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e THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 7, 1878—BIXTEEN PAGES 9 =i —————— AT RELIGIOUS. gxciting Contest Between the Belgian Catholics and Liberals. " Tho Self-Limiting Power of Skep- ticism—-The Growth and Death of Unbelisf, proposed Federation of the An- glican Church and Crea- tion of a Patriarch. fModern Materialism Repro- duces the Old Pagan Creed of Death. General Notes==-Personalse-««Ffiv- olous Piety-=-Services To-Day. RELIGION IN BELGIUM. ZXCITING CONTEST DETWEEN THE CATHOLICS AND LIBERALS. g London. Feoen The Belgian elections bave ended in a Liberal {riumply, and in the consequent rcsignation of thie Conservative Minis Though the fizures of the result may scem small, they are more sirniicant than at first appear. Before the elections the Cobservatives had 4 mazjority in 1be Chambet of Deputies of twelve votes and in the Scnate of four. The contest of Tuesday bas given tbe Laberals a majority of nine in the Chaniber of Deputies and of six in the Senate. 1o England thiese would scarcely be regarded as working mujoritics, but the Belgian Chamber of Deputies cousists of 132 members only aod {ue Renate of sixty-six. The proportion of - the majority to the whole number of representa- tres ts five times ss great 3s it would be in this country. Tep out of 132 is a very dif- ferent thing from ten out of 73%. Further then 1liis, the elections for cach Chamber have only been beld inhalf the constituentics, and the result of the voting in the constituencies which bave lad to return Scnators shows that the change of feeling is universal, sod that, if the otber bulf of the wemb of the Cpamber of Deputics had been renewed at the same time, the Liveral gaius would bave been grester. ‘There is even sowe talk of a dissolution, whic | may eusble the Liberals to reap the whole bene- §it of the popular revalsion before it has had time t0 grow s complete. Whether this plan is resorted to or o, it is plain that for the next two yeals at @il events the balance of parties in e countryis entirely reversed, aud that Beigium will for the thne luse 1he dstinctfon of possess- fug the most popular aud the most Catbolic Government ou the Continent of Burope. The cause of the Catnolic overthrow is easily arrived a An Belgium there §s no such thing 15 politics prover. Everything tumns upen relimon. A Conservative is always a Catholic. A Liveral is always, if not a Free-Thinker, at all events a very Imperfect Churcimun. Under the Coustitution very few really important dis- Jutes e2n arise cven upon ecelesiustical ques- tiops. But religion can give digoity to trifles, and wlhien the Belrians have notuing serious to fight about, they are quite ready to call up all the passion they can_ command over the ques- tiun whether or uot a man who has dled with- out the sacraments is entitled to burial in_con- secrated ground. The defeatof the clerical fac- tion is, fu “all respects, well deserved. No political party has ever vprotited more by the amount of hberty it has enjoyed, and none has shown itself more ungrateful tw the system uoder which it has _enjoyed this liberty. By the Fourteenth Article of the Covstitu- ton, liberty of worship, including thst of its public performance, aud sierty of expressing opinious ou all subjects, are prowised to every Belzian,” and the clergy have certainly suffered these privileges to lie unused, They have availed themselves of the Iiverty of worshiping in public until the Be towns huve becouieconspicuous for the grangGe of sbefr chiurch ceremonics, and they have never hesitated to express thelr opinion of their op- Jouents with a fraukncss which goes far beyond the ordinary license of political discussion. Tiseir suce ¢s have been in o great measure due to their promptitude iu borrowing weapons from_their_opponcnts’ armorv. They bave sbown to Europe thut, wocnever the Roman Cstholic Church is left perfectiy free, she is perfecily abic to bold ker own. The Belgian Coustitution has always been 1 stumbling-block to Contiuental Liberais. As a rute, tbey are wot at all disposed w apply their principles to thefr advyerzaries as well as to themselves; a0d, wherever the law allows them to Leep the Cburel in subjection. they have usually some ingenious reason to sive why, in this purticular instance atall events, what is suuce for the yoose is not suuce for the gander. But political ¢ is pleas- duter to practice than it i; and, when an exeeedingly Liberal Coustitution is actually at work in » country, it is ditlicalt for Liberals t maintain that itoteht tobe made lessliberal, i order to prevent Catliolics from being bene- fitod by it. Common sensemizht have sugges ol to the Belgien Catholics thut, as Providence Zad put this escevdiugly conventeni Coustitu- tiou into their hacde, they could not do hetter then uphoid it. Instead of this, the main occu- mtion of every Catholic orzan’ in Belginm has Been to abuse ‘the Constitution. They caunot endure the thousht that Catholics are Torced to extend to others the toleration which othiers arc foreed to extend to them. In their eyes it is of the essence of a_satisfactory political ar- nngement that it should be one-sided. They want to et everything, and to givo npothing u return. Free iosti- utions, says one Catholic newspaper, must be cudured, just as bouses of ill-fame must be en- dured. The Belgian Constitution, says another, is2 mere centre of pollution and’ infection. Liberty for all, says another, is a. detestable maxim. The eyil which is destroyine society, says another, is the separation of the Church frm the State; and the remedy is to be looked for fu the submission of the civil tothe religious socfety. Itis not wonderful that when these doctrites are proclzitned every day by Catholic Journals, that thut section of ihe’ clectorate ¥hich does not care to see Belgium made wore derical than it i3 shoutd think ihat it is time to ply some check to the spread of these exag- [Ferated doctrines. This margin of compara- tively moderate politicians has very great power fn s country in which parties are £o sharply 2l so fairly divided a5 they are in Irium. Pronouuved Catholics and pro- downced Liberals being about — equaily Lalzdeed, the scale is turned according as those ¥ho are not strongly partisaus on either side throw their weialit on one or the ather side. 1f the Cathiolics hud been commonly prudent, they ¥ould not have given their advérsaries the ad- ‘Tantage of being able to represent thiom as hos- tle 10 the existing order of things in Belgum. foderate potiticians uaturally dislike a party ¥hich is avowedly aiming at political revolution, ud, if words mean anything, the aim of the ferical party in Belgium is simply revolution- &y, The Constitutton gives them every rizht facept the rizlit of persecuting non-Catholics: t the absence of this precious nrivilege is llke fyiu the ointment. ‘They cannot sit in under their own_fig-tree becausc they are alloved to cut down their neishbor’s fir- -3t s 50 shocking 1o them to see Atbeists iy icers enjoying the same political Telts as Catbalics, that they are willing to risk Toss of what they have themselves rather Acquiesee in the possession of the same ag- Tatages by othiers. A temper of this kind is Sely the temper to alarm moderate politi- fiog e LDeF begin to think that the Constitu- aupty s redlls threatened; and, though their Jenary instinets are conservative, and so have themi to vote with the Conservatives, they A% Row of opinfon that, as the Conservative mm longer true to their own principles, it is 76 to Eive the Liberals a trial. . ot Dpily for the Belcian Catholics the folies telr adversarics are likely to stand them in b ¢r stead than any wisdom of their own. megzvmunl‘ at the iibemls are fu power & “‘;:fier-mae: will begin, the tendeucy of TrormL ¥l be to alievate the moderate electors e e new majority, just as they were origi- Ik\g'\; Wenuted from tne old majority. The 15 g ibezale hate liberty of conscience quite Theyocatly 25 the Beician Catbolics hate it. “¥ would like to alter the Constitution 50 a5 leke the position of the Clerical party woalg Opiable. just as the Clerical party e Jke to” alier it so 25 to makc ble P4 on, of the Liberal party uncomforta- 2l Jeb,0f course, they cannot afford to delege - Their victory is a victory won in of the existing Constitutfon, and they UL 10 dron @ hine, that they do’ nob think Lbat Canstitution perfect. But, as they feel ihemselves firmer in thelr geat, and us the recol- Iection'of the arguments which they have had to use during the canvass grows fainter, they will hecome to the full as violent in_ their antagou- ism to a Cunstitution which leaves Catholics free as the Catholics have been in their ntag- onism to a Constitution which leaves non-Catho- lics free. Every time that the liberty of wor- ship, sruaranteed by the Constitation, is carried out ‘in practice, they will endeavor to put.it down; and when they find the Constitution too strong {6 them, they will maintzin that such an arrungement did very well ai s time when the true character of the Catholic Church had not unfolded Jtself, but it is quite unworkable o that its esseutial bostility to modern civili- tion has become manifest.; As soon as this doctrine comes to be preached, the defeat of the Liberal party will be mssured for exactly the same reasons a8 those which have now made it victorious. SKEPTICISM. TTS SELI-LIMITING POWER. e Rev. C. M. Bichards {n the Adrance. President Woolsey might well follow up his suggestive and awakening discourse ou * The Selt-Tropagating Power of Sin,” yith another on the correlate truth of its Selt-Limiting Power. Moral evil is o fungus, whose at- normal growths multiply with startling rapidity from a single spore, like gangreue in a wound. Bur awful as is its “fecurdity aud prolife energy, sin carries fts checks within fisclf. Being in its nature a transgression of the divine ordef of the universe, tiod’s cosmic arrangements are such that this disorder teuds to destroy itsclf. It works inevitauly toward a gradual corrosion or sudden exol toward slow dizsintemration. or startling catas- troplie, which tends to climinate it. No extra divine energv needs to be put forth to punish sin. God simply supports and keeps in opera- “tion the system [1e has made, and sin cvokes its own penalties within the system, afiords in its owu career a terrible warning to men, ang car- ries its own limitations within itself. The sume thiug is true of those intellectual disorders which are oltcu a source of sin. It is amistake to consiaer infidelity us always a will- ful iniquity: it may be walnly or wholly a2 men- tal inyrmity. It may be falscness of view, arisiniz from unfortuuate temperament, or from ignorance, or from ill-digested reaction from exaggerated statements of trath., But however houestly held, unbeiief in the fundamental or oruani facts of spiritual life 15 a disorder thut impalrs the integrity of the life, aud is self-limited. The great systems of falsebelief have shown themselves to be at variance with the {deas thet ure juwroucht into the eternal plan of the universe. As they have developed they Lave made clear their unnatu ness, and have evolved o self-Gestructive energy that, hus finished them. In the long run they piay themselves oul. They may re- appear again In varlous forms, bul as s0on as they hava timne to azain develop their innate antagonism to the deepest needs, instincts, and aspirazions of the race, they areagain destroyed. ‘The history of human thought sbundantly proves the curious fact thut a had systemn of beliof commits unconscious suicide. 1t dtes of a paralysis produced by the vice of Its own false ideas. It is Intercstinz 1o see how systems have changed 2nd disappeared under the operation of this law. Evicurus did not forsee tl quences of his theories, which be v merely a speculative explanation of che uni. versal gvstem. 1le thouzhbt he ““discerned in matter the promise and poteney of every form of life,”” and atoms aua their combinations ac- counted for everytning. Friction was the only troutle, and a comfortable order was the grent disideratum. Virtue was only another namne for prudence, and the chicf aim_in life wus en- joyment. Those who first held and pro- clatmed these ideas were men of lofty thought and noble lives. But with their succe: s the logical consequence of thus iemoring the spiritual vlement, of velopwment, tirst of elewant sensuality, and then of gross corruption. 1t degraded manhood and enfeebled pations. The world soou had enough of it, and it dled out. The Pantheistic fatalism of the stoic, thouzh in many respeets a wobler system, fared no better. There was no such thin, according t this theory, as an intelligent. personal God; but the whole universe, with its incessant activities, was God, and the unchavging pecessitics of its blind laws held man iu 3 pitiless grasp. The only thing to do wus to submit. Stecl your heart to bear whatever comes, and, when ground under the cruel wheels of the soulless maching, show what diguity, and fortizude, and heroic virtue you can ommand. But this emptied life of 1ts noblost motives, robbed it of mauy of its love- lest traits, made man the mere sport of fate, and shrouded the future in impenetrable dark- ness. Instead of broadening aud completing life, men found that it uarrowed and distorted it, and it died out. These systems churmed many of the noblest minds of the world at first; but they bad only to develop their real chara; ter and legitimate resuits, when v lost their hold upon the convictions and regard of the race, aud we study them nowuss we do the fossil footprints of extinct animals. The unbelief of vur dar is pussing throngh similar trausitions, snd developing features that seem to be eleorly self-destructive. In France and England a century or_two ago, a strong Deistic movement sprang up in oppGsition tothe gurrent relizions ideas. Voltuire was loug the thost brilliaut and popular Coryplirns of ity and as lie died a hundred years aro this summer, bis ‘“liberal ” admirers obscrved his centenary in Paris, asthough he were a sortof saviol from the delusions of Christianity. But they do not realize the immenge changes that have taken place in this movement. As the Jall Mali Gazefte has recently pointed out, these Changes are so great that it Voltaire were tore- appear among; this company of his worshipers it is doubtful whether they would tolcrate him asan “advanced thinker.” The fact is, what Voltaire hated and attacked with such wit and ingenuity was not Christiani but the abuses of Koman Catholicism. Ilis “shafts, futended forthe Chureh, have wounded also that fair form of divine truth which the Church so grossly presented; still he believed in God, an would have welcotaed a large-minded and toler- ant Protestantism as a help to the people. fle cven built a little church at Ferney, and had it dedicated with special services to God. He re- buked the philosophy that nttempted to Danish God from this world, and among his Jast words were these: “I die worshiping Gud, loving my friends, not hating iy enemies, but detesting superstition.” F A vast mischief did this wrong-licaded genius worl; but he was orthodox and_old-fashioned compared with his successors of to-day. The movement has developed till it has eltminated all religious features whatsoever, aud got man down to the level of the beests. It bas ot rid of the Creator Voltaire died worshining, and refers everything to “ vortices of atoms and “streans of tendency ”’ that nobody vriginated, but whose incessant wairling and chiurning have aceldentally resulted fn the majestic order of the universe. It has got rid of the soul he was so proud of; that is ouly & kind of heat Yightning in the bumid juices of the brain. Having voted the throne of God vacant, it nominates Humanity as’His successor to the homage of the \Torld)- Not u Heavently Father, but our *Father Man” is to be reverenced, sa; Prof. Clifford, and he udds that “yhoever can read the signs of the times can see that the Kiugdom of Man t hand.” ‘The ethical distempersand social anarchy that inevitably follow this dropping out the greut constructive ideaof the universc are apparent cnough. Ingersoll, who airs nis blasphemy with a gay bravado, and classes God amonys the ghosts that have haunted the world too long, is umderstood to be 2 prominent petitioner to Congress to open the mails as freely for the circulation of ebscene literature as for Bibles, ‘At « zathering of Communists in New York tne other day, a Frenchman who boasted of having been a leader of the mob that assassinated tite noble Archbishop of Paris, offered the following toast: **Annibilation to the priests and other rascals, and destrue- tion to ail churches.” = These things show how vast is the change within a huvdred vears, and mark the steps of the retrogsade movement from Deism to Materialism, from Materiahst to a cosrse and sensual Commun- jsm. from Communism to destruction. 'Human nature I8 sure to revolt from any scheme that robs man of nearly 21 that makes lite glorious. The modern pbilosophy of pescienee, if lozically carried out, would an- nibiilate at a stroke half our science and nearly all our civilization. Its first principle, that we can be sure only of what we can verify by sep- <ation and_expericnce, strietly applied, would allow me to believe only in the verdict of my own senscs. Shut up to oue's own little ex- perence, thus, the record of the wide world’s study {5 totully unreliable, history is a tis- sue of fables, urt a delusive phuntom, and morality a myth. It is only when faith, trust, and the primary truths of intuition are brought in that these become of value.- On the postu- late that the soul is nothing that ¢aunot be ex- pressed in molecular changes in the brain, and that these follow fixed and invarfable laws, we are po Jonger masters of thought or will. Life, Dereft of frecdom, bas neither guilt nor worth, beauty nor ughaess. Judas and Jesus are on the same level, and are neltherto be praised nor blamed! Never fear that such a system, with jts necessary consequences, will be entertained jnthewonld. It is at war with theclearest life. ‘.CBt:tolirbU: every so-called svstem of untruth js transient, and certain to pass awav. it mav | ife was a de- wreek many lives while in theascendency. The freshet of an hour may drown 3 man as cifectu- ally a5 an ocean that submerges a continent for cedturles. Ve must work diligently to save men from the benumbing, dwasfing, deadeninz vower, of false idess. But lct us uever be alarméd lest any form of unbelief is in danwer of capturing the world, for the life that is in it is death, and the very element of lts develop- ment is self-destructive. PAN-ANGLICISM. TUE LAMBETH CONPERENCE. New York Thnes. There are several important guestions before the Council of the Bishops of the Anglican Comrinunion, which hegan its sessfon on Tues- day with an address of welcome from the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. ‘The obfeet of the Con- ference of 1867 was to bring intocloser relations all tho seattered dependencies of the English “Church, and, i some seuse, to do for the An- #elican what the recent Vatican Conneil did for the Roman Commnuvion. This was partially accomplished, though the steps taken were simply tentative, and mauy of tue Bishops re- turued home with the fecling thus they had only attended an ecclesiastical pleasure party, and been put to lurre expense for rather slender results. But the trach was that the Council of 1867 had some very delicate questions before it, ampng which was the sunrl at Seuth Africa aver Bishop Colenso, and could only take tentative steps in any direction. The presens Archbishop, Dr. Tait, has recently sald of his predeccssor, who was thought to be somewhat timid in the Conference of 184 “ Archbishop Longiey’s wisdom in managing the' whole meeting was admirable throughout. He huad his own strong couvictions, of course; but he never suffered them to Jead bin luto partisauship, and all that he did was concilintory and mild, yet. firm.” Dr. Tait is not less wiso than Archbisbop Longloy, and is well known for thie lipieness and breadth of his ecelesfustical sympathies. The vofats which were new in the Councll of 1867 have now been received a5 by colmon consent, and will be the basis of action in the vreseut Conterence, which is expected to continue its sittings during the month of July. The first thing is to sce what steps can be taken for a closer federation of the different branches of the Anglican body with the mother Chinrch in Eugland, and this will be one of the subjects debated during the present week. The creation of voluntary hoards of ar- bitration for churches, the relations of mission- ary Bishops and misslonaries 1o cach other when Qitferent branctes of the Anglican Church operate in_the same country, the status of Anglican Chaplains in Europe and elsewhere, the best method of dealing with modern fortns of infidelity, aud gn interchange of statements and opfnions concerning the condition, progress, and needs of the various branches of the Auglican Communion, arc the prescribed sub- jects to come: before the Council. They are specially practical jn their character, aud indi- cate that the presebt gathering Is not lor the purpose of passiny complinents or for mere talk. At the same time, the Conferencehas not as- sembled withiont having the jealous eyes ot the Anglican public ditected to its possible proceed- ings. The Guardian and the Church Tinics have anticipated the meeting with a united protest against what might be very desirable on mauny accounts, but which ut the present, time seems not only itipracticable but. imnossible—the ele- vation of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the position of Patrizrch of the Anglican Commun- ion. InEngland tins is felt to be impracticable untit the Church is_separated from the State, Bbrcause the Chureh hias no ecel ical courts which are not atso the Queea's couits, snd the Archbishop would have no independent jurls- diction for the settlement of questions coming to him from the colonial churehes. The Amer- ican Church has been too long independent, aud has been too closely identified with free fu- stitutions, to cousent toan arrangement which would bind it Lo a strict canon law as interpret- ed by the Anglican Church, and would fecl that” unless the Patriarel’s discipline were of the mildest sort—rather in the rezion of sen- timent than in that of fact—it was not to be in- vited or endured, Then, the different colonjul churches, though b some respects more de- pendent upou their English mother than the American branch, have grown to a sensc of frecdom, and have so well succecded in self- rule, that they are vot inclined to be tao hun- ble fu comiug as religious pilzrims to Canter- bury. The prospect isthat any distinct move- ment for the erection of the Anglican Com- munion into & Patriarchate, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at fts head, will be met with re- sistance and will seriously interfere with the practieal objects of thie great guthering, This must be doue by witling consent or not at all, aud the thne as vet does ot seem Tipe for it A wholesome public opinion will check the Bishops iu this dircetion, aud prevent any undue advances to centralization. “Che genius of the Angllean body is not cluse orruaization, but thy large tolerance and compreheusiveness which enable it to meet very fuily ihe many-sided mits of our modern life. If the Council exer~ cises itself, as it probably will, iu tue ooints intimately coneern this worlk, 1t will ac- cowplish great and lasting results. MATERIALISM. TAE PAGAS CREED OF DEATIL There is nothing new under the sun. The ohilosophy of the present-day rationalists and skeplics wos entirely Anticipated by the old Koman, Lucretius; and Froude, in reproduciuze it. declares that it was also the creed of Cicero, Julius Cessar, aud Tucitus. We copy it as a his- torical curiosity, to show tuat, with all their in- wenuity, modern materialists have not succeed- ed in giviug us anything better or radically aif- ferent: Deatn is nothing, for where death is we are not. Before we were begotten, Empires were couvalsesd; provinees were wasted with fire and sword: nutions. weré sunk in wrerchedness, We kuew notbing of these chlamities. They touched us not. We could suffer nothing, for we were not. As it was before we begnn to live, so it will be again when we bave ceased to live. Storms inay roll over the earth, Jand may ‘be mixed with sea and sea with sky. We shall know nothing of it. The substance of our bodics wili be tn other forms, with other souls attached to them. New beings will bave come into existence, to live nud puss away as we did. But those beings will not be us. The continuity ounce broken is bLroken forever. We shudder whea we look upon 2 corpse. We imagine that when our bodies are corrupting we shall be in some way present and conselous of our own decay. T i3 not so. Our bodies will decay, but we shall not be present. We shall not be any more. Weshall not suffer any more. “ Ah!” some one says, “inust I leave my wife and children and wy pleasant home? Must all be taken from me!” They will not be taken from you, for you will have no being, You will ot miss tliem. You will know 1o regrets or vain loug- inus for what is gove. Your friends will lamcat You will uot lament for them. You will be in pe: “ Why, then, unhappy mor- tal,” says Lucretius to the vain complainers, ywhy do you gricve! Why ery out on death? Ias your life been bLappy. the bamquet is over; you have takeu your fill; depart and be thankmul. Have you been unfortu- uate, “has life brousht™ you _sorrow and pain, why wish for more of it? Life and sor- row end towether. Would you live forever? The terms of human existence do not alter. Had you a thousand lives they could bring you nothisg new. You would but tread apain the same circle. As it has been with you, eo it would be, thouzh you could repeat the process to cternity. This is nature’s sentence, and who shall grainsay her? Dry yourtears. Peace with your idle whines. Use your time wisely while it §s ours. A little space and it will be gone. The ages before you were born are & mirror in which you can réad the ages to come. ‘The past has 0o terrors in it The future has none, un- less you ereate them for yoursell. Real, in- deed, they are to you as loug as you anticipate them. Tityus and Sisyphos, Cerberus, and the faries! the thought of these will cause you agonies as Jong us you believe in them. Know these speetres for what they are,—the offspring of your own fears,—and be at rest. Who an what are_you that you dream of immortality leé ahd wobler men than, you will ever bo have lived, and are gome. Accept your fate. There is no retcdy.” GENERAL NOTES. ‘The * Disciples,” generally called Campbell- ites, biave just opened their first chapel in Paris. . The Free Methodists have been holding guite a suceessful camp-meeting at Wayne Station, DuPage County. > A Swiss church at Zunturn recently adrer- tised n suspension of the Sunday morning serv- ice in order not to conflict with a ““ national rifle contest.” The Bible has been printed in thirty different languages for the benefitof the aborigines of this country, and of Greenland, British America, and Mexico. The Bistop of London has jssued a letter recommending thanksgiving services for the re- cently reported conversion of 18,030 nativesin Tinneralley, India. The Friends of New England bave adopted some pew measures in admitting women to equal vote in the election of officers of the year- 1y meeting, deciding that all conveyances of 5 real estate must be sigued both males and fenales concerned, ard 2lso votine that wonen are clizible to the offices of the Soclety of Friends. The Oceident deprecates tho disseuslons among the Jews, and denounces those who stir, up strife by hurling slighting remarks at the Boravian and Polish Israclites. Dr. Mitler, of this ciy, for a long time o min- ister fn_the Metbodist Churel, is about to pub- 1ish a work oun Spiritualism. It will contain sev- oral of Dr. Thomas’ serinons. ‘The Fronch-Canadians of Quebec have peti- tioned the Catholic Bishops of the Province, asking thefr assistance in securing from Rowme the canonization of Mer. De Leval, the flrst Catholic Bishop of Canada, The colored Baptists of the South are trying to help themselves to a better education. They are mokiug efforts to establish n seiool to educate their preacners'in Louisville, Ky., and a theological seminary in Alabama, ‘The averaze salarv of the ministers of the IrishPresbyterian Church Inst year was $925, Besides this, muny had manse and gl lebe fur- nished them. The entire income of the Chiurch was 560,000 in advance of that of any previous year. The Wesley clock, which was given by John Wesley himself, and has the distinction of belnz the first clock of the Methodist persuasion in this country, still ticks In_the old John-Strect Church in New York. 1t is in the waim ou- dience room. ‘T'be First Congregational Church of Engle- woorl was formally admitted to the Congrega- tionul Council last ‘Tuesday. The cereino: took place at the Baptist Church. In the even- ing of the same dav the deacons were ordained by the Rev. E. P. Goodwin. The Canada Presbytorian Church reports the receipt of 34@OGT in the past year for home missions. ‘The expenditures “were 851,85 There are 120 misslons, 355 preaching stations, 102 churehes, und 4,700 communicants. Aid is als0 wiven to about 120 songregations. The steformed Episcopalians have cliurehes in five towns of Englund,—Teddinzton, Svuthend, Littfehampion, Swindon, sud Cardifl.- Bishop Gregm s settied at Soutnend. The attempt to found this_detomination in England still con- tinues to attract public attention there. Ofiicial Information from the Secrotary of State for New York states that there is no law making bouses of religious worship, in which entertainments with an admission fee are held, Mable to taxativn. The bill t that effect passed by the Legisluture was uot signed by the Goy- ernor. p ‘There fs another fimvey:\rfl scandal in En- gland. The Rev. Bailey Wallnee, Viear of Moresly, refused to bury w clild in the parish churchyard, whereupon the (ricnds of the de- ceased prepured the gruve with their owa hands, 4 Nonconformist minister reau the service outside the churchyard wall. Mr. Wallace's conduct Is to be reported to the Bishop of Carlisle. The Unton Methodist Church, of Philadel- phia, has celebrated {ts seventy-seventh aunni- versary. It has had forty pastors, amous whom were two who heeame Bishops, and mauy who were promiuent iu the Church. The church has been the mother of six others, and nov- hus the oldest Methodist_member fn the country in the person of Miss Sarah Morton, who jolned ou probation in 1503, Complaluts ure still made, even amony the Baptists, thut Northern teachers fn the South are fenored and osiracised. The tcachers In Leland University, for instauce, a school of the Amerlean Buptist Home Mission Society, are not admitted to Baptist saclety iu New Orleaus, ami this notwitnstanding the fact that the last Southern Baptist Convention udopted a report apuroving the educational work umong the freedmen. . The Jewish Times say We can be true to our faith and proud of onr race without making onrselves unnecessarily con- spicuous. In this connection, 100, we ma en passant, 1o the foolish affeciation of nsin Hebrew date in writing letters in a conntry where the Ghristian calondar i3 universally adopted, the insistance npon wearinz one's hat in a court of justice, the 1li-brea habit of using Hebrew or Ju- Qisch-Deutsch phrases in company, aud many other absurd practices {n vogue smong Jews. Father Curei, in a letter recently published in Eugland, writes a5 follows of the clerfeat influ- coce dominant at the Yatican: The Sacred Collese of Cardinals, the Italtan Episcopacy, the vrelature, are altogether the creu- tion of that’ Pontif? (Pius IX.); almost o1l men of the meanest numuil{ and wedded to his wdeas. With these elements Leo XIII., with u_charac firm enough, but averse to tue policy of Sixtus V., will warcely be uble fo do anything; sud the Charch will remain in the present state of dissen- slon—to_the ever-increasing inconvenience of the Roman Church and of Ttaly. The Moraviau Provincial Synod _of the Ger- wun Provinee has "teer held in Betkelsdorf. Henry Levin Relehel was vlected President, and in bis address referred to the agitation in the Church over certain proposed reforms. A cor- respondent savs the German Church has vot only lost several able wmeu by deaty, but the S)%upd was greatly Gisturbed by the condition of aifai clinn: within tbe Church. The provosals for es came frow the older conzregations, were considered the most stable, and whick had been aceustomed to take a leading part in the Church. The third anpual meeting of the Lake Blufl Sunday-3chool - Assémbly and Bible Conferenc will commence July 17, and continue til the 25th. - Partics intending to bourd and lod; themselves should bring bedding and cooking utensils. Everything eise can be procured on the grounds. Orders for tents or cottages should be sent some days in advauce, indicat- ing, as nearly 15 possible, what amount of room you_desire, and for how long u time. For furiher particulars aadress C. G. Trusdell, Lake Biuft (Rockluud P. 0., Lake Couuty, IiL), or 51 and 53 LaSalle street, Chicago. Dr. Bell relates that o blind girl residing in France had for many years perused an embossed Bible with her fingers, but, becoming pastially paralyzed, the sense of touch in her fiogrers was Jost. - Her agony ot mind at the devrivation wus great, and in'a moment of despair she took up her Biblo, vent down her head und kissed the open leaf, by way, as she supposed, of u last farewell. ' In the act of doing s0, to_her great surprise and sudden joy, she felt the letiers dis- inetly with her lips, ““and from that day,” he 2ads, *this poor child has thus been reading the book which is her one great comfort.’? A Parls correspondent of a London paper says: ‘M. Loyson, beiter koown as Father Iyacinthe, has been seeking readmission to the Rotish Church. Some few months uzo he mude what is called a ‘rotreat’ at the Graude Char- treuse. “The Superior of that establishment in- formed hitn that il he would sigm a retraction of bis past disloyalty to the See at Rome he might continue his marrfed life by special dispensution from Lea XIII The ex-Carmelite monk con- sented, and the matter was referred to the Vat- jcan. A conditlon having been made that M. Loyson should abstain from all sermons or dis- courses, the negotiations have fallen through, and the cetedrated preaciier. of Notre Unme still remalus in the bluck books of that Churcl to which he professes to beloug.” The Old_ Catholics of Germany have fairly switched off from Rome by voting at. their tifth synod. lately held at Bonn. to abolish the com- pulsory celibucy of the cler The vote stood ¥ to22 Prof. Michuslin disapproved of the extent of the change, viz.: allowing sub-deacons and she clergy above them to marry, and sald he wonld leave the synnd_if the measure was car- ried out. Prof. Reusch also left the synod after the vote was taken. A letter was read from the Archbishop of Utrecht, who wrotc in his own nume and in those of the two Old Catholic Bishops of Holland, warning the synod agalust the proposed change, and threateniue that if it was made the Dutch O1d Catholic Church would publcly censure such an act, and, perhaps, feel itself compelled to break off church communion with the German Old Catholics. In spite of this opposition the advauce was nade, snd there will e little besitation on the part of the clersy in avafiing themselves of thelr new privilege. PERSONALS, The Rev. D. Dowling, author of a + History of Romanism,” is seriously ill. Mr. Moody has bezun a series of revival serv- ices fn a church at Northfield, Mass., his home. The Rey. L. B. Telford, formerly of Eau Claire, Wis., has rone to Clifton Springs, N. ¥., for rest and health. Fatber Peter Becks, General of the Jesuit: celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his election on the 2d nst. Mr. Mongiardino, 2n sgent of the British and Forelgn Bible Society in Buenos Ayres, has been stonea to death for selliug Bibles. Advices from Rio Janeiro announce thesevere fllness of the Rewe A. L. Blackford, woo is there eogaged in missionary work. The Rey. Dr. W. 8. Plumes, of South Caro- lina, has declined bis call to the Central Presby- terian Church of Allegueny City, Pa. The Rev. J. H. Campbell, formerly a Univer- salist preacker, has been licensed by the West- ern Congregzational Ass?dunion of New York. Dr. Payne, now President of Ohio Wesleyan University, formerly pegged shoes for his liv- ing in Providence, K. % - Heis one of the most vopular ministers in the Methodist Church, snd has begu pastor of several of the most tashion- able churches. The death of the Rev. Phineas R. Iuat, the veterau aissionary printer of Madras, is an< nounced. The sad event ocenrred at Pekin, Cniua. At its recent commencement. the Iilinols Wesleran University conferred the D. D. upon the Rév. John Atkinson, of Grace M. E. Church of this city ~The Rev. Willlam H. Clageett is supplying the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church at St. Joseph, Mo., during the nbseuce of the pastor, Dr. Catepbell. 1t is ramored that the Rev. Dr. Cyrus D. Fuoss will resizn the Presidency of the Wesleyan University, aud take charee of St. Luke's Meth- copal Church, New York. Dr. Alexander Winchell, of Syracuse, hias been missed from the Ncientific Lectureship of nderbilt University, because his vicws on the antiquity of man and on other subjects are con- sidered by the Southern Methodists to conflict with the Word of God. Prof. Winchell chara terizes his dismissal us * eccleslastical proscrip- tion for an ogmmn which must be settled by selentitic evidence.” A monument to the lute Father Bochm. who renched the ago of over 100 vears, has been un- veiled at Rossville, Staten ‘lstand. Beside the dates of his birth and death, the monument Uears the following inseription: © A centenna- rian, who was_for seveuty-six years an honored and beloved Methodist ministef, as_eminent for social, Chiristian, and ministerial Virtues as for longevity. The assoclate of Bishop Asbury and his compeers In Labor on _ecarth, 'he now rests with them in Tlewven, This meworial is a trib- ute of flial affcetion.” Thc Rev. E. A. Reed, of Springficld, Mass who has been called to the Madisou Avenue Re- formed Chureh, of New Yurk, with_the offer of a salary of $5,000 the first year and 56,000 the second, is very dear to his Conzrezation. Whien hc:lxlntl||n¥d bis resignation there was weeping and subbiigr In the church, and u vrotest against aceenting it regpived unanimous consent, © 1t fs thouht that. Mr. Reed will he tempted t by an increase of sulury to 35,000, and th of two vucations of six months each for this year and next. Heje vustor ot the First Cou- gregutional Church. FRIVOLOUS PIETY. The Turks have sent a Christian to Congress: Awerfes is watching the result of the experi ment with cousiderable interest.—New Haven Legister. A little girl,after conning over James, i., 8, for a long while, at Jast triumphantly recited it as follows: “ A double-and-twisted wan is under the stable all his days.” Brother Kimball has been instromental in Hiting debts from thirty-seven churches. This places the societies on gund fuoting for borraw- ing more.—New Orleans Picane. Two lttle girls were comparing progress in catechism etudy. **1 have got to original sln,™ said one. “IHow far have you got¢™ “ Op, I'm beyond redern:ption,” sutd the other. “‘Speaking of the different kinds of taxes,” queried the teacher, *“what kind 15 it where whi s taxed. I knuw,” suid one oy, ng up his hend. S Weoll, what s {637 4%, shouted the youn: grammarian. He was a school-boy of 11, and had a mind full of interrogation paints. When he asked his teacher, “Who was Ocles, aud what was he cursed for?” his instructor nearly split his head thinking, before it oceurred to i that his pu- pil referred to Damole: Did the proohet lsaiah ever eat at a raiivoad station? It certatnly looks z0, for how could he ave described it literally if he bad nott And he shall snutch on the Tight hand and be hungry; and he shall et on the left haud, and they shall not be satisfied. "—Congregationulist. I see that your peoptc douot keep Sunday,"” remarked au Americzn gentlemun to u lady res- ideat in Paris recently. * Ab, bo. monsicur,” replied the Parisian, with & charming accent to her English, “we daes not keop "min—we let's "ura go Joose.” The Americau believed her. Ao orator et 1 Sunday-school concert some time sluce i5 said to have acseribed the origiu of that amuscment somewhat s follows: *n Greeco, durivg the timnes of Julius Caesar, sbout 800 years before Christ, certafn days were set. apaft for marrying, giving in warrisee, and wrestling, and frow these we get the ides of our modern Sunday-schuol concerts.” A Baltimore Alderman, who had sab speech- less at the meetings of the Board for years, was recently aroused by frequent droves of cattle assing his bouse on Senday to this eloqueat ut first and only oratorleal effort: “Phwat, [ wank to kaow, yer honor, is, are the payole of the Fourteentli Ward to be trod upon by oxen of a Sunday morning? Imove, be jabbers, 1 ’guess not. £ A Qispute svout precedence once arose be- tween a Bishop and 2 Ju ion the latter tho s opvonent by qudting the following c: “Tor on these hang ull the law aud " “Do you not see,” said the awyer, ip triumph, *that even in this passage ot feribtare we are mentioned first 2 4 grang you,” snid the Bishop; ** you huus first.” An exemplaty clergyman, who i3 somewhat weak in the pulpit, relates with much oo na- tute how an “ clevated ¥ drover, whom he met ina voucl, did in all kinducss tr5 to gloss over this inferfority. & Ab, Doctor B.,” said the drover, his heart warmed by good bargains at a 4 Jina ken'me, but I ken you arish. There’s no s better likit man onyWwhere; yer own folk jist adore ye. Who cares about preschin’2? B A new urrival in Eureka, Nev., was much sur- prised this morning 0 hear Indian Hal swearing ike a pirate in excellent English. Hal is as wild-lookine, ragged, and dirty s the most ad- vanced Shoshone, but he knows our language pertectly. The stranger got into conversation with Lis red brother, and hewan asking ques- tions about the religlous belief of the aboriaues, Hal informed_bim that theylad no mode of worsbip that he kuew of. No, there were uo Chiristlans among them. * But,” inquired the ious stranger, *dow’t any of the savuges be- ieve ju u hereatter " «Oh, ves,” answered Hal; “we all believe in a_hereafter, but we're not Christiaus. ~ We dou’s kill one another, nor hammer hell out of our young ones for the love of God” The inguisitive zentleman looked snocked and surprised, but didn’t ask any more questipns. CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church, SS. Peter and Paal, cor- ner of West Washington and Peoria streets. The ight Rev. W. E. McLaren, 5. . D., Bishop, the Rev. J. 1. Knowles, Priest in charge. Chy rl 3lorning Prayer at 10:30 8. m., and Clorz] Evening Prayer ot 7:43 p. w. —The Rev. Samucl S, Harris will ofiicfate in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, at10:45 2. m. and P m. —The Rev. 3L C. Dotten will officiate in Trinity Church, corner of ‘Iwenty-sixth strect und Michi- ganavenue, 8t 10:45 a. m. —The Rev. Francie Manstield will ofiiciate in the Church of the Atoncment. corner of West shinzion and Robey streets, 8110:40 u. m. and 0 p. 1. —'The Rev. J. Dredbmrz will officiate In St Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Re. -Kev. W. E. McLaren. Bishop of Iili- nois, will ofiictate 10 Grace Charch, Wabash uve- nue, near Sixteenth street, at 11 a. m. —The Rev. Thomas K. Coleman will officiate in St. John's Church, comer of Weshingion strect and Ouden avenue, at 10245 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev, Charles Stanley Lester will officiate in St. Paul’s Church, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-cighth and Forty-ninth streets, at i m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. B. F. Floetwood will officiate In St. Marie's Clureh, Cottage Grove avenune, corner of Thirty-sisth street. a£10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. —The Res. G. F. Cushman will officiate in St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth, 210:40 a. m. aud 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will ofniciate in Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oakley street and Western_avenue, ot 10:30 a. m. and § p. m. —The Rov. T. ¥. Morrison, Jr.. will oficiate in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strcel. be- tween Mouroe and Adaws.'at 10:30 o. m. and “tho Tev. W. 7. Petrle will oficlate In_the Charch of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, at 11a. m. aod 7:30 p. o —'The Rev. I G. Perry will oficiate in All Saints' Chuzch, corner of Carpenter and Oklo stecete, al 10:432. m. and 7:45 p. . —The Kev. Arthur Ritchio will oficiate at the Church of the Ascension, corner of North LoSalle and Elm streets, at10 4. m. and #p, m. i —The congrezztion of All-Saints' Church will worship nt the” Cathedral, corner of Washington and Peoriz streets, BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Raviin will preach for the Free Church. Madison street and Centre avenue. in the evening. .Subject: ** The Murderers in Our City, oana What Shoald Be Done with Them. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach morning and evening in Ohivet Church, Fourth avenne. —Tpe Hsy. W. N. Hawgh, D. D., will preach ot the First Church, corner of South Parkave- nue and Thirty-frst street, In the morntng and evenin: : ~The Rev. ‘f Owen will preach In the Uaiversi- ty Place Charch, corner of Donglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:45 3. m. and 7:40 p. m. —Tho Rev. J. W. Custis. ‘nreach inthe diichi; a0 Avenue Charch, near Tiwenty-third strect, at 10:30 2. m.2nd 7:45 p. m. Evening subjeet: “* Riches. —The Rev. T. U. Goodspeed will nreach iu the Second Church. corner of Monre and Morgan streets, 4t 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. A, Heary wiil breach morning and e:fllllnz in Dearborn Church, on Thirty-sixth street. —The Re¥. G. W, Northup will preach morning aud cvening in the Foarta Church, Washington and Paulina streets, —The Rev, C. Perren will preach in Western Avenne Church morning and evening. —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach moraing and evening at Centenal Church, Lincoln and Juck- son streets. 1 —The Rev. R, P. Allison will preach morning and evening in North Star Church, Division sad Sedewick streets. ‘The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach morning ond evening in Ceatral Church, 290 Orcharastree! —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach murni: and evening i Ifalsted Screet Church. “The itev, Lewis Raymond will preach in the Soath Church. corner of Locke and Honsparie streets, at 10:30 #. w. and 1l Lverest preaches in 0a. m. and 7:45 p. m. overnment.™ This is the 1 vacation. —The Rev. 1. Pecke will nreach at the Learite Strect Caitrch morning and evening. —ne Rev. G. W. Mackie will pranch this morn- ing in the South Park Church, coruer of Thirty- thfrd stree —The Rev. K. P. Goodwin will preach morning and ovening inthe First Church. Esenfmg sub- ject: ' Tlle Restoration of the Jews und tde Re- turn of the Lord Jeaus Christ.™ —The Rev. C. A. Towle will pronch at Sethany Chnrch, corner ‘of Paulina und Huron streets. Morning subject: **What 2 Savior,” followed by the Lord's Supper. There wiil be a svng and praise service in the eve; —Phe Rev. zlezander Sterrett, of Terre Iaufe, Ind., will'preach this morning afid eveniag in tho Union P'ark Chureh. METHODIST. Tho Rev. Dr. Thomas will peeach fn Contenary Church, Monroe street, near Morgan, ub 10:50 2 M. Dorinz will preach in the near Furty-seventh street, in Subject: oul Growth.™ Ratl the morning. s in Mra, J. V. ‘Willlue wili preach in Emwannel Chnrch, corner of West Harrison nud Puulina streets, fn_the momiug. Su *Faith for Others. Tue Rev. C. Marstou will preach in the evening. + —The Rev. J. Atkinson will occupy the pulpit of Grace Church morniny und evening. Evening subject: -+l Glocy of the Natiou.” —The Rev. Dr. Wiliumeon will preach at 10:50 . m. and 745 . m. in the Michizau Avenue Church. " Eveaiuz subject: **Duties” of *Young e . ¥ —1le Rev. T. C. Clendenninz’ will_preach in the Langley Avenne Churca in the mornlug ou **Rejoicing, " ang evemuy on **Godliness Wil Pay in This Life, " —The Rev. W. F. Crofts will preach mornl and evening in Trinity Church. ’ Eveniny subje **Solntion of Bible Diliculy —The Rev. J. 3. Caldwel} will preach mosning and evening at {e Ada Struct Church, bear Lake street. —The Rev. § I Adams will preach morning and evening at the Weatern Avenua Church, corace of Monroe strect. —The itev. Charfes 5. Evey wiff preach miorn- 1y and evening at the Frea Ghurch, No. 49 North Morgun street. —The Rev.' S. Mco Park Avenue Chur Snail Tie Done with \ PRESE: Thie Rev. Arthnr fwa ¢ .. il preach fn reh, corner of Weatern Montzomery will jead a Gospel Hailroud “Coapel this morning. The e, Arthur Mitchell will preach in the evening —The Rev. . 1L Walker will preach af the uzion Preshy Church, on'West Fourte strect. near Throop, ut 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. —ho Rev. John Abbott Frenct will preach in the Fourth Ciiurch, curner of Kuzt aud Saperior streets, at 19:45 2. m._ No event C. 1. Thumpson will pre: Fifth Churchi, cornicr of Ind Thirticth strect.. at 10:30 2. . less Savior," and ut 750 o The lev. Arthue Mjtel ou “*a Change- ildhoul, on wiil pres ¢ Michigan m. and 7:45 p. m. e o Meioy will preach in the First United Presbyterian Chiurch, coruet of Mon- roe and Paulina steets, 1y the mornin; **Tie Fourth of July,” and in the eveniny on Punishment. ™ —The Kev. A. Pfanstiehl will preach ot the Mol- lJaud Church. corner of Noble and Eric streeta— iu the worning fu Tolisnd, and 1 the evening m Second Chureh, cor: Twentiethstrect, ut —The Rtev. W. English. ~The Tev, A, E. Bittredze wilf pres Third Chuirch, corner of Ashland aud 0 ones, Subj *The Limauity of Jesus Chi The Friendship of Je- sus Christ, —Tho Nev. I T. Miller will preach in the morniag atthe Sixth Church, cornsr of Oak and Vinceniies uvenu: ble readingin the evenl; Rev. W, man will preach mornlug ning at the Jefferson Park Clurch, corner 3. Lwiil prescn morning Clurch, coraer of Wash- and. of Throop aud Adams stre ~The Rev. J. M. Worr: and evenine at the £ ingtou and Robsy stroet: REFORMED EPISCOFAL. The Rev. P. Ii. Morgan will preach at St. Paul's Church, cotner of Wusbinzton and Carpenter streets, at 103102, m, wud 7345 p. m. Lvening subject: < Testununy; or the Great Crecd, and Tiow to Us —ivhop Cheney will preach in Christ Church, Michigan avenne und Twenty-fourth str 10:459. m. and 7345 p. m. Morning subject: “*A Consecrution.” Evening subject: ~**How all We Reach the Masses with the Goxpel?” ing the third of the toarse on *The Evil, the Cause, and the Cure. ™' —The Rev. J. W. Adams will preach 1 Em- maouel Church, corner of Centre uud Dayton strevts. this cvening. Sabject: *-Rath; or TFiaellty to Onr Honest Convictio ~-The kev. ). D. Church will preaca in St Lilis avenue, near Thirty-seventh stecet. at 10543 a. m. and S p. . —he Rev. K. I Bosworth will preach in Trinity Chureh, Englewood. st 10. ‘The Rev. E. 1. Burke will preach i the eventn; —The Rev. . 1L Bosworth preaches this evening at Grace Church. corner of Hoyne and Le Moyne strents, on ** Let Him that Hearcth Say Cowe,™ The morniug service will be conducted by Mr. R. 1. Durke, CuRISTIAN. The Rev. S. M. Conner will urcach In the First Church, corner of (ndiana avenac and Twenty-dfth street, morning und evening. —Eider J. M. Owens will conduct éervices at the Second Church, corner of Van Baren street aud Cumphell avenue, at 10 m. —There ®iil be preaching ta the Christian Church on Western avenue morning and eveniug by the pastor, A. J. White. LUTUERAN. The Rev, Edmund Belfour will preach in the Church of the Holy ‘Trinitv, coruer of Dearborn uvenue and Erie sircets, ot 114, m. UNITAKTA The Rev. Brooke Herfond will preach at 10:45 m. at the Church of the Messiah. cormer of Michi- an avenue and Trwenty-taird stroct. Ne cvening - service. —Tue Rev. Robert Collyer will preact in Unity Church in the morging fot the lst time prior to b departure for Enrope, The church will be closed for July and Angust. UNITERSALIST. The Rev. Sommer Efliswill preach in the Church of the Kedectier, Wasuin Sangzamon streets, in the wmorning. Suoj ‘ouns dations of a Repuolic.” Vesiry service in the eveninz. Mra. A, TL the Spiritualists Opera fail, No. morning und even ~Mrs. CoraL. V will preach the foueral scrmon of J. Crawfora Eaton, at the Church of the First Society, corner of Monroc and Lattin streets, and in the cvening upon the subject, **The Pathiwuy of Anzels' by the spirit of Swedenborg. SWEDENBORGIAN. The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach in the Tnion Swedenborgian Church, Hirshey Mnsic {lall, “at 1ls.m. Sabject: **lume in the Family, —The Rev. (V. F. Pendlcton preaches this morn- tng ot the corner of Clark aad Menomince strcets. MISCELLANEOUS. 221 West Madison street SPIRITUALIST. Colby, of St. Louis, will apeak to and_Frec-Thinkers at Grow's Gospel mecting at N Sunday at 3 o'clocs "“The Progressive Lyceam will meet in the Third Unltarian Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin streety, at 12 o'cldck. —The Rev. C. M. Morton wil preach in the Washingtonian Home at 8 p. m. The Kev. Dr. Maithewson will preach to the Advenc_Christians morning and eveninz in the Green Street Tabernacle, No, 01 Morning sab- Ject: ‘+The Thicf on the Cross; s Request, . and the Lord’s Reply.™ —Elder W. C. Thurman_will preach in English i the German Church, No. 315 West Chicago Subje *‘Behold the Bridezroom Cometl ?fohn C. Morrla will preach mornicg and aven- mx in the charch corner of Falton aud 3y streets. Burt . m. . G, T. Coxhead will preach at 11 a. m. ln Mission Chapel. and M. G. Quinaa at 7:20 1eciples of Chriat meet at No. 220 West Rsn- Iph streec at 4 p. m. . OO G5t Srofion will speak tn the morniog, and Jobn E. Young in the evening, at the Chicago Ave- hue Chirch, corner of LaSallé struet. 3 —The Soclety of Modern Thoaghs Debators will hold thelr usgal weekly mecting'this afterngon At Forclock in the Unlon League Club-room, Grand Pacific Hotel. ~ Sabiect for lecture and covfercice introdnced by Dr. Duil, *The Value of Molera Liberal Orgonizations.” CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. iy aftér Peatecost; Most '—~Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; oy 7 anreclousulm.%d of Ozr Lord. July 8~St. Elizabeth, Qucen of Portagal, W. . und Gotiug, tawhith Colimament, L£ wil i reau Jaly 9—St John Prancis Regls, . from June18) . Tuly 10-Ti sfl;.;"nmg.zr.-‘:& P Y T Socunda, A July 11—St, Irenens, B. M. (from June 28); St Pius, P, July 12-St. John Gual i L flu.lhm Adb. ; S8. Nabor apgd el July 13-St. Andcletus, P. 3. Jaly 7_Third Sunday sfee ¥ —Third S Joly 7-Thixd Sanday after Telnity. THE GAME OF CHESS All commugnleations for this de; addressud 0 Tug TK{BUS“ and In nrufl"‘"fl'hhc;l‘i"g be CHESS DIRECTORY. gfllb\ifl Citess CLUD—No. 30 D=arborn straet. 'KICAGO CiESS ASSOCTATION—H: W 0. 150 Diearbora stroct, opponiie TRIDUNE Balidinn Sless playees meet dsly ¢ the Tremont owse (E- nange), Sherman Houss (Hseraenty: aad st os Stadify'streat. cornor of Slizaverh. s D 2 423 West ” TO CORRESPONDENTS. CPTL ' Sulmate ™ is an abbreviath mate. i such nroblenis White, Bavies e miomes et [3Fes to force biack o give mate In 8 stipuloted Bum- -Tiave looked up the former epistla, s 4 ln;t")‘ 'r::l m;.!“&;-l ald lhllfll‘h\ ’k hl:‘h::d‘ reated scvel seadioe ' smigls™ In &1azS neighborhood. b S:Re—1. The Amerfcan Chess Journat, publlited b B’ C G Sioore, 53 Coriiand street. Sow Lotk Dite line of play in Prodlem No. 131, a3 givan in the pnblished solutlos. forces the Black 1200k to move, rmitting Knlzht to mateat Kt3or B2, acconling o D:!.E‘l‘flrflvaflf Rookt. Pawns have no retrograde action or T ENIGMA NO. 136" s Second-prize tour-mover| Assoctatl Probicm Tourney. ey l]'fl Ao = UYMW A, SHINENA White. Bluc KingutQicizhn | Keoeak cieatn Riokad K iinventn | RiSbasiieiehen seventh Shap ue O Kt slgh Kook at Q11 L ot R D SR Knient b Rt Knfgat 3t K 1€ slaen, Pawh at Q fth White to play and mate o four moves. PROBLEM NO. 136. UY MR BERT LERLY, PRINCETON, 1LL. “White to pisy and mate fn two moves, SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO. tid. Llack. 15 ta Kt Wi mate 10 B3, 3.0 10 K4 mato. Correzt solution to Enlema No. 134 recetved from WL Ovington, 0. &, Ticojamin, end . Bache, cleys RN Conwar, Manchester. dn.: Rt., Turner, Ui SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 134. ! Rlack. 1P takes Ke K tQ 3K moves to Problem Nu. 132 received from chneider. Barte, 3 C. B Smith] cloff, Aun Abar, Mich, e Hapfda. 3ic) t., Turner, T, THE P A dlspateh from Parts, dated Jul that twelve competitors have entered the I al Tournc Rleven Tounds, represcutins: 153 games, are to played. Ly the four rounds aireats piaved the games Woil i Ioxt by cach player have been os follows: e ¥, Won. Lost. il It will be noticed that the names of Messs. Mason and Paulson du Mot appzar (n the above score, W gontafo oniy elaven of clve entries. MF. fs apoubtedly e tvelfth competitor, but iy Sed HitouRh SICKTE uF cote Other e pating 5 yet {2 the tonrney. Later advices give the palrlog 43 the Orst four rounds, as Tuliows: FLIST KOUND. . Plisclici. Winawer. Blackbaree v. Mason. Gittol. seatial. ENCE TOURNEY. (ume In the above tourpey between L. S. Atkiuson, ot Tiftou, N. iL.. aud 1L Watght, Eagland. 2 EVANS GAMBIT. White—r. Atkluson.. | Black—Mr. Walght. 1.0 00 K4 K4 E"EE""S PR RRRER RS £ETE a1 £85255 i s (3) The garme {s carried on to Qs poiny secording to the ltne mfir“km\ out by Wornald, who here the game in Black's fave (B Left to hia w3 resources. Bluck 50w plunges 1nts as¢a of troubte. CHESS 1N GEIOIANT. The subfolned game was plased in the Lotpste Con- P S i g ko Ry 4 (L. Patlsen took Qrst drize with a soure of ol 3, Anderssen and Zukertuet tielig for sccond bun- ors with a scora of efght and a Luif games each. It (s Wortlly of remark, therefore, that With this gatie 3tr. Anderssen also lost the Urst prize. SIQILIAN UEFEY: White~Dr. Gorlog. £ Black: Bkl ’ a8y 225 CFoner 3 O ) n 3 sgeles takes 33 B Hreptn Kuto B eg (1 KiakesQ - Qto B8 takes Ktch 37, to K @ male N (W) Mang auzioritles prefer 5..Rt o K White aswor by 6..K K 10 Kt 3 then Black . (] 5. ond i 7..K: to G 8 ch then KtoK 2, wii 3 Fame. ) The gaual procedire horo s 0. Lc takes K6 Ko P takes &t 7. 3 2, 8. . PioQid. SN en passats B tates B and the wams 13 pertectiyevea, tc) Zoglian authoritics prefer Bro K 2 ; (d) An'lncdective attack. Uf course BIack pays ne atiuntion to thi Blanoy. (¢} Icreby White loses 2 pawn: but he Ead alresdy somewhat compromtsed his cosition by bis 10th move, ) It Wiite had takea tha Blsaop thoa 13..5 takes B, and if Kt takes 1 then 14. Ki 10 Kt 3 ch, ¢) With n view of plasing Qo R S and threatecing the captare of Whites QL & (h) White's game Iy 30w hopeless. The sacrifics of thie exchange {3 of 0o avail. (1) Qo {15 wonld bave beea bat on account of B takes P chi ) £ to Q7 would bave been stroner. ) A Lnd oyersikhz. bringing the fawe o a comical concluslon. That Andersten sbould have overlooked the threatened mate I¢ singuiar. Kt tokes Kt would h=ve won the ame. d have played R to K q.— () Bagssata L Sthachetting. Negative Proof—0Ola gent (;roho frmly believes ia the School Board) to cow-boy: * Ob, you go to ‘school, do you¢ Now, I aare say, you can tell ine who it was that was saved whben the world was drowned, can’t youi” Cow-boy (all sbroad): No-a, zur-r!"” (Old gent goes als way, & tirmer belfever than belore. }—Puncle