Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 5, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 5, IS18—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 RELIGIOUS. Rolph Waldo Emerson’s Essay on the “Sovereignty of Ethics.” YWhich Is Another Term for the Sovereignty of God, And the Irrepressible Suprem- acy of Religion Over Decaying Creeds. Why Did the Rev. P. B. Morgan Secede from the Episco- pal Church? Finor Topics---General Notes---Person- als—Pious Humor—Services To-Day. SOVEREIGNTY OF ETIIICS. RALPI WALDO EMERSON'S ESSAT. The May-June number of the Inlernational Review has an article, the begiuning of a series, by Froude, the historian, on “Seienee and Theology;™” and the May-June wumber of the Xorth American Revice has a far more attractive and interesting article on “The Sovercignty of Etbics,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the subtlest snd most accomplished of our native skeptical or semi-skeptical'writers. The only point of resemblance between these speculators oo re- Jimious questions lies in the fact that they are both ex-dlergymea,—Froude Laving begun his carcer as a minister of the Church of England, end Emerson as a Unitarian minister in Boston. o two minds could bemore unlike. Emerson islike & rich porcelain vase moided of the finest clasintoa form of exquisite clezance, while Frouge is a good specimen, not without flaws, of more . common crockery. Mr. Em- erson’s modes of thinking and exquisite Jiterary execution are redolent of a reiined gpirituslity, which makes his productions pleasant and suegestive reading, even for those who most widely differ from him. His pro- ductions sre a splendid refutation of the charge that American literature s no o=zinality, but consicts of mere imitations ot European models. ~Nothing could be more absurd than the suggestion that used to be made of a re- gemblance between Emerson and Carlyle. One michtas well liken a conservatorr of rarest fiowers to a huge and emarled oak wreathing its fantastic boughs. There is a delicate spir- jtusl zroma in the writines of Emerson which is entirely wantivz in the more rugzed and masculine productions of Carlyle. Althouzh Mr. Emerson is now vencrable by the welght of years, his recent essay exposes Do symptoms of intellectual dec: There is the same fiveness of spiritual intuition, the same abundance of apt illustration, the ssme neat felicity of epigrammatic langusge, which ‘marked bis carlicr productions. Mr. Emerson isno vulgar denier of accepted crecds, much less a scoifer at things which other men hold sacred. He is moreinclined tolament than to ezult over the decay of faith which en- riobled the believing ages of the past. He ver- ceives that the intellect of this age has out- rowD the old formularies, and it scems to be is gim to afford what help be can toward sav- fog the precious cargo, the decayed ship should be wrecked. His *sovercignty of etbics,” it we understand him, means the frre- ressible supremacy of the sulstaoce of re- igion over decaying erceds and perishing forms. His “sovercizuiy of ethivs ” is reatly the sov- ercients of God, although he prefers to avoid this theoloical mode of expression. ‘We Lave not space to reproduce the whole of this brilliant vss: Tie tendeney of Iis sreu- ment1stbis: What do we mean when we esll God just, or righteous, or boly. or benevolent! Simply that He possessus the attributes which make up the ctbical character of the humsn soul. 1f justice or benevolence in the Deity be Atficrent from justice or benevolence as buman qualities, we are_iccapable of formitg any conception of God at all. It is onlv through our moral nature that we can appre- bend Him, and, if justice jn Him be different from justice in the human wind, there is noth- oz to which the relizious sentiment of man- kiod can snchor. The ** sovereienty of ethics " is, therefore, the supremacy of those attributes xbich we ascribe to the Ruler of the Universe. I we can save 20d uphold human reverence for those qualities, wehave all that is fundamental 2w most precious io religion. The Bible—with reverence be it spoken— isthe were seafToldlnyg of religion. Do glorified fints or Angels around the Throne need a ile? Not-at all. Tney Kvow by imificdiate verception all the Divine trutbs requistie for their spintual sustenauce and srowth. Is it 1ot possible tha: msn on earth may rise, by the id of the Hoty Spirit, to a similar communion with the Divine Nature ? Emerson says many things that are not only bound to attract attention because said by him, but becauscthey are about matters that are of great interest at the present duy. We have gpace for one quotation: Iu the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy, mircles, the future state of the €oul;. every variety of opluion, and rapid revolution in i tne last half century. It is simply e to read the old history of the first cen- tury as it was read in the ninth:to do €0 you must zbolishin your ming the Jessons of all the tenturies from the ninth to the ninteenth. _ Shall T make the mistake of baptizing the day- lisht. and time and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose teat I chance to behold duy- lizbt. and space, and time? Whar authropomar- phists we are in'this, that we cannot Jet moral dis- tictions, be, but must mold them into human shape! **Mere morality " means,—not put into 2 personal muster of morals. Our religion is geo- gaplical, belonss to our time and place; respects ard mythologizes gome one time, and place, aud perton, and people. Sn it is occasional. It visits s only on some exceptional and ceremonial oc- cation, on & wedding or a baptism, on & sick bed orata funeral, or perhape on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal ‘unsieeping Providence which Jurks in trifles, in still, small voices. in the fecrets of the hieart and our closest thoughts, as efliciently as in our proclamations znd successcs. Fazbe it for me 10 underrate the men or the cliurches that have fxed the hearts of men and or- eanized their devout impalres or oracles into good institutions. The Church of Kome hud its Seints tnd inspired the conscience of Europe,—St. Au- £u-tine, and Thomas a Rempis, and Feuclon: the picty of toe Englieh Church in Cranmer, and ier- 1, and Taylor: the Reformed Church, Sco the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg; the Qui ers. Fox and James > 1 confess our iater , frivolous, con:pared with b Calvinistic age. There < ia the lat century a serioas huoitual refercnce fo the spiritual world running through diaries, Jetieze, and conversavion. —yes, and into will< ani le2al instruments also, compared with which our liberation iooks a lttle foppish und dapper. papie relicion of seventy’ years ao was an iron 21t 1o the mind, giving it concentration and force. Arude people were kept respectatie by the de- lemmination of thonzht on the efernal world. Now mea fall abroad. —want polarity, —saffer in char- foterand intelléer. A sieep creeps over the sreat Loctons of man. Enthusizem pocs ont. In ity flesd a low prodence sceks to hold society stanch; tits arme are tow hort; cordage and -machinery never supply the place of life. bzt woald cat his nand off E‘r;;:“mmt the Poge if be eusp ringing on wiz Slaginz on with action by which in history g owed by anaze of eriticism, £ Pbich wii takes the place of faith_in the leading -n‘f'u‘ and an excessive respect for fo b :lh ne heart hss departed, becomes m b 911111!1‘ least reiizions minds. 1 will not now Iplore the causes of the resull, but the fact must monceded as of frequent recurrence. and ne Herident tsan in our American ¢hurch. To a denying, ardert church, delighting n rites ordinances, bas sncceeied a cold, inteliectual fse. who snalyze the prayer and pralm of ther Juriathers: and tbe riors Snteliectual reject every ; ¢ of authiority and cas!am with 2 petulance un- Tecedented. 1t 1sa aort »2 mark of probity and erity 10 declare bow Jittle vou believe, While £ mast of the community indolen:ly follow the ptorms with childieh ecrupulosity., aud we have Hfflmhh‘ for faith. and zood taste for character. St L hope the defect of faith with ne is only ap- Rt We shall find that freedom hag ite own T Tde, and, a< eo0a as in the vulzar it runs to use, sets all reasonable men on esplorine those e, 1 o not think the eummi of this aze ighy reiched or expressed uuless it attain the g ¥hich relizien and phijosophy reacted 1 S former ace. I Imiss the itspirstion of the }Jats of Calvinisus, or of Platonism, or Ghudd- h‘"’h 0T timee are not up to theirs, or. more truly, i € nOL Tet their own legitimate for O B pure religion. Ethics Teli #fy affection. But all the Digion we have is the “ethics of one or another '¥ person: as soon as character apnears. be sure ¢ will,end vereration, and anecdotes and fables ts t 1iod of hehiet is 10il : “m‘thlm. and celizht of 7ood men and women in { u And what ceeps of grandeur and beauty | ¥ known to ne in ethical trath, what divination or inaight belange toit! For mnocence Is a won- derful electricits for purging the eyes to scarch the nature of those souls-that pass before it. What armor it is to protect the £ood from outiard o inward harm, and with whot power it converts evil accidents into benefits ; the power of its countenance: the power of, its presencel To it alone comes true {riendship; to it come srandeur of situation and poetic perception, en- fiching all it deals with. Once men thourht spirit divine and matter dia- bolic; one Ormuzd. the other Ahriman. Now Science and Philozophy recognize the paraflelism, the aporozimation, the unity of the two; how each refiects the otirer a3 face answers (o face in a #123%; nay, Low the lawx of both are one. or how onc i3 the realization. We are leurning not to feartrath. “Thie man of this aze must be matricalated in_the uaiversity of sciences and tendencies flowing from sll past periods. lle must rot be one who can be surprised and shipwrecked by overy bola or subtle vord which malignunt and acule men may utter in his hearmz, bt *hould be tauzht all skcpticisms und unbelicfs, and made the destrozer of uli car houses and paper-watls, and the sifter of all opin- ions, by being pul face to face from his infancy with reality. A mun who has zecustomed himeelf 0 Jook at all his circumstances o3 very mutable, to carry his possersions, his relations o persons. and even his opimons. in his hand, and in all these 10 piarce 10 tle principle_and moral law, und everywhere to find that,—Las put himself out of the reach of all skeptictam: and it scems ns if whatever is most affectinz and sublime_1n our intercourse, in_onr bappinvss. and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life xo extracrdinary, aud, one might say, superhumin, 5 THIE REV. . B. MOCRGAN. WHY E LEFT TUEL LPISCOPAL CHUKCI. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Crxerxxati, 0., May 3.—The Enquirer to-mor- row will publish an interview with a prominent churchman of this city in regard to the resignation of the Rev. P. B. Morgan, of §t. John's Episcopal Church. Mr. Morzan, it will be remembered, preached a_ sensational ecrmon Iast Sundzy un- nouncing his withdrnwal from the Episcopal Church on acconut of the Romish tendencics of the Church, eaging it was drifting rapidly back to Catholiclsm. The alleged facts in the caze are given by the churchman as follows: Mr. M when be came here, two or three azo, was' eneuged at 8 salary of 3,000 ver’ year. Recently, the oficiils iold him they “conld no fonger pav this amonnt. Hcthien said thatthe must have thal amount or he would resign. e proposed, however. if the full $4,000 was given to retain e charge, and in *he 1terests of the church so lonz_ s the v was paid, They finally fised the salary at 3,000, but added by subscription $1,000 o for the coming He sxked if this additional £1,000 would eiso apply to future_vears: if ¥, ho would stay nswer was **30." Then, kaid he. ** theres n will stand.” It now transpires that Bishop Chency was_in the city at that very time, aml he supposed that they were then in consultation in regard 10 this move, and_his meni- bers charge that the loss of the extra $1,000 for Inture yecrs' services induced him to east his Jot with the Reformed Church, and atiack the one whose doctrines he had so carnestly advocated up thie time the salary question was sprang upon him. He lett nere yesterday for Chicago to take charge of St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Chiurch. . MR. MORGAN'S STATEMENT. A TaIcUsE reporter found the Re at tne residence of F. 4, Lrran, Pryan place, Friday evening, e having just from Cincinna Atelegram was shown himin which it was stated that the cause of his r tion from $t. John's Parish, Cincinnati, wi duction of his salary, tud he was asked if there was auy trath in the assertion. ““1tis untrac. None of the Vestry aid a word until after I bad announced my intention of with— drawme.” < the matter of rednction of salary men- The fr. Morgan = been said to me by any one reanciton. 1 was told after my resignation, by an individual. that they would probably feel obliged to reduce the espenses of thg parish somewhat. ™ “*1Whiat were your reiations with the parish ‘+Exceedinzly pleasant. There \as mot the slightest jar belween the congregation and my- self.” othing ha inan oici No difference of opinion®” on_one suoject—inueic: and that ob- tained ffom the beginmng. - Onr people paid for music about half what they paid for preaching the Gospel. Isttempted to compromise wilh them, and zdvecated congrezational music very earnest- Jy. 1wantedn volunteer choir to lead, and eaid, if they chose, they could contimue, ' parl. the claborate and oroate muosie. bui et me bave . the hymps, . end, perha a portion of tac. chsuts—plain music in_wl the congrezation can join. 1 proposed to have a corniet or precentor to lead, but the conservative feciing prevailed aad over- ruled my desites, andthe claborate and ornate music was continned. That, I think, bas becn canse of embarrussiment in the paris arc hard. ond most of the CinCinn: the spe The til men are fecling the pr and elsewhere. **You weré not infiuenced by the salary ques- essure like those of Chicago positively and entirely untrue that that he elizbtest intiuence in changinrmy posi- What was the canse of the change? ‘“Twasat the Generzl Convenuion in Toston last autumn, and became eutirely convinced that the Protestant Episcopal Clhiurch was, as a matier of fact, under the aomination of Sscramentarians —men of Dr. De Koven's stamp. Iwish you would say, in reply 1o Dr. Beneaict's criticism of my use of the word ‘decree,’ that 1 do not sssume that 1here was a motion made or a resolntion pasacd by the General Conventicn decreeiny in an afirmative way that the members of the Sisterhood of St Mary the Virgin should continue as they had” becn domg. but I that their on,'—thus settlin: TLat aczion convinced n had the upper hand, and 1 decided upon my conrs T returned to Cincinnati, 2nd told my people of it in a teport; and shortly after I saw my Bishop and told him now I felt,—that I hal no heart to 20 on wirh my work, and_\wae prepaced fo resign immediately. Whoever rays thet I - resizned my _ Reciorship became a member of the Reformed Church because they threatened to_reduce my s21- ary. rays what on (be face is untrue, because no min said anything ubont the matter, officially or unofficially, nntil I had taken this posttion. " **What was your salary? " ++ Four thousand dollars, " + Are you to receive the same at St Pal'si” ++ Tke change was made from principles " ““Itwas. You remember, pechaps, what Morgan Dixezid In the faceand eyes of the Protestant world: *The reformers of the English Church were conspiring against the Cliurch of God. —tist they had gone daft: aud God saved the Church by Queen Mary, *—n woran who burned 200 mar- tyrs during her rei Nota Bishon, not a Pres ter, not a lay depniy vaid onic word uigainst that ad- dress. Why was it not rebuked? 1ie snould have foricited Lis place a member of a I'rot body. al, it is my prvile take my from such influcnces. There i no possible way 10 meet tho dem o vindy elves as Protestants, but te on; 1de and lift uo our banner. I don't e people in Cincinnati blame me for any- {ning somuchas for leaving tne church. They said, *Why don't you stay and Lat it_out where you'are? " I told to mv friemds, *You scethe Tesult of omedischarge of my sun. What if 1 stould undertake L fight in this ccupying this position? My suus would le epiked. | couid do nothing. 1 believe the only way 1o be ¢ Enalieh reformers, s to step out and t Any one who would_eay that I resi: a threatened reduction of salary is falsc to him- celf and to the community; there is 1ot a word of truth in tae statement.” MINOR TOPiCS. THAT © ZEREAN CLUB.” To the Editor of The Tribune, Cn1caGo, Mav 3.—A notice appea: Jast Sundav’s paper, with resoluti ete, relating to a free Bible ciass, to mect the afternoon of that day. in a parior of the Briges House. In your Monday's paper a small “ squib ¥ fromi one of your reporters appeared, purporting to be & report ol saud mecting. Now, Mr. Egcitor, m w of the candid and Iiberal rapner in which respectable religious meetings are usually notice vour paper, and the neu- trality @ erality of sentiment which you have maintained upon religtous topics, I ven- ture to protest, and humbly crave the priviles of correctingra few m contained in his women, ten micn, and a reporter mathered to- gether vesterday afterncon, in a varlor of the Brised Hous votional purposes.”” Twen- ty-ene persons, includivg your reporter, and a small bov, were present. The meeting was not called for de purposes, ror were the ¢ acter, except, perbaps, a ¢ object of the Club, that being wmeeting, ** The members se behaved mechanics, with a t Methodism.” As to the nu jes™ present T am not ered: ix of the audience were int ppearing ladics. vresume y ute reporter did not ivtend to include them among the num- ber. And as it is not a peculiarity of our Club 10 question the audience concerning their *call- ing,” nor 1o judge of their true ‘merit by the esture or “cut of their cloth,” we must rest in doubt as to the exact number of wechanics” in attendance. But there were several scholmly sentlemen present who, I presume, would Dot be ashamed to rank with “mechanies,” since the Chri i a5 1 tcarpenter.” As to therebeing any Methodists, upon the rst rezular adeney to Free r of *‘mechan- cd, hut as ent and retined 4 free’” orotherwl cnt, I eanonly say that there were no manifestations peculiar to “ Free Methodism,” ** Spiritualism.” or any other “j1sm.” 1o regaid to the Chsirman, ‘° He was a young man with a forcien accent, ete.” Our iutelligent young Chairman was a foreiguer! Qur “Lible class” makes no * aristoeratic,” “ know-nothing,” or **sexual ”? discriminations, but cordialy invites all candid persons sceking after light and truth to participate in our meet~ ings, subject only to the rules of order zovern- ing the same. The last stricture of yourre- porter related to the speaker and his subject. The merits of the latter I should think he was poorly qualitied to sgive, as he remained not more than ten minutes after it began, But 1 am very grateful for the only compliment in- tended. which is contalned in his last statement : “These Bereans are suprosed to be Christians of a liberal and hospitable spirit and vein of thousht.” Iam bappy to say that we shall en- deavor tomaintain that characterin all our meet- ings, and trust that all Christians who approve of free investigation and an_open Bible will meet with us, and endeavor, through a careful study and analysis of the Scriptures, to come to Darmonious conclusions in rezard to its plain, hings upon all questions relating to ut and a future tite. Yours for sinple i Brrza. A PERSONAL GOD. To the Editor of The Tribune, RocHeLLg, 1L, May 3.—Your genial corre- spondent, Mrs. Swisshelm, in hasteninglto the rescucof Prof. Swing, has also been drawn into the whirlpool of inconsistencies. While, in the opening section of her com- munijcation she assumes-the defense of the Professor’s ‘‘Essence™ God, she, in_closing, suddenly and paradoxically becomes the chawi- pioness of a Personal God. She sa *To any logical mind there is no more difficulty of investing with personality the Infinite Power which exists and which all recognize in or behind this universe, thao in atfributing its wonderful order to to an imper- soual, unthinking cssence.’” Let us logically contemplate this, her remark- able proposition. Look for a moment at the ] distant horizon and imagine the itnmcense ma; nitude of this planet. Then realize the co parative pizmy it is among the endless billions of stars much greater, which sweep through endless space. Imagine the grandeur, the sub- limity of the universe. Can there be anythipg ereater—can we realize anything superior or outside of it? Benold the beautiful opening of spring, its verdant oreen, its aromatic fra- orance, and its charming song,—all is joyful in Nature’s happiest smiles. Imagine, then, the infinitely small as you have imagined the in- tinitely lurze. Think of the germ of the flower, the chiemical and physical forces causing the sap tu circulute within the ragged wood of the oak, of the myriads of animaleule floating merrily in their vast ocean of a few drops of water, and then—think of it! Cau all this, each and every- thing,—each animalculz, each flower, cach tree, eachh being, each mountain, each world, each sun,—can each and all of these at one and the same tine be the * handiwork " of a—Person? But we see it before us. We area partof this vast system of nature ourselves. We com- preliend, realize, and understand o ereat deal of its intrinsic workings, If we attempt to com- prehend the esolution of our world from chaos within 6.600 years, it is indecd impossinle, and of nevessity we must seck refuge in the six-day creation, and in the Bible account of God. But grant that the universe is eternal; that matter and force are {nfinite and without cnd; thata millivn of years are not yetone beat of the vast pendulum of eternity; that all s motion, no such thing as “dead” matter, all forever changes; then grant that o leaf can fall; that water will seek its level; that fire will burn; or that any other of the simplest things in Nature can or do hiappen of necessity or because of the vhysical and ehemical forces coexistent and in- seperable from matter, and without the as: aunce of a personal God or supernatural agen- cies, and then the whole vast mystery is virtually explained, and by degrecs the remaining grand problems will be solved. One agent, Time, little thought of but very rotent, works miracles, so to say, i ¢ grand cconomy of Nature. It is not my mission, nor have I the capacity, to preach the glorious doctrine of the evoluilon of this planct from chaos, but scicnce will give all that seek it a far better idex of the uitimatum of knowledge than it ever can or will of a ¢ Heaven? or a personal Creator. In the future we may know vastly more of Nature, but never can Know more about God. In investing with_personality, therefore, the creative powers of Nature, we are lost in an ab- solute labyrinth of mysteries_from swhich it is jmpossible’ to ever escape. Suck 2 personality would add million-fold to the mysteries of the universe. No science, uo telescope, no azencies within our reach, can aproach nearer to God than they are noiw, and we arc doomed to ever crawl in the aust and in the dark. If the universe is created, the Creator must be greater than the created. If the created isa great mystery, the Creator i3 afar greater mystery. If the uviverse cabnot exist :inde- pendent of a_Creator, then neither cana Cre- ator exist without a Creator to create Him. If the lesser cannot exist uncaused, then a creative power mreater than this universe can- not exist uncaused. 1f matter and its wonder- ful forces cannot evoive mind from the vast resources of the infinite material u niverse, as we cause music to evolve from metal in the music-box or time from a clock, then certainly nothing could not produce mind in the God- Read. If mind can exist In God uncaused and vithout the assistance of the wonderful pro- litic essences of matter, it then certainly can be cvolved in.man with the assistance of matter. Mind without matter, withont physical proper- ties, is inconccivable, and Imaginary; but mmd asa purely physical result of physical condi- tions and its wonderful capabilitiez we see manifested in the sublime brain of a Humboldt or a Webster, down to the dawn of intellect in the evtod and cell. Therefores a perzonal God, and no other God, isa “God ” intinitely more mysterious than all the other mysterics of the universe combined. Orto WETTSTEIN. A NEW MOVE BY THE FIRST SPIRITGALIST SOCI- ETY. To the Editor of Tae Tribune. Cnicaco, May 4.—For the Lenefit of a large ctass of your readers who are interested, and who do not see the other morning papers, allow me tostate fly the new movement of the Spiritualists. The First Society have leased the Unitarian Church, corner of Laflin and Monroe streets, and will hereafter hold regular Sunday morping and evening services in that house, commencing May Mrs. Richmond, the emi- nent fuspirational trance speaker, will continue to be their minister, her valuable services hav- ing been sceured for avother year, This change of base on the part of the Society marks a new era for Spiritual in Chicazo. Notwithstand- inz many of the leading minds of the city have been in coustant attendance at the former place of worship, stili there were mxu:y({)copxu of cut- ture and tine sensibilitics who did not feel like worshiping in a public hall used for miscella- neous purposes. The Socicty now confidently expects a full attendance o the friends of the Ilarmontal Philosophy, and also to reap during the current year the fruit of Mrs. Richmond’s rations miven under less favorable condi- All lovers of progress n religious ideas most cordislly invited to join them in their worship, It is the desire of the manngement to sh the adinission-fee at the door, and i€ suflicient encouragement {s affordeitthrouzh the rental of sittings it will be done. _The seats will be free until turther notice. EnNEST. GENERAL NOTES. The Church of the Latter-Day Saints—Mono- ormon—claims to have 346 congrega- tions, with 3 membership of 11,060 communi- cants Father Chiniquy says that, fo the way things are o on, the real-estate organization known as the Rowman Church will govern this Conti- tent in twenty-tive years. A religious (¥) paper offering double and sin- gle barrel shot-guns as prizes for the largest number of subscriptions duriuz the next thirty davs 1s the Ja improvement.on_the 10-cent iromo. The pharisaical New York Wituess does it. : Last year the Bishop of Culm, Prussia, was fined 17.500 marks for violatton of the May laws, and threat:ned with an additional fine of 15,000 rarks unless he filled certain parish va- cancies in a prescribed period. Not having any priests at kis disposal for this purpose. the Gov- ernment has excused bim and extended the time a year. Messrs. Whittle and McGrananan have closed their revival meetings in Worcester, with some dlssatistaction with the meagreness of the re- su! Mr. Whittle complains that he never fore lavored in aplace where so much oppo- siton, and hatred even, to his _doctrines were ife . The revivalists will labor awhile, in the county, and expeet to give the obstinate town another opportuunity to repent in the sum- mer. The American Bible Society can now supply a neat copy of the New Testament, 32mo. size, printed on zood _paper, from new plates, agate trpe. bound in muslin, flexible cover, with red edges, at five ceats per copy, 33 per hundred. A copy can be sent anywhere in our country by mail, prepaid, for seven cents. This little book is from tlie same type as the new acate Bibl 12mo., cloth. red edge, the price of which is 95 cents, with postage 32 cents. ‘The Boston- correspondent of the Standard says in a recent letter: Some of our churches made themselves ridicu- lous on Easter Sunday in celebrating a Pagan hol- iday with taster flowers, Easter music, Easter Sunday-school theatricale, Taster sermons, and Enster nongense. \We TOW Zive up our schools on &t. Patrick'sday. Some Protestant mountebank will be celebrating that before lonc. We lower the doctrine of Christ's resurzection when twe takea Popish or Pagan holiday to celebrate it. A society called *“The Bible-Searchers’ As- sociation” hos been formed at the Raflroad Chapel for the systematic study of the Bible. It meets every_Monday evening. At the dedi- cation of the Society’s uew- room, fitted up for its use, last Thursday evening, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell addressed the Society on ““The Biblea Miracle.” He will continue this evening on «The Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures, and the Importance of Bible Study Among the Masses.” The well-known 1nterest excited by the public addresses of Mr. Mitchell on the Bible s sufficient to secure a-large attendance at the chapel this eveniug. The Rev. D. €. Greenepaliuding to the work e hus done for the Society in trauslating the Seriptures into Japunese, says: What the experience of other translators has Dbeen in preparing verses in uon-arian languages, 1 do not know: but we have been surprised to find that the Gospel of John is one of the most ditficul books in the New Testament to render satisfac: torily into Japancse, 'The: Gospel abounds in pa saves which, while taey seem matural enough in Greek or Englizh. would, 1f translated hterally into Japancse. become instances of anacoluthon so pross us to aimost destroy the conmection of Even the long and Involved sentences of ne Epistles are oftcutimes easier 1o mun- age than some of the apparently simple veraes of John's Gospel. The vorrespondence between Leo XTI and the Swiss Confederation has been published. The Pope, after sunouncing his “accession, jaments the cessation of the Iriendly relations which tormerly subsisted between Switzerland and the Holy Sce, and stizmatizes the present position of the Catholic Church as deplorable. The President of the Confederation, in a cour- tcons reply, congratulates the Pope on his ac- cession, and remarks that the Catholle relizion, like all othcr forms of worship in Switzerland, enjoys the fullest liberty, on the sole condition that the ecclesiasticai authorities shall respeet the rights and prerozatives of the State and the rights and franchises of ndividuals. The ofiicers of the Third Unitarian Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets, authorize the correction of the report that the Society is broien up and the church abandoned. By gen- eral conscut, the hour of service has been changed to 4p. m., and of Sunday-school to 2:30 p. m. The chureh found itscli unable to meet its expenses from pew rentals, so it leased its house for a portion uf the day to another re- jous organization, belicving it” better to wor- ship God on a cash pasis in the afternoou than at other people’s expensc in the morning, By this action it has placed itsclf in a perfeetly gafe pecuniary position, and will strengthen it- gelf with its members and before the comumu- ity. + In Rheinbreilbach, Russia, a young girl, Maria Weiler, caused considerible’ exeitement by pro- fessing to bear the stizmata. Reports in the Catholic pressstate that ¢ a few days before the beginuing of Lent it was said that blyod-marks were visible on her hands, feet, and side. From the 15tk of March hundreds of people from the neighborhood went to see the stimatized, and perfectly . trustwortny cpersons have asserted they have seen the blood flowing from wounds on her forchead and hands. It i3 also suid that since the middle of March Maria Weiler hasnot taken any food. On Friday, the 22d of March, the spots began to bleed at 9 o'clock in the morning. and many people Wwho saw the oceur- rence became convineed that they assisted at a supernatural process.” The Government inter- fered and scnt the police for the girl, who wus taken to the hospital at Neuwied. In Beverly, a town a little distance from Bos- ton, the Methodists have 2 preacher who is making them a deal of trouble. e has em- braced many views which the denomination re- pudiate, the most prominent. being the imme- diate comine of tue Lord to judgment. He has firured out the exact day, and by this and other stranze unotions; has divided the church, and got up a scandal. _On a recent Sunday the cx- cellent Presiding Elder of the district went down to see about it, and both chaimed the pulpit. The forces on cach side were about evenly di- vided 1n number, the Elder’s half beine most re- speetable, and the pastor’s half most nolsy. The Elaer carried the dav, and the pastor re- tired and set up his baoner in_another place. The matter was carried to the Couference, and a comnittec appointed to try the offender, who thus secures what he probably wanted—cheap wartyrdom. St. Johw's Reformed Episcopal Church, al- though oae of the youngest churches in the city, being only a little over 3 year old, starts out in the new Easter season with yery encour- aging prospects. Its edifice c¢n_ Ellis” avenue, near ‘Thirty-seventh street, has been greatly improved and now _oresents a very attractive appearance, and, after Wl the extra cxpendi- tures, the church is ow{of debt and iis pew rental is rapidly incredMng. The Kev. M. D. Clureh, who has had thé successful charge ‘of the parish from its organization, has been elect ed by the vestrs as Rector and has.acccpted. The new cholr of 8t. John's is one of the best in thecity. Lt consists of Mr. O. F. O'Shaughnes- sey, the well-kuown urganist. as dircctor: Miss Eva Davis, soprano; Miss Holen M. Bragi, con- tralto; Mr. Byron W. Shibley, tenor; and Mr. E. F. Daniels, bass. All the voices 3 good, end that of Miss Davis is of remarkable purity and excellence. ‘The Witness, a canting, whining, ay sheet published in New York, was rec raigned by one ot its readers for publishing swindling advertisements. It explained— There is nothing that we have exercised more care about in advertising, from first to last, than {o keep out all advertiscments of lotterles, 2ift en- terpriscs, drawings of art associations. rates. or aenb-haze at churen fairs, prize candics, and every- Thinz that savored In the remotcst dezree of gam- bling; and we are aseured by the gentleman who manages the advertieing department that nothing of the kind has ever appesrcd. We, therefore, axk Mr. Patchen to point out anything which jua- tifies his accusation. We would as soon expect to be accused of a sing intoxicating drinks, or theatres, ot horse-races, or prize-fizhts, or Sunday sports,as of advertising prize-packages or lotteries of any kind. The Witness which contained the foregoinz denial published the annexed **ad..” which will be recognized by thetradeasa Dbait to catch the unwary public: 0603 Week to Aj 820 § 4 Noyeltles, C tlonery-Pacages.” Samples, with Togue, frec. On the 13th ult. the Pope's allocutionary Ietter, re-establishing the Roman Catbolic nierarchy in Scotland, was publicly burned on Glasgow Green. Many thousands of the Or- ange and Roman Catholic parties assembled, and for a time it was feared that scrious conse- quences would result. The presence of several hundred policemen sufficed to maintain order. and though at times the crowd was exceedinaly disorderly, and copies of the letter were burned repeatedly, the public peace was preserveil. The situation of matters was regarded 15 of so serious a nature that the military were kept under arms for several hours. Lateronic the cvening, while M'Intyre, n_well-known anti- Topery lecturer, was' preaching on Giaszow Green, boys bezan fo throw stones. The con- mregation” retaliated with their fists and with stones. Rioting became geueral. Barricades were broken down, and the fragmeuts used as missiles. Many persons were hurt. One was sent to hospital. Ten rioters were apprehended. On the next day the Magistrates, in sentencing some of thc rioters to a month's hard labor, said they did not care what “religion ”” any of them were of, thev intended to maintain order in Glasgow with vigor. ETANSTON. St. Mark’s Church, Evanston, closes the parochial year under favorablc cond; the parist is out of debt, and the visible resources for the cominz year are sufficient to meet all ardinary demands. The eorerezation hus in- creased, and the new choir is accentahle and bas been permanently engazed. Amoug the fam- lies which have come into the villaze recently for temporary or permanent residence are ma Episcopalians, and to . such it is snnounced that the seats in this church are ali free at evening service, and that members of the Vestry are al- ways in attendance at morning service to pro- vide scats for strangers. The accommodations are ample, and a cordial invitation is given for both scrvices, at 10:30 4. m. and S p. 1m. ANNOUNCEMENTS. The fifty-first Annnal Convention of the Dio- cese of Iliinois wilt be held at the Cathedral, May 23. The annual pew-reating ot the First Congre- ational Church will take place to-morrow evening. The annual meeting of the Congregational Association of this city will be held Tuesday at the First Church. The Rev. Robert Patterson, formerly of this city, and now of Oaklavd, Cal., will preach this morning in Prof. Patton’s pulpit. The Rev. P. B. Morgan, late’ of Cincinnati, will assume the pastoral charge of 8t. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church to-day. There will be a meeting of the Chicago Pres- brtery Tuesday at Arlington Helghts, to ordain the Rev. Mr. Bartholomew, who was recently called to the pulpit. The new Third Presbyterian Church, corner of Monroe strect and Ashland avenue, will be dedicated this morning, sermon by the pastor. The evening service will be a union one, par- ocritical ts—All the new and mos, Jewelry, St: inustrated” caf ticipated in by the Revs. J. M. Gibson, M. M. Parkhuret, E. P. Goodwin, Dr.Sullivan, Dr. Anderson, Prof. Patton, Dr. Swazey, W. C. Young, and Bishop Cheney. The anniversary of the Chicazo Thdological Seminary, Union Park, will be held May 1¢ and 15. The graduating exereises will occur on the evening of the latter day. The tweaty-fifth anniversary of the New En- gland Coneregational Church will be celebrated June 16, when the pastor, the Rev. Arthar Lit- tle, will deliver a discourse appropriate to the oceasion. The following evening there will be a- church social, and, on the succeeding day, a Con- gregational Conneil, at the conclusion of which the pastor will be formally installed. PERSONAL. Joseph Cook has ‘completed his Boston lect- ure course. Lord Alexander Gordon Lenox has, it is stated, been received into the Roman Catnolic Chareh. : The Rev. D. 8. Tappan, of Mount Pleasant, Ta., has received a call to the Presbyterian Chaurch at Muncie, Ind, The Rev. George W. Samson, D. D., is giving a course of lectures on * Art. History, and Criticism,” at Rutgers College, New York. The Rev. T. M. Colwell, of Mendota, il., has been called to the First Baptist Church in Loweil, onc of the best fieids in this State. It is now reported that Queen Victoria has at last reluctantly consented that Prince Leopold may become a clergytnan of the Established Church. Judgze Lecompte, of Leavenworth, Kan,, has written an open letter to Bob Inzersoll, advo- cating a Supreme Being aud the immortality of the soul. * The Rev. M. Waller. of Petersbura, I, has accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Helena, and has already entered upon bis lubors there. h Mr. CharlesD. Ellis, of the Seminary of the Northwest, is spending_his vacation with the church at Westfield, Marquette -County, Wis. He will return in the fall. A majority of the standing committees have consented to the consecrati of Dr. Peterkin, of Baltimore (Protestant Episcopal), as Bishop of West Virginia, a new diocese. The Rev. Dr. John Hall has been described Iately as a “$20,000 pastor.” His salary is, aud has been for elght years, 510,000 & vear in’ cur- rency. Beford that time it was $6,000 in gold. Bishop-ctcet Kilev, of the Church of Jesus, in Mexico. atter spending many months in the United States in the interest of his Reformed Mcxican Chureh, returns to his duties in that field. ‘The Rev. & S. Bailey, D, D., formerly of this city, more recently of Pittston, Pa.. has accepted the call of the Buptist Church in Niles, Mich., and has already entered upon service. The Rev. Z S. Holbrook, of the Oaklind Congregational Chureh, made a flving visit to Portage, Wis., a few Sundays azo, and preached in the Presbyterisu Churcly, which is anxious to secure a pastor. The Chicazo delegation to the Presbyterian Genceral Convention at Pittsburg consists of the Rev. Dr. Patton, A, 1. Dean, I1. T. Miller, und W. F. Wood, and Messrs. Railtou, Maxirell, Wiiliams, and Strong. The Rev. C. T. Astley, an English clergyman of some uote, has withdrawn from the Church of England on acrount of dissatisfaction with i of the Church respecting baptis- mal rexeneration and priestly absolution. Bishop Wiley, of the M. E. Church, Mrs. Wiley, and thelr little daushter, arrived at San Francisco. Cal., on the 24th, on their return Irom the Episcopal tour to China and Japan. He left Yokohama by stesmer Tokio on the tith nlt. Dr. Elizs R. Fairchild, a well-known Presby- terian clereyman, died a day or two ago at his residence in Morriston, N. J. He occupled charges at Mendbamn and Port Jervis. For many years he was Secretary of the American aud “Foreign Christian Union, and lived in Newark. The consecration of the Rev. Dr. Burzess as Bishop of Quiney, Ill, will take place at his church, in Springfield, Muss., May 15. Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. will preside, and will De assisted in the ceremonics by six other Bish- ops. Bishop Runtineton, of Central New York, will preacn the sermon. DOUBTFUL DIVINITY. THE Bible commands us to'love one another; but this is no reason whya man should’ climb the back fence to hug his nefghbor’s wife. There was wisdom worthy of eray hairs in the seying of the little girl: ““Idon’t like to hear r. — preach; he speaks of God as if Ue were his cousin.” Provident Minister: *“I wish to state that 1 have procured an alarm-clock that will wake up the congrezation as soon as the service is over.” —arper's Bazar. A Sunday-school boy at Mavsville, Ky., was asked by the Superintendent if his father was a Christian. © Yes, sir,” he replied, *but he is not working at it much.” A Syracuse Sunday-school teacher got his Jessons sadly mised up last weck when he recited: *¢ Do men gather apes from corns’or pigs from bristles?"—Syracuse Sunday Times. Mauy religious enthusiasts will wake up fn the next world with feclings aliu to those of the man who keeps on running up stairs after e bas ot to the top.—Turner's Falls Keporter. Western Christians often ride ten miles to chureh, but they count the jonrney for naught if there is only 3 good cock-fizhit between the morning and_aftcrnoon services.—Philadelphia Kronikle-Herald. A bard case was asked the other day if he had anything stored up in Heaven. ~ “Sartin, sartin,” replicd he. “I guess they must be Taid up there if anywhere, for I bain’t got any 1aid up at home.” TWhen you bear a country church choir sing- fner, » There will he no more sorrow there,” you conelude at once that cither the aforesaid’ choir will not be there, or they will not be permitted to sing.—Oit City Derrick. A subseriber wrote to a journa) to malke some fnuiries abont the next world's fair, whereupon the wicked edifor reolied that he was under the finpression that the next world wouldn’t have any fair.—Breakfast Table. In the midst of a heavy shower, during 2 pro- lonered storm, a little miss was observed at the window crying bitterly, * What is the matter ? she was a: . ¢ I'm‘train.” ¢ There’s noth- ing hiere to lurt you; what are you afraid of 7 tIfraid of Noah!” When Absalom at Ephraim Tiis tresses ot betancled, And from the branches of 4 tree Inzloriously dangled, With thonahta that crowded on This entrment was minsled 40 wonid that [ this roof of mine Tlad thouznt me 't have shingled!™ ~— Tonkers Gazelte. The Rev. Jon Jasper, whose sermon on “The Sun Do Move ™ Iy tiracted so general notice, in a sermon a few s aro drew the follow- ing picturc of tue fate whick awaits sincers: “game as exbbidge in a bilin? pot will de sinner be for ebverlastin’ in_hell. De pot will keep on bilint and de cabbidze will kcc[\ on burnin’, Dbut nebber burn up. You will ail be lke de cabbidge ef you don’t repent. Who knows that the father in the Seriptural arabie may not have heen sick of the smug airs and the wearisome self-complaisance of his fisst-born, and that the retusn of the Tost prodisal ‘may have besn hailed as a biessed relief from the saciety of the model youth who sat opposite himi every day at dinncr and bored him to extinction across the walnuts and the wine with a recital of Lis own virtues? One of the meanest slanders afloat is that swhich charges that one of aur clerzymen sivore an oath the other night. The circnmstances are simply these: He it and at- Tempted to make bis way in the dark through tlio itting-room to the pantey to deposit a Dbunch of rhubarb presented him by a parishion- er, forgettng that house-uleaning had com- . I'he wretehed girl had left o pail of ‘oap near the door, over swhich he accident- atly stumbled. Making an ereulean effort to save himself, he grabbed for samething with both iauds, 2nd, as he slizited firmly on his stomach, pulled down on tep of himi atable full of crockery. Rising promptly to his feet, he made a pitch for the match-safe, bur, Lap- pening to plant his foot in a puddie of the soft Soap, e promptly sat. doswn i a tuh of preserv- ed fruits: His poor tired wife, who had retired carly, was roused from her slumbers, and, thinking that burzlars were abroad, shricked for help, to which the hired girl responded, rushing into the room and tumbling headlonz over L%c man in the washtub. These are the naked facts in the case, and that is all there is of it. Ourzood friend did nou say a word that conld be construed into profaniiy. Ile simply gat firmly and quictly among the prescrves un- ff‘ a light was struck, and then mildly inquired: How’ much longer, dear, does house-cieaning last? "—fthaca Journdl. CHURCH SERVICES. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach in the Church of the Redecmer, corner of Washington and Sanga- mon etreets, mo rning and cvening. Evening sub- Ject: *“Why Am I Not a Trinitarian?" —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach in St. Paal's Chu!cl_l, on Michigan avenue, between Sixteenth .and Eightecnth streets, morning and evening. RECOKMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. J. A. Fisher preaches at the Courch of the Good Shepherd, cornerof Jones and Homan streets, this evening. o bo —The Rev. F. \V. Adams preaches at Christ's Canrch this morning. ‘I'he congreation will unite with St. Paul's Church tr. the evening 1 welcom- ing the Rev. P. B. Morzan, the new Rector. ~—The Rev. M. D. Cunrch preachcs st St. John's Chureh, Eilis avenne, ucar ‘Ihuty-scventh street, worning and evening, —The Rev, R. H. Bosworth preaches at Trinity Churck, Englewood, morning cvening. —The Rev. R, P. Morgsn witl preach at St Paul’s Church moruing und evemtng. 'The on: gation of Christ’s Church will _jomr ic the evening service. % —The Rev: John B. Fisher will preach in the morning in Immannel Charch. corner of Centre and Dayton streets, and Mr. R. IL Burke,Jr., wil conduct the services in the evemng. , PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Dr. Swazey will preach at the Forty- first Street Coureb, corner of Prairie averae, this morning. —The Rev. Arthur Swassey will preach at 10:30 2. m. at the Forty-first Street Church. TAPTIST. ‘The Jev. N. F. Ravlin preaches at the West End Ovpera-Ifonse. Evening subject: **The Preachers, the Sunday Papers, and the Sabbath.” —Dr. Everts preaches this morninz snd Dr. A. Orwen this evening at the Firat Cuurch, South Park avenue and Thirty-first street. —The Rev. 7. W. Custis preaches this mornine and eveninz at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third etreet. —The Xtev. . Deliaptiste preaches morning aod evenlng at Olivet Church, ou Fourth averue, near Taylor sireet. —The Rev. A. Owen preaches this mnrning in the University Place Church. In the evemnz D Everts preaclies on the ** Great Temperance Move ‘ment—the Power and Philosophy of the Pledge. ™ —The ltev. Dr. Anderson will preach this morn- ing and the Rev. E. E. Hewitt this eveniug at the Second Church, —The Rev. T. J. Morgan, D. D., will preas this morning and eveuing at the Fourth Church, Paulina und Washington streets. —The Rev. E. E. Hewitt will preach this morn- ing and Dr. Galushx Anderson this evening at the Centennisl Church. Lincoln und Jackson streets, —Tne Rev. fi. P. Allison will preach to-day at the North Star Church, Division and Sedgwick strents. —The Rev. E. O, Taylor preaches as usaal at Jlartiae's all, on Chicago avenue. METHODIST. The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Church morning and evening. —Dr. Williamson preach c Chucch morminz and cveuing. v. E. K. Borinz preaches at the State Street Church morving and evening. « LUTOERAN. The Rer. Edmund Belfour preaches at the Church of the [foly Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue and Eric sireet. morniug and evening. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rey. E. ¥. Williams preaches at the Forty- seventh Street Church this morniny. —The Rev. Charles Hall Everest preaches at' Plymouth Church. Evening subject: **Homes versus Prisons.” = —The Rev. G. IL Peake will preach in the Leayitt Street Charch morning and evening, —The Rev. Thomas 1. Valentine will preach in the Union Park Church morning and cvening. —The Rev. G. W. Mackie will preachin the South Park Church, corner of Thirty-third street, in the morning. at the Michi Event: USITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford preaches at the Church of the Messiah. Morning subject: ‘*Hospitali- t7.” Evening subject: ‘*Dr. Chalmbers and the Free Church of Scotland.™ —The Rev. J. T. Sundertand preaches at the Fourth Church this morninz. —The R T. Sunderfand preaches at Tillo! eon’s Hall, Englewood, this afternoon. Subject **Lobert Ingersoll and His Influence. ™ —The Rev. T. Sunderland preaches at Evans- ton this evening. ~Subject: **The Devil." —The Rev. T. B. Forbush preaches in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Latlin streets, at 4 p. m.. on ** How the Bible Grew.” —The Rev. Robert Coliver will preach at Unity Church morning and evening. E CHRISTIAN. The Rev. S. M. Conner preaches morning and eveninz at the First Charch, corucr of Indiana avenuz and Twenty-fifth street. —Elder M. N. Lord will preach the Central Church, Campbell Hajl,_cornerof Van Buren street. ana Campbeil avenue, —Tae Rlev. Df. Graham will preach this morming and eveninz at thc Contral Church, Western av- enue und Congress street. NEW JERUSALEM. ‘The Rev. L. P. Mercer preaches at Tershey Music (':_ullmlnxs morning. Subject: **Lizhts ‘in ot Tho Rev. W. F. Pendleton preaches corner of Clark and Menominee streets this morning. and corner of Ogden avenne aud Washington stzeet this afternoon. “~The Rev. O. L. Barler preach: Hall, corner of Eishteenth stre uue, this morni SPIRITUALISTS. The First Society of Spiritualists will commence holding their meetings in the Third Unitarian Church, corner Moncoe and Latlin streets, to-day. Serviceat 1045 2. m. and 7:45 p. m., by Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, trance speaker. Morning enbject, *‘Ilave Wea New L a, ™ by the spint ‘Theodore Parker. Evening subject, .**What Spic- jtunlism Reveals of the Future Life Contrasted With Theology, " by tue apirit of the Rev. William Ellery Cianning. The service closes with an im- promptu poem. EPISCOPAL. The Rev.d. H. Knowles will officiste in the Cathedral Free Church. corner of Washinzton aud Peorla streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rt.-itev. W. E. Mclaren, Bishop, will officiate at 10:45 0. m. And 7:30_p. m. in Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, near Sistecath street. —There will he xcrvices morning und evening in the Clurch of the Holy Communion, ou Dear- born street, near Thirtieth. . —The Rev. Thomas K. eman will officiate in St. John's Church morning and even —The Rev. Samuel 8. liarns will ofliciate morn- ing and eveningat St. James' Church, corncr of Cass and Huron streets. Communion at 12 m. The Rev. F. N. Luson will officiate at Trinity Chureh, corner.of Tiwenty-sixth strect and Michi- yan avenae, 8t 10:45a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Francie Manstield will oflicfate_in the Church of the Atonement. corner of West Washiucton and Robey streets, at 10:20 a. m. and 70 p. m. —The Rev. J. Bredburg will officiate in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedzwick strect, near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Arthar Ritchice will ofliciate in the Church of the Ascension. corner of North Losalle and ‘Elm strects, at 10 a.m. and 8 p. m. Celcbration of the Holy Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will ofli in St. Paul's Church, fiyde Park avenue, between Forty-cizhth and Forty-ninth streets, ut 10:30 2. m. and 7:50 p. m. d —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark’s Church, Cottaze Grove avenue, corner of Thirty-sixth strect, at 10:10 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushnian will officiate in St. Stcphen's Charch, Johnsou street, between Taylor and Tyweifth, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofliciate in Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Qukley street und West avenue, at 10:0 a. m. and 7:30 p. w. Celebration of the lloly Communion at & 2. m. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr.. will officiate in the Church of the Epibhany, Throop strect, be- tween Monroe and Adaws, at 10:30 4. m. and 70 . M. —T‘hc Rev. W. J. Petric will ofiiciate in the Churcli of Uur \'Inr,codn ((y‘( Lincoln and Belden avenues, at 11 A, . an p.m. —The ltev. H. G. Perry will oficiate in Al Samnts' Church, corner of Carpenter and Ohio streele, 3010245 2. m. and 7:45 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. . The Rev. Charles M. Morton preaches at the Chicazo Avenue Church this moruning. John V. Farwell wii! speak in the evening. —The Rev. Neely Jackson preaches at Zion Church, No. 1+ Union strect, this moraing. The Berean Club will hoid a Bible mecting at £:30 o'clock at Roon No. 28 Brigws Hoode. —Services at Calvary Tabcruacle, corner of Hoyne and Flournoy ~ streets. Judge Layton preaches in the moruing aud the Rev. M. Chris- Dold in the eveninz, —The Rev. Dr. Mathewson prcaches at the Green Street Tabernacle morning and evening. “The Jtev. John E. Morris preaches morning and evening in Temperance Hall, No. 213 Muadison rect. . e Progressive Lycenm meets in_the lecture- roum of tne Third Unitarian Charch, corner of Monroe and Laflin strects, at noon. . A._A. Duncanson will preach at the Wash- ingtanian Home at 3 o'clock. ZMr. George M. Sharp preachesat 11 a. m. and p. m. in Barr Mission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenne. '—T'he Disclples of Christ mect at 229 West Ran- dolph strect at 4 p. m. a 3 —There will be a women's and men's meeting at the Hall No. 213 West Mudicon strect at 2:30 p.m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Jfay 3-Second Suuday after Enster. ay 10—Fast. May May AMay CATIOLIC. 5—Segung Sunday after Easter; St. Pius 7., ©6—St. John before the Latin Gate. 7—St. Stanislaus, B. JMay $—Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel. 3fay 9—St. Gregory Nazianzen, £. C. D. Jfay 10—St. Antonious, B. C.; SS. Gordianus and Epimachus, 3L 3. . May 11—St. Mark, Evangelist (from April 25). . THE GAME OF CHESS All communicazfons for this department shonld be addressed 1o THE TRipUNe. xad indorsed ** Chess.™ CHESS DIRECTORT. Cmicaao Cxsss CLup—No. 50 Dearborn street.. Cutoato Ciress Assocratiox—Hansen & Welch's, No. 130 Dearborn street, opposite Trisuxs Duilding. Chess-players meet dally a3 the Tremont Mouse (BX- ~herman House (Basemeut), aud at 423 Weak t, corner of Ellzabeth. EXIGMA NO. 127, From the Aaslaide Qbserzer. White. Biack. King at K elzhth Kinzat K fonrth Queen at K second Blshop at Q ffih - Yook at K seventh Knlght at Q I8 fourth . Iishopat K Kt ith Tawnat K Kt third Kaight at K B fourth Pawn at K shird Katant at K third Tavaat QL third White to piay and mate fn tWo moves. PROBLEM NO. 12 BT M. W, A. SHINKNMAY, GRAND RATIDS, MICE. White to play and mate {o two moves. SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. 135, Whtte. Bk, o £ Lo H S EtoB4 4Rt10 Q6 lnate SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 125. Rlack. LIt takes Kt 20K moves UL.KRY 7 Qitsdiseh i1 R 5 mate BtoK Bidisch maiea CHESS IN PRILA The followiaz game recelved the st prize for brik lancy In a recent Danbury Neu st 0 K QP lakes P takcs QB P aaties 10! 110 R 1k 1105 takes Q 120Kt takes 12000 13 1akes P 18K 110 Kt sq 130K takes K 1R Bdch T 0K s 1501 takes 1§ 15 .QKeto 2 160K takies I IEIQ R o B 15 te g 17 .G Ktto s IS B to KES ch 18K t0 G 100 B 1o Kt s WIQKLORS 20 Castles ch 20. )¢ K10 Qs FroK B4, and wins. | (a) The plot and counterplot keze are quite curlous. LOGIS CHALLES D LA BOURDONYALS. Like the Mtusttions Phiildor. the eubject uf onr pres- ent sketeh was a native of sunny France. e was hom In 1795, the same year (n which Ftifdor died, and - 2IN0ICWOFthy successor fo 1ke up the mantle of the great Frencn chamzion, belng onie of the few of theaid asters whon the world has récognized 3s the strousess player of hiday. - i De a Rourdonnals only died £o recently as 1840, k0 modern practitioners have tiet many piavers who have contested, Fames with him. aad the older habltues of the Eurofiean chess cafey are qufic fumiMar with hig Dersonal az nd teil many azushig aaecdotes conuecied with his dhe-y expericnces. To s difficols 1o compare the reiative strenath of the old and modern school of chees-players: the recorded Rames of any player cannot be takez as 3 falr critorion hy which to judge his play. and th dergone $0 many 1mpo: 2 Jude by the brilliant coips or et 5 which the player attams his enl. of e can readlly conpare comzositinns, and nod problems the case 18 diffe he anclent with the made ruch u decided fmprovement thus we feel fncined o bellere that the entire sciencc of the game hat ad- plaser. as well us th GE progread, the mysterics ut philosuphy of ou vanced, and tuxl the mod: problemiat, has kept pes fakesa clearer ana decper the gaie than was dreame forefethers. D: La Bourdonnals made many prablems. but. 1 those of Philldor and other great aye y o ally have a sumblaace (o posic e setitl pla T following we give 23 a speciiizn of the 0ld atyic compositions: EXIGMA~EY LA COUED d of 1 th £ IR 34 1 i i taind T G Kt secoud RooK af Knl PavmatQ at 0 8 sixli Pawn st ¢ it it wit Az K ECcon: Pawn at @ 1 sesond T'awn ot ) Kt fearth White to play 3ad MALs [ forr moes. The foliowing posaes mertt, howerer, a: contalns one of the s ENIGRA=IY LA BOGEDONNAIS. Ritnz at Q mjuai s Queen at K i3 10 Roo at i xevently Pawoat Q Bissventh Fawn at K It segenatn Pawu at K stsih awn ae Qsisth Whiie to play and win. The death of La Bourdonnal was as sudden az(t wae preinates Ile was In tie he ( health aud at the heleht of fame, the recugnized «hamplon of the World. e aive the foliowinz, which was the last éaiug he exor played, bel me with M. Popert, o the fitest mavers In Eagland, to whom La Bourton: gave the odds of Pawn and moye. (1:emove Black’s K 1t Pawn.) ¢ Alaci—La Bolirdonnats. PEE3ESTNEEsg ROEAE § RO 7 33 The gaine was Interrupted at this oint by the scrions indispostilon of La Bourdonnals, and was nescr re- sumsd. —Scientiffc American. PLATING CIESS. e eat beneath the chandeller. Tts splendor streaming o'er us, The gllded cliessmen Iy{ng near. The chessboard placed before us. * Shall we grow gray before we play2* Crted biuc-cyed Cousin Lily: *+Don't sit there n that stupld way— 1t makes you 100k 30 silly. ™ Isettheboard. **Now. CouslaLil, What xay you to Invesiing Allttle cash 2 You know It wiil Just rizke 1t lteresting.™ ** Who ever money rlsks. " ahe cricd. O such a game a3 thty (a7 # Well, thea. hot money, ™ I replfed, **Lel's play—let's play for—k! She blushed, she Jaughied, and tosscd her bead, And then. +*jlow many, cousla? ™ And. Tanghing merrily. 1 'satd. **Let's play for—torly dozen. The game began. With heedful care We marshailed all our forces: Klogs. qf nd bisliops ull were there, And Kulghta—at least thelr horses. Thonzh ever as we played away My cousin’s hope zrew slighter, Yerafter cvery losing play She amtled aod hiushed the brighter. And when at last the game was done, ‘This gamne for stakes <0 fuany,— ‘When [ those fugny stakes had won, SMore preclous far than money— Why then—bat no, I'li hold my haod; 1 will nat tell ft—never! Tswore to keep it secret, and 1wlil fur aye and ever. ———— A PRAYER. 0 God! my God! forsake me not In this my hour of bitter pain: Dispel the clonds that shrond my path, And let the sunlizht in again. Lct in the sunlizht of Thy smile’ Upon the darkened ways I tread; ‘Without Thy aid I faint, I die, So beat the storms about my head. Task not at Thy feet, dear Lord, Exempt to be from pain and Joss; For well 1 know, to wear the Crown, 1 Grst must bear the carthly Cross. But O I ask that Thy dear Hsud, Whlle chastening. may sustain my soal, And zuide it np the thurny mount. . That leadeth to the Blessed Goal. Thy Grace I crave—that precious boon. To souls that faint beslde the way; O grant It, Lord, that from Thy path My wayward fect may ncver stray. Mar1, 1878 Acazs Auxzy MoGumm (