Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 30, 1878, Page 9

f l 1 e, s et VO £t S e sttt ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE : 0, IS78—-SIXTEEN PAGES v ELIGIOUS. History and Characteristics of the Dunkards. geventh-Day Baptist Monastic- gl Buildings at Ephra- ta, Pa. Froude’s Essay on the Conflict Between Science and ‘Theology. cloty established at Bermundian Cre County, about fifteen miles from fhfmfi?i}‘z York. “Anotiter branch was orzanized at Bed- sord County, besides others. The principal set- tlemeut at Dresent exists at Snowhill, near Auti- dam Creek, Franklin County. A visit to the Evbratu cloister afforded the writermuch pleas- ure, and several yery Jargre, encient, primiive stractures, 150 old, were inspected with great satisfaction. The first buildings of the Society of any importance were the followin: Kedar and Zion, a mecting-house and cqnven alterwards were erected in the ineadows, a Sis. ters’ house ealled * Suron,” to which is attached a larze chapel and “ saal,” for the purpose of holding the Agapus, or Love-Feasts; also a Drathers’ house, called Bothands, with which is counected the large mecting-rom, with gal- leries, in_which che whole community would bold Divine worsbin, In their brightest days they also had their priniing-office J house, bake-house. and almony " and others for various purposes. They were supported by the farm, grist-milt, paper-mill, ol-mill, fuiling- mill, and the labor of the brethren and sisters Your representative in- in the lovels cloister. spected the “Sisters’ House” and “ Brothers: A . oy House," and pictured to I i Y Providence Practically Eliminated | penestuinons, e oorigiis 2isd the larmoy, from the Administration of the World, The Pope's Address to the Dishanded Papal Officers-Peter's Penco Falling OF. fax Muller on the: Difference Be- tween Honest and Dis- honest Atheism. General Notes--Personals--Pi- ous Humor--Services To-Day. CHRISTIAN AND CHRISTI- ANA. Who has not read. —what man that loved Good Englieh. pious speech, and valiant deed, — Tle rare 0ld book in swhich Johu Bunyan proved Bis poer's heart alive beneath his crecd? TWho has not in s fancy traveled Jonz With Christian on that anclent pilgrimage, Shared all his fears and lifted up the sony’ ‘After the pattles it was his to wage: Or with brave Christiana followed on, Cboosiug the path her lord and trod before Tpul the Hleavenly City, wlmost won, shone lisc a dream beyond the River's s\’gre! Well, “tis 2 goodly tale, we think, and close The book we huve from childhood read, and say, ~The ace of mivacles s puet| _¥ho kiows The joyous aints, the pilgrims of to-day?"™ o Jigt," wo eay, “‘like that which was of olg!™ Yet still serenely shine the midnight stare, And there are wonders left us 1o behold 1f we but think 1o 100k between the bars. Eren now, before our excs, his large heart, warm With the fine heat that sames onr colder biood, Stands Christian, in as true and living form Asthat in which'old Bunyzn's hero stood. Long sfnce this hapoy pilgnm, etaf 1a hand,” et outyet not alone- for by his elde Went Christiana also toward the Land Anear whose boundaries they now abide. Each day less aistant from the City’s Gate, Through shade and cunshine, hand in hand they vressed, Now combazing the foes th: ‘And now in pleasant meadoss 3it, a Julled to rest. Early the Palace Beautiful they found, Where Pradence, Charity, and Faith abide; The Lowly Valiey hiitle had o wonnd Their geutler bearts devoid of scorn and pride. The darker Valley of the Shedow of Leath They passed, but’ with them One they knew was near, Stafd oy whose rod and stail the Pealmist saith The totling pilgrim shall no evil fear. And many scasons afterward they dwelt In Vamits's great chiy. There. apart From sll things boac and mean, they humbly knelt With prayer upon their lips and pure of beart. fougnt with mants—those that lurk of want, despair. and Ly cay and night he did his Master's wori Twpng a bouse Lot made with hands to wia, And Chrietian from the ontset ool Sweet Mercy for » guide and bosom-(rfend, And sougt with her the poor a evers nook, Giving 23 one that to the Lord doth lend. Together thus they climbed ahove the pass Wuere from the Hill Delectable 'tis given To gaze at moments throush thc shepherd's gl Aud catch & far-oll, rapiurous glimpse of Hea lace, Sorrows ther knew; but what delight was there Led often-times where the stilt waters fow, Orin green pastures guided nnavare To trees of life that hung their fruitage low ! How, ers the pilgrimzze i ended anite, Its wearinees forsot, they seat thew down In Bealab, in a courtry of delight, And rest a season ere they wear the crown. Here. after half n century, they breathe Alr fresh {rom Paracise: ana here renew while unseen watchers . Foreach a chaplet, aprayed with golden dew. Blcesing and blest, smidet their household group, Clrietiai and Chrlstiana herc awnit Their summons, knowing that the shining troop Wili bear t0 each a token, s90n or late. And we who pather near—ourselxes 100 bling To see undazed the light of Heaven's grace— Their well-loved vissces behotd. and fud briglt rZccted glory {n eaca face. k. C. Stedmau's L'oem al tne Golden Wedding of Witham E. Dodge. TIE DUNKARDS. EISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE. Corvespondence Priiadelihia Pres. Erarata, Pa., June 22.—During the mosth of May, 1773, the first Protestant Monastical Sotlety of America was established at Eplirata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, buildiugs for the monsstery, etc., being completed at that veriod. In that comparatively new land every- thiug was in its primitive state, and solitary grandeur existed wierever tie eye rested; the deer raced over the hills and draok, un- scared. from the limpid streams that are still winding along; the morning star smiled m Dbeauty over the Jovely landscape, and its twin sister of the eve “ lam=d in the rorekead of the y,” with the rather few Clristfan pHgrims to Dail their sing and setting. What chianges, too, have passed over that beautiful valley! The place designated fo the date of this sketch is about sixty miies north- west of Philadetphia, and less than twenty miles west of Reading, and liere may be found one of the earlicst scrtlements of the State. Within its precincts pass the Reading & Co- lumbia Railroad, Harrisburz & Dawnlng tura- pike, the **old Reading Road,” and tie Col- calico Creek. Less than thirty years ago, almost the entire villaye, -comprising two dozen or more houses, including several Elores, 1wo tuverns, a paper-mill, and a grist-mill, belonged o a singular cnmxxmnil[r. called the Seventh- Day German Bavtists. They originated soout 184 vears ago, a comtroversy arising in the Pratéstant Churclies of Germany aud flolland, in which vigorous attempts were made to reform some of* thie errcrs of the Church, and for the purpese of promoting_ a more pracilcal, vital religion, The dissensions not aureeing, and owing to restrictions and prohibitivns, many learned men emigrated to America, while others remained, determincd to persevere in their ef- forts. In 1703, eight of these learned men met together reguliarly, where the doctrines were examined caretully and impartiaily. From these researcnes_sprung up the denom- ination of Dunkards or First-Day German Bap- tsts. Ther were much persecuicd, some were scattered, their Alma Mater voluntarily remov- ing to Scrustervin, in Friezland, snd from thence emicrated 10 America in 1719, and dis- persed to seversl parts,—Germantown, Skip- pack, Oley, Conestoga, and elscwhere, forming achurch in Germantown in 1723. A member, Courad Helssel, conceived the Id’en that there Was an error in xb:i! "flrsl»lh.i\; docr::nn:l,“aua that the ‘*seventh day ™ wus tbe co our Lord, and that that day was estabiished and sanctified forever. Contending for this notion, andmeeting with opposition, he led the life of a hermit fora long timeon the baoks of the Colealico: but was finally_discovercd, when the sohitary life was chanszed into a conventical oue. Buildings were now (1752) erected, and monastic yames were given to all who joined the Hclojster,”—a title which exists to this day. From this time on the Sociery increased o membership, until at their mOst Pros- ‘perous period they numbered nearly 300. As carl; 1ot | speech, but u livi must have possessed such a singular collection of Christianity and beloved neagnll:. The base- ment floor is composed of stones, covered with mortar that. has solidified almost Ifice rock. and the examination revealed many small rooms along the passaze that passes through the cen- tré of the buildiugs. The doors wera quite low, Tequirfiuz us to stoop when cntering, and in some places they were o narrow us to compel Us to edge fn sideways. Wooden latches, wood- en binwes, aud wooden pegs—yes, all swood— attested the preat age of the editices, Some of the locks evinced unusual ingenuity. These rooms, with the exception of containing relies, are vacant, and, upon traversing throngh the second aud third stories, a sense of loneliness will overtake the visttor. Both buildings—the Sisters’ and Brothers’ Houses—are large and odd-looklng compared to modern architecture, but it was ot uutil we had entered their almost sacred precivets that the mind could comprehend what vast pitlars of antiqhity were before us. Hnudreds of rooms are there, and, being too simall to con- taina bed, rough buards along the wall were the resting places, two members being allotted 10 a room; aud these were contined to rather meagre limits. In some of these diminutive chambers there is a collection of spinning- wheels and other antique m: ery usedt in the manutacture of home-made wearing -.; parel, Inone room were boards shaped like & foot and limb, which were used for stretehing hoslery ufter being knftted by the matrons. Canes that aided weary old men, tallow candle dips that provided light while thiey were peras- ing their Testament, and numerous aucieut relics, were seen. We ascended stairs 150 years old, visited o dungeon used for punishiog such ‘a8 might re- quire it, and compared lasts with our present box-toed shoes, and could not help exclalming, Ah! what s change!” And could those who. balf or & century ago, inhabited these build- ings gee us roaming about inthis bLeautilul vale, just beyoud the South Mountzin, in our modern garb, their astonishment would be ten- fold. ne outside appearance gives testimony of tne age of the buildings. ‘The wood was ail brought " to the ground by manual labor, and temperance was acardinal virtue, it being stated that not a drop of liquor was used during the cousummation of the great improvements. Although their own places of repose were only supplied with woorden benches sud billets of wood for pillows, they showed remarkable ex- amnles of forbearance and Christian meekuess. In the French War of 1735, the door of the cloister, Including cnapels, ete., were opened a5 a refuge for the inhabitants of Tutpehiocken and Paxton settiem then the frontier, from the ineursions of the bostile Indiaus, allof whom were recefved and treated with the greatest courtesy. After the battle of Brandywine the whole_ establishment was open to receive the wounded Amcricans, great numbers belng brought there in wagons, from a diatance of forty or iifty miles. One hundred and fifty are buri 0 auemineuce—Mount Zion; bur this important theme will furnish wmatter for another article. The muslc of these Baptists was au fait, rival- ing uoything iu thelineol either French, Italian, or Englisn vpera. The tones ing from the choir resembled very choiceinstrumental music, founded on the tories of the /Eolian harp,—ihe sivging of the <Eolinn harp harmonized. One old gentleman informed your correspondent that the celestial harmony would bathe many in tears, and 1t was truly music for the sout; but time has wrougiit its changes, and with the de- parture of {ts members the quality of the wusic bas degenerated. One of the sisters gave us mauy particulars connceted with thewr bistory, and Der general conversation wss tiuged wich saduesss for, said she, *1, too, um in the elzhties, and 1 am afraid that I will not survive auother winter.” She is sinrle, baving never been wedued, but resided in this Sisters’ House for mauy, mauy winters. Gov. Penn visited this comtaunity qiite frequently, and, desirous of giving them a substantial token of bis regard and esteem, Lad 2 tract of 5,000 acres of tand surrounding the clofster surveyed and presented to them, to be called the Seventh-Day Baptist Manor; but, characteristic of the prople, they aeclined the offer—regardiug so much property as likely to evgender strife, and it being more appropriate for Christian pilgrinis not to be ab- sorbed in the gaius of this wortd, cunsequently their refusal to accuinuiate vroperty. “The writer has spuken priucipally of Ephrata as it was in its huleyon days, for, at the present day, ooly three lamilies occupy the Brothers” House.” A few *sisters” are residing in their uncient home, and other of equally great age are occupied by mdustrious, frugal, aml contented families. They own over 100 acres of the most prolitic land. Outside of the cluister reside many of these Baptists, amongst then some of the Most promineut citizens of the haudsome town, who still coneregate in thieir “saal ™ und ship in their own peculiar mode. ‘1he *=aal” is supplicd with unpainted but clean 2nd tidy tables and benches, av waich they ussemble unou every Saturday morning. This room js u 2reat astractlon Lo visltors, and the German inscriptions on the walls show a rerearkable proficiency in German letter- Though these mewmbers observe tbe 2 day as the Sabbath, they would not desecrate Sunday, or act in any mauner incongruous with the wishes of their neizhbore, and he the hign_esteem and conndence witlch thev com- mand, and the buildiags bid fuir for anotlier. century. SCIENCL AND THEOLOGY. PROVIDENCE PRACTICALLY ELINISATED FROM THE ADMINISTRATION OF THINGS. Mr. James Anthony Fioude's essay on “Sefence and Theology™ is coutinued inthe July-August number of the Mnternational Kevicw. Atter giving a runping commentary on the Lueretian creed, Mr. Froude continues 1t would of course be preposterous to pre- tend that there was sny generd resembiance Detween the siate ol things undes the Ror suvereignty and the present coudition of Ei rope and ‘Taen the whole civilized worid was held down under a single despoti Now free aud powerfui nations confront cich otber; each jealous of its rizhts anc resolute to mainiaip them; each professing to prefer honor to prosnerity. And vet in lomgirun the fate of nations is deterintned by the convie- tivus about the pature and responsibilitics of man which are embodied in their policy and are catertained by the ablest thinkers, and every- where, 3t may be enid, vpnjons are now pro- fezsed by men whom we agree toadmire, and are accepted by poilticians a5 the rale of le lation, which recall the phenomens uf the time swhen the old order of things perished, us if high cultivation it s like the blossom of a plant, the final consumma series of past eflorts which pr chianee. The flower sheds ks pe } verseis develop in ihe place of it, from which, after a lone winter, th a new era. The nattons of modern Europe, like the early Greeks and Romans, formed their original poti- cv on relizion. For centuries States and _indi- Viduals alike professed to_be governed in all that they thought and did by the supposed rev- eintion which was given to mankind 1800 years azo. Avowed disbeliel of ic there was none; of secret, silent, misgiving there was probably very little. For practical purposes that reveia- 1ion was accepted as a fact as htle zilowing of doubt 35 the commonest phenomena of daily expericnce. The univeral confidence recerved its firat shock av the Keformation of the six- teenth censury. Just us -the orfeinal I creed was mad ineredible by the Tez Which it was oversoread, o Christianity was overgrown by a forest ol extravagant supcr: Tione, Conscicnce and intclligence rose i re- volt and tore them to pieces. For a time all was well. The weeds were zoue; the faith of the early Church was restored in' its simpl The Hugruenots in Frauce, the Lutherans in Germany, the Puritans in England and Scot- Jand, were as absolutely under the influcnce of religious beiiel the Apostles and first con- verts. Providence to them was not a form oi sg realizy, The preambles of the Euglish acis ol Parliament referred alwars 10 the will of the Almixhty us the foundationof humaa law. The catastrophe of the French Revolution, with the enthronement of the Goddess oL ‘son, appeared as the visible fruit of infidelity The Eoglish mind was terriied out of its un- certaintics, and determined, Teason or Do rea- son, that 3t would not have the Bible called in question. 1t was decided that Hume had been .sutlictently answered by Lardner and Paley. ly a5 1735 there Was & branch of this So- | 1he discussion was not ta be reopened; and Eu- 2lish middle life returned for nearly half a e tury to the fixed convictions of earlfer times. Behind the banner thus resolutely raised came ap effort to restore the fnfiuence of re- lglon on the hears ana_emotions. First there Was_a ,prominent revival of evangelical piety. As the wave of spiritual feeling lost its force it has Leen succeeded by superstition and by o less sincere and simple bus still ardent appeal to tradition and Catholic principles. The leaky vessci has net been repaired, for repairs were impossible, but the chinks and flaws in her planking have been tarred over and painted. Stained windows have gone back into the churches, and the white liznt which sufficed for the simple, truth-oving Protestants bas been replaced by the enervating tints 60 dear to the devotional soul. Or- gans and choristers, altars and altar- ornaments, fine clothes and processions, the mystery of the real presence, in the name of which more crimes have been perpetrated in Europe than can be Iaid_to the charge of the blovdy-idol in Tauris—we have them even now amoug us in fall activity. The religious mind bas set itself with ail its might to make things seem what they are not and turn back theriver of destiny to its sacred fountains. : In vain. Practical life has mesnwhile gone its way. The priuciples of the once-abliorred French Revolution have becn adopted as the rule of political action, even in conservative Encland; and silently, without nofsc or oppost- tion, we have taken Jeremy Benibam for our practical prophet, and haveé admitted as com- pletely as was adinitted by Augustus Cresar, or rajan, that civil overnment has no object be- yond the materlal wellare of the people. The will of God has mo more @ place, even by courtesy, In our moaern statutes. Political economy is the creed which governs the actions of pul men; - apd political economy, by claiming to be an interpretation of a law of No - ture, dispenses with Providence, whaile it as- sumes 28 ap axiom thar the masses of men are, have been, and ever will be, iniluenced by noth- ing else then a consideration of material futer- est. Arcweinanage of progress? The fncoms tax decides. The standard of human value has becowe sgamn what f{t was under the Civsars, and which Christianity caine into the world to declure that it was not. Pcople contivue to o to church. They continuea then to go to the temples. They say their pragers in public, or perbaps in private. So they did then. The elergy pray for rain_or fine weather, and on £reat oceasions, such as the potato blight, the ‘Archbishop issues 4 special form of petition for its removal. - But the cleray and the Arehbishop are aware all the time that the evils which they Dray ngrainst depend on natural causes, and that a prayer from a Chiristian mivister will as little briny a change of weather as the incantation of a Caffre rainmaker. We keep to conventional forms, because none of us like to acknowledie what we all know to be true, but we do ot be- lieve; we do not even helieve that we believe,— the Bishiops themselves no more than the rest of us; no more than the Collegze of Aucurs in Cato's time belfeved in the sacred chivkeus. An encryetle people areimpatient of Insincerity, and the convictions which we all act upon have at last found a voice precisely as convictions of v aualogous kind found a voice in Lucretius. Wo have practically climinated Providence from the administration of things. The Lucretian. phil-, osophy bus revived again, relntorced by a vast accumulation of new knowledge, to teil us, as Lucretius did, that the universe can be account- ed for without the hypothesis of a Providence. The theory of devclopment, as it Is called, docs not deny the existence of God any more than Epicureanism denied it. It dentes only that the phenomena require the existence of such a being 10 account for them. For a tme, even after the authorityof tradition was shaken, scicnce seemed to be o the side of religion. The evidence of design In nature was urged, and it was urged by the Stoics, in proof of a designing mind, and u3 long as each species of plant and animal was be- lieved to be distinet from every other, cach oe of them required a special art of creation to bring 1t into being. Both positions are now abaudoned by advanced scientific thinkers. In conclusion lie say Man’s vature Is ihe same as it always was, Scicuce bas much to teach us, but its message is not the last nor the highest. 1f we muy in- fer the future from the past & time will come when we shall cease to be dazzled with the thiug which we call progress, when increasing “wealth™ will cease o satiefy, nay, may be found incapable of being produced or preserved except. when relegated 10 a secondary place, when the illusions_which have strangléd reliu- ion shall be burned away and the imuiortal part of it testored to its rightful sovereignty. A long, weary rosd may he before us. Not easly will & foviolable atnlosphere of revercnce form agam round spiritual faith to warn off the inso- I¢nt intruder. ~ Piety, revercnce, humble adora- tfon of the great Maker of the world, are in themselves 8o beautiful that religious faith might have remnined forever Lehind that en- chanted shield, it imaginative devotion could have Lept within bounds its wild Gemands upon tus reason. Not till Catholics had piled ‘supersti- tion on_superstition, not till Protestauts had claborated o speculative theology which con- science 23 well a3 intellect ab lenth ung from it as ineredible, did the anvels which guarded the shrine fold their wings and fy. The Garden of Edeu is desecrated now by the trampling of controversy, aud no tnzentous reconciliations of religion and sclence, no vivers of easuistic holy ‘wuLer can restore its ruined loveliness of tradf tonary faith. But the truth which is in religion will assert itgelf aiain as it usserted itsell be- fore. A society without God in the Licart of it is not permitted to exist; and when once more a spiritusl creed bas established itself which men can act on in their lives, and belicve with their whole souls, it is to be loped that they will bave zrown wiser by experience, and will ot agzin leave the most precious of their pos- sessions 1o be ruined by the extravagances of exageerating eredulity, THE POPE. SIGNIFICANT ADDRESS OF LEO XIII. TO THE DIS- BANDED PAPAL OFFICERS. Correspandence London Times, Roe, June 9.—The speech made by Leo X{IT. on Friday to the ofiicers of the aisbandea Pontifical urmy, headed by the Commander-in- Chief, Gen. Kunzler, bas taken every oue by surprise. In It he has made a direct departure from the course he hus hitherto followed. With the exception of the Encyclical, alf his previvus utterunces bave been markedly free from allu- sions to the potitical side of the Roman ques- tion. That in- the Encyclical the Pope should assert the necessity of the temporal power to the full and free exereiso of the spiritual jurls- Qiction was taken as @ matter of course; he could not do otherwise; but, while in that docu- ment the Supreme Pontiff made bls protest und declared what it was Lis duty to maivtain, it was supposed—and the Pope’s avoidance in his ordinary discourses of all mention of mundane polities was_taken a3 confirming that supposi- tion—thut: Leo XIIL would, without further emphasis, have left the question of the earthly domiuion to_such further solution a5 the Kuler of potentates and Powers might herealter see £t zo direct. ' Haviug caid that fnpast years he had several times had the satlsfaction of sceing the otficers of the 'onutical army puy their homage in that suae hall to lis glorious predevessor, Pius 1X., and that now thé Diviae Providence, in its In: scrutable councils, bad seen it that “w selves ” should have to yecelve so mauy illustri- ous defenders of the Apostolic Sce, the Pope continued as foliows: We cannot sufliciently ‘exprass fn words the vivid satisfaction we now feel; ind we from onr heurt thunk the Lord, who, fn the mldst of so many ex- amplzs of disloyalty, throngh which In our duye the bolicet yows ar violated, bes given you elrength 1o pre: ur breasts so lively a sentiment of honor and dnty a8 to deserve on many occasions the benediction of Catholics and the ad- miration and esteem of even their enemies. We are glad also to address to you fo-dny our word of praise, and to encouraze ryou to remain firm in your intentious, and to continue faithful fo the glorions Danner yon have spread. 1 said rishtly a cloclous ‘anner, Inasmuch_as there is no iner or holier canse than that of fighting for the holy rights of the Church and of her august liead; there is no mlitary zlory more splendid than thatof malnta'n- ing high The honor ot this sacred fag. In defend- iug the Pavacy you defend one of the most Pr dential of the Divine Institurions; defending the Papacy, sou make yourselves the supnort of tnat sovereizi postion which the Disine Providence conceded 1o the Head of the Church for the inde- pendence of its authority; defending the Papacy, you aid 1n sprending its beneicial and salutary cf- fects throughous the world. O thut it were the willof Ilcaven that the rulars of the peoples, warned by even these latest events and aitempts, shouid 4t last become persunded of this beneficent inituence of the Church and the Papacy in the in- terest s srell-being of the mations, and, giving azin to the Head of Catholicity his~ full Jiersy and independence, prepare better des- tines for the people subject to them. But, alzs: the war agamst the Church still continued withont mercy. To tne Canrch that fuil inde- rendence 13 denied to which as a perfect socicty it [55 every rights the. Church, whith. & 3 divine Jns 1 Jaws and those of the State would etitution, hur Toid dependens and enslaved. we shoud profoundly adore the councils of God. audat the same time comfort ourselves with the thought that Goa mercifilly and lovingly waiches over the #6od of llis Church. and that when s Jielp seoms furthest from us it way, perchance, he cloze at hand. 'T'o you, in the meantime, siorions champions of right and_justice, we end bY saging peraevere, remain faithful to your. duties. never Jetitbe thut any act in your. lives should stain your honored career. ‘11t shall please God to Ehorten the day= of trisl, granting us better tunes, you will be found at your jivsts ready todefend the sacred rights of the “Church; if He shall dispose otherwise, you will have the satisfaction of haviog In such conditions | patticipated with us in misfortune and of havi ehared our lot. TIE PAPAL MASTERS. Rome Carrespondence Sew Yori: Etening Post, ‘The Archbishop of Mifan has been in Rome for scvera) days. Kis presence here is 8 part of a clerical drams nos without interest. Heis a man of exemplary character, and devoted to the bouse of Savoy. For this reason the fanatical Papists, hieaded by the Osseruators Cailulico, make 3 secret and ‘malignant sar upon bim. ‘They depict bim os the chief of the conciliators, and attack him with all kinds of insiuuations. The Archbishop bas born this for 2 lang time, buc at fast resolved to confer with the Pope upon the subject. He had heard that Leo XTII. wasa man of resolute character, incapable of taterating abuscs, snd firm in_repressing them when thevcame to his knowledge. But he found that the_Pope is Do longer eitber the Archbisnop of Perugia or the Cardinal Camer- lengo. He is a Pope surrounded, influenced, and governed by acompsny of fanaties, and constrained .to follow tle policy of Pius 1X. even agalnst his own convictions. He told tne Archbishop of Milan that he could do nothing for him, and intimated that the reason was that be could not do as he would. ‘This gradual subjugatfon of the firm will snd comparatively enli; ned intelligence of the pew Pope is a singular spectacle. 1t began the day of tue eclection of Cardinal Pecci, when those wen who were around him persnaded him Dot to appear on the outer balcony of St. Peter’s Church. Another step was made the day of the coronation. when they prevented him from showing himself to the people by taventiog the story that if he did so there would have arisen disorders. The fanatics who governed Pius IX. have given proof of consummate ubility, for slthough they at first feared that their dominion was ended, they have gradually, by servile flat- tery, by overt, menace or suggestions of fear, suc- ceeded in subduing Leo XIIL's will to theirs. ‘They deny lum all spontanecus action, and wish him to lave no ocher policy than thatof Dius IX., which was suggested by themselves! A few traces of independence occasionally appear, however, in the conduct of the Pope.” It i3 said that he will,after long discussion of the ques- tion, leave the Vatican during the summer months and go_either to Perugia or to Monte Cassico. He has also called Father Curct to the Vatican aud ussizned him a small apartment near bis own. Notwithstandiug his recommend- ation and that of Cargipal Nina, Father Curci was refused admittance to the monastery at Grotto Ferrata, Tho Jesuits, {rom whose order Le was cxpelled, constantly make upon him, apd refuse him an asylun when it is in their power to do 0. 3 PETER’S PENCE. Notwithstanding the great accumulation of Peter’s pence during the last f'cnrs of Pius IX., whose personal popularity and attitude af mar- tyrdom drew upon the sympathies of the faith- ful, the Vatican finds itself in straits. The Pe- ter's pence have fallen off to a degrec that ren- ders the strictest economy necessary, and the first consequence s a step in acceptance of the supremacy ol the Italian cvil power, in the shape of instructivns to the Neapolitan Bishops to receive the Royal exequatur and the revenues und palaces of the dioceses, the Vatican beiog no longer able to pay the mouthly subventions. Therc is but a thin semblance of independeace now Intervening before the Pope’s cwn accept- auce of the fund for his malntenance which bas ‘been accumulating in the treasury of the King- dom since the occupation of Rome. It Pope Lcollives, he will yef. prove that he is practi- cable. ATHEISM. AN HONEST DOUBT TOE DEEPEST SOURCE OF PATH. In a recent lecture on * Athelsm," by Max Muller, he sald that the word is out. of place as applied to the religior of India. The ancient Hindoos had neither the ** theoi ” of the Ho- meric sipger, nor the “ theoi” of Eleatic phi- losophers. Their Athelsm would more correctly be called Adevism, a genial of the old Devas. Such a denfal, however. of what was once be- lleved, but contd be beffeved no longer, so far from beioge the destruction, is fn reality the vital principles of all relizion. The ancient Aryaps felt from the beginping the presence of 2 Besond, of an Infinite, of a Divine, or what- ever else we may call it now; and they tried to grasp and comprehend it by viving it name after name. They thought they bad found it in the Mountatns uod Rivers, in the 8ky, the Heaven, and the Heaven-Father. But after every name there came the No! What they looked for was not the Mountains, not the Dawn, not the Sky, not a Father. It was something of all that, but it was also more than all that. Even such rren- eral names as Deva could Yo loneger satisfy them. Tuere may be Dovas, they said, but we waat more, 8 higher word, & purer thought. They deuicd tha” Devas, not because they be- lieved or desired less, but more. There wasa new conception working in the Aryan mind, and the cries of despair were the harbingers of a new birth. So it has been, s0 it ulways will be. There is an othelsm which {s unto death; there 1s anoth- er which s the very life-blood of all true faith. It is the pawer of plving up what, in our best, in our most honest woments, we koow to be 3o Tonger true; 1t is the readiness to replace the less pericet, however dear it may have been to us, by the more perfect, however much it may be' detested, as yet, by others. It is the true self-surrender, the truz self-sacrifice, the truest truth in truth, the truest fajth. Without that atheism no new religion, no reform.no re- fbrmation, no resuscitation, would ever have been possible; withiout that athelsw o new lifo is possible for any one of us. In the eyes of the Brahmaus, Buddha was an atheist; n tha eyes of the Atheniuus, Socrates was an stoeist; in the eyes of the Pharisecs, St. Paul was an arhelst: In the oyes of his Swiss judges, Ser- Yetus was an athy And why! Because every oneof them was yearning after a higher and and purer conception of God thau what he had learnt as a child. Let no one touch rellgion, be hie clerzyinzn or Iayman, who is afraid of asking bimself, *Do T believe fu God?" or *Da 1noti” 1" wil quote the words of u great divine, Iarely decensed, whose hunesty and picty have never been ques- tioned: *God isa grest word. ~He who fecls and knows that will judge more mildly and more justly of thuse who confess that they dare not sdy that they helieve in God." 1 kuow per- fectly well that what T have just sald will be misunderatood, will probably be misinterpreted. I snow I stail be accused of having defended a glorifled athelsm, and of naving represented it as the highest pofnt mau can secure in an evo- lution of religious thoueht. Letit be so! 1f there are but a few bere present who under- staud wha I mean by honcst atheism, and who know how it differs from vulgar atheism. or from dishonest atheism, 1 shall be satisfied. For I knhw to understand this often helvs us in the hour of vur surest need. 1t will teach us that while the old teaves are fafling, the leaves of a brigths and happy spring, and all secms wintry, and trozen, and dead within and around us, there is and must be uew spring in store for every warm and houest. hears. It will teach us that honest doubt is the deenest source of hon- t'sr_d{nllh. aud that he only who bas lost can find. ) GENERATL NOTES. A Sunday-school hymn-book has just been comolezed fn the Spanish language. The Reformed Episcopal Church holds aboitt $800,000 worth of veal estate for educattonal purjioses. Fifty churches in and about Boston have pald thelr debts during thepast few moaths, amount- fuer to nearly 31,000,000 The Erglish revisers of the New Testamnent are engaged in revising for the second time the Second Eplstle to the Coriuthians. * The Bishop's address at the recent Diocesan Convention of Lony Istand stated that the con- firmations for the year were 613, the largest number ever reported in one year. In Jeruzalem are sbout 12,000 Jews, being about oneithird the whole population of the city. In the other cities and towns of Palestine there are in pll abous 12,000 Jews. There ure a great many more Jews in New York toan in the whole land of Palestine. 1t is the testimony of Spurgeon, Tsng, and all of those pastors wio are acenstomal (o raceive many children into their chirches, that they make more symmetrical, roliable, and I troublesome members througlh their lives than those received gs ddults. There are in the United States 23,035 Baptist churcles, but only 1,54 ministers of that per- sunsion. Some of the ehurches, howeves, are el 11 und weak, and unable t pport ministers. In many parts of the South and West severul churches elab tugether under the care of ope minister. At the recent mecting of the Trustees of the General Theological Seminary, in New York, over twelye mames wers proposed for the offices of Dean of the Scminary und Professor of Ecclesiastical fiistory, made vacant by the resignation of Bishop Séymour. Nu activn can be tuken by the Board until its next session. Au opinion has got sbroad in Ensland that Canon Farrar’s book, *Eternal Hope,” was Targely due to a work entitled *‘Salvator Mundi,” writien by the learned Baptist scholar the Rev. S. Cox, the editor of the Erpositor. In this month's Contemporary fev'ew Mr. Cox says: *“Canon Farrar lias been oud euongh to tell me that vator Mundi’ reached bands while he was meditating the flrsblol thbl: £ermons now published in ‘Eternal Hope,’ ana that he was largely indebted to it throughout.” In Honolulu. Sandwich Istands, rezular Chi- mnese services are held in Dr. Damon's Presby- terian Church. The Rev. Sit Moun _generally preaches to s larce company of Chinese on Sundav evenings. He is a clear-headed and encrgetic preacher. *“Just as 1 am,” and many other bymns, are sung in the Chinese Isuguago by the cougregation. Atthe late meeting of the General Assoclas ton of Michigan, it was most heartily voted that a chair in the Oberlin Theolozical Seminary be endowed by the Michizan churches, and thie appofniment of a financial agent to raise the mouey solicited. The Rev. W. B. Willlams, late IL M. Superintendent in Michizan, has been named by the Board of Trustees for the fmpor- tant position, The American and English exhibltors at Parls are endeavoring to eccure the best possible ob- servance of the Sabbath in the sections allotted tothem. Mr. Wilson, of Wheeler & Wilson, Is at the head of the effort. Sales and orders are declined ou the Lord’s day, and the number of attandants is reduced 10 a minimum. ‘The move ig safd to be not only atiracting attention, bus al;(i:lwlnnlng tie approbation of Continental ex- ibitors. - . One of the ntive Japavese reachers, Joseph Neshima by name, now doing u noble work among his countryinen, found, whon a boy, two tracts, one about America, the other on Chris- tianity. On reading these he was filled with tne desire to go to America and become a Christian. This was at a period when any native canght leaving Japan was put to death. The Japanese boy, undeterred by the danger, eecreted himself on o vessel und escaped to Uhing, and from thence to Boston. He was educated at Amherst. College, and, on his roturn to his ative land, was offered a lucrative position as interpreter. “Tlis be declined o order to_preach the Gospel. He has now Gfty preachinz places, thres churches, und eighty-four students in college, eight of whom are studying for the ministry. The Rev. Drs. Morgan and Barrows propose to relinquish hereafter s part of their work in the Professorships of Greek and Hebrew at the Oberlin Seminary, and the linguistic drill i bath languages will be_given in connection with the vew chair of Linguistic Exegetical ‘Theology provided for by the Trustecs at their Iate meeting. The fricuds of the Seminary conelder it fortunate in securing, as it has, for 1his Professorship the services of Prof. W. G. Ballantine. Prof. B. was formerly in the Faculty of Ripon College, and declinés the ap- pointment to the chair of Greek in the Uni- versity of Indiana, long filled by his fatber, to nccept this appointment at Oberlin. He was connected for a time with the Palestine Ex- ploring Expedition, and his studies abroad have specially qualified him for Biblical fnstruction. EXCITING SCENE IN A CHURCH. Phitadelyhia Buliesin. Yesteraay morning u scene occurred In ope of aur up-town churches which was out. of the usual order of cxercises, and which for a tlme caused no little excitement. The congregation had gatheted, and the opening services had been Theld” as usual, and as the pastorarose and an- nounced his text, a well-dressed, fine-looking man, s stranger «to the congregation, quietly walked up the middle aisle, and, ascending the pulpit, notified the astonished divine that he felt called upon to do the preaching on the oc- casfon. The action was done s0 qufetly tnat none of the congregation, although the proceed- fng was so unusual, saw it to interfere, 2nd it was not until after’ the services that they were made aware of the conversatiou betwecn the pastor and_the stranger. The former cslmly requested the stranger to be seated until he bad delivered his message, when they wonld discuss the matter, when the latter quiet- ly did so, and durfng the sermor bever ‘moved from his position. As the minister pro- ceeded to deliver an eloquent sermon on the power of sin over mankind, =nd the workings of an awakened conscience, the stranger Decame visiblyaffected, and throughout his emotion was a literal illustration of the wordsof the mivister. After the close of thescrvices the stranger,with tears in his eyes, becired the pastor’s pardon for 1iis strange proceedings, ond stated that be had been up sll the previots night with a man who sick, and as he came fnto the church he was seized with an irresistible impulse to do as he did. He bad bee:d a drinking man, but for three months had uot touched adrop of anything strong. He earnestly begzed permission to make un apology to the congregution for his strunge behavior, and 3aid_that it was the most. humiliating thing he bad ever done. The oc- currence created quite an cxcitement of a quiet nature, especially among the female portion of the congregation, and the pastor was compli- mented on his nerve in preaching with his usual farce with an appurently insane man seated be- Lind him, PERSONALS. The Rev. M. H. Worrall, pastor of the Firat Baptist Church of Sprivgfivld, 111., has resigned. The Rev. William Traoton, of Salisbury, Eng., completed his 109th year May 1. He has been a Wesleyan minister since 1803 The Central Presbyterfan Church, of Alle- gheny, Pa., has iovited the veneradble Dr. Plu- mer, of Columbia, 8. C., to become its pastor. The Rev. E. H. Brocks closes a two-years’ pastorate at Cussopolis, Mich., and enters the wark s pastor of the cliurch in Lapecre, Sept. 1. The Rey. Dr. McAnally, editorof the St. Louis Cristian ddvocate, ting a complete history of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The Rev. Frederle Palmer, of the Suffolk North Congregational Association, bus trans- terred_his eclesiustical relations to the Epis- copal Church. The Trustees of the Clvmer, Pa., Baptist Church pronounce the Rev. C. A. Diffen a fraud. He i3 coflecting donations for the church without aathority. ‘The Rev. J. F. Davics, of the Methodist Church in Marysville, O., hes been granted by his congregation a two months’ leave of absence. He will zo to Europe July 1. ‘The Rev. C. H. Rowe, of Wollaston, has been called to the Charles’ River Church, in Cam- bridge, Mass., 2 new Interest lutely presided over by Mr. Dicldnson, who has_recently re- ‘moved to Bowdoin Square Church, Boston. Mrs. Patterson, wife of the Rev. Dr. Patter- son, of the Highland Uriversalist Church in u, will not 20 to Earope with her husband 1iis summer, but will supply his pulpit_while Lie is absent. She js suid-to be a fine ofi-hand preacher. It is sald that the Rev. T. S. Tyng, Rector of St. Jumes' Episcopal Church, Carabridge, Mass., and & grandson of the Rev. Dr. 8. H. Tyng, hus determined to enter the missionary sersice in Japan, and that he will take his de- parture therefor very soon. The Fourth Avenue Baptist Church of Pittsburg clings to its pustor, the Rev. R. W. Pearson, although sundry naughty deeds were some time ago proved against him, and con- fessed by hun. ‘The Pittsbure Baptist Associa- tion considers this_ all wrong, and thinks the Cirureh ought to turn Mr. Pearson out. “As every Baptist Church is independent, however, the Association hasno power to command the church to sead in the pastor’s | resiznation, The most 1t can do is to withidraw the hand of feliowship from thic errine Church. This it has just_done, after prolonged and thorough dis- tussion, the vote being 51to 10. Pearson says he hasrepented of his sins, and his people say they are edftied by his preaching. It thoy like irim, there s no outside power in the Baotist Cliurch that can make him step down and out. SAINTLY SMILES. Sundag-school teacher—Who was the strong- est man! Bos—Jonah; because the whale couldn't hold him after he got him down. Awag tried 1o annoy s popular preacher by asking bim whether the fatted calf was male or female. “ Female, to be sure,” was the reply; s#for | sce the male "—looking the questloner full_fnthe face—yet alive in the fesh before me.” Visttor fo Sunday-school addressfog the scliool children—What' 15 the ostensible object of Sunduz-school fustruction? No answer: Visitor—What is te oscensiole object of Sun- day-school instruction? ~ No answer. What is 1k cusible object, of Sund 10 instruction! Small boy (iu a fecble voice)}~Yes, Bir. The following letter was recently written by aboy in st, 7 years of age, to his uncle in Savanua! : dea uncle zeorze please getme a_ newfoundland dog. iwanta pippy. Ihopeyouare well ifke { am.. 1 g0 to xchool now and huve recess, 1am bad off for thie dog. =end him s so0n a3 you can, { send my Jove fo you for christ sake am sund 2 boy dog. Rorent 8. H—. Duritg the last meetfng of the Lime-Kiln Club, Brother Ganlnerroseand said: *Gem’lea, I'holelicah a communicastun_from a pussun who sails ‘aronu’ down in Kichmond, Virginny, under de cognomen of e Kev. Jasper. In pe- sousin’ ober de nosepavers, L has sced him iu- ferred to ez trsin’ to cliab out’n his clothes by Cclaimin’ dat dé sun woses aroun’ de y'arth, in- stead of de coutrary wag. Dis pusson now writes to ine to ux if de Lime-Ktln Clud won’c jine in wid nim and gia his theory our suppori. Gem’len, some of U5 1way be Weak in de back durin’ de strawberry an’ jca-cream sezun, but I doan’ elieve dat usin’ de whitewash brush nez worked our brains down stwixt.de shoulders. ?8pose Wwe am zwine to buck agin’ all the seox- raiies, directerice, movels, spellin’-books, xn’ sich to *commodate one poor ole darkey wid a stiff knee an' & lame back? Shoo! Let dis Jet- ter be used to light de fah next winter!"—De- troit Free Press. * A litsle gir! fn the church at Ashland, Va., has been one of a band of workers to raise_money 10 complete the church building. She had earned by her own work considerable for a child, #hen o {riend heard her express u areat desire 10 own a canary bird. It was suggested to her that she could casily purchase one from her own purse. *(Oh!™ sald she, “I can't get & thing for mysel¢ while I have that church on my shoulders.’” A traveline minister observed s rough-looking man lounging in front of au Elko saloon last Sundny, and,’spproaching him, asked: * My Irlend, do you know where men' go, eveutuzily, who bang about saloons and gambling-houses on the Lord’s day?™ *Yer whistlin?, 1 do, pard.. They spar for grub Lere till the hash factories tumbie on thelr racket, an’ thea some on’em strike out for Tuscarory an’ a few drift over to Eureky. lam fly on that programme, Dard—bin over the routes myself.” ~The minis- ter ofoned oo an agoulzing smile and sadly passed on. During the public examination at Rock Hill College fast week a learned snd facetious theo- Togian from Baltimore asked s brizht-eyed boy of 14in the class of Christian doctrine how many kinds of faiths thers were, and on belng answered, * Thereis but one faith and one baptism,” rejoined, “Ohl Oh! Is that the way you arel taucht catechism in this country? Is there not aliving faith and a dead faithi" “*Yes, air,” retorted the boy, **but we know nothing about dead faith in the countrys it be- lones exclusively to the city.” “Call up the class of rhetoric,” sald the theologian, looking at bis watch. Two colored brethren were ohe time discuss- ing the greatucss of Jim Smail, the slave who ran the Suuthern steamer out under the guns of ll"orl Sumter aud deltvered her to the Fed- erals: Ae’s powful smawt, is Jim—de smawtest man in de hall wo'ld, 1 do s’pose,” “He ain’t & bieger man ’an de President, dough,” said No. 2. ‘‘ De President! Lawd, the President afn’t nowhar ’longside Jim Smalt.” “ Well, he afo’t asmarter man dan Jawge Washin’ton! "’ “Jawge Washin’ton! Wby, Jim Small :s {g’ times a greater man 'an Jawge Wasnin’~ on!” ““ Well (desperately), Jim Small ain't o greater man dan God{” ‘“ A greater man dan God! No, 1 didn’t say he wuz—but, you know, Jim Small's mizhty young yet ! CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church, S5. Peter and Paal, cor- ner of West Washington and Peorla strects. The Right Rev. W. E. McLaren, §. T. D., Dishop, the Kev. J. K. Knowles, Priest In charge. Cho- il Mornivg Prayer at 10:30a. m., and Choral Evening Prayer at 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will oficiate in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, 4t10:45 8. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. M. C. Dotten will officiate n Trinity Churab, corner of Twenty-sith street aad Michl- zanavenae, 0t 10:45 2. m. and T:45 p. m ~The Rev. Francis Mansfleld will oficfate in the Church of the Atonement, corner of \West Washington und Robey streets, 2t10:30 a. m. and 70 p. m. ~The Rev. J. Dredbarg will officiate tn St. Ansgariuy’ Charch, Sedgwick strect, near Chlcago avenue, 3t10:30 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate i Grace Church, Wabush avenue mesr Sixtsenthstreet, atil a m. and§o.m. —The Kev. Thomas K. Coleman will officiate fn St. John's Church, corner of Washiugton street and Ovden avenue, 5t 10:45 o. m. and 7:30 . m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will oficiate in St. Panl's Church, Hyde Park avenne, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, at 10:30 a. m. &nd 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. B. F. Flestwood will oficiate in St Mark's Church, Cottage Grove avente, corner of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 5. m. and 7430 p. m. —The Kev. G. F. Coshman will ofiiciate in St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, 0t 10:30 8, m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofciate in Calvary Cburch, Warren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue. at 10:30 a. . and 8 p. m. Gelebration of the Holy Cummunion at 7:45 a. m, —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr.. will olliciate In the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, De- oreen Monros andAdams,'at’ 10330 a. m and —The lev. W. J. Petrie will officiate in_the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoinznd Belden avenues, at 11 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~The Rev. H. G. Perry will ofliciate in All Sawnts' Church, corner of Carpenter and Ohio streets, at 10:452. m. and 7:45 p. m, —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate et the Church of the Axcension, corner of North LaSalle and Elm streets, ut 10 3. m. and 8 p. m. BAPTIST. Tre Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D., will preach atthe First Church, corner of South Park ave- nue and Thirty-drst street, invthe morning and evening. —'Tli¢ Rev. R. De Maotlste will preach morning and evening fn Olivet Charch, Fonrth avente. The Rev, A. Owen will preach in the Universi- ty Place Ckurch, comer of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 11 s m. and 7330 p. . W. Custis iwill prezen in the Michi- ear Twenty-third strect, at 45 p. m. Evening subject: r Boys. " —The ltev. G. W. Northrup will preach in the Sccond Church, corner of Mouroe and Morgan streets, 3t 10:10 a. m. and 7330 p. m. —The Rev. 4. A. Henry will preach morningand evening in Dearborn Church, on Thirty-sixth Btreet. <The Rer. £ B. Halbert will preach morning and evening fn the Fourth Church, Washington au Panlina streets. 8 —Tho Rev. C. Perren will preach in Western Avenue Charch morning and evening. —The Rev, H. L. Iouze will preach morning and evening at Centenmal Charch, Lincoln and Jack- son streetd. —The ftev. R. P. Allison will preach morain sog evening in North Star Church, Division an Sedgwici streets. —The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach morning and evening fn Central Church, 200 Orchiarastreet. —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and evening in Ialsted Street Chucch. —The Rev. Lewis Raymond will preach in the South Church. corner of Lacke aud Lonaparte 303, m. and 730 p. m. F, Ravlin preaches for the Free ‘of Madison street and Centre ave- nue._Evening subject: ** Love ana Marriage. " —Gospel meeting at 7:10 p. m. in the Laptist Taboraacle, Nos. 302 ana 504 Wabash avenue. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. J. A. Montgomery will preach in the Railroad Chapel this morning, and the Rev. Ar- thur Mitchell this evening. —The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach morning and eventng in the Reunlon Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop. Evening subject: ** Lessons from the Sherry and Counelly Execution.™ —The Kev. Arthar Mitchell will preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twen- ty-first street, 8¢ 10:20a. m. —The Rev. 1. 3lonro Gibson will preach in the Second Clreh, cormer of Michisun_avenue and Twentiathstrect, at 10:452 m. and 7:45 p. m. ~The Rev. A. E. Kittredge will preach 1o the Third Chureh.” corner of Ashland - and_Ogden avenues, ar10:30 8. m. and 7:43p. m. _Morning susject: **The Mirncles of the Bivle.™ 3 - Temptations of Datly Lite, and How to Comyuer Them. " —The Rev. A. Pfanstehl will preach in the 1lol- land Charch, corner of Noble and Erfe strcets, ut 10a. m. in the Holland languaze, and. at 7.30 p. m. in Fnglish. 'he Hev. fohn Abbott French will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Saperior strecty, st 19:450. m. _No cvening servis —The Rev.. C. L. Thompson will preach in the Fifth Churcl, comner of Indiana avenue and Thittieth stréet. at 10:20 a. m. Annsal foral service ut 4 p. . —The Rev. Atthur Swazey Will preach ln the Forty-frst Street Church, corner of Prairie aveane, 1t10:43a. w. —The Rev. Dr. Malsey will preach moralng and eventng at the Jeffereon Park Ghurck: —The Rev. E. N, Barrett wiil .prcach at West- minster Church. corner of Jacksoa und Peora streets. orning sabject, **Work Out Yoer Own Salvation,” D. D., of Califor- —The Rev, Robert Patterson. nia, will préach in'the morming, and ‘the I M. ‘Worrall, D. D., tu the cveninz. at tne N Cburcl, cotner of Washinztor and Robey streets. METIODIST. ~ The Rev. Dr. Thomas preiches morniag and evening at Centenary Churc Mrs. J. F. Willice preschies st Emmanuél Church, corner of Iarrion and Pauiina strects, {his morming, and Mfes Selle Leonard in tae even n: —The Rev. 7. C. Clendennlog will” preach the Langiey Avenae Church, corne: ninth_ street, 8t 10:30 a. m., sné Morning subject: **Rejoicinz.” Evering: ituess Wil Pay iz This Life. " —The Rev. W. F. Crofts will preach in Trinity Church morning and evening. —The Rev. . 5. Caldweli will preach fn the Ada Strest Church, morning ang evening. —The Rey, Dr. Willismeon wnill preach in Micli- gan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second straet, at 1040 2. m. and 7335 v m. Evemnz sabject: **The Crisch in Homan Life.” —~The Hev. £. F. Cowen_will preach Church, corner of North LaSalie and Whit Sohn At subject, ** The Kesurzection.™ —The Rev. S. il Adams will preach in the Western Avenuc Church in the morning, and ut the Jackson Street Mission in the_evening. —rz, J. F. willioz will preach in the morning and Mixs Belle . Leonard in the eveniug at Eme~ in Grace mnn':f Church. corner of Harrison and Psulina eet —The Rev. A. W. Patten will preach morninz -and evening at the Wabash Avenue Church, cor- ner of Foarteenth atreet. —The Rev. °S. McChesney will preach mornin, and evening at the Park Aveque Church. . 2 —The Rev. C. B. Ebey will preach_mormog and Sveningat the Free Cantch, No. 40 North organ siree —The Rev. E. M. Borfng will preach mornin; and evening 3t the $tate Street Chareh, £ RIFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. R. Ii. Busiworth peeachies at Engle- waad in the moming, and the Rev. G. A. Case in the gvenir —The itev. F. W. Adams preaches at Immanuct Charch, corner'of Centre and Daion streets, fazs evening. Subdject: **Samson in Prison, —The Rev. M. D. Charch preaches at §t. John's . Church, Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh trcet. £ Eveniog sudject: - The Best Government.” —The Rev. . P. Morcan preaches at Christ's Cuareh this morninz. op Cheney preaches in thievening. Sublett: ** Some Keasons Why Oaz Gity Churches Fail to Reach the Mas —Yishup Cheney preaches at St. P'anl's Church {his Dorning sny the Rev. R P. Morgan this even- Inz. imoject: **Scientifc and Scriptural Ration- —Tbe 2ev. @. §. F. Savaco will preach in I~ manuel Orc, corner of Ceutte and_ Dayton streets, 10 he morning, - The Rev. F. W. Adams will conductihe services, e R B Burke wiil conduet the _scrvices in Grace Chureh, corner of Hoyne avenue: and Lo Moyne strect. 4.19:45 5. m.. and the Rev. X. L. t_l‘r.l(:z‘r}i inthe erming, * Subject: ** Walking with paroildrercs Day. . Emanuel Churen, comor of The Rt.-Hev. Bishop Sheney wan mresiter » © CONGEAIATIONAL. Tbe Rev. . F. Willam: preaches at the Forty- seventh Street Church thishorning, -The Rey. Charies Hut Everest preaches at Plymonth Chuzch morning my avening, —The Rev. J. M. Worrall puaches 5t the Uaion Pari Chareh morniug and uva e —The ltev. George 11 Pecke Leavict Strest Church mornius ancevamms B0 UNITARIAN. > The Rev. Brooke Herford reaches vt the Church of the Messish this morning. Suvject. Vi for Independence Day, 4 A v —The Rev. T. B. Forbush will preaca in the Thicd Church, curner of Monroe and Latlin wreets. stdp. m. Vecauon during July and Augasy —The Rev. J. T. Sunderlacd will preacs in Eecley fall, corner of Archer aveane and Keow: sireet, thls evening. Subject: - The Detter Kex ligion Cominz. " “Fourth Charch, corner of Prairie avenue ana Thittieth streer. Last Sunday before vacation. Flower and memorial serrice for old aud young. —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach in Unity Church, corner of Dearourn avene and \Walton place, {n the morning. Seats not. reserved for tho First Regimeat will be held for pew-holders tilt twenty minutes before 11 o'cluck. No eveming service, INDEPENDENT. Mr. George P, Coxhead will preach in Bare Mis- sion Chnpel, No. 589 Third avenue. ot 11 4 m., and Mr. Geoeze Quinan ut 7:30 p. m. —Mr. Joln E. Motris will preach in the church coruer of May und Fulton streets, morning and evening, Slorninz subject: *God's Gracious Gifts to tho Believer. orze P. Coxnead will preach in_the Unlon Chapel, No. 97 South Desplaines street, at 7:45 D.m. —~3ir. Charles M. Morton will preach in the Chi- cago Avenue Church (Momly's). m the morninz, and toe Rev. A. Youker in the evening. UNIVELSALIST, The Rev. II. Slade. of Eigin, preaches at ths Charch of the Redeemer this morninz. Veatry seevice in the avenlng, —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach fu St. Paol's Chutch, ‘Michigan avenue near Eighteenth street, morminiz and evening. After ta-day the church will be cloaed wulil the fir<t Saobath in Septewber. CHRISTIAN. Elder M. N. Lord preaches ut the Second Charcli, corner of Van Buzen street and Campbell aventie, —The Rev. ¥. M. donner will preach in the First Charch, corner of indiana nyenue ang Twenty-8fth street, morniug and eveninc. NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. W, F. Pendleton_preaches corner of Clark and Megominee strevts this morning. —The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preact intie Union Swedenborgian Church (Hershey Masic ¥ull) ag 101458 m. Subject: ‘*The Homes We Live In.™ LUTHERAN. . The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach ot the Church of the Holy ‘Crinity, corner of Dearbarn . avenue and Exie streets. morninz and evening. i MISCEL] EOUS. The Progressive Lyceum meets at the Third Uni- tarian Charch, corner of Mourve sod Lalin streets, a1 12 o'clock. —The_itev. N.:F. Raviin preaches at Washing~ tonian Home at 3 o'clock —The Rev. Mr. "Cooley presches at Calvary Tahernacle, corner of Hoyne avenue and Flourooy street. Matheweon preaches at the Green Street Tabernacle. morning und evening. ~The South End Woman's Temperance Union - bold a_Gospel service from4 to 5 p. m. every Sabbath. These mectings are addressed by the dit crent pastors of the South Side churcnes aud the most zeaious workers in the temperance canse, A.... ... cholr of young persuns lead ths singlrie. —Disciples of Christ will meet ot No. 220 West Randoiph street at 4 p. m. —rs, Amella H. Colby will spear: to the Spir- ituntists and Free Thinkers at Grow's Hail at 10:43 3. m. and 7:45 p. m. W."C. Thurman will preach in the Enghsh - Ianzuage at the German Church, corner of Cbicazo avenue and Chase sircet, at j ** Glad Tidings of Great Joy. “Central Meeting of Friends worships cvery First Day at 10:30 4. m. in Room1 Athenwuny - Building, Deasborn siceet, petween Rasdolph and e. : —The First Socfety of Spiritualists will meet in the charch corner of Latiin aud Monroe etreets, at 10:45 8. m. and 7:45 p. m. M. Coma L. V. Richmond, trance speaker. Morning subjece: “Spirltual Gifts, as Recorded in the New T: ment,” by the spirit A. A. Ballod. Evening luetuze: ' Relizion of thé Futnre, " by the nin Theadore Farker. Jules G. Luwmbard will sing. Services close with an impromptn poem. s Mra, . A. Kznouse will preach in the Woman's Gmggl ‘Temperance Association Churcn, corner of Noble aud Ohio streets, ot £ p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. June 30~Second week after Trlnity. July 5—Fast. cataoLic. June 30~Third Sunday niter Pentccost. Come~ memoration of St. Pau. July 1—Octave of St. Johu the Baptist. July 2—Visitation of the B. V. M.;-S3. sux und Martintanas, il July 3—St. Leo, I C. July $—St. Anthony of Padua, ©. (from June 13) July 3—St. Basil, B. C. D. (from June 14) July 6—Octave of SS. Peter and Paul. s st o) THE HOLIEST THING IN—LIFE: Dalaty Mabel) fall of grace, With her bright and miling-face, Dances lightly "crusy the foor, Opens wide the onter door. What cares she for winter-rzin Beating wildly "guinst the pane? o 7 What cures she for frozen sicet Dashing now againet her fovt? Fur shc liears abose the blast Of rhie Storm-King yiveeplng past— Mears a welcome, well-2nown ste, Hears u voice cry: **Al, my pett® So she throws a flood of izt Outward far into the night. Saiely sheltered from the storm, By the dreside bright and weem, With bis aruy about her pres With her head upon his breas:, Softly sayshe: **Ah, Ma-Ecllo Low 1 love yox, zonc can tell. , What have I zo fear fn life Vhile 1 hold my darilg wife Sivw shic answers, with a 9igh: “*When the years, {2 passing by, el dine the luatre of my eses, When L make you dnll replics, Will yone fove grow dead and cold? Wl yo me when I'm oje:™ Strefinz pow her drooplns head, Lo aud gently Rodln said: Well { knos the hund of Time Wiil whiten both your hair aad mia But together we wI share oy and wvery cares Then 4 now will rixe aboye ‘Thanks for tfee, my darlinz fove, Now the curtzins downward drop, The lire buray 19w, the lizhts are out. Taey have euus (0 peacelul rest. ler head i3 pillowed ou his brease, And the angels. boveriuz near, Drop, methinks, a eilent tear G'er the bofiest thing in I A hanpy hnsdand, haypy wife. CuicaGo, Juge 2, 1878, Lavzs Uspeamrr. —_ MAURICE. They'te 1aid my baby-boy away Beneath the grassy mound, Where falls the ralu of Sumer-time, ‘And daisies bloom around. Procese God sent bim do¥en o grace our ome, My precions ittle tlower; Ané, while be blossomed by my side, Life wcemed one lasppy Lour. But now from out a stricken heart 1 cry by night, by da; **1 miss thee, baby, Why wert thou horne away 2" But s00n upon the darkness breaks A chastened, sifvecy liznt: A voice {s heard—the voice of Faith: Repinines all take 1ight. Veep not. my child, " the Savior speaksw Thy blowsom bicoms in Heavens Thou wonldst not take it fzom the tiod Ly whom to thee "twas given, ++*Tis happy here within my heart— Tere it wilt bloom for ages And Eartn =t hest iy wearisome— Lafe, but s stormy day. *4 A little while fs cll T psic, Then I will bear thee Home, And, from it babe I zave and took, You nzvez(.x‘{ru need roam.’} Froxe,