Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1878, Page 9

- RELIGIOUS. How City Mission Work Is Conducted in Lon- don. cal Charity Goes Hand d with Religious Instruction. Practi inH Beminiseenses of “Billy Brown,” an Eccentric Divine of “Fifty Years Ago. o Secret of Swattism---A peculiar Phase of Orientalism. General Notes—Personals—Pious Humor—Church Services. CITY MISSIONS. 0% THEY ARE CONDUCTED IN LONDON. ne the strangers now in Chicazo is the “Yames Jnches Hillocks, of Loudou, who 15 1ac done so much #ood among the poor of the et metropolis. e is a very Jittle man, be- £ pout five feet high, with iron-gzray bair and feard, and a ple: voice. Bezinning life as e faver. Tic has raised himsclf by strong de- yermication and selfcultivation, amid the test disadvantages and discourazements, to ahonoratle and useful position in the church sd in the world. Tlis auto- grapkical sketeh, P alished in 1500, made such an impressfon upon 1ae Queen that shc wrote to Dr. Guthrie, asking i it was a novel orarcal life. The Doctor re- el thst i was the latter, and - that te knew the man. Dr. Ilillocks was e of the victims of the railway accident at Jlarrow in 1870, and but for Dr. Jenner, the gaser's physician, wou'd have died. He looked gyon bis recoverv as wrought by the vrovidence | {God, and while convalescing matured plans for Christian W which had been in his (puaehts for years. With the compensation he peacived from the railay company he began vork among the London poor, and sustained it fortwo years by his private means. In 1872, tkrogsh his efforts, others were interested, ard «The Christian Union for Christian Work,"” of <iizh e is the father, s now a public jnstitu- tiss, be being the Superintendent of it. His Jeaith Ligs been impaired by bis labors, and he 4 gow in America recuperating. An active 1z¢n will not permit him to remain quiescent, sobe delivers lectures whenever he reaches o Jwwrcity. The peonle of Chicazo will have an comeunity 1o bear him at the Scotch Presoy- terin Church Wednesday evening, ATnisosE reporter sought him out yester- &ylor the purpose of getting an idea of his Lev'on work, and bad the subjoined conversa- tioeyith him: “Rilme about vour work,” seid the re- three .Jeading clements,” said he. « Qs ‘evangelistic, for the winning and feed- forofouls, and everything that is possible is donétrthat end. The sccond is a health de- —every effort being made to promote 1he phical comifort of mankind. This depart- mezthestarted in a_very humble way, and grsdusy developed. We first began by im- partisghstruction in sanitary matters and tem- Jermaorinciples, forming 2 sanitary society end ateperance soclety. There are in London whatar valled middlesmen, who rent s large bouse -ond sub-et it, crowdinz 3s many people . iuto it as Do be, -m living on the profits, while the ogzmants wallow in filth. Our sanitary Lwws greood, but some one bas to look after tlejr priecution. If the reoter of apartments mfl{:omnlmm arainst their condition ke vastare] out. This bas a tendeney to keep the p2ojy quict. ~The iuspectors ar¢ _obedivnt tatid whes of the middle-wen. The object dlthe Sagtary Sodety was to remedy the evil. Beforinedmen tell mé of their surroundings, [ mate complaint, and the filth is removed, Iithe midle-men do mot know whence my i0rmatio, comes. In tlds way a great changze 1ss been bmyugut about iz many of the tene- zut houss, The Soeicty is personal also. se who wine within its influence are in- Enueted ia sinitary maters by books and lect- @, Woman_from tee Ladies’ College lecture Wtbe women éxclusivily, and physicians to the nen. We haven conalting staff of doctors, all toe schools of medicire being represented, and tacse who prefer can :ome on ope day and those ¥bo have predelicticus for auother come another tr. We have openid a Sanitarium for the wesk = the weary. Tiere Was a great necessity for i Many are found who arc almost dead frm breathivz foul air and want of proper We tske care of them for a week or tw g them nourishment and kind treatment, 24 thus restore them to health. Many are ved ffom an early erave by the Sanitarium. Iaddfon to the lectures on health, we have fers on apatomy, physiology, botauy, and Semistry. These are for the fewer numberwho + bimd to become workers. We have normal e classes also. Any onc _desirinz to come mier the influence of the Christisu_Union is Puposed for memvership, and the only pledwre emrted is. it be or she bas veen_doing well to toutinue to do . better. It is understood, how- erer, that every one is to become # worker. All e total abstainers. This is the outer circle. There is an foner one, which is called the Chris- tian Union Church. ' Those who have proved their sincerity, and advanced, and wish to be- ome members, are admitted just as to any uber chureh, by application, visiting, avd ex- n(mnn'_'o! ideas. This church is conducted on simple Congregational principles. No intoxi- ating wine is used at the communion. :lliow came yoa to hit upop this plan?” Llooked for the best example. When I got wLondo, I found toat, while great good was being done by the existing orranizations, the ralization was wot equal to the anticipation. The results were not equal to the Jabor put forth. T mquired the reason, and found large Resses of the people were pauperized by the lerent _denominations goingr %o, the poor in 'order to get them into their meetings, and larre jumbers of them liad become hypocrites. 1 ked st Christ—Low He came as the Savior of e, representing the spiritual being; the heat- :é:fi;ffiu}'ule by !; and it impressed i y following Christ's exam, j}!}lem ‘meet man as he is.”? Blfy st ""Fé‘.:f”wu Stations in different sections of *We have a central office, and auxiliaries in ifli\' ueedy corner of London. Let me show ] what Dr. Johnson, of Kingr's Collesre, says: ach your disciples to acquire habits of clean- mg:flin their persons aud 1o their dwellings fapoy shua aleobolie drinks, and you will o :lsh to an fncalculable degree the demands g Yospltals, prigons, and Tunatic asylums.’ ' Eplritual beuefit oi the pooris keptin the m-l?zr&nnd, and a leading icea of the Union is 4 pedorts need at the same time to be made onl:"qmqte their welfarc in all other respects. i @otioe ¢A caved soul in a cound bods.’ ™ Juulook after children, do you not? ¥ pe s dnldeed. “We huve a juvenile depart- s L clled the ‘Bud of Promise,’ which em- e children from 6 0 16 years of azc. This 1 ed u,xtn the ¢ Christian Band,’ the ¢ Provi- nd,! th fusical Band,’ the * Young " The latter is a very band, it lhavine begun what i dlmamc 2 London institution—dinpers for m’m. Westarted to feed 1,000, and in two pivs 06 fed 3,000 poor children aud 500 grand- Qed?’,‘ grandmotbers, . aud lame, blind, and i BILLY BROWN. AMOUS METHODIST PREACHER OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. (g il Correspondence of The Tribune. iy "L;'-n“n, April 11.—As a contribution to Mstary of a time that is forever past in the anmmz‘ar this country, and especially in evelopment of relizton, the readers of THE + USE cannot fail to be intcrested in & brief i‘“lm 220, I refer to the Rev. Willam, er,"‘. familiarly known all over Ohio and udnfi'“flus “Billy Brown.” Hewas with- ubt the Lorenzo Do of the West, and &5 cothusiastically referred to by the immbm of the demomination as a '¢%; and a return to his days of simplidty w:;““"“ are fervently wished for. Sy e days were spent within sight of the of this eccentric man, and my earliedt re- cently I paid a. visit to this old home, and, calling upon one of those piouc old men who had known this preacher best, our conversation soon turncd upon him and his work. “You can hardly know how saa I am,” bezan the aged man, “that the days are becoming so corrupt, aud the people are getting so advanced, as they call it. Itell you it is terrible, and in- dicates that the last davs are near at hand, when the people will not stand sound dactrine, vut are turned awsy to fables and bave itching ears. ‘The Revelations also refer to this tune with great clearness and force, and woe be to those who are found not faithful to the truth as delirered to the saints.” “You refer to the fine-spun_ theories which are becoming prevalent in regard to Hell and uture life, 1 presume “Yes, that isapart of it, but notall. You gce there has been a wonderful departure and forgirtin’ of the old things. It isall for show now. \Why, when I wasa youns man and in my prime, with Billy Brown, we used to belicve that it was wrong to indulge in all these showy things, and T have heard him preach many times agin wearin’ oL jewelry in the ears and of orna- mentin’ the bonuets; but now the Methodist women dress as elezantly as the most foolish belles of the world, and you caunot tell by look or appearance a sister from a trifling unbeliever. Then our preachers; why, when L was a bo vou could tell a preacher by Lis dress so far s you could see him, and the peculiar standing collar and white tie, together with the peeu- liarly et black sult, conveyed respect. for the oftice_to the most unthinking. But now the preacher dresses in any color and _accordiug to any cut, and it is all thought to be right. In those days we were taucht also that the ex- vending of vast sums of moncy for the building of costly editices or temples of worship was wrong. It was a coutest apainst many of these things that made Wesley come out in his reformation. But mow 1. think the First, Sccond, and Third Methodist Cuurches on the most populous thoroughiares of our cities are as elegant as any other denomina- tion, and the great organs, also a gross innova- tion, vraise Gud by note, while the cougregation stand fn their Kid-wloved awkwardness, and i ook. Idon't zoto church very often myseif now. 1 dow't waut to. It mikes me feel too badly. I think of what was, 2od I am ead that it all has passed away. I tell you the cause of this ereat evidemic of dishonesty and disbelief is ali owing to the condition of things which I have referred to. If they would wor- ship God ju His acceptuble way we would in a short time see a great difference in the condition of God’s people. The people of this generation gre as wicked as those of Sodom and Gomorrah in many respects, and as we read of the Hebrews being taken into captivity for forsaking God’s instructions given through His holy prophets, sowe of the present day are now in o spiritual captivity.” And thus the old man ran on, and woutd have done so tndefinitely, apparently, had 1 not interrupted him by askine bim to give me someof the special points in regard to ** Billy » Brown, tne great Avostle of a past generation. “Well, you sec there were so many points that I searcely know where to begin. In the first place we believe that a preacher should be Iike the Apostles,—a man who goes forth to preach because the Spirit calls him, and he can- not resist. He always insisted that the matter of pay should not be taken into consideration at all, neither should a man be obliged to preach in amy one place, but should go when the Spiric called him. He could observe where there was the greatest need of work, uand then he should epcak. When he came to Ohio from the East, he first settled in Concord, Lake County, but having a large family and R visible weans of support, he_was warued out of towa by the township officials on the first night of bis arri- val. This was 2 custom of the time, to prevent the newly-acquired citizen from fallingupon the town for support in case of misfortune or sick- ness. 1t was a mere matter of form, but “Billy? Brown did not so take it. Ilc told the officer that he would depart on the next day, ouly asking permission to sty over niwht. This he held to be complying with the direction of the Savior, when lic said tmatif any city Would not reccive the Apostles they should shake off the dust of their feet and depurt. He next cameto Montville, Geauza County, and here receiving a more favorable reception, con- «luded to remain. Here he took possession of a large tract of Jand, and at such seasons of the year as mecessary for cultivation be remained at home from bis preaching tours tilling his and. He constract- ed 2 saw-mill on the Yanks of a stream Wwhich passed through Lis farm, and early in the spring: and late in the fall used to run it day and night, sawicg lumber for the surrounding woods- en.”” “Tefl me about his theology,” I again inter- rapted. % \Well, he was not really bound down by aoy sct creed. He was too orizinal a wenjus for that. He called himself a Methodist; but he never pe- longed to any Confercnce. In this way he was’ perfectly free to zo where he pleased and pur- sue his' own methods. He used to travel in an old one-horse wazon and with a slow mare joined to it bv meaus of a harness, the larger part of which was composed of .tow strings and togeles. When it was impossible for auy other prescher to srouse auy interest in religious watters he would iuvariabiy bring about a ureat revival. He was 6o carnest, and preached so thoroughly as though he was sent for that par- ticular mission_and was addressing himself to some certain siuner in the audience, that it was found impossible to resist him. + At one time there had been an appointment. made for bim to begin a protracted meeting at a certain place over in the cdge of Pennsylvania. No ove then had ever heard or seen him. I, wmyself, out of curiosity, was making my way to the mecting and was overtaken by a little old man in 2 ope-horse wagzon and having the appearance of being a very ordinary man. Out of the kindness of his heart he asked me to ride, which fnvitation I gladly accepted. Te asked me where I was going, and I told him I wason my way to hear the great Billy Brown, who was that day to begin a revival-meeting at a certain school-house not far distant. * Why do you call him the Great Billy Brown?’ asked the stranger. *Because I hear he is really a great map,” 1 answered. *Ab, nonsense,” he retorted, +Ihave seen him many times and heis not a bit Jarger than L and you dow't call mea great man, do you!’ I replied that I should not be so impressed, and 50 we went on discours one thing and another, the old man iosisting that therc is only one Great, and He is God. At Iength we arnved at the school-house indicated, shere tae meeting was to be held, and a larze crowd had already assembled. Hitchini.' the old mare to the fence we approached the house and. e elbowed bis way through the crowd, hastily mounted the platform at the rear of the house aud began to preach. 1 was mever mere astonished in my life, aud the power of the sermon, which Was principally drawn from the conversation we had had, was wonderful. He took his text from the words of those who were sent to take the Savior when they said: * Never man spoke like this man.’ He said that in nature this was the most commnon thing in the worid, ah. Ie bad heard, ab, this very day, ah, ot a man by the name ot’ Billy Brown, ab, who spoke, ab, in a Sonderful way, abh. But this is wrong, ab. Only one spoke as never man poke, ah. Still it is useless to chide, ah, for we have often seen collections of animals, ab, all apparently listen- fos to one animnal, ah, and when he has finished they say, ah, that never animal spoke as that animal; ab. | And I bave cven seen, aly, a larze collection of bugs, ab, which stood all around another bug, alb, who was teachine them, ab, there is no doubt, ab, and when he had finished, ab, why should we not suppose, ah, that they said, never bug, ab, spoke Jike that pug, ah. In this we sce that 1t Is the most natural thing in the world, ah, that a Savior should come to the ‘orld of man, ah, and gain from all the wonder- ful declaration, ah, that never man spoke like bis man, al.’ *’ i The talk of the old associate of this pioneer preacher aroused a new faterest in the subjeet inmy own mind, and I bezan to collcet what reminiscences I could upon the subject, think- ing they would also interest others. "I was told the following story, which greatly interested mo: As theold preacher was making his way over the hills and through the deep valleys of Central Obio one day, he observed a man en- gazed in plowing ion a very stonv and uneven Siece of ground. The plow would fly out of the rround at almost everystep. His team was voung and"unsteady, and the man’s patience Swas verv short. He was swearing at o terrible fate. The old preacher had drawn up his horse Svith the intention of asking some question in As the plowman approached the road the plow-point struck a greater ob- struction thao it had before, and was thrown completely from the ground; the horses taking advantaee -of 1t, passed into a brisk trot, aud thus reached the fence. “G— d— my soul to h—1," screcched the ex- asperated plowmau, oS, nearly jerked in two, e rushed along behind. “iVhat will” you take for that soul you so ligntly give away for eternity?” asked the preacher. “Fifty cents,” promptly answered the work- o1 3 charasteristic Methodist preacher of |, 3%y ikl 31 0%¢h; 1 will takeit,” said the preacher, tossing him a new silver coin. * Now remember that during all the countless ages of eternity, I am the possessor of that soul; that npevere-nding, {mmortal soul. Icangive it into the hands of the devit if I please. Good-day, sir,” and so saying the strange old preacher drove briskly on. Tic had not proceeded a mile when he was at- tracted by thesound of horse’s hoofsapproaching at a rapid pace. Upon wetting near enough so e conld be rezornized, the rider was seen to be tho plowman, whose soul the preacher had so E“mmofmm and his associates.., Re- | recently purchased. He was evideutly In a very excited frame of_nind, and upon comi up said: *Here s your. money, oh, strange. m:ulx.” “Fake it, I pray, and give me back my soul. - = «\What has made you change your mindi¥ asked the preacher. *Oh, don’t ask. You see I was greatly ex- asperated with that miserable work, and Tdid Dot think what I was saying. 1 would not have cared if I had died tnen. But after you had gone, and I thought how 1 bad parted with my soul forever, I was very sorry, and, taking my lorse from the plow, I camc on atter you as you see, and now I hope you will give me back iy soul and take the money.” “l will upon onc condition,” smd the preacher, and that is that you will make the solemn promise not to again thus trifle with your etertal welfare.” + I make the promise,” retied the other. «Then take your soul and get off your horse and kneel witliine while we earnestly pray for pardon for your deadly sin.” Aud they did pray, and before they «parted the plowman experienced religion and returned a converted man. While getting up _enthusiasm. at the opening of u scries of meetings he would often start out into the dense wilderness during the day, and striking 2 deer trail would runupon it for hours, after shouting at the top of his voice. In these chases he was sometimes followed in single file by his admirers and_co-laborers, and thus when the evening came they were fired up to the highest point for the work. In personal ap- pearance be was rather under the mediun size, of lizht completion, light beard, and long bair. He was very fond of giving minute deseriptions of the Savior, and in these, strange to say, he fuvariably made the picturc of the Master very closely _resemble himself. Tle used always to closc these descrip- tions with tke remark that the Savior’s hair, s0 far as the length and color was coucerned, re- sembled his own very closely. Inmauucr he was the most eccentric. He could neyer be in- duced to stand Lebind the pulpit, but always preferred to be ona level, or very nearly so, with his audito: IIe woutd vonstantly cling to the back of a chair, and he would travel on a brisk_trot back and forth across the floor: he would raise the chair and earry it before him in a sort of defensive attitude. He had a constant habit of runuing his tongue from his mouth to a remarkable lensth, Somctimes apparently nearly Japping the point of his car on either gide.” During the long seasons of sinzing at tie close of his sermons hie would constantly exhort his hearers in a loud, shrill tone that wus dis- tinetly heard ubove all. He was in different parts”of the house almost at ouce, and his con- stant admonition was to keep the aisles open so that those disposed to come forward to the mourners’ beneh could do so with ease. Those who came to hear him for the first few times, simply led by curiosity, or for the purvose of ridicule, at length were brought under his peculiar influence ard converted. He never failed to create a relizious revival, He painted the joys of the redeemed and the horrors of the damned in the most glowing colors, and it w: in this more thau ju anything else that his pow- erlay. He believed implicitly ina iiteral fire- and-brimstone hell, and so preached. He often told his friends that his_prayerto God always had been that he mignt dic a sudden death, and 50, when he was instantly killed one night while alone in his mill, it was thought by his friends that his prayer was answered. The great power which Brownaad his great co- laborer Doy attained over the people of a past ration is felt and appreciated by the men of and it is a_desire to briug_about a revival of that power that has induced the Church to encouraze Mrs. Van Cott and_other such Evan- gelists who, by means of various peculiarities, make an impression upon the world. But the day of such things has passed, and it is not prob- able that by any means it will ever be ‘r;cvl\'ed. ARY. THE SECRET OF SWATTISM. TUE REV. JOSEPH COOK ENLIGHTESS THE CUL- TURED CONCERNING A PUASE OF ORIENTAL- 183 [From a Dazed Corresnondent of the New York World. Bostoy, April 15.—The Rev. Joseph Coolk this evening delivered one of the most important and brilliant lectures of his series. A uumber of ladies and gentlemen prominent fu our cul- tured circles had invited bim to speak upon «The Life, Character, and Services of the Late ‘Alkoond of Swat.” As is usual when Mr. Cook speaks, the hall was crowded to overflowing by the elite of Boston society. The eloquent phi- losopher, biologist, and divine spoke as follows: “The colture of the mysterious Orient has received no heavier blow than the death of the Ahkoond of Swat since the day when Abu Bekr fcll under the broad :battle-axe of Richard of the Lion Heart beneath the walls of Ascalon. When tust-ponderons weapou of offense and defense rattled in thundering blows upon the mailed "head of the Saracen successor of the ‘Prophet, and finally smate it, from that haughty neck from which it had never been hewn before, there was a dcep damnation in_its taking off which is still felt_throughout the bazars and caravans of the Morningland. Upow the de- cease of Abu Bekr, history seemed destined long to look in vain for his successor. The East was then in a low state of culture: the ahcient monotheism had been lost; the Califate of Bag- dad and the Abencerrages had not yet appeared on the shores: of thé¢ Tieris and the Nile; crownless Judah mourned in gloom amid the ruins of her palaces and pagudas, and the Nizht of Desolation was hovering over the gorgeous Oriental landscapes of the East. [Ap- plause.] It is true that there were not wanting men like Avicenna and Averroes, but they passed their days in vague guesses concerning the jnner meanng of the Alkoran and arrlving at conclusions which might well haye put to the blush even our modern ‘indalls, and Haeck- els, and St. Mivarts, and Chateaubriunds,— slight thinkers all. [Scnsation.] As I have already observed, culture was then at a very Jow ebib, but from the very death of Abu Dekr there exhaled a breath which, fluttering amoug the, tremulous palms aud adba trees of that far region, was borne on the wings of morning hither and thither, this way and tbat, now herc, now there, until finally, smiting against the very battlements of Oriental Polytheism and obscurantiain it nade its way into every tent, palanquin, and paladin of what the Germans, with their deep poetical propeusities, call the Morgentand. “Years rolled on and still there came no Voice. Thecountless hordes of Middle and Cen- tral Asia, between the forty-seventh ard thirty- fifth parallels of latitude, from the snow-clad summits of the Himalayas to the verdant delis of El Kobab, tore their souls in vague yeacn- ings atter the Infinite, the Tangentisl, and the Supreme. The American Continent, with its mighty chin propped ou the crags of the Antil- les and the Rocky Mountains, and its feet cool- ing themselves in the broad Pacifie, loiled at length, but gave no Voice or smiled one Solar Look. It had no heart in the movement. Like Galileo, ‘it cared for none of these things.” ‘The heavens were of brass and stretched in yast and gloomy gorses athwart the nightly sky from Orion to the Southern Cross, from the Polar star to the tropic of Capricorn. The giant in- tellects of Goetbe and Platen, of Meluncthon, Schiller, Luther, Jacob Bchmen, Columbus Stillinzileet, Billingsgate, and _Apuleius, of Tywena, had not vet seen the light. At this juncture some Volce was evidently needed. T shall never forzet how, one bright sum- ‘mer evening, I was walking on the banks of the Neckar, my only companion being_Prof. yon Gumbelscuuttbet Schweitzer, of the Theological Facuity of the University of Heidelberz. The full-orbed barvest moon shone fairly upon the summits of the far-off Schloss which was built by the Emperor Wencesios late in the year 1384. The sweet voices of the students came Taintly to us from the old bridge as, with feath- ers in bat and broad Kneipps upon their breasts, they chanted the alorious * Rauz des Vaches’ of Valestrina. Our conversation had turned upon the new ldealism, and 1 had asked the Professor if he did not think that tie plastic nature of the Kantian Antinomfes mizht uot be explained by varticular reference to the * Welt- gemuthiichkeit ? of auler, as expluined in his Geschichte Zur Erkenatniss des Menchlichsce- lenfinsterniss.’” He did not speak for scveral hours, but finally he reared aloft his head and gsked me ¢ what I thought of the Ahkoond.of Swat ana of Swattism In its finer phases?® [ thought of running away. What could 1 say! What would even Mr. Bronson Alcott lhave said¢ I retired to my room and determined to devote a good part of my life to oze long study of Swattisin. - [Applause.] “What then, my hearers, is Swat; what is Swattism; what was the Ahkoond of Swat, and what, in general, are Ahkoonds? Imagine to yourselves a great circle inscribed upon the ceiling and having as its centre a voint immedi- ately over Mr. Alcott’s head. I will divide this circle into four parts, labeling one of them Swat, another Swattism, still another Ahkoond of Swat, and the last we will call Ahkoonds. -Ah! I see by your faces that you begin to see what I mean. But wait! stay a bit! In philosophy we must feel our way. with cautious tread, aud not, like Darwin and Moses Mendelssohn, Prof. Tait, Max Muller, and the whole Tubinzen Schogl of Evolutionists, plunee headlong into the gulf, as I now tear this paper_into atoms. [Thunders of ~applause.] It was one of the great- est mathematical discoveries of Blaise Pascal that any circle may be divided into four equal parts, which he called ¢quarters,’ but_which I prefer to designateas ¢ quadrants.’ Mark you, any circle may thus be divided. Thisis no” guess, but a scientitically- established fact. But see what follows from it. In the corollary to the Tenth Proposition of his Meecanique Celeste,’ Laplace, thongh himself feel?? | the Society. the founder of the Nebular Hypothesis, points out the capital facsthat each of these quadrants is equal 0 any one of the othiers, while cach is also exactly onc-third of il the others com- bined. Tins elaborationof I’sscal’s thesis is the most gigantic triumph of matheiatical subtlety and Diophantine Aralysls $hat the'world bas ever seen, and it_shall Jead ‘s to our goal be- yond the mists of uncertainty and into the lo- rious lizht of perfect understanding. I have pointed out— 1. “That one quadrant of our circle is Swat. 2. That another is Swattisn. . «3. That another is the Ahkoond of Swat. ‘hat the last is Abkoonds in general. at have we now, mv hearers? Each quadrant is equal to the other and If we can only discover what -oue is, we liave the key to le wystery, for dll are equal to it. ttismé It is Swat. What Swat? Abkoond of Swat. Whas Abkoond of Swat? Ahkoonds in eneral. ‘Thev are cqual to each. other. tism is equal Lo Each Other; Swat js equal to Each Other; the Akoond of Swat is cqual to Each Other, aud, finally, Alkoonds are equal to Each Other. ilgre we haveallin a nutshell of Equality, and Swattism, Swat, Ah- kuond of Swatand Abkeonds in general are but the symbotical Oriental doctrine of the Equal- ity of Each to Each and All to All—in other words, it is the grand doctrine of the universal Brotherhood of Man.” At the couclusion of his address, the Rev, Jeseph Cook received applause and felt a proud sensc of having solved a great mystery. MINOR TOPICS. TWO GREAT REVIVALS. T the Editor of The Tribune. SWISSVALE, iPa., April 25.—A few days ago amau called witha paper requiring meto be and appear in the Court of Common Pleas of ‘Alleghouy County, Pennsylvania, to give testi- na case pending. 1did not fancy the arrangement; ‘but knew that if T failed to poud some man would get up an attachment, for me, and, as it is all the fashion .for men to manifest their attachments by shooting, stab- bing, or mauling the object until life is extinct, or pouring nitric acid down thelr throats, there is nothing I <o much dread us an’sttachment of any masculine biped larger than a rooster. So at the time appointed T donned my best gown, with my brand-new Lonuet, snd made a rush for the cars und the Court-House, Arrived tiere, I found a trialin progress, witmesses aud lawyers talking, through their tobacco quids, between expectorations, about brick walls, stone work, galleries, loug sticks of timber, 2 thousand feet of Loards, and other matters of that kind, and what was my surprise to find that it was one of a lalf-dozen suits about the new chureh building of the old First (Reaular) Baptist Church of our pious church- build ity. ‘This discovery brought up u long train of memories full of lessons such asonly history can teach. Ween T bezan my public labors for the slave and general buman progress, in 1843, the First Baptist Church of Pittsburz was one of our most earnest, prowressive - congregations. Thoroughly orthodox, sud maintaining the oid standare it yet apolicd the principles of Christianity to the new wants of the world, and beld that the stinging rebulkes of Christ were as applicable to the sinners of to-day as of that inwhich Ie lived on earth: Its pastor, Mr. Williams, I regarded 2s a colabarer for the slave, as one who strove to oreak every yoke, to undo the heavy burden and let the oppressed go free, and yet s one iwhose prudence and mod- eration kept him in sympathy with those who differed withi him. So it continucd until an Eastern revivalist came down on them, with bis kit of tovls and Dottles of chemicals, went to work nke u ma- gician and got up ** 4 tremendotis-awukening.” He started bis protracted meetings in the old church on Christruas-Day aud kept it up until April, so that the church never’cooled. A Woman's prayer-meeting bezan at 5 o'clock every cvening amd lasted until 6, when the men’s prayer-meeting commenced and Jasted until 7; then there was a general prayer-meet- iner until 8, when regulur service began and lasted until 9. followed by an inquiry-meeting until 10. Fathers and mothers™ of the best class were - urged and importuned to attend these mectings as a higher and holier duty _ than truinine their own children. Insteadof dirceting their stulies and sports, hiearing their prayers md putting thern to bed with @ zood-night kiss, these good men and wowmen were in that hot, ¢lose church, “working for the Lord. ving suls on the double high-pressure priucipie of fre-heat ex- citement, . while their home dutiss were left undone. 4 They arew intolerant and arrozant. Folks +who hud always recognized me as a colaborer in the Lord, living, as I was, a member in good and regular stunding, in a Caivinistic Curch, beeame deeply,kaxious about my salvation, an 1abored with mt as though 1 had been a Hotteo- tor! They were the saints and . sult of the carth, and tlié folks who had not been immersed were on the broud road. Well, it was u great battle and a famous victory. Four hundred folks were converted and baptized. and then the trouble bezan. The church wus burned in the ereat fire. The pastor weant East and collected funds, and they buile s new one. Then they quarreled sbout the funds. 'The pastor was charged with fraud and also with perjury. in taking out a pelicy on his wife’s life. ~The war grew so hot that they foucht with canes and umbrellas in their congre- pational meetings, and the only way of quell- ing the riot was.to turn off the zas.” Even the city police which were called in- failed to enforce _order, and the case ‘was carricd to court. It was n very excitiug trinl, and the jury could not agree. ‘Fhere was a new trial, and the Juage, in his charge, 5aid that in all his experience at the Bar and onthe Dench he had never known such perjury, such cross-swearing; that the vindic- tiveness and falsehood far surpassed anything in -all the cases he had witnessed from the lowest haunts of vice, and that he did not see how it wwas possible any jury could agrec ou or discover the facts in the case. Well, that jury did not agree, and [ never knew bow the trouble was settled. They sold their new church to the Univer- salists, and built a cut-stone concern with tall spires, and gothicwindows,and other manifesta- tious of grace, and o superior order of sanctiti- cation; and now, after they have been worshio- ing it, or in it, for half-a-dozen years, we have & Dhalf-dozen suite from workwen who want their pay for building it! Only o few yeurs after thegreat victory,which brought such great, results, the successtul Cup- tain; the man who traveled around carrying re- vivals, und brought this oneto that unfortunate chureh, was publicly Lranded with the suspicion of having murdered his wife, whow herepreseut- ed as a suicide, and then the good brothers and sisters_in whose family he boardea during that feverish Pittsburg wintercame out with thelate revelation that he had been very unkind, nay cruel, to her during the progress of that great awakening, and more than once they had had reason to believe he had beaten her cruelly after his return from the evenicg meetings; but he was such a popular idol tuey had not dared make an accusation. 1can also look back ac a chasm of fifty years to another great revival in our city, one in which people were converted to Presbyterian- ism by the hundred, which founded acongre- gation that bas had a similar history, and has apublic scnsationai quurrcl on hand now, a congregation which has more than once called in the police to keep order at congregational meetings. where, nevertheless, the ministers fought with such carnal weapons as they had, and’ were separated by the turning off of the fas. My unwilling visit to the Court-tlouse re- calléd all’ these memories and awakened me anew to the great difference between that re- ligion which is a principle of action and thut which is a mere sensation; between that teach- ing which says to the soul, ** What are you doinz?” and that which asks, ** How do you JANE GREY SWISSHELM. THE ‘'BEREAN CLUB.” A meeting of 2 few persons interested in the object of Bible-reading was held at Room 25 Briegs House on Sunday last, resulting the adoption of the following Constitution: Wurneas, An outlook over the religious world reveals pretty general breaking away from extad- lished creeds; an WhenEss, It scems probable that the result of estreme daubt i3 at least as untruthful andas im- politic as its opposite; und WuEeneas, 1t seems' desirable therefore to dis- cover, if possible, what sure ground of Faith and Hope there be, and what the Bivle (confessedly our only guide in such matters) really does teach, and believing that the cause of truth, morality, and religion will be the gainer by en_interchange and comparisor of the different views, in a_spirit of kindness, and with as little opportunity for angry personalities and discussion ns possible; therefore, Resolved, To form o ** Berean Club,” and thus furnish an opportunity and place at and by which the Bible, as the criterion of religious truto and doctrine, ma{ be exnmined critically. but fairly and impartially, and so that all sccts, parties, and opinions who' recognize it _as containing revealed truth may have an équal right and opportunity, and be free to participate, and that, in order 1o carry out this, our intention, we will co-operate under the following Constitution and Rules of Or- er: Firat—Thsta_Chairman_be elected at and for each meeting; that & Secretary and Treasurer be elected for three months, and that an Executive Committee of three shall be apointed, one mem- Ber of which shall retire_every three “months, whose duty it shall be to carry out the objects of 29 may seem best to them, but in ac- cordance with the following rules: Second—A lecture shall be delivered unon some by a person previonsly agreed ups the delivery of which !hnrl'l not exceed forty-five minutes, ot the close of which any verson in tho audience shall have the right to question the lec- tarer, notexceeding five minutes, the lecturer in l'epl{ belng limited o ten minutes. But no person #hall ask o vecond question until all others have bad an opportunity who wish so to do, the 0b- Ject being to xiznz as fair a presentation of one view atcach mecting as possible. The meeting not to extend over Lo hours, = Third~The lecturerand_his subject, whom the Exccutive Committce chall nominate, shall then be chosen for the next meeting. Fourth~The meeting shall be sustained Goan- cially by subscription. n GENERAL OTES. "The Congreqetionalist publishes a list of fil‘l)’-‘ nine churches w! have in the three months past paid off their debts. As larre as the kst is, it is iucomplete; the exact izures would make nearly 100 churches. d .The Baptist ministers of New York have in- formally decided that women may preach, if they have the necessary gifts, grace, and other aceon:plishments. But why can’t the same re- ls:[n:iulimx be put upov men?—Philadelphia Bui- in B The first General Conference of the Canada Methodist Church since the reunion is to be beld uext September. The annua! Contercnces will choose the ministerial delezatesin Junc, ’Qfll‘,we district meetings the lay delegates in _ Bishop Simpson wants no man in the Method- ist Church unless he is a Methudist. to the core. {le thinks the Methodists admit a good many people to membership of whom they know nothing, and who are so ignorant they don’t know what they beliese. ‘The movement for the abolition of celibacy in the priesthood .ol the Old Catnolic Church is said to be muking headway in Germany. The question mizht be sctt'ed this year, but many persons desire o postponement. for fear that Dr. Dollioger, wio ovposes abolition, will withdraw from the Church. ‘The Rey. Peter Cudding, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Chureh tn Milford. Mass., in a sermon Jast Sunday denounced the Ancient Order of Uibg nia enemies to the Church and the pubii “lice and vermin” erawling over the beautifal body of the Chureh, und u scct of low Irish, composed of grog-sellers, Molly Mazuires, and dupes of thic The Spiritual Society over which Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond presides has rented the Tuird Unitarian Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin strects, and will take possession the first Sun- day in May, This editice cost orizinally over $140,000, and contains one of the finest orzans in the city. This change of base will mark a new era in the progress of Spiritualism in this city. The Rev. Dr. I1. A. Nelson, of Geneva, N. Y., formerly of Laue Sewninary, Walnut Hills, bas writtenan open letter to Beecher, fn which he eriticises his sermon on future punishment. Dr. Nelson thinks that no one can tell from Beecher’s sermon what his (Beecher's) belict on the future state of the wicked is, and says his sermon is a caricature unworthy of any Christian teacher. Archbishop Perche, of New Orleans, has con- solidated the_debts of his diocese and issued Londs secured by wmortgage on onc-half the church property, bearing 5 per cent interest, so as to release the other balf of the property, which is morteazea at & much higher rate. The ccclesinstical property of the diocese i8 valued ut $2,000,000, the half of which 1s mort- gageable. Connceticut has a lareer number of azed Con- gregational ministers than any other State. ‘Fhe oldest three are the Rev. Joel Mann, of New Haven, ordained in 1815; the Rev. Alvan Bond, of Norwich, ordained in 1819, and the Rev. William Patton, D. D., of New Haven, or- aained i 1820. There are fourteen other cler- gymen in the Statc who can look back upon more than fifty years of ministerial life. The Directors of the American Colleze and Edueation Society nave addressed a line to cach of the young men on the Societv's list, anent the widespread discussion of the doctrine ot endless pumishwent, ete. Disclaiminer any knowledge that any of the Society’s heneficia- ries bave separted from the faith of their futn- ers, they fecl it their duty 1o sav that thev cannot in couscicnee appropriate tbe funds of the Society except to those ** who hold in good faith the doctrines of our old New England churches™: and it is their ovinion that youni men cannot in honor apply for or atcept such tunds when tbey find themselves fnclined to adopt different opinions. Chureh society in England has -azain been stirred fo its depths by th discovery of auother extremely ritualistic brotherbood with Romsn Catholic Prarlivmcs. It is called the Confru- ternity of the Holy Trinity, and numbers be- tween 300 aud 400 imembers., Among them are the Bishop of Ely, Canon Carter, and a soa of the Bishop of Winchester. Two hundred and fifty of the confraternity are aircady in holy orders, and the remaiuder are university stu- dents studying for the Church. The system of government is similar to that of the Society of the Holy Cross. There are four Vice-Presi- dents, twelve Senior Brethren, an Almouer, and two Secretaries; these form the Council. All the members of the Coniraternity wear a badge in the form of a Latin cross. Chapters of the Brotherhood are held fortnightly. “** Devotion- al exercises * are prescribed for the members, who are specially enjoined to pray for the dead, and to attend, us often as possible, corly cele: brations of the ** Dlessed sacrament.” A few weceks ago one of the most zealous wembers, the Rev. J. J. Greene, of Brighiton, seceded to Rome, and others are expecied to follow. The move- ment has cxcited much alarm among the Low and broad Churchmen, and petitions are in cir- culation for its suporession. 1If one book must be sinzled out and doomed never to reccivedecent typozraphical treatment, it should have been any otuer than the Bible, I should like to see what would be_the etfect of wiviue it a fair chance. I believe it would be read if it were made readable. We ought to have one edition of it without marginal refer- ences and “without foot-notes,—unless in the rare cases where thesc are absolutely necessary. Where the ftalicized words are_necessary to a complete and idiomatic rendering they shoula be printed in plaia Roman; where not thus Decessars, they should be dropped. Instead of SFerses we should have paragraphs, snd all fie- ures or other indieations of the verses: abolished. Conversation should be printed in broken para- raphs, with quotation marks, justasin a novel, Foeiry should be printed as poctry. Instead of Dbeing erowded into une volume, th book should n four or five moderate duodecimo volumes, With larze type und zood paper, so that it could be at once held without tiring the arm and read without straining the cves. Finally, this Book should have agood analytical index. A cum- brous concordauce is not an index, and does not serve the purpose of one. I vresented in such a form, the Bible might be enjoyed as litera- ture, and perbaps better understood as a divine authority. The amount of work which missionaries have doue in translations into foreian Janguages, in the formation of dictionaries and grammars, in addition to their ordinary duties, is immense. ‘s he Secretary of the Enalish Baptist Mission- ary Society, in & recent specch, said that siuce thic beginning of modern missions the Bible has Deen translated into 212, Janguages, spoken by 850,000,000 of humzn beinys, and distributed at the rate of nearly tywelve every minute. It will not be long before the Bible will be published it every languave on carth. All this hus been done by missionaries. Thirty-nine of the Jan- guages referred to never had a written forin un- fil the missionarics created it. e further said, in regard to the success of missions, that the Baptist Socicty bad lust year between 300 and 400 new converts, ¢ and the other different so- cieties must have received from 14,000 to 15,000 amongst the people of that lund. Within the next 150 years, If the present rate of increase be kept up, there would be a _ Christian popula- tion of 250,000,000. As against an increascof 73§ per eent in Hindu population and 5 per cent in Mohammedan, the present increase of the Chiris- tian population was cqual to 66 _per cent; and hence, when.prople asked what had been done, s Tenly was that, whilst statistics did not tell all, yot they mizt say the Lord had done won- detful things for them and they had every rea- son to be glad.” PERSONALS. The Rev. O. A. Hills, of Cincinnati, nas ac- copted o call to Allegheny, Penn. The Rev. Hiram Hill bas accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at San Leandro, Cal. Ars. Van Cott closed her three weeks? labor at Buffalo with over 600 professed conversfons. The Rev. Silas Cooke will be installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Dunlap, I, June 12. Drs. Stuart Robinson and J. D. Matthews have accepted editorial Dositions on the Aen- tucky Presbyterian. ‘The Rev. Robert Norton has been appointed stated suunli to the Second Ward Presbyterian Chureh, Lockport, N. Y. Mr. Spurgeon has returned to his ‘puinit with. recruited health. He 1 in the twenty-fifth year of his pastorate in London. The death is announced of the Rev.Jacob Voubrunn, a missionary among the Bassa peo- le in Lib ‘Chis leaves the American Bao- nary.Unlon without a si ary on the continent of Atriea. g Itis understood that the Rey. Dr. Brown, of Newark, N. I, accepts his appointinezit as See- retary of the Congrezational Union. - The Rev. Dr. Edwards was a few days 120 formally inducted into the Prdrms'orsym;'bz Theology at the Dasville (Ky ) Semiary. The Rev. Albert Walkley, 2 Wesleyan eradu- ate, Iately pastor of ‘the Reformed Engmml Churcls, of Louisville, has joined the Unitarians. The Rev. E. P. Wells has accepted the Presbyterian Church of )lcch‘:’mlcs:ilc[:“l::? and will remove at once tohis new field of Tbor. Ezia Tinker, pastor of ths Central Mo Episconnl Gharch of Youbérs. has tenttl pllctbodism and wants to be.a Congracdtional- ist. S The resignation of thef¥ev. J. H. Gridith, D.D., pastor of the Union Baptist Church. Mil- waukee, docs not find a responsive echo among his parishioners. - k Six months’ leave of abgnce has been given to the Rev. E. M. Wiiligos, pastor of the First Congregational Churgli, Sipueapolis, Mion., to cuable Lim to visit Eurqst. The Rev. Dr. ‘Kl Roblnson, President of Brown University, 84S been inyited to the Em- maunuel Baptist Church of Albany. He was formerly pastor of the North-Strect Church in Cinciunati DOUBTY¥UL PIETY. Ancient firc-escapes—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Woman tempted man to eat; but he took to drink himself. «Neal & Pray, Publishers and Bookbinders. A Specialty Made of Religious Publications,” is the sign over the door of a Williamsburg tirm. A Syracuse clereyman santed to comprom with parishioners who volunteered to give him a dounation visit, by giving them orders ona res- taurant for 100 oyster stews. Beecher drinks a good deal of coffee, and the melancholy croaker of the Philadelphia Bulletin remarks in conscquence, *He will_realize pres- catly that strong drink is a Mocha.” During a time of great political excitement Dr. Cheever called on an old deacon for prayer. The deacon said: * Well, pastor, Lwill il you insist on iz, but, really, I'm too wmad to pray ot A little 3-year-older was lately showing her grandmother in her picture-book the print of ©Moses in the Bullrushes.” Forgetting the name of the scene, she suid, *Here is Jesus in the whortleberry-bushes.” The word_“Thcophorus” signifies “carried b{ God.” The religious Republicans of New [‘ [ampshire, speaking of the late election there, lift up their voices to the top noteh, and ery aloud: “Theophorus ¢ "—Puck. . _ A saloon-keeper of Indianapolis, while bewail- ing to a friend the bad state of bis business, looked towards 2. new spire_creeping hieaven- ward, and with a wave of hand said: ** Them's the d—d things that's ruinin’ the conntry.” A prominent member of one of the Mcthodist churches in this city prayed last week in the class-meeting, 0 Lord! come down from Teaven and take us up in the milky way.” The yfiung ladies tell the story, but the men are silent. “Be a good boy and don’t break your mother’s heart, for then you would be an orphan in an insane usylum, where you would have to listen 10 a couple of serinons on Sunday, aud two or three during the week,” sala his mother, aud that boy has been good ever since. It must be admitted thatit is discouraging toa colporteur when he enters a Mississippi village to inaugurate the work of salvation and distrib- ute tracts, to find that the pastor of the place has had to take to mule-driving tor a hiving, and that the entire populution is temporarily out on the strect observing a dog-light. Little Johnuie has peculiar views as to orig- inal sin. One day he was about to be punished for some misdemesnor, when he pleaded, **1t wasn’t me, mamina dear; it was the bud man.” “Well, Johnuy, I am going to whip the bad mau out of you.” b, yes; bat thut will hurt mne n"prcuiaus lot more than it will the bad man. A little G-year-dla came to her grandfather the other day with a trouble weighing on her mind. * Aunt says the moon is mnade of grecn cheese, and I don’t, believe it.” ““Don’t believe it? Whynot?” **Because I've been lookiug in the Bible, und found out that the mooris not mado uf ‘green chease, for the moon was made beforé the cows.” i Not richer were the Israelites, Who had their Mose and Aaron, Than is the farmer of to-day, As thro’ the zrain ields bearin® He downs the barley and the wheat, And cuts the acres through, And while he takes his little mows, Tie has his airin' too. —Yonkers Gazelte. A lady, hearing one of her neero servants ex- press a wish to learn how to read, offercd to teach him. Slow progress, however, was made, owing to his stupidity and ivattention. Re- ‘proaching him one day with the fact that he was lazy and would uot study, he sald: * Well, mis- sus, [ tell yo' de trufe; ali I cure to know how to read is de Bible, de newspaper, and de ulma- nac: so ye see I aint so ticular ’bout studyin’ as of 1 wanted to read eberythin®.? A little Elko girl surprised a company of vis- itors b her knowledee of the Creator’s works. At tu@linner-table she exclaimed: ** God made all this big worta fu just six days. God made e, and evervbody else. He made wmamma, t00; but he forgot to put any hair on_ber head, and papa had to buy it for ber!” When the mother got through interviewing the young miss, after the comoany dispersed, the littie one wished she had been built like a wash-boiler. «Well, Father Brown, how did you ltke my sermon yesterday!” asked a youns preacher. “You see, parson,” was the reply, *I haven't a fair chance at them sermous of yourn. I'm an old man now, and_have ta sct putty well back by the stove; and there’s old Miss Smith, 'n Widder Taff, 'n Mrs. Bylao's darters, 'n Nabb; Burt, 'n all the rest setting io front of me wit] their mouths wide opeu, a swallerin’ down all the pest of the sermon; 'n what gets down to me _is putty poor stuff, parson; putty poor stuff!” We heard the other day of a poor fellow who said in prayer-meeting, and with ercat effect on the unconverted, that he had lately a wonderful escape. Iie fell from a third story window, and, while falling, thought ot all the evil in_ his life and promised the Lord if he wasn’t killed he would reform and become a Christian mau. Just at this point a brotherarose and said, **Mr, Joues, after that I expeet you to pay me tae $2 you owe me.” This was making religion s practical and personal matter, and what to do about it the spealer smn:clz koew. At last, ver, a bright idea struck him and_he au: howev swered, * 'Tis_true, Brother Thomas, that I wasu’t killed, but before I pay that $2, [am going to wait and see the ultimate effect on my nervous eystem. 1 may die yet, and I've got to walt and see.” ol . CHURCII SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedrai Free Church, SS. Peter and Paul, cor: zer of Washington and Peoria strects, the Rt -R W. E. McLaren, Bishops the Rev. J. II. Knowles, priest In charge. Chorai Morning Prager, and cele- bration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a.m. Choral evening prayer at7:30 o. m. The Easter music will be repested both morning and eveniag. —The Rev. Samuol S. Harris will ofiiciate morn- ing and evening at St. James® Choreb, corner of sss and Huron streets. Communion at 8a.m. e Rev. E. Sullivan will officiate 10 Trinity Chureh; corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michi- aan avenue, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. &0 Phe Rev. Francis Mansfiela will officiate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of West Wasn- ton and Robey streets, 8t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 "—Grace Church, street, the Kev. Wabash avenae, near Sixteenth Clinton Locke, D. D.. Rector. Services 10:4: ‘m. and 7:30 p, m. Celebration of the Holy Commupion at 8'a. m._ The Rev. Simes De Koven, D. D., Warden of Racine Col- lege, will preach. Z-Church of tha flolg Communion. Dearoorn street, near Thirtleth. Sei [ rvices 0t10:30 a.m.and p. 1. T‘hn Rev. J. Bredburg will oficiate in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, at10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m.” ““The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will oficiate in-the Charch of the Ascension, corner of North LaSalle and Elm streets, at 10:43 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Commanion at 8 2. m. and 12 m. y o '—The Rev. Charlés Stanley Lester will ofiiciate in St. Panl's Charch, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, at 10:30 a. m. and p. m. 2 ~“The Rev. B. F. Fieetwood will officiate In St. Mark's Church, Cottage Grove avenue, corner of Thirty-sixth street. at 10:30 2. m. and p. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will officiate in St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor 2nd Twelfth, 0t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Calvary Chureh, Warren avente, between Onkley street and Western avenne. at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m, (Celcbration of the Holy Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rev. T. N. Xorrison, Jr., will officiate in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street. be- tween Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘—The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate in the Church of Qur Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, at11 8. m, and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. H. G. Perry will oficiate in All Smnts' Chareh, correr of Carpenter and Oblc streets, at X m and 7:45 p. m. —The annual festisal of the St. George's Beney- olent Association il be held in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paulat 4 p. m. Scrmon by the Rt.- Rev. W. E. McLaren, Bishop of lllinols. —st. ‘John's Church. Services at 10:45 a..m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Thomas K. Cotcwman will preach moming and eveatus. BAPTIST. Tho Rov. . ¥ Raviin preaches in the West Ead iinise morning and evening. - Opera-Hee O certs will preach in the Fires Church, corner of South Park avenue and Faicty-irst atrect, ut 11 2. ‘m. and 7:30 p. m. MY Wacobs will_preach in the evening at tuo Bagtst Tabernacle, Nos. 502 and SU4 Wabash avenue, rhe Rev. T W. Custis will preach in the Mich- izan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third strcet, at 10:30 2. m. _The Rev. K. De Baptiste will preach in the hurch, Fourth avenuc, near Taylor street, at1la. m. and 7345 0. o, : —The ltev. A. Owen will preach in University Place Churcli._comer of Rhodes avenue and Do~ Tas place, gt 110, m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. L. G. Clarke will preach in the South Chureh, cormer of Locke and Gonaparte strects, ut 80 p. m. ‘The Rev. J. A. Henry will preach in the Dear- born Street Church, corner of Thirty-sixth atreet.’ . m. alusha Anderson will preach in tho Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets, at 10:30 o. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Re J. Morgan will preach in the Cov- entry Street Church, corucr of Bloomingdale road, at10:30 3. m. and 7390 p. m. T . C. E. Hewitt will preach in the Cen- tennial Church. corner of Lincoln and Jackson ¥ p. m. Mornug subject: **The Recompense of Keward™; eve inz, the first of a serics of discourses on the Lord's Prayer. - —The liev. D. B. Che Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paulina strects, at 10:10 a. m. and p. m. orning subject: **Bosetting $ins ™' cvening, ** TheLifo and Thmes of the Apostle er.” “The Itov. C. Perren wil preacli in the We Avenue Chusch. corner of Warren avenne, at10:30 ¢ Rtev. J. L. Hitlocks, of London, 30 p. . C. Haselhohn will preach inthe Aurg'?(:’, corner Dickerdike and l = a = 8 2 v will preach in tho & England, —Tne Rev. J. First Geraan ct: P, m. preach in the Cen- ‘nicago avenue, be- tween Clark sna Dearborn streets, at 10345 a.m. M. A. Reichenbach will presch in tha , corner of Nobleand WestObio 303, m. aud 7:30 p. oi. tev. John Ouzman will preach in the First arch, Oak strect, near Sedzwick. at 10 p. m. Kermott will_prench in the Halsted Strect Clhinrch, between For t and Forty-second streets. at11a. m. and 7:30 p. m. SMETHODIST EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dir. Thomas preachss at Centenary Chureir morning and eveuins. —The Rev. M. M. Parkburst preaches at tha First Church this morning on **Sundava Holy Day, and Not s Holiday." Dr. Hatdeld will deljver an address on **'The Brble ™ in the evexi —The Rev. ‘nesney preachesat the Purk Avenue Church. Evening subject: ‘*The Sab- bath Questios —The Kev, §. G. Lathrop preaches at the West- ern Avenue Charch this morninz, and the Rev. S. H. Adams this evening. ““The Rev. W. 11 Dinicls preaches at the Mich- igan Avenue Church morning and evening. —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning will preich in the Langley Avenue Charch at 10:39 2. m. and7:0 p, . Morning subject: ‘*Godly Sorrow und the Sorrow of the World"; evening: **The Model Curistian.” REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Preaching at Emwanuel Churcn, corner of Twen- ty-cizhth awd Hanover streets, tuls evening. — rvices at Christ's Charch will be of thaukneiving and jubilee character over the ex- tingulshment of the church debt. Biskop Cheney will preuch. Morning subject: ** Deliverance from Kondage'™; evening: °*Sirensth for Thy Day, “ifhe Rev. Dr. Hunter preaches ut St. Panl's Church, corner of Washington and Carpenter gircete, morning and eveniig, This will be Dr. Thunter's st Sabbath witn the conzregation.. He will be succeeded by Dr. Morgan, of Cinelunati, who wilt cater upon his duties Moy 5. ZPhe Liev. F. W. Adams preaches corner of Centre and Dayton streets this morninz, Subject: ““The Chiristian's Work.” Dr. Elliote preachs {n the evenin: —The Jolw's Chur 2. m. 3. D. Church will reach in St. iy avenue, near Thirty-seventh Street, at 10 m. and 730 p. m. —The uight Lev. Bishop Cheey will preach and administer” the rite of condrmation at Trinity Church, Englewood. Szbuath-schoolat 2:30 p.u., aud services ut 1:50. 4 CONGREGATION - The Rev. Charles Ifall Evercst preaches at Plymouth Church, morning and evenin:. ZThe Rev. Dr. Good Charch, corner of Washington and Ann streets, this morning. B g “The lev. James Powell will pr Union Yark Church at 10:30 a. m. g4d 7:0 p.1a. - he Htev. George 1L Yeake will preach in the Leavitt Stzect Cliarch moruing and eveninc. =T Rev. G. W, Nackie vl preach in e South Park Avenue Churels, corner of 1 hizty-third street. at 1La. m. “'The Rev._ Z. S." Holbrook will preach in tho churen on the bozlovard (formerly the Oakland Coneregational) in the morni —The Rev. C. A. Towle wi Church, corner of Paulina un 10:45 0. m. and 7:30 p. m. UNITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke lertord preaches at the Charch of the Messiah. Morning subject: **The Pe somslity of God." Eveniug sabject: ch in the i Jmuh in Bethany Huron streets, at —The Rev. Fourth Church ihis ‘moming, and at Cnion Hall, Evanston, fu the evenine. Eveaing subject: Yltobert Ingersoll and 1hs Influence. " ZThe Liev. Robert Collyer will preach at Unity Church, coruer of Dearburn_avenue and \Walton vlace. . Morning subject: **Purses Which Wax Not G1d*'; evening: ** cer. " The Kev. T. B. Forbush wiil preach in the Third Church, corner of Monroe aud Lallin strects, 8t10:452. m. Subject: **Dible Worship.™ PRESBYTERIA The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach at the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth strect, this mornin: . Gage will Jecture in_the eveningon ** wol Worle Forty-tirst Street Church at 10:45 1. m. 2 Pinere will be services lu the First United Pres- byterian Church. corncr of Monroe and. Paulina etroets. Preaciing at 10:30 a. m. aud 7:30 p. w. by the pastor, the Kev. W. T. Meloy, formerly of Cadiz, O. UNIVERSALIST. . The Rev. Smnner Ellis preaches at the Charch of the Redeemer. morning and eveni; G —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will presch in Church, Michizan avenue, between Eizhteenth streets, in the morning. service. No cvening CHRISTIAN. The_Rev. S. M. Connor pi Church, corner of Indian fifth strects. morninz and eveninz. ¥ider M. N. Lord will preach in the Central Church, Campbell Hall, corner of Van Buren street and Cawpbell avenne, in the morning. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. O. L. Barler preachies at New Clinrch Ttull, corner of Eiznteenth strect and Prairic av- enue and Twenty- coue, tius wornin “The Rev. W. ¥. Pendieton will proach corner of Clark and Menomeree streets at 10:30 a. .. and corner of Washington strect and Ogden avenue ot 3:30 p. m. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmand_ Belfour preaches at the Church of the Holy. Trimty at the usual hoars. INDEPENDENT. Mr. George W. Snarp will preach in Burr Mis- sion Chapel, No! Third avenue, at 1la. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school at 3 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs. Julia A, Runouse will conduct the services st the Woman's Gospel Temperance-Assocation Church this afternoor: at 4 o'clock, corner of Onlo and Noble streets. " Elder D. Mathewson will preach in the Green Strect Tabernacle morning nnd evening. Subject at the forenoon meeting: Will Ever Bie the Home of the Rixhteon: _The Berean Club will bold a free Bible meetinz at Room 28 Brizgs Llousc, comer of Randolph aud Fifth uvenue, at 2:30 o'clock. —The Kev. C. M. Morton will speak morning and ovening at the Chicazo Avenue Church. " The Rev. L. P. Mercer preaches at the Wash- ingtonian fome at 3 o’clock. '"“iThe Progressive Lyceum meets at Grow's Opera-Hall at 12:30 o'clock, No. 317 West Madl- son street. "~ The thirts-seventh anniversary of the Chicazo Bivie Society will be held this cvening In_the First Ifethodist Episcopul Church, corner of Clark and Washington streets. Addresses may be expected from the Rev. R. M. iatfeld, of Evanston, sod the Rev. W. 1. Ryder, of this city. —Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 220 West Randolph strect at 4 p. 2 Gospel Temperance service at Union Temper- ance Hall, No. 780 Cottage Grove avenue, this afternoon, from 4 to 5 o'clock. —The First Society of Slplnmnlish will meet in Grow's Opera-Hall. No. 517 West Madison street, 2t10:45 4. m. and 7:45 p.m. JMrs. Cora L. V. Ttichmond, trance-speaker. In the morming the spirit Phenix will control and disconrse upon **Super Scienceas the Science of the Futare.™ 1n the evening the spirit Whitdeld will control and discourse upon ‘‘Seme of the Punishments and Rewards in the Future Life.” Scrvice closes with an imprompta poem. —Women's and_Men's meeting at No. 213 West Madison street 2t 2:30 p..m. —The Rev. T. B. Forbush will ?relch for the Christian Cnion Soclety at Tillot<on's Hall, Engle- wood, at 3 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Aprit 28—First Sunday after Easter. Jtay 1-S$. Philip and James. oy 3—Fast. CATHOLIC. Aprit 28—Low Sundsy. Aprit 29-St. Peter. M. Apri 30_St. Catherineof Sienna. V. Hay 1555 Philip and James, Apostles. ay 2-St. Athagasius, B. C. D. Jfuy 3—Finding of the Holv Crosa; SS. Alexander, ¥., and Comp., Mgy 4—BL donles, Wy preacies at the First - J. T. Suudertand preachies at the Panl's Sixteenth znd , hes at the First *Heaven; Is it Now or .