Dr. Elliott will hold services in the morning at the charch on the corner of Centre and Davton_streets, and the Rev. F, W. Adams will preacn in the eveninz on ** The Living Corlst, ™ —st. Paul's Reformed Eptscopal congresation worslip to-day in their new home—the Third Preshyterian Church, corner of West Washington #nd Carpenter streets. Bishop Fallows preaches inthe morning, aud Bishop Cheney in the eveninz. Communion at the cloge of the morning service, Coutirmation and reception of new. memvers in the evening. The pews have been reduced from 45 to 60 ger _cent below the ofd prices in this church . Seats all free to-day, and a large Easter offering 18 expected. UNIVERSALIST. —The Rev. Sumner Ellis preaches in the Charch of the Redeemer. on West Washinzton street, this moming. Buptism afier preucniny. Coucirt by the Sunday-«chool In the evenine. —Easter service, with dedication of the church. admission of membery, anda administration of the Holy Communion at St. Paul's Chatrch iu the morn- ing, and Enster services in the evening. CONGREGATIONA The Rev. E. F. Williams prenches at the Forty- seventh street Church this morninz. ~The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer preaches at Union Park Church. Morning subject: **The Call of the Master.” Evening: **The ~Stability of the Charel ev. Charlea Fall Everest will preach ot 0 p. m. in Plymonth Charch, vetween Twenty-fifth and *Health- on Michiz ¢ v Twenty-sixth streets. Evening subject: ful Ambition.” —The Rev. J. Holbraok will preach at the church " on the boulevard, —formeriy Oakland Congrega- tional -morning and evening ~—The Kev. G. W. Mackin will preach 8t 11 2. m. in the South Park Avenae Church. —The Rev. G. II. Pecke will preach morninz and eveninz at the Leavitt Street Church. An Easter service.in the nornin i ~—The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach at 10:45 2. m.and 7 Paulina and West Huron streets. METHODIST. —The Rev. W. C. Willing presches at the State Strect Church this mormng, and the Rev, E. M. Boring this evenine. —The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches an anniver- sary sermon at Trinity Church this morning. Easter concert in_the evening, followed by u sermon by the Rev. W. F. Craft: —The Rev. W, A. Church this morning. or Sucrifice,” The itev. in the evening. _Subject Sunday in Chicago. " —The Rev. Neely Jackeon preaches at Zien Church, No. 14 Unlon street, morning and even- ing. - —The Rev. S. 1. Adams preaches at the West- ern Avenue Church. Mornin: ject: **The Resurrection of Christ." Evening: **The Prophet Jeremiah, ™ —The Rev. A. J. Tobiaa preaches at Emmanuel Clrreh, corner of Harrison and Puulina streets. —The Rev. S. G. Lathrop will preach at 10:30 2. m. In Grace Church, corner of LaSaile and White streets. and the Rev. J. Atkinson ar 7:45 p.m.. on -*Jesus and the Resurrection. " ‘—The Rev. S. McChesney will preach an Easter sermon at 10:30 &. m. in the Sonth Pars Church, and in the evening will preach on ** The Beautiful in Religion.™ —The Rev. J. Atkinson will preach in Centenary Church in the morning, and the Rev. Dr. Thomas in the evening. —The Rev. A, W. Patten will preachat 11a. m. and 7:30 p. in Wabash Avenue Churen. —The Rev. T. C. Clendening will preach in the Langley Avenue Church, corer of Thirty-ninth strect, at 10:30 2. m., on **The Resurrection.™ and at 7:30 p. m. the Sunday-School will give an Laster entertainment. —The Rev. Dr.Willinnson preaches at Michizan Avenue Chuch in the morning and evening. Vost interesting services, with fall musical programme. Sermon on ** Christ's Beauty.” —The ltev. George Chnse will preach at the Winter Strect Church in the morning on **The TResurrection of Christ,” and in the evening on **Tne Resurrection of the Dead.™ NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. O. L. Barber preaches at New Charch Tall, corner of Eizhtecnth street und Praicie av- enue. this morning. —~The Rev. W. F. Pendleton preaches at the corner of Clark and Menomorce streets this mora- ing, aud at the corner of Washington street and Ozden avenue at3:30 o’clock. reervices at Tier- Children’s Easter morning vervice at 10 o'clock; church service and germon at 11 o'clock; holy communion at 12 o'clock. The subject’ of the sermon will be e Practical Aspects of the Lord's Resurrec- cucer preaches at the Fi Subject: ** Rendy for Work M. Parkhuast preaches MISCELLANEOTS. The Rev. M. M. Parkkurst preaches at the Washingtonian ffome this afternoon. —Cuarles M. Morton preaches at the Chicago Avenue Church this morning, and F. M. Rockwell g evening. " The Progressive Lyceum meets at Grow's Hall at12:30. ] ‘~Judge Layton preaches at No. 320 Ozden ave- nne this morning. 3 —The Key. J. E. Morris preaches morning and evening at No. 213 West Madizon strect. —Elcer Matthewson preaches at the Green Street. Tabernacle morning and evening. —Mrs. Cora L. V. Kichmond will introdnce the epirit Pheenix at Grow's Hall, No. 517 West Madi- son gtreet. at 10:45 2. m., and [n the evening the epirit Hosea Ballon will control and discourse npon Salvation for All. e Disciples of Christ meet at No. 229 West Randolph sirect at 4 p. m, —There will be a Gospel temperance meeting at carr's Hall, No. 789 Cottage Grove avenue, at 4 Sharp preaches at Burr Mission, avenne, at 11 #. m. and 7:30 p. m. A. J. White will preach at the Cen- isifan Church, on Western avenue, In the mornine on **What Thik Ye of Corist?” and in tne evening will defiver an address to young men. The Rev. A. W. Mann will conduct a ecrvice for deaf mutes in the chapel of St James’ Church, comner of Cass and IInron streets, at3 p. m. —“Tere will be 0o servicey in McVicker's Thea- tre. Prof. Swinz will retnrn Wedacaday next, sad preach on Sunday, the 28th. UNITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford preaches at the Charch of the Messiah, Morning subject: - The Great Family of God.” —The Rev. J. ¥ourthi Church. sic, l"—"’l":e }c!cv. J. T. Sunderland preaches at Engle- wood ot 3 o'clock. Subject: *‘The Com Charch. " “The Rev. J. A. Dobson preaches at Unity Church, Oak Park, morning and evening. ZThe Rev. T. B. Fornush preaches in the Third Church, corner of Monroeand Lallin streets, at 10:45a. m., on **Resurrection and Life.” CHRISTIAN. The Rev. S. M. Conner preaches at the First Church, comer of Indlanu avenue snd Twenty- fifth etreets. Morning sabject: ** Endarance.” Eveninz: **Abraham's Faith.” —Elder J. W. Owen will preach at the Central Charch, corner of Van Baren strect and Campbell avenue, {nthe morniog, ¢ BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin preaches in the West End Opera-Hotse. —The Bev, W. W. Everta will preach in the T. Sunderland preaches at the Special festival services and ex- 0 p.m. in ilethany Church, corner of« First Church, corner of SouthPark avenue and Thirty-firet street, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. B. F. Jacobs will preach in the evening at to Baptist Tabornacle, Nos. 302 and 30+ Wabash —The Rev. J. W, Custis will preach in the Mich~ izan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at 10:30 a. m. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach in the Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street,. at I‘hn. ‘l’l" nnd‘T:ol3 D. m.m —The Rev. A Owea will preach in Universit Place Church, corner of Rhodes avenue and Dong 1as place. at 11a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. L, G. Clarke will preach in the South ghauorch. corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at 230 p. m. —The Rev, J. A. Henry will preach in the Dear- ‘born Street Charch, corner of Thirty-sixth street, 2t10:30 2. m., and 7:30 0. m. ~—The Rev. G. W. Northop will preach in the Second Chorch, corner of Morzan and Monroe streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. M. H. Worrall will preachin the Fourth Church. corner of Washington and Paulina streets, at 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. % —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 2.m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. K. Cressy will preach in the Cov- entry Street Charch, corner of Bloomingdale road, 2£10:30 8. m, and 3:30 p. m. e, —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach in_the Cen- tennial Chureh, corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets, at 10:10 2. m. and 7340 p. m. —The Rev. R.P.Allison will preach inthe North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick streets, at 10:45a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Church, Martine's ilall, Chicazo avenye, be- tween Clark ana Deardorn streets, at 10:45 . m. .—The Rev. iL. A. Reichenbach will preach in the Nordish Tabernacle, corper of Nobleand West Oliio strects, at10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev..John Ongman will preach in the First wedish Church, Ouk sireet, near Sedgwick, at 10:30 3. m. an . m. —The Rev. W, J. Kermott will preach in the Halsted Street Church, between Forty-tirst and Forty-second streets, at11a. m. and 7:30 p. m. EPISCOPAL. Cathedrai Free Church, SS. Peter and Paui, cor~ ner of. Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt. -Rev. W. E. McLaren, Bishop; the Rev. J. I. Knowles, priest in charre, Choral celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a.m. Choral evening prayer at 7:30 . m. L —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. James' Church. corner of Cass and Huaron streets. Communion at 12 m. Tue Rev. E. Sulhvan will ofiiciate m Trinity Church, corner of Tiventy-sixth street and Michi- gan avenue, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Francis Mansfelu will officiate in the Church of the Atonewment, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey strecty, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate. In Grrca Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixtcenth street, at 4 Communion 3t 12 m. . corner. of Washington street and Ozien avenue. Servicesat10:45a. m, aud 7:40 p. 0. —Church of the Holy Communion, Dearvorn reet, near Thirtieth, Services at10:30 a.m.and 30 9. m. = .. —The Kev. J. Bredbure will officlate in 'St. ‘Ansgariuw Church, Sedzwick street, near Chieago avenue, at 10z30 0. m. 3nd 7:30 p. m. . "Paal's Chureh. Hyde Park avenue, between eighth cnd Forty-ninth strects. Services at 10:30 8. m. -and 7:30 p. m. —The Ker. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark's Church, Cottage Grove avenae. corner of Thirty-sixth street, ut 10:30 3. w. and 7:30 p. m. —The Kev. G. F. Cashiman will otliciate 1n St Stepherr's Church. Johnson street. between Taylor aud Twelfth, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee preaches at Calvary Charch, Warren, pear Western avenue, morning and evening, —The Rev, T. N. Morrison, Jr., preaches at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strect, morning aud evening, —The_Rev. W. J. Petric preaches at the Church of Our Savior, corner ot Lincoln and Beiden ave- nues. moring and eveninz. —The Eev. 1L G. Perry preaches at All Suints® Church, corner of C: 4t 10345 2. o, and —Churcli of the Ascension, corner of North La Salte and Elm streets. The Rev. Arthur Ritcbie, iector. First Eucharist. 6:30 a. m.: Second Eucharist, 8 a. m.; Matins, 10 a. Third Eucharist, without sermon, 11 2. m. ‘espers, with catechism, 3:30 v. m.; Evensong, with ser- mon, . m. here will be Easter service In the morning at St. John's Church, corner of Washinston street and Ouden aveque. Festival in the evening. LUTRERASN. The Rev. Edmund Delfour preaches at the Church of the lloly Trimty, corner of Deardorn avenue and Ecie street, morninsand evening. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPI3COPAL. April 21—Easter-Day. April 22— oudny. 3—Euster-Tuesday. 1. Mark. CATHOLIC. April 21~Easter-Snaday. “Aprit 22—Easter Monday. April 23—Easter Tuesday., Aprit 24—0f the Qctave. April 25—0f the Octave. April 26—0f the Octay Aprut 37-0f the Octave. e WAITING Ereninz closes o'er me— Twilight fades away; Vistons flit before me— Tappy visions they. Visions sweet and tender, Faces faie and bright, Fairy forms atound me, » "Round me cling to-night. Every loved companion, Every cherished face, Everything arcund me Mirrored with their grace. What a blissful feeling. Soul-enamored quite— Fairy forms around me, *Kound me cling to-night. But T miss the music And the melody: Speak, ye gentle visions, Speak ye unto me, Rife with richest cadence, Trilling low and wweet, Fairy forms around me Absent loves revet. 0 ye golten moments, Come ye once aaint © ye gulden moments, Echoes back the strain. Thus iny meditation, ‘Thus 1 puse away— Wait the resurrection, ‘Wait the happy day. Joszpn D', TORNES " HYMN TO THE SPHERES, Awake! Awakel O magic Iyre, The music of the «pheres to make; Attune each string, That all may cing With notes which God's vast realms inspize, Revolving Earth, With satellite, Speed o'er elliptic path In mirth, With planets round The Sun profonnd, 3 Whose rays enfold thee, warm ana bright. Thon dazzling Sun, Aove ever on. As planets, moons, their courses ran; A brilliant atar "Mong suna afar, Thy orbit 'round bright Alcyone. Twelve sicns surround Those worlds of thine— The aea of space they seem to bound; Within the North @ There tlashes forth The Pleinds roved in rass divine. 0 grand display Qn every side, Clustera of starx and nebulie; Star back of star Beams ot afars There God znd angels ¢'er abide. B. A. Urricn. —— Judah P. Benjamin. Wasnington Cavital. Neverwas the force of American character more thoroughly empbasized in_all its power than in the caréer of Judah P. Benjamin, for- werly Seerctary of State In the Iate Confeder- acy, and now a naturalized citizen and counsel~ or-at-law in Great, Britain. ‘Benjamin, at the close of the War, went to England, and began tne practice of law io that countrs. He was a capable jurist,and a man whose briliiant fluency of language contrasted eifectually with the ordinary drv-rot routine of English bar-practice. He grew into notoriety rapidly, and achicved & prominent position among the ablest Jawyers of the nation. Five years ato his annual income fromn his profession was £10,000, and later, on Reverdy Johnson’s visit to England, he expressed his certaints of bringing in at least £12,000 by nis legal labors. He is now iv o fair way to be selected toill & Judgesinp on the bench. Benjamin was one of the best known men in America. An Israclite by descent, an iofidel in rehigion, he was born in New Orlcans some sixty years azo. His parcnts were as poor as the progenitors of Dick Whittington. He eo- tered alaw-offive in the Crescent City, and in course of time bean to be consulted by clients, instead of his employer. He was a leading law= yerof the uation, and before the War hada seat in the United States Sepate, and filled sev- eral important Government positions. A few years prior to the sevession, Judge Dnn{l of Louisiuna,—now in this city,—challence Benjamin on account of a alfficulty; but the Y1on of Judah beiog lamb-like, refused the invi- tation td the matinee performance of pistols and coffee. 3 - And now this short, stout, swarthy Israelite skips to England, and by his braio-power as- sumes the most importfut position ever held in Euglund by an American since the time of Lord Lyndburst, the Massachusetts Torv.