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during the last twelve years, in 2 wine-making | the Rev. Arthur Little to become its pastor, and | moming ang the Rev. W. G. {nman in the avening [ ghave, a shampoo, a bath, a bottle of hair tonic, RELIGIOUS. Pow the Bible Has Been Made Uninteresting to the World By the Scholarly Conspira- cies of Commentators and Annotators. A Pointed Essay on the Subject by Rossiter Johnson. Is Abraham’s Tomb Un- der the Morgue o Hebron ? ' A Canadian Shrine---The Mirac- ulous Statue of Notre Dame de Leisse. General Notes —- Personals --- Saintly Smiles-~Announcements—-Serv- ices To-Day. A TYPOGRAPHICATL CRIME. APOINTED BIBLICAL ESSAY BY ROSSITER JOBN- SON. Once there was 2 book. It was a most won- derful book. It voutaived history, and biogra- pby, and poetry, and letters, and essays, and a drams,—in short, it was many books in one. 1 think it was the greatest and best book that ever was written. Searcely had this book come into general no- tice when a great conspiracy agaiust its life was formed. This conspiracy involved men of va- rious nationalities, aud has extended through seversl centuries. Strange to say, the conspira- 1ors were mostly scholurs, and a large number of them were apparently upright and conscien- tious men, from whom you would have expected nothing but the fairest dealing toward their fellow-men, or toward auny theory. or doctrine, or publication, no matter how much they might be opposed to it, or how pernicious they might believe it to be. A few of the more violent conspirators wanted to suporess the book by burning every copy of 1t that could be reached, and to some extent they cartied out this plan. But that was a gross end ineffectual process compared with the one adopted by the great majority. These, while fessing to be friendly to the book, to hold it n the bighest esteemn, and to aesire tnat all men should become acquainted with it, went to work to prevent the reading of it by aaking it unreadable. To this end they expended a vast swount of ingenuity. and the suceess which has attended their efforts is one of the saddest calamities that ever befell mankind. One of the conspirators went through the en- tire book, and broke it info little parasraphs, from one to ten lines Jong, often making the break where there was no more division thana comma; and then these little paragraphs were osteutatiously numbered, giving 1t, to an exag- gerated degree, the repulsive sppearance of & school-reader. With a very few recent excep- tions, this preposterous arrangement has been perpetuated in every edition for 300 years: and even in the exceptional ones it is indicated by figures in the margin, so strong is the power of preceaent, thoush iv be manifestly wrong. The couspirators taen caused & laree nuimber of thewords, for no sutlicient reason, to be printed in italics, so that nearly every page is spotted and defaced with them. Next they viowed a lane down through the middle of each paze, and filled it with microscopjc dgures and abbreviatious, and at the same time peppered the entire text with letters and figures, and @uzeers, and double daggers, and parallels, and sectivn-myrks,—all referring to those little cye- trving atlairs in the lane. Then they loaded down thie noble old book witha ponderous mass of foot-nutes, mauy of them valuable, but many of them the merest truisms; and this gave them au opportunity to pepper the text with more figures and letters, and dageers, and double-daggers, and parallets, and section- marks. . With all this, they passed an unwritten law that the book should atways be printed in one volume,—a law wuich has been transgressed in but few instances. But as it contaius about as muen matter as Macaulsy’s * History of En- eland,” which is generally printed in Tive vol- nmes, this law makes it necessary either to have the book so Jarge as to be uawieldy, or the type 80 small that it canuot be read with comjort. The consequence is what miztit bave been cx- pected. Thongh more covies of this book have been eirculated thanof any other, comparatively {ew peonle read it €0 as 1o becume familiar with it. except those who are paid tor so doiug. It contains some of the most important Listo; ever written; yet there are eaver readers of hi tory who kngw almost nothing sbout it. One of its contributors was the finest philosophical essayist_that ever pul pen on paper; yet there are readers ot Bacon and Lamb and Montaigne Who are wofully ignorant of bis writings. ‘There are devourers of poetry who do not know what 1yrics are buried here; and play-goers and stu- dents of Elizabethan literature who have never perused a paze of a certain powerful drama, 3,000 yvears old, because it 15 secured bebind the trpographical cherauz-deyrise which I bave de- seribed. If this scems mcredible, consider what would be the eftect of printing all editions ot lavorite authors in the same form. Suppose the lover of Teunyson could obtain no copy of his works tisat did not look like this: @ Lock Hal17, 2 ; 1, Soalla day long§ the noise § &x}‘i“mm”‘ ‘of battlet ml)erdl'l) ”ngmunn the ardosting wountains by tne Winter sua: 100f Mg g1 152 2. Unul King Arthur'sc table, man by man, had falien 1o Lyon- c § ordied d1dof Kg, Gar & nessdabout their lord,+ King R L Arthur:( t 3. % Then, because his wounde 5 D liras deep, the bold§ Sir Bediveref 714 of Kg. Last nplifted fum. Sir Bedwvere, the " Awm Jas1(3) of allt his knighte,g and g i t § i + b4 I % ZE 5% i5 <3 =3 & R la<t of thestipore him§ to o chapel mgh the %4 ifield.n a brekent chancel with a Lrolen§ cross, 4. Thut stoodi on a dark strait of Larrenk land. 40n one sidel tay the ocean, § 5. And on ope Ioy a greatt water, ;s sng the§ moonn wus full. DrFr Wm 1. The territic sounds of the dire conflict. belng echoed Srum the Luce of obe Lill to Wiat of suvther. Woiid iro- fluce au efect whica might Weil be denofufnsted roil- 2. The character of Arthur s one which calls for the highest aémiratfon. ihe reader can hardly fafl to be SiTuck by Llx brasery, Bfo generosity, and his wisdou, We xbisuld ult surive to Imitate i, 3. The mewning here s, not that Bedivere was lowest In rank of all the knighits, aud therefore went [u last at dfuzer. nor that he Was fast to attach himself 1o the Cake and the person of Arthur, but that he Was the 135t survivor: all the others were now dead. 1sppy fate,lo Qe b wiich & servi How wmany readers would Tenavson have if we had printed his words like that¢ Nay, how " mauyof those who are alreadv familiar witn bim would ever look into the book again¢ No matter how much a book way be talked about, orliow many copies of it may be in existence, it is yirtually dead if nobody reads cnough to be Tawiliar with it. But a greater loss has resulted from this con- €piracy than the loss to literaturc. It happens that from the bovk which 1s the victim of it cumes the highest instruction tomillions of peo- ple—their rule of conduct in life, and their hove in death—ibe histo) f the origin of our race, aud the prophecy of "its destiny—the promise ! ‘peace and contentinent in this life,and of happi- nese o the Lereafter. Out of all who firmly be- lieve this, those who examine the record for themseives are exceedingly few. They listen to Iragmentary readings of tbe text, and learved disquisitions upon it by scholars and feachers Who éraw various and sometimes conflicting doc- trines thereirom, and they adopt one or another of these without auy adequate knowledge of its asis. From its convenuional form, the book Las come to have a differcat look to them from any other book. Not only are they unable to read it with pleasure, as they would avy other Listory, or essay, or_poetry. but when they do Tead it they find it impossible to sppreciate it sud judge of it as they would of auy otber printed matter. There is an atmosplere of taboo about it, which has preserved, through numberless editions, in the teeth of the unani- mous testitony of scholars, the must manifest errars of copyists and trauslators. 1f one bouk must be singled out and doomed Dever to receive decent typosraphical treat- ment, it should bave been auy other, rather than this. 1 should iike to see what would be the effect of giving it & fair chance. I believe it would be read if it were made read- guished arc] quis of Bute w 1 1366, aud the Crown Prince of Germaay in 1869." mortal remains sléep bencath the p: Dean Stauley published an account of his mem- orable visit, from which Dr. Schafl quotes the following passage, which well describes the veperable spot and the traditional sacredness ble. of the shrine of Abraham, was 3 wwall, circular above 1he pa! Yoars uzo, & servant of u great King had penet; able. We ought to have on b e edition of it without marginal references and tith- out foot-notes,—unless in the rare vases where these are absolutely necessary. Where the italicised words are neeessary to a complets and idiomatic rendering they should be printed in plain Roman; were not this necessary, they zhuuld be dropped. Instead of verses \s'e{imul?l 1ave paracraphs, and all figures or other indicn- z;ons of the verses abolished. Conversation should be printed in broken paragrapls, with u‘untauon marks, just as ina novel. Poctry should be printed as poetry. Instead of bein crowded intoone volume the book should be four or five moderate duodecimo volumes, with large type and zood paper, so that it could be at onte held without tiring the arm and read with- out straining the eyes. Finally, this book should have a good analytical index. A cumbrous con- cordance is not au index, and does not serve the Durpose of one. If printed in such a form the Bible mizht be_enjoyed as literature, and per- aps better understood as a diviue authority. ABRAHAM’S TOMB. 15 IT UNDER TIE MOSQUE OF HEBRON? The Interior. In the May number of the Princeton Revieto, Dr. Philip Schafl rave an interesting account of !.he disputed Seripture localities, which he vis- ited last vear, quring a tour througi Palestine and the Sinaitic Pevinsula. One ot these sacred places, which canuot be determined with abso- lute certainty, is Machpelah, the tield and cave bought by Abraham, of the sons of Heth, for afamily burving-ground. It is known, how- ever, to be in or near Hebron, the oldest city of Palestine, and in all probability, according to Jewish, Christian, and Mobammedan tradi- tion, ties under the great mosque of Mebron, which is one of the four most. sacred mosques in the world, those of Mecea, Jerusalem, aud Damascus rankivg with it. The spot itself is concealed from the eyes of Christians and Jews. and perhaps even the Mohammeduus,” In that rocky cavern, supposeda to be under the pavement floor of the Hebron Mosque, were deposited the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecea, Jacob and Leah, and afrer- wards of Joseph. We learn from Seripture that two of these, the bodics of Jacob and Jo- seph, were embalmed in Egypt, according to the manner of the Ezyutiaus; and all tbe cir~ cumstances of the case would make it quite cer~ tain that this embalming, virtually done under royal authiority; was in the best possible mode ol the art. The high probability therefore is, that those two ancicnt bodies are in existence to-day, resting, fb'ut and unseen, in_their orig- inat sepulture, Schafl savs: ~* Perhaps at no distant future the embalmed body of Jacob will be found there in a @ood state of preserva- tion. The body of Joseph is also said to rest there, having been removed thither from Shechiem, near Jacob's Well, where it was orig- inally deposited, and where 2 monument stil marks the spot.” Wht a revelation of wonder it would be, and what a demoustration of the historical verity of the Mosaie writings, if those veuerable bodies should indeed be found there. With whata voive of history would these two silent withesses speak from their long hiding place, if it shoula some day turn out to _be true that the embalm- ed faces of Jacob and Joseph may vet be seen by a visit to Palestine. As Dr. Schaff well sue- gests, this and wany other interesting points conncected with the sacred places mizht bhave been brought to light long ago if any other nation in Europe, or ‘even any other half-civil- ized people in the World, had held possession of Palestine except the Turks. Ttis oneof the enigmas of Divine Providence that this relent- less and unimprovable Mohammedan Power should be permitted for four centuries, and is still permitted chielly by the aid of Prot nt England, to trample in the dust all the sacred ic lands, and keep out all progress forever. Dr. Schaff, whose name is known and honored in America and Europe as oue of the finest scholars in the world, when av Hebron last spring, was not allowed to enter tho mosque; and because he ** ventured to the threshold and looked throuzh a hole iu the wall,” e was set upon by the fauatical Maslems, threatencd, aua actually assaulted with violence tor the desecra- tion. Noone has ever becu permitied to sce what is beneath the pavement in that aucicn edifice, nor, until recently, even to enter the inclosure. Dr. Schafl says, *it was rigidly cl. closed against foreizn intrusion until January, 1862, when it was opened by 2 special finman, 2nd as an extraordinary favor 1o the Prince of Wales and his_party, including Dean Stanley and the Prussian Consul, Dr. Rosen, a distin- wologist. Since that time the Mar- alco admitted to the wosque But none of these distinguished visitors was allowed to enter the subterranean Machpelah. ‘They saw, indeed, the sarcophugiof the patri- archs and their wives, but these were mere empty monuiments, like simjlar monuments in Their vement. Westminster - Abbey and St. Paul’s with which it 1s regarded : One indication of the cavern beneath was vist- In the interior of the mosque, at the corner U incies dcross, of which one fout ment was buils'of solia masonry, but of which the lower part, as far as we could see and feel, was of the livmu rock. This cavity appexred o open into A space beneath, and that space, which the guardians of the mosque be- Tieved to extend under the whole plattorm. can hardly be anything else than the ancient cavern of Muchpelah. Th the only aperture which the Ruardians recoxnized. Once. tney said, 0 bole, about ted ihrourh some other entrance. e descenaed in full possession of his fucuities, and of remarkable corpulence: he returned blind, deal. withered, andenppled. Since then the entrance was closed uud this aperture alone was lefi, partiy for tie saie of suffertug the holy oir of the cave'io escave into the mosque, and oe scented by the faithfal; partly for the purpose of allowing i lamb to be let ‘down by a chain, which we saw =nspended at the mouth, to burn upon the sacred grave. We asked ‘whether it could not be lighted now. *No,'they gaid; *the saint lizes to have a lamp at night. out not in full daylight.’ With that gilmpse into the dark void we and the world without must for the present be satisOed. Waether any other entrance 13 known to the Mossuimans themselves, must be a matter of doudt.” Much has been said of late about the great Pyramid as a witness for the Bivle. In our esti- mation, the actual presence of the iwo em- balmed bodies in that hidden cave of Machpelah, if indeed they are there, wonld do far more to establish the bistoric truth of the Bible than anything which has yet been discovered in the Pyrami A CANADIAN SHRINE. IT 1S SET UP IN MONTREAL, AND THE MIRA- CLES WILL SOON COMMENCE. Soecial Disnatch to the Detrowt Ecentng News. MoxTREAL, June 10.—There is much excite- ment among the Roman Catholic population here aud throughout the Proviuce over the in- stallation in tie Ciuurch of the Gesu (Jesuits) of a statue which is regarded as one of the most veperable relics of the Church, having fallen from Heaven. It is the statue of Notre Dame de Li It was regarded as so uncommonly holy by the lute Pove that he had it crowned under the title of Mere de Grace, in 1853, Its legendary history is, that during the crusades three voung French noblemen of the house of Eppes left tbeir father’s castle at Laou, and joined the Kuights . of St. John of Jerusatem; were taken prisoners by the Saracens near As- calon, and thrown into a dunzeon, where the Governar in vain endeavored to pervert them to Islamisio. At last he sent his beautiful aud tal- ented daughter, Osmerie, to them, but they told Ter of the true faith, of the love of the Virgin, and persuaded her to become a Christian. While in prayer a statue of the Virgin teil en, -and Osmerie held this to bea couvincing token of divine favor, s0 sie af- forded the young prisoners means of escape, and fled withh them. Her fatber soon learned of the escape, and made strenuous efforts to re- take the fugitives, but the Virgin Mary protect- ed them, and, atter many hardships, miracu- lousiv _conducted them to Laon, wWhere the culous imawe which they brought with them vas preserved and venerated for centuries, and thousands of miracles were wrousht shrine. The Church ot Notre Dame de Liesse was destroved during the revolution, and the body of the statue burnt, but the head was pre- served by the cure, and afterwards restored 1o atrunk made from the ashes of the original image. During the Franco-German war the image was scot to Paray-le-Monial to escape the Gerinans. but restored to Laon in 18i2 Last year two French priests obtained it for Lower Canada, and now hosts of ‘the faithful are ven- eratingit. Projects are on foot for pilgrimages to its shrine from all parts of the Province and from American frontier towas. JOSEPH COOR. CRITICISNS ON HIS RECENT LECTURES. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cricaco, June 14.—~Why is it that Mr. Cook, in dealfng with science and physiology in their relations to life, invariably ignores the rational philosophy of the scliool of Helmbholiz and Carpenter, while slashing away at the Positiv- ists, amoug whom Huxler snd Tvndall are ren- resentative men? Is it because he wishes the people to infer that the uncertain soeculations, of the Positive school of materialists are thd) best and most reliable that Science bas yet been able to offer in explansation of vital phenomenatl One' question more and | am done. Is it not more to the glory of the Creator and the good of mankind to allow the Bible and physiological science to harmonize, even if the result is de- structive of the doctrine of inherent immortali- 1y, rather tlisu to advance a théory which would inevitably give this Divine attribute, not only to the human race, but toevery individual mem- gcr n{ul both the animal ant vegetable King- loms? To the Editor of The Tribune. RocreLie, Ili., June 12.—Must not that which has a beinning necessarily have an end? What proof have we of the existence of the soul independent of the body? Can a person born blind distivzuish color? Can a person born denf appreciate sweet harmonies of sound? Can 4 person born without any of the senses rcason ! Where is our “immortal identity,” “indi- viduality,” the revereud gentleman epeaks about, previous to birtht 7 Where was the *soul of Lincoln, of Clay, previous to the formation of their brain? If we, as individuals, sere not in - existence 100 years previous to birth, what power of logic can jusufv the counclusion that 100 years hence, when ail that which gave us our individuality is again seattered to the winds, we shall yet continue to exist forever and ever? Can we reslize that 100 vears hence, when au “iuumortal soul,” we shull be able to go back in thourhtupou ** memory’s shores ”” one thousand years, tens of thousauds of years, cvenamillion years, back to the yesr "A. D. 1550, 1820, or may be even fo 1800, to the vears of our childnood, and yet that, in spite of im- mortality, 1 spite of the -eternity of life we have before us, we are not able to go back In thought one duy previous to our birth? Is iL reasonable that a * soul *” should be born, live twenty, fifty, or eighty years, grow oid, be- come crippled, decay in body and mind, die— and wake up immortal again iu the bloom of youth, minus crutches, false teeth, wiss, spec- tacles, and all the bodily infirmities, and thence- forth never change, never grow otd, never die? Ts this doctrine you teach analogous, or en- tirely contrury, to anything else we kuow of in Nature? Are animals immortal? If not, and we can account for the instiuct and reason of the ani- mal without the existence of a ““soul,” may not the inteilectual pnenomena in man iu all ivs various gradatious be traced to the sume natu- ral causes! What difference, my dear sir, between the origin of man and the orizin of the **brute ¢ 1f we are then born like a “*brate,” may it not be the inevitable fate of man to “die like a brute’’¢ 0170 WETTSTELN. GENERAL NOTES. Brother Jasper, the astronomical divine of Richmond, Va., recently baptized 400 converts. The Iaterior has finally been *compelled to admit the value of lager #s a means of promot- ug temperance.” There is an exodus of ministers to Europe. Most of them arcmore or less aflected with ministerial sore throat. After a Rip Van Winkle slecp of just twenty years the Universalist Sunday-school at Cam- den, Me., has been reorganized. It begins its second life with new cquipment throughout. The Catholic Columblan advises its readers to keep away from Hammond’s revival meetings. Better for them to play ball, checkers, or the fiddle, go to the circus, or roam in the woods and gather wild fowers. A copy of the famous Mazarine Bible is about to be sold atthe Hotel Drouvi. This edition dates from the fifteenth ceniury, is priuted on sarchment, only seven wero ever made, sud the a5t copy d‘smvercd sold for $17,000. The Standard is not inclined to take much stock fu the religious views of Murphy, the temperance lecturer, for the reason that the saloun from which he was graduated canuot be looked upon as a theolozical authority. At a recent meeting of the Montpelier Minis- ters’ Club, ** the fom of fuvitation to the Lord’s Supoer ¥ was discussed, the prevaibag opinion being in fuvor of limiting the inviwation to members of good standing in evangeheal churchies. Dr. Barbour, of Yale College, comparing re- cent with former revivals, says, amony other things: *‘ Apother factor of the change is in the service of sung. It is now of a prancmg style. Men go dancing, as it were, into the Kingdom of Heaven.” ‘The British contributions to foreign_missions the past yeur were very large. T ot England raised $2,129.650; the joint societies, $184,740; the Novconformist societies, $1,503,- tne Scoteh and Irish Presbyterian soci , $191,740; the Romau Catbolis 82,3955 making a grand total of §5,242,410. The Chinese Sunday-school of the Firsi Con- gregational Church of San Francisco has just celebrated its tenth anniversury. About 250 Chinese were present, and an overflowing au- dience listened to an address by Mr. Jee Gam and Dr. McLean. The Stockton Chinese school bas had sixty-four scholars during the vear. Intelligence from India shows a remarkable Increase in the number of converts. The Biskop of Madras reckons about 80,000 bantized natives in his dive: thoueh there were not 50,000 in 1862, In China sowe progress is made, but in Javan there sre only eiuhily-cight native Clris- tians. There issuch e tbing as makiog haste slowly. It is proposed to celebrate, m the year 1881, the ceutenary of tie founding of Sunday- schools. Mr. Franklin Allen, Sccretary of ihe International Sunday-School Comunittee, will, this summnier, confer with the London Sunday- School Unijon in relation to the arrungements for this event. The clerzy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York who sympathize with Ritualism are preparing s address of condo- lcuce and sympathy to be forwarded to the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie, the incumbent of St. Albans, Holborn, London, who was recently sentenced by Lord Peuzance to three years! suspension from the priesthood. with cost of proceedines, because of bis Ritualistic practices. ‘The Univers augurs the approaching down- fall of tie new German schism fron the fact— amongst others—ihat the one solitary congre- ‘ration of “* Old Catholics ' in Bavaria, that of Mering, near Aursburg, has just sent a depu- tation, headed by the Mayor of the place, to the Bishop of Augsburg, to abjure their er- rors, to make reparation, gsod to ask to be received back into the comuunion of the Cnurch. Grace Church in New York is to have a “re- redos™ costing $30,000. A reredos is a sercen back of the altar. When Jesus was on carth, o boat ora well-curb was good enough pulpit for him, and all the reredos e had was a mountain side, or the homely walls of a cottage in Beth- auy, or of an upper room in an humble house. How Christianity mnust have improved when it requires a $30,000 “reredos to set it off.—.Yew Covenant. The Jewish Conference at Paris will take the form of a Pan-Jewish Counci The following questions are to be considered: 1. The® devel- opment of the Alliance Israclite Universelle. 2. The means to be employed to extend the action of Israclites in favor of their co-religionists. 3. Schools. 4. Awmelioration of the Israchtes of the Orient and in Africa by professional work and agriculture. 5. Statistics. Ameriea will be weil represented. Co-operation between the Northern and Soutiiern Baptist Chiurches is now proposed on anoyel plan. "fue Howme Missionary Si X Soviety of the Northera Church proposes to psy part of the salaries of missionaries to labor among the colored folks and let the Southern Church pzy the rest, and do the oversecing. Unless some such arrangement as this is made, the proba- bility is that the work will not be done among the negrocs, for funds are very scanty with the Southera Baptists. There are 300 or 400 Chinese in this city, and, throuch the efforts of the Rev. Mr. Jonus, a Sunday-echool for their benefit was opened in Room 13 Farwell Hall on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jones has worked among the Chinese em- ployed in building the Central Pacific Railroad. He'has personai acquamtance with many Chi- nese in this city, and several of them have in- dicated & willinzuess to attend Sunday-school. Mr. Jones intends to carry the war into Africs, by roing to the Celestial Kingdomn as 8 mis- sionary next year. At the May meeting of the English Conare- gatfonal Union it was scttled that among the English Congreeationalists 3 man may be recog- nized as completely evangelical while denying eternal punishment or natural immortality of the soul. Amounz those versons who spoke most vigorously in favor of the fraternal recoz- pition_of those not_recognized as evangelical were Mr. Dale and Mr. White, who are known as earnest opponeuts of the current doctrine; it was in det-rence to their views that the syn- opsis of dactrines accepted by the Union as evangelical congpicuously omits cternal punish- ment and the life everlasting. Mr. Percy Monroe has written a letter to the -London Guardian (Lhurch of Engiand), in which he asserts that the common opivion that unfermented wine is not intoxicating is a mis- take. He savs: “1 have Ireauently staid, district, and, being iuterested in the subject, have made inquiries with respect to the- effect of drinking wine while in an unfermented state. We discovered that the liquor in its unferment- ed condition is most intoxicating; a little will roduce the most undesirable etfects.” Mr. Monroe applies this fact, 8 he claims it to be, to the controversy now active in England in re- lation to the use of fermented wine at the Lord’s Supper. s *We wouder,” says the editor of the London Inguirer, **how many of the enthuslustically or- thodox assembly which took part in the meet- ing of the Congregational Unioa this week were aware that the first bymn which they sanyr with so much fervor in Dr. Allen’s ‘Dissenting Cathedral’— i, Lead ue, O Father, in the paths of truth, was written by an American Rationalist, W. H. Burleigh, the friend and fellow-worker of Theo~ dore Parker; and the second hymn, It came upon the midnight clear— "That glarious song of old, is the maunificent-Christmas hymn—onc of the finest in our lanzusre—of the Rev. E. H. Sears, un American Unitarian minister.” 0ld Satan has broken loose in the manage- meat of the Brooklyn Bunday-School Union. The ridiculous procecings in the direction of the trial ot the Superintendents who marched off an parade day without waiting for the orders of the Marshal, have arrayed the managers of the Union into two hosiile parties. The idea of holding a court-martial on & Sunday -School Su- perintendent was never contemplated in the plans of the Sunday-School Union, and to do so, us is now beiuz done, with a view to seatence of expulsion, is just as absurd and irrezular as it would be to fine a Superintendent. $300 or to decree that he should be bunged. The petty conduct of the litigiously disposed persons who bave begun this action is severely criticised by the old friends of the Union. Tie concern lacks only a year of being hall a century old, and has always heretofore been managed with diguity and harmony. There are a great many people who think the world, o rathier tiie people in it, huve been going tothe bad st arapid rate iu these later days. in some respects this may be true, while ‘in others there has been guite an improvement. Zion's Hera:d printe the following copy of a bill rendered at an ordination service in Hartford, Conn., about 100 years ago: THE SOUTH SOCIETY TO ISRAKL BEYMOUR, DR. 1874, May 5. ap 35 6p s 32 8p What would be thouzht of a company of min- isters who would “‘runun™ such a bifl at the present day, on an ordination oceasion ¢ PERSONALS. ‘The Rev. C. E. Nash was recently ordained in the Universalist faith at 8tamford, Coun. The Rev. R. M. Stevenson, of GHmaa, Il has aceepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Renovo, Pa. The Rev. Angus McKinnon, of this city, has accepted 2 eall to the Presbyterian Church st Osconda, Mich. The Rev. Jumes Kerr was recently installed pastor of the Seventeenth Strcet Prosbyterian Church, Denver, Col. Miss Lockie Raukin, of Tennessce, will be the first woman sent as a misslonary by the South- ern Methodist Church to China. Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, refuses to sd- minister confirmation to any man or woman who persists in the practice of round-dancing. Leo XINL declined to give absolutlon to Prince Amadeus, unless he would resign the command of the Italian ‘army and leave Rome. ‘The Vatican is in correspondence with the ex- Jesuit Passagalda with the object of paining his submission, after the mauner of Father Curci. Owing to a recent attack of paralysis in the left arm and hand, the Rev. A.J. Frost, former- 1y of this city, but now of Oakiaud, Cal., has been compelled to resign his pastoral charee. ‘The health of the Rev. George Thatcher, D. D., of Iowa City, is in & very critical condition, obliging him to-rest from work. Hels forthe present with his brother, Prof. Thatcher, of Yale Collegze, Conn. J The Kivg of Bayaria bas nominated to the vacant Archbisbopric of AMunich Dr. An- thony Steichele. He was born on Jan. 22, 1516, at Mertingen, uear Dovauworth, and is conse- quently 62 years old. ‘The Rev. G. R. Burrows, Head Master of Coleford Grammur-School, 2 Churchof England institution in Dean Forest, Eng., bas sent a let- ter to the Trustees resigning his nppointment, sriving ss bis reason his intention of joining the Catholic Church. We are reliably informed that a coadjator will soon be appointeq to the Archbishopof Milwaus ke, his Grace finding it necessary, on saccount of age and infirmities, to have assistance in the administration of his large diocese.—filiaukee Catholic Vindicator. The friends of Prof. Swing will be glad to know tiut he is gaiming fn bealth and strength rapidly, is bunting, fishing, and riding datly. e says he feels confident that he will be able to resumne his labors at McVicker's the first Sunday In September The late Oliver Crocker, of New Bedford, made the following bequests: To the North Chureh, $5,000; to the New Bedford Soctety for the Improvement of Seamen, §1.000; to the Orphans’ Home, $1,000; w the Old Women’s Home, $1,000; to the New Beaford Free Public Library, $1,000. Davia Dudley Ficld proposes to erect a stone tower, with a chime of bells theremn, on the green just north of the church in Stockbridee, where the tirst mission church stood in the days of president Edwards, the same to be a vilt to tne church and degicated to his grandcinldren, who are descendants of Edwards. At a vecent meetiug of the Hartford Central Assocfation of Congregatfonatists, Mr. Stowe, sou of the Rev. Prol. and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who has been »tudying at_Bonn, Ger- mauy. under Profs. Christlich and Lange, was Jiceused to preach. He had been brought up an Episcopalion, but preferred to work in the ranks of the Congregationalists. ANNOUNCEMENTS. The next session of the Illinois Baotist Gen- eral Association will be beld in Peoria, Oct. 18. The annual collection for the Pcpe will be taken up fo all the Catholic Churches in the United States to-day. July 10 will be observed as a day of fasting and prayer in behalf of the foreizn wmission cause of the Womaw’s Baptist Missionary So- ciety of the West. It is expected that two young ludics, applicants for appointment to the Toreizu tield, will cume before the Board at its meeting on the 9th of July, for examination. Capt. Henry Bundy, of the Gospel ship “Good Tidings,” will be ordafued an evangelist of the Westera Seamen’s Friend Society, this aiternoon at 4 o'clock, at Farwell Hall. The sermon will be preached by Bishop Cheney. Dr. “Fhomas will offer the ordaining prayer, and the rnsmr of the Third Presbyterian Church will de- iver the charge. Capt. Bundy has done a_good work in carrsing the Gospel to the peopleliving along the northern shores of Lake Michigan. The Unitarians will hold their eighth bien- nial Conference at Saratoga Springs, beginning Sept 17 und closing Sept. 20. The Conference will be held in the Fixst Methodist Episcopal Chureh, the Unitarians having no house of wor- ship in Suratoga. The Rev. Dr. Brooke Here- ford, of Chicago, will preach the sermon, and there will be essays by George William Curtis, on * Morals aud Politics: " by the Rev. C. C. Everett, D. D., on ** The New Ethics;” and by 'lxhl;’ l(lc\' James Freeman Clarke on** The New eology. A memorial service will be held this evening In the First Christian Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Tweuty-fifth street, in commemora- tion of the late Rev. Knowles Shaw. As is now generally known, Mr. Shaw met his death on the morning of the 7th inst. by a railway acci- dent on the Texas Central Road, having just closed a very successful protracted meetmyr in Dallas. There are few nmen of this age sowidely and favorably known and so beloved as he, for his work’s sake, in his chosen calling of evangel- ist. In his death the Church of Christ has sus- tained a loss that canscarcely be estimated. He formerly ministered to the First Church of this city as their pastor, and the congregation ten- ders to his many triends a cordisi invitation to unite with them in their memorial service this evening. ‘I'he twenty-fifth anniversary of the organiza- tion of the New England Congrezational Church ol this city will be celebrated to-day. The pro- gramme 1s as follows: Morning service, histor- feat address by the pastor-elect, the Rev. Arthur Little; afternoon service, Sabbath-school exer- cises sppropriate to the occasion; evening ses- ston, addresses by the Rev. E. P. Goodwin and G. 8. F. Savage, D. D., and tne Hon. C. G. Hammond. AMonday cvening, social reunion in the church parlors. ~The chureh, haviug invited he having accented the invitation, a council has been called to review this action of the church, and advise in rezard to it. The council will convene ot the church on Tuesday, June 18, at at haif-past 2 o’clock p. m.” The afternvon will be given to the proceedings of the council ana the examination of the candidate. If the council s0 advise the installation services will be held at haif-past 7 0’clock p. m.' The sermon will be preached by the Rev. T.. M. Past, D. D., of St. Louis; the charge to the pastor by the Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D. D.; theright hand of fellowship by tbe Rev. C. H. Everest: the charge to the people by the Rev. E. N. Packard. Y. M. C. A. BULLETIN. The leaders and topics this week are as fol- lows: ) 3fonday, the Rev. A. W. Patton, ‘A Promise and a Choice. Tuesday, Robert Dell, **The Word a Light.” ). Boring, D. D., Wedneaday, the Rev. E. *+Gn What Are You Dufidin Thursday, W. W. Vanaredale, **Fraitfuloess,” Triday, the Rev. E. P. Goodwin, '*Gospel Temperance. " Saturday, the Rt.-Rav. Sunday-School Jesson. Requests for prayers may be sent previons to any of the noun meetings to George Guinan, Secretary of the Devotional Committee, No. 150 Jiadion et Sunday, 8 p. m., Gospel temperance meating, led by 1. ¥, Trown, ¥ meesie Cuarles Edward Cheney, SAINTLY SMILES. A Sunday-school bov, upon being asked what made the Tower of Pisa leau, replicd: ¢ Be- cause of the famine in the land.” Belle: Mamima, whatdo the aogels have for Qinner? Mawmia: Angels are spirits, dear, and have no need of dinper. Belle (thougutfully): Then 1 suppose, mamma, they have an egg with their tea!—Judy. The theolowy of certain narrow-minded and narrow-hearted people reminds us of the ehild who told her sittle friend of French extraction that it was uscless for her to say her prayers, beeause she couldn’t talk English. An Indian, oo belng asked what he @id for o living, replied, *“Ob.me preach.” © Preach,” said a bystander, ** What do you get forit!™ “Sometimes me get shillin, sometimes two shilltn’.” ** Aud isn’t that mighty posr pay#’" +*Oh, yes, but it’s mighty poor preachin’.” This is an opinfon worth having: “[ have become a Christian,” said a gentleman to his fried. ‘- Good,” was the reply; “and now I hope you will pay that little bill you owe me.” “No,” he answered, “rehgion 13 religion and basiness is business.” 1f that man’s business should have the small-pox bhis religion wouldn’t cately it. ‘The New York Jfail raises the inquiry, “Is Christiauity ou the dectine in this country?? And the Norristown Herald responds, “ Not at all. We have the promise of as many cnurch strawberry-festivals this season as in any former year. No, Christiauity is not on the decline. It does not even decline. It docs not even decline 25 cents for 5 cent® worth of berrics.” The mind of childhood takes hold of problems in a very queer way sometimes, and its outlook om the world is very curious and iateresting. After the three-day raiu of * week or so since, & promisiug 4-year-old, who had beea deprived of her accustomed romps on the sidewalk, grew impatient, aund said: “ Mother, I think tne Lord must have got a telegram, aud left the sweather to take cureof itsell. I wish he'd come back. for I'm getting awful tired of this sort of thing.” One day alittie 4-year old was permitted to have the old family Bible to ook at the pictures: and coming to the’ picture of * Dauiel in the Lions’ Den,” he gazed atit for a few minutes stlently, theu runuing to bis mother, book in hand, he broke fortl in an_indignaot tone: “Mother, this Bible don't teil the truth!? «Why, my cbild, what makes you say 502" * Why, mother, didn’t you read to ‘me that when Daniel was thrown into the den God shut the liow’s mouths, aud see here, they are wide ooen®? Soliloguy by 3-year-old Freadie: I don't want to be a cherub anyway. Cherubs are little boys without auy bodies or legs to them—notuning but little wings right back of their ears. They can't have mustard-plasters put ob them, but thea they dob’t have much fun, and I guess the angels use them for playing marbles. The other augels are called syrups. They wear nignt- owns and gold rings about their beads, and no end of wings. They haven’t anything much to o exvept to tote around little harps and plav tag and loaf about ou tie clouds. Butl wouldn’t want tobe a syrup uvless I could bave a tail, too, like & mermaid or « lobster. A minister was telling his Sunday-school all about Samson and his exploits. ** With what remarkable weapon did Samson elay his coe- mies?” he asked. No one xnew. Inorder to coach the school a_little he tapped his jaw and said, * Chiddren what is this¢” Tt was cnough. Torpid wemories were quickend and the victory was won. A dear litle boy, who, if he keeps tie promise of his ehildhood, will some day be 2 candidate for office, cricd out, 1 know—I kuow, sir.” Eiated at the success of his plan, the minister turted to bim and said, * Well. my little may, stand up and tell tne whole school what it is.”" He rose with great'dignity, and re- plied, ““It’s the jawbone of an ass, sir{” Miss Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, Conu., whose periodical re-encounters with the tax-col- lector have brought her into wide notoriety, has lately trausiated the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek, and having adhered toa planof a literal transiation, aod sdopted the rule *““of using the same English word for the Greek or Hebrew word everywhere,” she has made a funoy thing of it, and certainly canuot be said to have shed much light on it, us witness one or two_passages: ‘I pursue toward the scope for thePrize of combat of the callingabove of God in Christ Jesus.”” And again: *“And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here— not having a garment of the nuptial teast? And he was muzzled.” CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church, $S. Peter and Paul, cor« ner of West Washington und Peoria streets. The Right Rev. W. E. McLaren, §. T. D., Bishop, the Rev. J.-H. Knowles, Pricst in charge. Cho- ral Morning Prayer at 10:30. m., and Choral Evening Prayer at 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Snmuel §. Harris will officiate in St. James’ Clinech, corner of Cass and Haron streets, 3t10:453. m. aud $ p. m. —The Rev. E. Sullivan will ofiiciate in Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sisth strect and Michi- gan avenue, 87 10:45 o. m. and 745 p. M. —Tne Rev. Francis Monsfeld will ofticiate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of West Washington and Robey streets, at10:40 a. m.’and 730 p. m. LTt Rev. 4. Bredburg will officiste i St. Ansgariny’ Charch, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenuc. at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate 1n Grace Charch, Wabash avenue mear Sixteenthstreet, at1l o. m. and 8 v. m. - —The Rev. Thomas K. Coleman will officiate in St. John's Church, corner of Washington street and Orilen avenue, 4t 10345 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will officiate in St. Paul's Church. Hyde Park svenue, hetween Forty-cighth and Forty-ninth streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p, m. 3 : —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will ofiiciate in 5t. Mark's Church, Cottaze roer of Thirty-sixth street. ut 1 4. . 0 p. m. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will ofiiciate 1n St. Stepben’s Church, Johnson street. between Taylor and 'Twelfth, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofciate in Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oakley strect snd Western avenue, at 10:30a. m. and 7345 Celebration of the Holy Communion at 11+ 5 —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr.. will ofiiciate in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, be- nween Monroe sud Adams. at 10:30 a. m. and 7:80 D m. 3 —The Rev. W. J. Pétrie will officiate in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoinand Belden avenues, ot 113. m, and 7:30 p. m. F ‘—The Rev. H. G. Perry will officiate in_ Ail Samts' Church, corner of Carpenter. und Ohia streets, ut 1045 8. m, and 7:43 p. m. —The Rev. Father Matnrine will ofiiciate in_the Cbarch of the :\sceusi?‘néxorm LaSalle and Eim 6treets, at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. —Morninz and evening service at the Church of the Holy Communion, Dearborn street, near Thir- tieth. BAPTIST. P The Kev. N. F. Ravlin preaches at No. 381 West Madison street. Morning subject: - Mr. Muller on tne Second Coming of "Christ." Evening: ~+The Sale of Liquor to Children, and the Legal i the Rum Tradic.” 5‘2 71:‘ (;_:Z::.n llgi 3. Elis_will preach in the Second Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . m. —Tpe Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D., will preach atthe First Chorch, corner of South Parkave- nne and Thisty-firat street, in the moring and evening. —Ty and evehing In Olivet Chiarch, Fourth avenae. —The Kev. A. A. Owen. D. D., will preach morningand evening at University Piace Church, corner of Douglas piace and Rhodea avenue, "The Rev. J. A. Henry will preach morningand evening in Dearborn Church, on Thirty-sixth e Rev. E. B, Halbert’ will preach mornin and evening in the Fourth Church, Washington an Jina streeta. > P e tev. ¢, Perren will preach In Western Avenue Church morntnz and evening. “The Rev. C. E. Hewjtt will preach morning and evening at Centenmal Church, Lincoln and Jack- 13 ":;'ln'fiuv. R. P. Allison will. preach in the Rev. R. De Baptiste will preaca morning ; in North Star Church, Division and Sedewick streets. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach at 10:30 a. m. in the Michigan Avenue Charch, near Twenty- third street. —The Rev. H. L. Hounse will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. in the Coventry Street Church. —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach morning and cvening in Central Chinrch, 200 Orchard street. —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and evenfug in ted Street Church.- —The Rev. Lewis Raymond will preach inthe South Church. corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at 10:30 a. n. and 7340 p. 10, P PRESBYTERIAN. ~The Rev. J." A. Montgomery will preach at Ruilroad Chapelthis morning, and the Rev. Ar- thur Mitchell this evening. ~The Rev. Mr. Kaleen preaches at Holland Church, corner of Noble and Erie streets, morning und evening. ~The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach morning and evening in the Reanlon Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop. ~—The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach in the Forty-first street Charch, corner of Prairic avenne, 2t10:453. m. ~—The Rev. W. T. Meln{ will preach morning and evening in the First Unlted Church, corner of Mounroe and Paulina streets. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in” the First Church, corner of indiana avenne and Twen- ty-fiest street, a£10:30 2. m. and at the Ratlzoad Chapel in the evenin; _—Tha Rey. J. Mouro Gibson will preach in the Second Church, corner of Michigan_avenue and Tweuntiethstreet, at 10:45a w. and 7:45 p. m. —The iev. A. E. Kittredge will preach 1o the Third Churca, corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. ~The Rev. Jolu Abbott French will preach In the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Superior streety, ut 19:43 4. m. and 7:45p. m. —The Rev, . L. Thompson will preach in the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana aveane and “Uhirtieth street. 2t 10:30 2. m. and 8 p. m. Even- ing. sixth lecture on **The Ena of the Captivity." _ —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach in the Sixtn Church, corner of Vincennes and Oak ave- nues, at 10:30 a. m. and8p. m. Morning suo- jeet, **A Strauge Prayer-deeting"; evening, Bible reading. —'The Rev. Charles Elllott will preach in the dJefferson Park, Church, corner of Throop and Adams atreets, at 10:50 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Jawmes Maclaughlan will preach in the Scoteh Church. corner of Adsms and Sangamon streets, morning und evening, —The Rev.J. M. Worrail Eighth Church. corner of W streets, ot 1 —The Kev streets, at 10:30'a. m. and 7:40 p. m. —~The itev. E. il. Rutherford, D. D., of Ken- tucky. will preach morning and evening at Fuller- ton Avenue Church. —The Rev. Mr. Kalien will preach in Holland in the morning, and in Englisa in the evening st the Holland Church, corner Noble and Erie streets. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cheney prencnes in Chnist Chinrch. Morn- fng subject: ** A Divine Foundation." Evenfog: *Ttefuge. —The’ Rev. R. L Bosworth preaches at Trinity Church morning and evening, —The Rev. I. B. Morgun preaches at St. Paul's Church, corner of “Washington and Carpenter streets, morninz and evening. —The Kev, Joseph Wilson, of Peoria. preaches at St. John's Church. Lllis avenue, near Thirty- ninth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. F. W. Adams preacnes at Immanuel Church, corner of Centre and Dayton streets, this evemny. R. H. Burke will conduct the morninzand evening serviced at Girace Church, corner of ffoyne and Le Moyne streets. Eveningaubject: ** Kich and Poor. METHODIST. Dr, Thomas preaches at Centenary Church this morning, and P'rof, Bierbouer, of Baltimore, lec- tarex on ** Communism " in the evenng. —The Rev. E. M. Borlng preachies at the State Street Chnrch morniny and evening. —The Rev. A. Gurney, D, D., will preach this morning at Loke Bluif camp-meeting ground. —The Rtev. Dr. William<on wil) preach in 3ichi- Zon Avenue Church, near Thirty-»econd street, at 10:30 a. m, and 7:45 v. m. Evening subject: *‘low to Understand the Bible.™ —The Rev. Dr. Willing will preach in Park Avenue Church at 10:30 3. m. a0d 7:45 p. m. The Rev. S. H. Adams will preach in’ the Western Avenue Church morning and evening. —fhe Rev. M. C. Hawks will presch in the Fulton Street Church. corner of Artesian avenue, morning and evening. —The Rev. John Atkinson will preach in the Ada Street Church morning and evening —The Rev. T. P. Marssh will preach in the Grant Place Church morning and evening. x —The Rev. W. . Crafts will presch at Trinity Church, in Iudiana avenue, nesr Twenty-fourth street. Subjects: Morning. ** What Faith Is and Does ™'; eveninz, ** Examinations. " —3li€s Belle Leonsrd will preach morning and avening at the Ada-Streot Church. he Rev. M. M. Parkhurst will preack morn~ ing and evening st the First Church, comerof Clark and Wasaington streets, —The Rev. Charles B, Ebey will preach morn- ing and evening at the Free Church, No. 49 North Morgan etreet. —The Kev. A, W. Patten will preach morning and evening at the Wabssh-Aveuns Church, corner of Fourteenth street. . UNITARIAN. The Rev. Jasper Douthit will preach atthe Church of the Jessiah tins morping. ~—The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach this morning in Unity Church. - corner of Dearborn aveuue and Walton place. ~—The Rev, T. B. Forbush will preach this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streets. Subject: **‘The Method and Aim of Liberal Theology.™ —The Rev. J. T. Sunderland will preach in Keeley fall, corner of Archer avenue and heeley intht evening. Subject: **What Is In- adelity " —The Rev. Robert Coliyer wiil preach in the morning ut the Fourth Church, corner of Prairie avenue and Thirtieth street. ‘—The Rev. L. G. Powers will preach morning and evening at Unity Church, Oak Park. CONGREGATIONAL- The Rey. E. F. Williams preaches at the Forty- seventh Street Church this morning. The Rev. Charles Hall Evereat preaches at Plymouth Church. Evening subject: **A Foolish . 7. S. Tolbrook preachce at the Tnion Park Church this morning, and the Rev. Dr. Swazey this eveuing. —The Rev. ;. W. Mackie will preach this morn- ing 1n the South Park Avenue Cburch, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-third street. —The Rev. G. H. Penke will preach this morning and evening 1a the Leavitt Street Church. —The Rev. E. P. Goodwin will preach in the morning and the Rev. E. F. Williams in the even- ing at the First Church, corner of Washington and Apn sire —The Rev, C. A. Towle will preach at Bethany Charch, corner of Paulina and West Huron atreets. Eveniirsudject: ** Night Scenes in Labylon. " —There will be services morninz and evening at the Lincoln Park Church, corner of Sophia and Mohawk streets, INDEPENDENT. . Mr. John E. Morris will preuch this morning and cvening for the Bercan Mission, at the corner of Fulton and May streets. —Mr. George T. Coxhead will conduct the services this evening at Unlon Chapel, No. 97 South Desplaines strect. : —There will be morning and evening services at Burr Missfon Chapel. No, 359 Third avense, 3r. George T. Coxhesd preaching in the morning, und Mr. George Quinan mn the eventnz. UNIVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumuer Ellis preachesat the Church of the Redeewmer this morning. Vestry service in the evening. —~Tne Rev. Dr. Rvder will preach this morning and evening in §t. Paul's Church, Michigan avenne, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. The evening service will _have special reference to the lute Willism Cullen Bryant. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer, of the Unfon Sweden- borgian Church, will preach this morning at Her- shey Hall. Subject: '+ The Messnge of the Charch 1o Men of Wealth: Their Calling in Soctety. ™ —The Rev. 0. L. Bailer will preach at tne New Churck 11all, corner of Efghteenth street and Prat- rie avenue. in tae morning. Subject: **Our Fatber In Heaven.™ CHRISTIAN. 2 The Rev. S. M. Conner preaches at the First Church morniug 2nd eveninz. —Mr. A. J. White will preach morning and even- ing a1 the Western Avenue Church, near Cangress street. MIZCELLANEOTS, The Progressive Lyceum meets at the Third TUnitartan Church, corner of Monroe and Latlin streets. at 12 o'clock. —The Kev. R. ¥. Shinon preaches at the Washe ingtonian }lome this atternoon at 3 o'clock. ZTue Red-Ribbon Reform Club meets at the Green Street ‘Tabernacle this afternoon ot 3:30. —Dr. Mathewson preaches at the Green Street Tabernacle morning and evenlng. —Capt. W. 0. Lattimore wil apeak in the Chica- go Avenue (Moody's) Church morning and even- ing. —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach for the Christian Union in Tillotson's Hall, Englewood, at Ip.sm. : ‘LThe central meeting of Friends wiil be held in Room I Atheneam Building, Desrborn and Ran- dolph streets, at 10:30 a. m. —The First Socicty of Spiritnalists will meet ‘morning and evening at the_church coruer of Mon- rue ana Ladin strecte, Mes. Cora L. Richmond will spesk. Mornine sudject: **A Word to Work- ingmen,” by the epirit of Robert Dale Owen. —A meeting will be held at 3 p. m. at No. 770 North Clark street for communion with spirits and fnspirational speaking. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Junc 16~Trinity Sunday. June 21~Fast. CATHOLIC. June 16—Trimty Sunday. June 17—St. Barnabas, Ap. (from June 11). June 18—5t. John_of St.Facundo, C. (from June 12); $S. Marcus and Marcelliunus, M3. June 10--St. Juliana Falconieri. V.; 5. Gerva- sius and Protasins, MM. June 20—Corpus Chrsti~Holy Doy of Obliza- tion. June 21—St. Aloysine Gonzags, C. . June 22—0f the Octave; St. Paulinus, B. C. s Sy~ The Barber Was Ahead. Gutd Helt Nercs. " He thought to head off the voluble barber. Sitting down {n the chair, he said: ~*f want a one of Florida water, 2 private cup and brusn, and a stick of cosmetique.” The tonsorial artist was stageered for an instaat, but, quickly recovering, he surgested that he was the arent for “the new patent flexible stecl-wire hair- brush, warranted to kecp in any climate, only one dollar and six bits.” The, shaver was carching bis breath for a fresh Start, but the customer slid from his chair and escxped. THE GAME OF CHESS A1l communleations for this department should be addrested to THF. TRUBCNE. and Indorsed ** Chest.™ CHESS DIRECTORY. Cmicago Crrss CLUB—No. 50 Dearkorn street. Cuicago Cuess Assocturiox—tHansen & \Welch's, No. 150 Dearborn street, opposite TRIRUS e fuilding. TO CORRESPONDENTS. G. F. B.~Flled for examination. C. A. P.—Problem No. 120 1s much almtred by those who havc succeeded fo mastering it. W. A.N.~That **bix one™ {4 on trial. hones of makiug g satisfactory reputc shortly. thanks for the probiems. ENIGMA NO. 13, * BY MR J. L. BLACKBURY. We are in Maay White, Blagk. - Ring st & & fourth Kingat K B afth Rook at K efchth RooX at K sixth Look at @ B seventh ok at Q R sixty Rishop at K B se Bishop at K K¢ Afth Kalzht 8 Q efiziith Rnlznt g @ Ke 00t Pawaat R 3 rourth Fawnat K Bsix:n Eawn at Q third Pawnat QRz a-venth White to play and mate In four moves. Rixhopat Q. ‘snlh fxtiop at Q recon Knizhzat R T second uig Kusg Pawn at Q fourth. PROBLEM NO. 133. BY MR C. A. FEERY, CIICAGO. 7 7 G Vit P27 o 2 White, White to play and mate in three moves. SOLUTION TU ENIGMA NO. 1a1. White. Blac L4 1..Any move tes accontingly olation to_Entirm: trom in, . H. O%h 1 Mrs, T, la. 2. M SR Eveline Fixches K., Turner, 1 SOLUTION TO PROBLEY NO. 120, Whits Qo7 1.0t K s o Kt g 2. 3ny move . 8.Mates aceordingly I 1..Qto Qsq 2.010K6 2..1ny move lates sccordingly Correct solution to Problem No. 120 recelsed from 0. It Jepjamin, . B Ovinzion, E. Harbe, und Dick, clitys 16 3. Cotikar, Manche: SOLUTION TO PROBLEM N0. 131 Wlce, B 10 K& (Kt) from 11Gto BT takes Rt mates .Pto Kt4, then 2. Correct solution to Prublem 0. E. Benfumin, W. 1. Paal, ‘and Dick. ¢ity; Kt, K Oviaston. E. Turner, {1 NOTES, Mr, Mason arrived in London Mav 3. and wus intro- ductd to the various metropalitan chess circies by Mz~ rd. Messrs. G. Relchhelm, Jscob Elwou, and B. M. Nefll have been selected a5 the Commiitee of Award fo the Assocfatfon Frobtem Tourncy. We are in recelpz of **The Chess Openin ered Critically and Practically,” by H. E. Bird: volume, it will be remembered, was announced o be fasued List full In New Yors. i a letier received frou Mr. Bird, e statés that the” delay Io the appearance of the book wis occasioned by causes over whic Do control, and thit he was obllged o ubandon iy orliinal intention of {sulni fu this country, gad o transfer the WOr 1o his London pubilsliers. “'fhe vol~ ume i3 beaut{tully printed In larze, ciear type, and con~ anamber of din- . Consid-~ ird. This taius, lu addinen tw the Openin; Eraniy of remarkable positions o Famex, and a sele of problems oy _American composers. The price of the book ts S o Thosc desiring coplés stould address Measts. Dean & Son, 160 Fleet street, London. The pablic tournament of the New York Chess Club was Drought to & Yery successfal close on. satunisy evening, -June 8, at the Cafe Cosinopolitan. The Ao ) Was Won by Mr. James Burke, of New econd (530 by Mr. T. j.iinbeck. o n: the chird ($20) oy Mr. . J. Doyle, of Hobo- il ourth will go her 1o Mr. Henschell or Mr. ham, one game remaining uasmatshed. After ibe prescatation of the prizes the weitlemen sat Yowi 10 a3 banquei, which was enlivened by many witry speeches. One of the pleasant festures of the evenlnic he presentation, in & speech overflowini with racy vy Mr. Limbeck. of o brouze bulluoi (the e~ blem of Jpugnacity) 10 Mr. Johnsiod, as s Lestimoilal for the avle mauner in which he brought a gane W ap upsuccessful conclusion n 174 moves. h gnd INTERNATIONAL TOURNEY GAMES, Playeid by corresponidence between Mr. K. H. Phil Aps, of Hull, Eng., and the Rey. L. W. Uavis, of Ocons omowoe, Wis. ALLGALER GAMMIT, Black—r. Davls. . 1L.PwK4 o K K 28Kt 2301t to K Bsq Wiite must either resfen the game or sacrifice hIS ‘Queen to avold mate fnstanter. (8) This sparkling varfation I sald fo be the fnven- ventlon of Mr. Thoreld, one of the foremost Engiliit layers. Py Nir. Bird preters P to B 6, and gives the followlng continuation: wQ B .Btoh B4 14..Bto KKt 5 13..Bto k2 MWiijte has Lwo pawns a3 coinpensation for the pleca: sacriiced, and also 3 £ood attack; out Black, we talnk, should wi. b 0 Between Mr. onck, of Dubdlln, and Mr. Frech, of . e notesare’ by thi chess editor Tore, 1 11 1 Washington, D C. of the Nortioghurm (E QILOCY White—Mr. Moncg. 1.FwkRS Ktto K B3 WR3 t10 QB3 (e} to K Keat () Kt 88z S5EECETECE 33 & ‘White restzns. (2) This we conslder the best reply to this opening &b this potnt. (bj Une of the regaiar continuationsof this opening, but which we consider ratiier inferior to P takes F {8 AP s acmordine to the booi > 413 accurding Lo the boois. {e) ¥ do not fice this. bat recommend P to KR 3, followed by K t0 Q2. 3 (1) In order to prevent Black's Pto K B 5, bat not a good expedient. P takes P en passant 18 much supe- Fior, but, in ooy case, Black remalns whh Uie advan- age In positlon. We may safely sscribe White's I of ‘the game (o this {mproviden: move. : () Eest under the circumstances. (h) A mitscalculstfon which foses s plece. The stas deot who s desirous of Jmproving his play should not 1ail to look at the principal variations from Black's last move. A Al Black's moves aftes White's 16th move aro perfect, and we commend them s very lastructive to young plagers. A ) We would have played K to K 2. [y ) Fhore 13 1o need for this sacrldce, bat & fa pee= fectly sound, and must win. (1) The correct siyle. White may n well realgn ot once, but we give tac whole, a3 tn¢ ead-game is very DSUUCLYE (0 YOUDZ Dlavurs