Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1878, Page 9

1 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. . 1878=SIXTEEN. PAGES, “ RELIGIOUS. Round: Lake, the Christian Garatoga, as It Ap- pears To-Day. 1 \ ow Indulgences Are Gained by the Faithful of the Roman - " Church, The Difference Between the Mayors of Montreal and i Marseilles. c°rrespunden03 Between the Em= pemrand Crown Prince and Pope Leo. Possible Effects of Microphonic Attachments to the Pulpit. General Notes, Personals, Frivo- lous Piety--Services To-Day. ROUND LAKE. 4 FROGRESSIVE CAMP CUTT IN THE WOODS— YHE CHRISTIAN SARATOGA OF AMXRICA AS IT APPEABS TO-DAY. .. From Our Own Gorressondent. Rorsp Laxx, N. Y., July 18.—The snnual yisitor to this home in the woods finds change exchseason. He has to find some just now, if peisgoing into the grounds: for durine the - gunday-4chool assembly an admiecion fee is the ¢ yery first thing on the programme. No use to trrto eet in surreptitiously, for, besides the bigh and sharp picketed fence, there is an un- wsuatly spry police force. Having little or sothing t0 do i thus characteriatically aud es- - gentially moral aud well-conducted place, they are all the time prriog about in the bope 1o find some way to prove their efliciency. Everything as to be active here, since thatis the chief feat- ure of tue management. When President Hillman gets a new project into his head—and be can never be caught without having a project ‘handy—be does not stop at expense, but calls the Trustees tozesher and asks them to con- > giderit. As the Trusteesalways think as Mr. Hillman does, aud as he is ready to freely use bis own fortupe when the funds in the Treas- ury get Jow, his ideas are generally worked out foto effective form and shape. Nothing but pluck, enterprise, and 8 deal ot moncy could bave made Round Lake what It is to-day. BAPID PROGRESS. Ten years aco it wasa desolate piece of woods, with underbrush so thick that passage ‘had to be cat throuzh with an ax; and aimost by chance it was that 2 committee appointed by 2local camp-meeting association selected it as 2 goodly site whereon to pitch their tents fora brief season. Joseph Hillman was in the com- vgoy. He was the leader of a praying band widely known in this section of country, 3 most zeslous and enthasastic Methodist; but he was 2150 8 keen business man, with a fortune earned byhard work, and a sharp ese for favorable opportunity. He entered heart and soul into sn enterprise which appealed to his tastes as weil o5 bis pocket. To-day Round Lakeisa dtyof cottages and tents, with stores, hotel, and tho prettiest depot onm the Renssclaer & Baratoga Railroad, excepting the one at Sara- fora; with avenues, gas, zood drainage, and water. both fresh and mineral. This is the Chnstisn ~ Ssratoga. of Amcrics, says an enthusiastic clergyman, and certainly there % Do relizious resort, DO camp- meeting grounds elsewhere that can wmpare with {t in the number, beauty, and finish of its cottages, nor in its features of special attraction to religious neo- vle. Orher religious assoctations have equally charming scenery. Ocean Grove has the Invig- orating sea, but none of them have the same axommodations as a summer resort, and none, perhaps, the same claim to be considered a ne- tional religious camp. No wonder that Mr. Billman. who bas ut much of his private mesus into the place, points to it with fatberly Kx:ds and enthusiasm, and is never quite so Py as when exbibitine snd expatiating upon whattizs been accomplished. = CIANGES OF A SEASOX. Nearly $50,000 Lave been expended in im- provements since last season. Three months agothe extreme northern eud of the crounds was marshy and unimproved. Two weeks ago, . on that hitherto umuviting spot, there was oened to the public a handsome hotel, Qiven Anne style, tastefully finished and furnished, apable to accommodate 150 guests, anod witha zood table. That Is a fair specimen of Presi- dent Hillman’s push. He gave the architect and builder three months to comblete the work, and then burried him slong 4l evervthing was finished two weeks ehead of time, instead of behind it. The hotel isthe larzest and most attractive building on the rounds, costing $20.000 as 1t stands. 'The Tooms are larre and airy, with high ceilings. Greavcare was taken witn the drainage, one Jergemain drawviue water from the réservoir, endanother carrying refuse to the lake 8 quar- ter of s mile distant.. “An obsersatory, uscended ‘Without an clevator, commands a wide view of the charming scenery fn which the valley of the Uoper Hudson abotinds. Eastward the vision extends aver hilf and dale to the Berkshire hills and the Green Mouutains. Strangely enouch, 1rom this heizht no sigx can be sczu of the 200~ cottages which are known to lie all around it on aplave 100 fect below. Dense foliage conceals the little world whosc affuirs are coolly con- . ducted beneath its erateful shade. Coolly, ex- cept on days like this. This very morning TAE WESTERN HEAT WAVE, gl'!dlm.cd onlr too surely, moved upon us as light, and a thousand men, women, and chil- drenare laneuishing, staying away even_from .themeetings, When the people at Round Leke dothat there is a powerful cause behind it. The $hermometer registers 95 degrecs in the shade -M3p.m.,—is any further explanation neces- sars? Sull, ther¢ is a brecze,~a rather warm aud Jizy breeze, but enough to breathe upon, and keep from ‘ utterly withering; and when Tizht comes e are sure of fresh and recreative 2, and of reviving sleep, if the mosquitoes al- low ds s fair chance. - But Lhave strayed trom the- hotel, and the . hotel s the coolest spot on the grounds. The ometer s only 95 decrees bere. This may ;}e dueto the fact that the botel—like Sandy ook—has g bar. Itisa visidle bar, although 2emall one; and is well stocked with singer ale, » t beer, sarsaparilla, and Dr. Hall’s *blue- bon tonic beer,” whatever that may be. Two trmont men keep the hotel. It is said thev ¥ere imported because no man could be found the Empire State who would undertake to Tunatemperance house. s is very likely a Slander, since 1 Vermonter it was who fold me le never sold so much liquor anywhere us did jn Vermont, because they bad a Pro- bitory taw there. AU the same time the ke Hotel is strietly temperance, :mi the only liguor on = lhund s L in the Kitchen -for medicinal X I‘W'NSB. They tell 3 good story here, by the 3,8 the cxpense of this temperance pro- ty. It runs that a poor ieliow fcll from a :‘Koldlnz and was serivusly hurt. The doctor ‘hl':fl(ur brandy. Somebody began to explain bel there was no Jiguor. on’ the grounds; but ‘b:;‘l‘fl got, the first words out, fortn came a3 flashos'from s many pockets, aud the Rogaro Was promptly relicved. This story, 22550t 1o be said, is told by the boys, of whom b Der congresate in this nncongenial quar- ¥ Just to eee what Is zoing on. )'\. TOE HOLY LAND. & h‘fit 1o the hotel, as an improvement, not in » comes the Park of Falestine; an accu- fi}m!nmm representation of the Hoiy Land, Lot ona scale of two-aud-one-half feet ibe mile, at a cost of $7,000. A hundred Jokmen were employed {rom March until in-the buildinr of this wondcrful land, B 15 3 iand of promise to the student of ihe . The Rev. Dr. Wythe, who constructed a m‘hfl" park, thoughon a smaller sealeby balf, at Chantauqua £rouuds, bas surpassed his own itions hu%f Round é{;\ke gerves. nsk[hc ean. ‘If yon wish, you cantakes mmmn land ‘at Joppa, or at Tyre, only fim careful. to step over those cities of .tne ‘M:VE coast without lacking any portions of into confurion. Or you can_enter at the : ;’g:flu-nbnnnm. and view the Dead Sea be- i nn‘“’“ up to Jerusalem, The Sea of Galilee - 1ew steps away, and above and below it . the Jordan winds its way to the sea that has no outlet. A few steps further, and you are at the. base of “ snowy-pealied ** Hermon, viewing thax unexplored cave whence flows, with full stream, thie river which Moses was not permitted to eross. h G MT. HERMON 1s constructed ingeniously, so that it can be as- cended by different roates, Its hight of wwenty- five feet represents the 10,000 feet of the origi- nal. From the very sumnmit you:look down upon the land of sacred memorics. The natural featurcs of the country are carefully preserved. Below you lie the citfes and villazes, the mount- ains and valleys, the various points familiar to cvery Christiin student. The Dead Sea isplaced below the Mediterranean level, sccording to the scale, showing the 1,300 feet of difference. - The. clties are all in place, and plentiful signs render it unnccessary for the traveler to go astray in his bearings or studies: Such a representation is 2 vast aid to the student. No map nor bird’s- :l\‘"e view can fasten in the mind, as this dogs, the features, locations, and general outlines of Palestine. It sounds straugely to speak of go- ing through the Holy Land, from Dan to Beer- sheba, in balf an hour, and’ of ascending Mt. Lebanon in a minute; but that you can do here at any time, for the park is permanent. It s worth alone, as the managers say to those who object to the admission-fee to the zrounds, a bundred times the price you pay to see this ahd all the reet of our attractions, including a Bib- lical museum, band music, snd the model of Jerusalem. Yet a ercater work of art is the model of Jerusalem. Here Dr. Wythe hascertainly ex- ceeded himsclf: perhaps naturally, since assist- ¢d to do g0 by his daughter. Of this wodel I have not space to speak properly now; not hay- ing finished vet with the park. " AN IRON SPRING. Io building Patestive, a discovery was made Wwhich proves to be of much valuc 10 the Asso- ciation. To get the ground for the park, creck was turned from its chanvel. No sooner “wasthe water witndrawn thana spring was found o be sending up water at the rate of sixty gal- lonsa minute. Marine shells of aelicate size and color came up with the water, proba bly from some marl-bed below. The water was cool and clear, and on investigation was found to be impregnated with iron. Although mixed to a cousiderable degree with fresh-water veins, the spring is evidently a relative to the old iron spring, already %muus in Revolutionary days, at Baliston Spa. But three of these iron Springs baveever been found in the valley, aud the water is much more drinkable than that of the deep miveral weil which the managers spent many thousauds ot dollars in boriug, aud which they now charge with gas, as an indacement to the thirsty. Tt is plainly not laughing gas, however, asa study of expression made In the vicinity will convince anybody. - AMONG FURTHER IMPXOVEMENTS are the buildine of new cottages, the opening of new avenues, and the construction of a tunnel under the highway. The Jatter project counects the grounds diectly with the lake, aud was rea- dered neeessary by the refusal of two or three parties, who look upon the Kound Lake Asso- ciation'as an ageressor, to have the Lighways course altered.” As President -Hillman could ot go over, he “concluded to wo uuder. To group a few factsin asmall space, there are now nearly 200 cottages here, many of them elaborate, Inost of them exceedingly pretty aud tastefal. " There is a Post-Oflice, book-3tore, grocery, meat-market, and a general mercantile establishment. ~ Cottages to rent there are none at present, but there are a hundrea lots yet to dispose of, on which to build cottages. ~ Tents may be rented of the Association, alzo furniture and mattresses. Tucre is a restaurant capable to feed 1,000 people, and the hotel can provido for 400 more. The prices are moderate, but the only way to live here cheavly is to take a tent, or 9wn a cotfasze, and_keep house. The hotel prices are from $3 to $14a week, and the restanraut rates are $1.25 per day, $7 a week, or 50 cen:s a meal, with 10 per cent off to min. isters. There are now pernaps a thoueand in- habitants, more or less tempurary, on the zrouncs. As to theaims, purposcs, and progress of the Sunday-School Assembly, of which you hare heard by telegraph; as to how peovle live here, and why they} live here, and who they are; together with a visit in Dr. Wythe's com- pany to Jerusalem the modern, that will do very well for a subsequent letter. 3 FRANCIS MURPHY, the ereat apostie of temperance, Is among the celebrities here. He makes Round Lake bis headquarters for this summer, and his seven children are domiciled in a pretty little cottaze which is partly concealed by g large version of the Stars and’ Stripes. - Mr. Murphy is full of heslth and spirits,—good spirits,~and has en- agements that 611 his time for the wost part. Speaking to lim, incidentally, of the para- graph that has been going the rounds about his reply to the New-Aaveners, that be would lecture there for 150 a week and buard ot the best hotel, Mr. Murphy eald that, if the man who gave out that sentence of a letter written in eonfidence would give the whole letter, the unjustoess of the paragraph would appear. At any rate, the ictter was writ- ten by bis son, who acted 8s his secretary, and he (Mr. Murphy) never saw it. He was not ashamed of the 3150 a week, except in that a man who had seven children to support, and who had plenty of enmagements offered him at $100 a night, should retuse these to offer the services of himself 2ud son for seven days, two lectures 2 day, for 50 palirv a sma. Bug he had 3 inis- sion, and it was not a money-making mission, He could not always know, however, what kind. of peonle e had to deal” with, and it was one of the saddest things in his experience to discover that men who from their position ought to be the best, were in reality the meanest. If Mr. Murphy’ meets by chance that man of New Haven, I think the Blue-Ribbon lecturer’s keen black cyes will snap the other party out of sight. . H.G. INDULGENCES. HOW THET ARE GAINED BT TIIE FATTAFUL. To the Editor of the Christian Union—DEAR Sm: 1find in your issuc of May 22 the mote Isent you about a month azo, regarding in- dulzences. Perhaps you will allow me to ex- press the surprise with which I have read your reply toit. n contining mysell in that note to the true defimition of an induigeunce, in order to show that it couid not, by sav stretch of interpretation, be made to mean that *‘any one could be as wicked as he wanted, and the Pooe wouid guarantee that the sinner shouldu’s be punished cither jn this world or the next,” I certainly did mot mean to lcave it to be in- ferred that a real indulgence could be pur- chased. 1admit, however, that I did not deny it—for the reason, I suppose, that Catholics do pot readily.believe that intellizent Protestants actually mean what they suy wuen they talk of the *sale of indulgences.” 1 did not speak of it for much the same reason which might move the editor of the Christiax Union if he were at the same time accused of polding unsound views ou the doctrine of the Atonement, and of making his Sunday dinner off of fricasseed babics. lie might reply to one accusation,—he certainly wouid not waste ink over the other. L see, however, that the cases are not so parallel as I thought. 1 have. thew, to add that the Catholic Chureh does not seil indulzences, that it never did sell them. and that it Las no power to duso. Every Cathioiie knows how to gain indulgences. Providing that 1am not in the state of mertal sin, I can gain indulgences, cither plenary or particl, every day of the week, without applyiug to auy priest atall. -And, if Iam in sin, aud sincerely sorry, I can go to confession. et absolution, and then gain indulzences without telling my confessor that 1 have an inteation of gamning them. There .are occasions, huwever, when special indul- gences are proclaimed,—it which times, if the Pope s0 chooses, he may attach a particular con- dition to the yruning of that particular indul- gence. To gain any indulzence whatever cer- tain conditious are prerequisite. The person gaining them must_be frec from sin. That is, be must not merely have gone to conlession, but he must have received a valid absolution. And, as your remark about the possibility of concealing motives 10 the confessivnal shows that you do mot clearly understand what is meant by a *valid absolution,” I will ask ¥ to have patience while I explain it. Certainly, it is possible, though not easy, for a pevitent 1n the confessional to conceal his true motives. He may pretend a sorrow which he does uot fecl in order to be admitted to make Lis Easter com- munion, and so save his reputation as an order- 1y and obedient Catholic. He may do so for other conceivable motives; or, amain, he may really misungerstand his owu motives, and, throueh iznorance, suppose that he can be for- given lor the past while uot yct resolving to do betterin the future. The priest is not infalli- ble. Much depends on his natural pene- tration, aided, ©f course. by the pecul- iar grace of the Holy Ghost.” But what is meait by a valid absolution 15 one that God rat- itics. He has promised that the sins which his delegates Joose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven, But they van loose none which are un- repented, unconfessed, and unforsaken. Doubt- lezs, the words of sbsotution are often pro- pounced sincerely by the priesy when tie ab- sence of true contrition or of a firm purpose of amendment_on the part of the penitent leaves tue guilt still remainivg. God knows; so does the- sinper. The priest’s part is to- hear, to judge, and then either to bind or to loose: It is God who, in makingthe priest His represcata- tive. has made thedutyof conlession ebligatory. When that duty is honestly complied with, it is as certain that God forzives as, in the other sacrament of baptism, it is certaiu that He wash- s original sin from the soul at the moment when the sacrament is pmpcrly.nammisterm. Then, besides the condition of repentance and v . for past sins, it is neccssiry, when- evera plenary indulzence is to be zaioed, that those desiring it should go to Holy Commun- ion, and_pray aczording to_the intention of the Tope. Now,as [ said, the'Pope may, if he choose, on special occasions attach another con- ditfon, viz., that.of giviog alms, accordinz to onc’s ability, for some special object. That, probably, is what was done in the famous cases confess o which your * Professor ? alluded. Noonels: obliged to try to gain that indulgence. He may mng equivalent ones without it. But, if he wishes ‘to join his brethren throughout the world fn this act of devotion, he can do £o only on these conditions. F We Catholics, even the most conscientious of us, find nothing hard in that. And, pardon me for saying so, we cannot understand why our neighbors should resent it so much. They don’t have to pay forit. . . You will tell me, perhaps, that all these dis- tinctions are very finc drawn,—educated people may comprehend them, but the iznorant be- lieve that they can “ buy induleences to commit sin? Thisis not true, lam a layman, but I am busy just now in preparing some very igno- rant and " hard worked children for their first communion. And I assure you that they fully understand that, although the priest can forgive sing, yet that unless they bumbly and sincerely confess them, repent of -them, and abandon them, his absolution is worthless. They know what an indulgence is, and how they ¢an gain one. And, fn conclusion, allow me to sugeest that it is unfair to eyolve an imazinary Catholic from. the depths of the professorial consciousness, to construct an_imaginary theolozy for him, and then to cleverly tear him to picees for the ben- efit uf readers who scriously believe him to be the type of an existing class. We Catnolics are not fools. God is a great reality tous. We fear His justice; we hope for His rewards, And we Lave no idea that we can cheat Him. A CONSTANT READER. RELIGIOUS RIOTING. THAE RECENT TROUBLES AT MARSEILLES. Correspondence London Times. Panss, July 5.—Tranquillity bas been re- stored at Marseilles, bt as these outbreaks of strite between Uatholics and nou-Catholics are now rare, even tn the hot-blooded South, it may be worth while to explain briefly what has oe- curred. Some wecks prior to Corpus Christi the Mayor issued an order prohibiting the relig- fous outdoor ‘processions customary on the Bunday after that festival. He.took this step under a-law of seventy years' standing, which empowers local authorities to forbid such pro- cessions in any town where a non-Catholic place of worship exists, the object of course, being to guard against any collision, whether arising out of alieed irreverence on the part of Protestant passers-by or any other cause. No disorder, however, has ever occurred on such occasions at Marseilles, where the proces- sion had been wont to attract large numbers of country people, and Protestant residents . joined in a memorial praying for the continuuuce of the custom. ‘The Mayor, vevertheless, persisted in his refusal. and ‘the Government, on being appealed to, declined to interfere with the exercisc of his discrctionary power. The Sunday passed off quietly, but the Catholics warmly resented the prohibition and arranged for a demonstration on the Festival of the Sacfed Heart round the statue of Bishop Belzunce, who distinguished himself by his de- votion to his flock during the pestilence of 1720, at which time the Municipality pledged itself in perpetuity to accompany the Corpus Clrist] procession through the town. The Bishop Is one of the historical lieroes of Marseilles, the only blot on his career being his severity towards the Jansenists, from whom he with- held the [ast Sacraments unless they re- canted. Groups of Catholics accordingly carried about 200 wreaths of flowers to the statue, and they indulged in cries of “ Vive la dteligion!™ ¢ Vivent lee Processions I’* “ Vive Afonse.queur DBezuncel™ Anti-clericals, however, had also collected, who set up connter- cries of % Vivela Jepublique! " ** 4 bas les Iiio- lis/? 4 bas les Cures!™ Presentiy two persons in the crowd came to blows, and a gencral scuffle ensued. The police begzed the Catholics ta retire, but they refused. Gradually, how- ever, the crowd dispersed. The authorlties pro- hitited a sccond demonstration announced for the evening, aund the Catholics promised to con- fine themselves to attending service in the chureh, without forming any procession; but many of them had to pass by the squarc where a crowd had assembled, who hissed them and called for the removal of the wreaths. Omni- buses full of priests were loudiy hooted, a priest on foot had to make his as“\::!\pe, a Bishop {n full dress was also higsed, the Harsciliaise was sung, and several persons were hustled, including a . Police Commiesary, who was mistaken for a demobstrationist. The police were too few to restore-order, and cventually the wreaths were all scized, trampled on, and re- placed by wisps of straw, while ons of the churches was besleged und an attempt made to force admission. One gendarme, who present- ed his revolver at the mob, had to be smuggied away by bis colleagnes to escape fll usage. While these disturbances were roing on the Municipality mct, aud -ML Peytral submitted a motion demanding the removal of the statue. For this he was next day hissed and hustled on the Bourse by some Catholles, and snother scuffic followed there, but a Police Commissary restored order. This incddent led to sssem- blages in ihe strects, and several young men accused of Liustling M. Peytral were maltreated. An attack was also made on two Legitimist newspaper ofliccs and on the statue, but was foiled by the police. The excitement continued till past midnight, and some arrests were made. The next day, owing to the appearance of a strong force. of police and military, coupled with the appeals by the Deputy Mayor and the Republican. papers, all was quite. The Municipality has appointed a comnmittee Lo report onthe transter ol thestatue to the Muscum, and it calls on the Government {for a searching mmvestigation. Upward of 120 persons have been apprebended, and the Judge d'Instruction bas opencd an inquiry, several Lewitimist leaders being among those threat- ened with prosecution: The feeling among Protestants is that the law under which tho Mayor acted should be modified orrepealed, for, though its origrinal intent was to protect them from wolestation, its. effect is now to place them in an invidious position towards their Catholic fellow-citizens. Processions, they urge, should eithier be universally allowed or should be prohibited on grounds of public inconven- ience and religious equality irrespective of the cxistence or nou-existence of rival .Churches. GERMANY AND THE POPE, LETTERS FROM THE EMPEROR AND TIE CROWN v TRINCE TO LEO XIIL. BerL1y, July L—Inreply to the Pope announc- ing nis accession to the throne, and regretting the misunderstandings that had lately occurred between Germany and the Vatican, the German Emperor. on March 24, 1673, addressed the fol- lowing letter to his Holiness: Gulielmus, Dei Gracia Imperator et Rex, Leoni X1IL., Summo Ecclesie Xomamy Catholice Pon- tifici, salutem.—1I have received througn tbe allicd Government of hie Majesty the Kingof Davaria letter of the 20th of last month. in which your oliness kindly informs me of your elevation to the Papal See. I thenk you for this communica- tion I congratulate you on being elected by the vote of tise Holy Conclave, and cordially wish that the Church intrueted to your control may flourisih during yonr government. " Your ffoliness {8 rignt in saying that my Catholic anbjects vie with all others 1 shoiwing thatrespectfor laws and eoveroment 1n- culcatea by the doctrines of our common Christian faith. With reference to what your Holiness says abont the past, § may observe fhat, thanks to tae Christian spirit an:mating the German people, peace and obedience to the Government have been preserved for centuries inthis country. The con- tinued posscssion of these Invaluable boons is gusranteed by the same national quahities. I re- joice to gather from the friendly sentiments ex- pressed oy your Holineas that .yon will use the mizhty inflience over all the servants of your Church constitutionally belonging to you to induce those among them who have itherto been remiss in this duty to imitate the examplcs of their con- grecations and observe the laws of the land. 1beg your ilolincss 10 uccept the assurance of my per- Tect esteen. GurizLyws. Imperator. {Countersigned) Vox Bisxanck. The Pope, in reply tothis, ia a letter of April 17, expresscd a hope that the gooa understand- ing which had forinerly subsisted between the ‘Vatican and the Berlin Government would be restored by a change in the laws and charter of Prussin. “This fresh communication of his Holiness has clicited the following reply from his Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince: Benwiy, June 10, 1878.—Recretting that the Emperor. my father, is still unaole to thank your Toliness for the eympathy you have shown him in consequence of the sttempt on his life on the 2d inst., Lfolfil the- pleasing duty of eracefully ac- knowlecging the cxpression of your friendly senti-, ments. The Emperor delayed answering thie lotter of vour Holiness of April 17, hoping that a confi- dential cxchange of opinion migat ensble ue to ob- viate that written expression of opposite principles which must bave cnsued if the correspondence were “continued. From. your iloliness' letter of April 17. 1 regzet, however, {o sec that you deem it impossible to falfil the hope uttered in my fath- er's communication_of March 24, that you will recommend to the sefvants of your Church to obey the Jaws of the land. No Prussian Sovereizn will be able to comply with the demand put forward in your.letter of ‘April 17, that tne charter and laws of Rassia be modified jn accord- ance iwith the exigencies of the statules of your Church. The independence of the Kingdom would be impaired oy malking its legielation de- pendent npon a foreizn Power. To preserve this independence is'a duty Iowe tomy ancestors and my country, but thougi I cannot hode to reconcile ovposite’ principles, - Whose' antagorifsm” has been ‘more severely felt in Germany than anywhere cloe fora period exceeding ene iiousand yours, I am Svilling to treat the dificulties resulting to both parties - from this hereditary conflict in a pacific and conciliatory spirit in_harmony with my Chris- {100 convictions, Presuming your Holincss to be actuated by the like disposition, I shall not aban- don hope that; althongh principles may clash. the concilintory_ sentiments- of both parties will open 1o Prussia a road to peace, 8 roud which hox never becn ciosed against other States. I beg your Holi- ness to accept the expression of my personal devo- tion and respect. X 5 FREDERICK WILL1AY, Crown Prince. (Conntersigned) Vox Bisxancs. . " Dispatek to Inndon Times, BEnruIy, July 2.—Politicians differ as to the intention of tbe Government in pubtishing the letters of the Emperor and Crown Prince to the Pope. There are those who ‘regard the publica- tion. of these important letters as a sign that peace will be shortly concluded botween the Church and State, while "others put the op- posite interpretation upon the event. Inmy. opinion there can bé little ‘doubt that the of- ficial usages prevailing in- this Capital would have prohibited the putting into type of docu- ments of such extreme consequence werc not negotiations absolutely at an end. Butif, as the Crown Prince tells us, negotiations have re- sutted in convincing his -Imverial Hizhoess that the Pope will not. now enjoin lis clergy to. observe the Iaws, it {5 obyious that things remain in statu quo. After this the Congervative elements in the_Govern- ment can no longer hope to’ secure Ultramon- tane support in the elections or fo tho new House. The Conservatives are as isolated as cver. They may gain a few seats in the pre- vailinz Socialist and anti-Socialist excitement, bat cannot expect to obtain anything like a majority. The result of it all is that Prince Bismarck will find it difficult to dispense with Liberal support, though the Liberals may be 25 unwilling as ever to raise supplies after a fashion which would tend to make Government, practically independent of annual yotes. Public opinion is highly sratified by the calm dignity of the Crown Prince iu maintaining Ger- man judependence and telling his Holiness point- blank tnat the Papacy has quite as bitterly quarreled with. the Catholic as with the Prot- estant Sovereigns of - this country,- and that Prussia aloge is denicd privileges ‘accorded to all other States. It isreally too absurd that the German Emperor, a3 successor to French Government_prerogative, is allowed to appoint the Bishop of Strasburg, while as King of Prus- -sia he is refused the mere communication of ‘the names of curates indepcudently appointed by .Prussian Bishops. Nor is it more satisfactory that the rights withbeld -from Prussin are accorded to Austria, Bavaria, and other German States. With these glaring discrepancies star- ing them in the face, is'it to be wondered at that the Germanos look upon” Papal antaconism to the Berlin Governmeut us arising from polit- {cal ratner thun religious motives? < THE MICROPHONE. BRINGING THE GOSPEL WITHIN THE REACH OF THE RICH. 2 New York World. Mr. L. J. Crossley, of Halifax, 3 -member of the great carpet-house which is represented and well known in New York, has set sn example which, it must be hoped, will not be followed ‘generally; since onc of the chief objects of ‘pub- lic worship would thus be frustrated. Ifit were not for the morning service-at church a great many people would stay at home turning on their beds as the cellar-door—for an upright. bed is inconccivable—“turncth ~upon his bhinges,” and would thus waste in idleness a good portion of the day. Not long ago Mr. Crossley placed a microplione in the pulplt of o chapel and connected it with his house, a mile away, by means of a telegraph-wire. The whole of the service was heard by him in his room, except a few words which. were rendered {udis- tinet by the preacner disturbing the nstrument. Of course there is nothing precizely implous or evenirreligious in - this scheme, but it is highly unsociable, and to sceure the entire effect of the service one iwould be obliged to have stained windows and an organ- Ioft in- his chamber, arrange his chairs after the maoner of pews, . and at least imagire his bed to ‘be a pulpit, in which case he would have to vacate it out of respect to the clothand dread of the ecclesiastical penal- ties which are attached to the usurpation of clerical dignities by a layman. Moareover, the charm of good preaching does not consist alone in the words of a sermon,—the erace of the speaker and . the persuasfvcness of his face aud action are a large parc of. the value of pulpit cloquence. Thus it was’ with George White- field, whose printed sermoas are dreary enough reading and show mno evidence of Bm great power of that early Methodist; and how vast that power was may” be seen glike in the num- ber of converts it made end the fact that it cnarmed good hara money out of the reluctant pockets of Benjamin Fruoklin. With micr phonic attachments to hls pulpit and no, en- thusiastic faces looking up at him, even Mr. Kimball could never raise the debts of churches. ‘When he made the appeal of the horselecch’s two daughters, his words would at ouce be turned off, and with singular unanimity his people would turn on therr beds, eazing: **You have waked us too soon, We nust slumber again.™ And, indced, a great part of the work of a clergyman would be rendered impossible if Mr. Crossley’s device should come into general use. At times it is necessary for n pastor to lay down disaereeable propositions touching the awlul results of iniquily or remissness, and un- der the threatened system he would often be at his wit’s end to make sure that bis sdmoni- tions should reach the ears of his fock. Thus Lhis sermon would be filled with startling bits of irrclevancy, for, if he wished to impress his hearers with a sense of the enormity of ther personal offenses, he would tirst have to win them with » boautiful. description of green ficlds and pastures bevood the swelling -flood, and theu, while they were all attention, sud- denly shoot a dread truth into their cars before they hed time to drup the resonant wires of their micropliones and turn to their cofee and rolls. Notonly would such disingenuousness ou their part tend to lower the dignity of dergymen, but it would mar the symmetry and succession of tnouzhit which we have nght to expeet In aeermon. Even the hom:lics of best Augustine and bim_of the goldeu lips would startie us with tbeir lack of conesion rather than compel us with their reasoning or win us with their beanty, it thicir authors nad talked to their hearers through Mr. Edison’s cunning con- trivance. All personal magnetism syould Le lost, all disagreeable -truths wonld gradually disappear from the minds of men, avd the world would presently siok futo hopeless indifferent- ism, that last drear mood of lazy souls who va- cautly wonder if life is worth living. Church d stecples - edifices would no longer be needed, would be beaten into pruving-hovks' and rail- road shares, and the brophet who wished to be heard because he hsd 2 messaZe to tbe people would perforce turn street preacher and get into ditlicultics with the police for running lightly clad about the city and erying, “Wac, woe to Jerusalem ! Of course there are self-indulgent men avd women who will welcome Mr. Crossley's adapta- tion of the microphone to quasi-pivus uses; but they should go to church and listen to the ser- mon instead of staving av.home and hearing only what ‘suits their whim and tickles their vanity. By no means can we approve of Mr. Crosgley and his shiftless inechavical contriv- ance to lull the drowsy conscience into veace. RELIGIOUS EQUALITY. WEAT THE JEWS AS WELL AS CIURISTIANS GAIN s BY THE RUSSO-TURKISIL WAR. , Lond:n Ttmes. Not the least of the benefits to be conferred by the Congress on Easiern Europe will evi- dently be found in the establishment of some measure of refigious cquality m lands where.it Dhas hitberto been unknown. The chronic dis- turbances in Bosnia and Herzegovina und the perennial discontent in Bulgaria and Roumelia have sprung not more from the misgovernment of the Porte than from the religius antagon- Isms and jealousies deeply rooted amoug the peopic themselves. One of the principles al- ready accepted by the Plenipotentiariés at Beriin in regard to the organization of Bulgaria is the entire freedom Of religious faith and worship. This i a ovrinciple which it is easy enough to establish on papers in fact, the ‘Turkish Plenipotentiarics might urge with con- siderable plausibility that it bas long been ree” ognized in theory under the sway of the Porte. But Western statesmmen’ urderstand religious equality in n very. dilferent sense from that in waich it Is interpreted by Turkish officials. It would be no solution of tbc real difficulty to replace the old tyranny of Mussulmans over Christians simply by 3 new tyranny of Uhris- tians over Mussulmans. Both ‘mustlearn the lesson . of justice, forbearance, aud equality be- fore the law. Nor is the question of religious equality in thz East confined to the’ liberated Turkish proviaces, or to the requirements mere- 1y of Christfansand Mobammedans. The s5ame difficulty reappears iv another and an older formn. in Roumania and Servia. In Roumania there is a.population of not less than 350,000 Jews ‘out of a total of about 4,000,000. large population is denied the rights of citizen- ship,” and a variety. of restrictive laws has de- prived it of many of the legitimate occupations of industry and commesce., The only privilege W accorded to the dews ‘in Roumania. is the right of ‘serving in the national army; and darinz the: late war "hundreds of Roumanian Jews fought and fell by :he side of their fellow-countrymnen, If reudiness ra'serve bis_country is a test of & man’s patriotism. theJews of Ronmania have certainly made good their claim to the primary rights of': citizenship. In Servia ' the case “is different; the - number ~of Jews domiciled -there is small, but it is_only because by the presént constitution of Servia the Jews src absolutely prohibited from settling anywhere in the conntry save: in Belgrade and Semendria. . It s a singular nnomxl{, however, that Jews are not excluded [rom the Skupts- china: go that therc is nothing theoretically to preyent a Jew becoming the practical ruler of o country from the creater part of which his com- patriots are excluded. The question of the civil disabilities of the Jews in Roumania and Scrvia has been strongly pressed on_the aten- tion of the Congress of Berlin, but the repre- sentatives of those States have hitherto shown great reluctance to bring the institutions of their respective countrics into harmony with those of Western Eurone. The guestion is by 1o means exclusively a religions one. It is not becausc Jews are Jeivs in faith that their settle- ment is discouraged in Roumapia and pro- libited in Servia; “it is rather becanse in’ what may be-callud the struggle for commercial ex- istence the Jews et the better of the natives. In other words, the exclusion of Jews i a pro- tective measure disgruised undera variety of specions pretexts. It is alezed that the Jews are usurers, aud very often fraudulens usurers, Butit s _cflectivety answered by one of their Roumanian advocates that they dre only usurers becausé they are capitalists to whom the ordi- nary channgls of commerce and industry are closed; and that if they are frauduleut, they can be dealt with batter in the ordinary course of law than by disabilities which .exclude the innocent and the guilty alike. . e It would secm ns if the antagonism of race was destined to be thrned into the last strong- bold of protection. The Californian clamors for protection aeainst the rivalry of Chinese cheap labor; the Roumanian is térrified at the overpowering competition of Jewish capitalists. Each naturaily cries, by antiquated restrictions impossible fn practice, and unjust even if they were practicable, toexclude the rivalry hedreads. But, after all, the ultimate title to citizenship in a free country belongs to those who show them- sclves worthy of it by industry, by encrgy. by good conduct, and by obedietice to the law. 1t will be 2 bad omen for the .dawning hopes of clvilization snd progress in the East if the Goveraments of Roumauly and Servia persist in their anti-Jewish policy. Relizion is still the pretext, though the fear of commercial competition is the real motive, just as Ameri- cans arc- prejudiced araiust .the Chinese by strange storics of their vices and loathsome habits. To Europe it 13 more important that civil and religious liberty shouid prevail in Rou- mania and Servig than that the more indolent nuatives of those\countries should be protected against a competition which, after all, would be very likely to provea potent stimulus to uation- ol industiy. 17 all disabllities wers removed, as sooner or later they are sure to be, Roumauia’ I8 not very likeiy to prove a Promised Land to the Jews of Europe; but, even if this were des- tined to e the case, the world wouwld not tind it very diflicult to reconcile itself.to so signal an example of the survival of the fittest. It is uot, however, \with the commercial and economical aspects of this. question that Europe is chiefly conceroed. \What we all desire to see is the organization of the libcrated lands on such s basis as shull secure their progress and pros- perity. From the Danabe to the Eeean, from the Adriatic to the Black Sea, Christisus and Mussulmans have hitherto lived side by side in a never-cuding antagonism, which has paralyzed all improvement. The Turk found it easier to rule by encouraging dissension than by enfore- ine hormony. He orzanized avarchy and called itovernment, Now thattheliberated provinces are called upon to govern themselves, they will bave to learn thav among the first principies of free government are religious liberty and social wieration. ~The Congress is pledged to take effective measures to sceure the practical aud permanent recognition of these principles in the new provinces of its own creation. GENERAL NOTES. The Presbyterians and Congregationalists have each paid off $1,000,000 of church debts. The Trustees of the Oneida, Iil., Universalist Church have $125 of church money to loan!! Tho Catholic journallsts of the United States are to hold a convention Sept. 8, to form a unfon or association. : About 100 American delerates to the Geneva Confercnte of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciations have already safled from New York. “Oiic of the latest afiomalies in daily journai- ism is & discussion between the Now York Zrib- une and the New York Sun on the proper meth- ods of tesching in Sundag-school. Since 1870 the average aunual incresse of membership in the Bsptist Church of Great Britain and Ireland has been 4,520 persons. The total membership is now 359,836 persons. ‘There are to be three camp-meetings this year on the ground of OId Orchard Beach, Maine,—a hollness, a temperance, aod a:Methodist camp- meeting. "Che first besins July 25, and cach is to lust about ten daye. B ‘The Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania has, by resolution. notified to the German Re- formed Church that tie sending or reception of fraternal delegrates does not carry with it ad- mission to Lutheran pulpits and altars. The General Conference of the Wesley. Methodist Church of Australla was opeaed ai Syduey, New South Wales, May S. Ninety-one delegates were present. _ The Rev. Dr. Gerrase Smith represented the British Weslosan Con- ference. The First Congreeutional Church at Madison, Conv., was organized in 1707, and has had only six pastors, ail of Whom, exceptthe prescut one, have been settled over no other church. It bas uever dismissed a pastor, all having died while hoiding the office. - < The Springfield Union knows of “an earnest and able Christian minister *’ now doing a good in a town ncar Springfield on a salary of ), $50 of which goes for house-rent, and *all donations from members of .the society are charged agaiost their salary account.” The 109th abnual session of the English Gen- cral Baptist Association opénéd in London June 24. The Rev. T Goaby presided. The statistics reported 109 pastors, 34 local preachers, 119 sepurate churchics, 24,048 caurch members. An address was delivered by Mr. Spurgeon. A Germau paper has_calcalsied that the con- version of a Jew to Christianity is even more expensive thun that of a Mohammedan. The conversion of a Mohammedan costs £24, while that of a Jew amounts to £350. The cost, this paper adds, is defrayed by the English mission- ary societies. Auricular confcssion in the Church of Kneland must be sometning more than 2 myth or a buz- bear, since 400,702 members of the Churcn, in- cludine all classes ot society, irom noblemen and titled ladies to_schovlinasters and mechan- ics, bave petitioned the Queen for its repres- sion and probibition. ‘The Reformed Episcopal Church in Englsod has been strengthened by the admission, by Bisbop Grege, of seven candidates to Deacon’s orders. Several Presvyters bave also been or- dained, and will labor at watering places. A number of clerzymen huve applied for admis- slon into the Chai - The Presbyterian mission at Pekin, China, has been blessed with what scems to have besn a genuine revival.- About forty matives sought pardon and anited with the Chareh. A like re- sult took place under the labors of the Ameri- can Board’s missionarics at Tungehow. = The London mission at Tientsin reccived 250 per- 50DS. . No less than forty-six seceaers from the local Ritualistic churchcs in and around Brizhton, Eng.. andmany of them boasting high posi- tions, wealth and inflaence, reccived the sacra- ment of_confirmation Tecently at the hands of the Roman Cathotic Bisbop of- Southwark, The Church would thus appear to be steadily mak- ing zaps fn the-ranks ol the Establisbment. The sixty-ninth 2onual meeting of the Amer-, ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign 3Mis- sious will be held 11 lmmanuel Presbyterian Church, Miiwaukee, begioning at 3 o'clock p. m., Tucsday, Oct. 1, and closing “Friday morn- in%, Oct. 4. Supplementary mieetings will be held on the West Side, Wednesday and Thurs- day evenings, in the Spring Street Congrega- tional Churzh. - Tne ffty-ninth aopual conference of the Primitive Methodist Church of Great Britain met at Manchester, Eng., June 19. The Rev. H. Phillips was clected President for the year. The statistics reported for the home and mission statfons, exclusive of Canads, were 1,122 minis- ters, 174,473 church .members, 3,945 . Sunday- scnoals, 57,374 teachers, 358,353 scholars, The total income of the year £23,267. - A Ministerial Council was held at Freeport, Me.., July 2, ut the call of the church and acting pastor of that place, the Rev. Georze Michael, to consider and advise, first, on the orthodoxy of Mr. Michael; secoond, on. the expediency of his remaining with -that church another year. The Council declined expressing an opinion on the first of these anestions, it being one proper- 1y coming nnder tbe cognizance of = council of e churches, in usualform. On the second question, they advised adverselyto a farther “consecrated ten years ago, but * Philadelphia Bulletin. contfonante .6f Mr- M. titlstry in " this “place. It is sald- that Mr.-Michael retalns. the confi- dence and warm regard of-a larze portion ‘of thispeople. . + P The Pope hasaddressed a long letter to the. Cardinal-Vicar on the subject of religious in- struction. ‘He says.the. action.of the Roman suthorities .in prohibiting. religions teaching in the public schiools removes the barriers azanst the fuflux of heresyand *opens the way for o new kiad of .foreign - invasion.”. . He urges, therefore, the increase of schools -and oratories under the authority of the pricsts, in which the rellziofns oducation of the young can be properly or. It is proposed to place three mural tabléts”in the oratory of the’ Theological ‘Seminary at Princeton, "N. . f.,—one_to the memory of the three Professors Alexander, father andsons, one to Dr. Miller, and on= to Dr. Hodge. It has been decided to ask the sum of $1 from cach one of the men who bave sat az the feet of any of these fllustrious and beloved men, and the money so contributed will be applied to this. purnose un- der the direction of the Committee who will haye charge of the funds. { Shall.T sy ¢ brother or sister here departed ¢ *It’s neither, whispered the man;.*shnre. Was only an acquaintance !’ § sy . The “ Non-cternity of the Eternal® is béing discussed agnin “up in 'the Cobnecticut. Valley. -~ \hen we observe the men of that region fixing - : :g:l;:&ur:fl:ul ;o.;xixuln:ly n‘?on things beyond * - le, we always fear they are expecting s poor tol crop.—Boston Post. - - Lo *Were there any allens and stran ion the Jews at'the time of their jouriterv‘ ::“in% 4 Promised Land #” asked the superintendent - last Sunday. *No sir,” repiied the smart bad ?:n’n :: b?r?: ]’J’m‘szfi:& ":lncr.were all to the ~ Burlington Backege, o0 TR sioging | ‘The Saperintendent approached 2 youth of color, who was preseut for the first time in Sun- -* day-school, and inquired his name,-for the pur- Dose of placing It on the roll. The good' man tried in vain to preserve his eravity when the answer was retarned: *‘ Well, massa calls me Cap’n, but my maiden name is Moses.” A Httle S-year-oid girl, who volunteered to_ssy erace at the table, did so 23 follows: AL 8 recent meeting in New York of the | [ OnL Lot bress the fthines we cat; bress " e«_a‘sophlcnl Sndez_'y'. Hierephant Alcott sat hg and here, casting up her eyes to her grandtather e *“Grand Orfent,” and Mrs. Helen Blavatsky [ ' o next scat, and discoverine that he was was Secretary. News was read from England that a branch of the Society haa been orzanized in London, Christianity is to- be attacked in both hemispheres, and the Soclety is sending out missionaries. Corresponding Secretary Blavatsky became an American citizen on Tues- day last, so that she might have the protection of United States Consuls in Asta: She is about to go East to assist in the work. A new Hebrew congregation called * Chebra Anshe Emeo” has been organized in the North Division. Among the more prominent mem- ‘bers are Messrs. K. T._Davidson, J. Sternheim, Morris Levy, William Levy, F. Kassler, L. Hel. delberger, Joel H. Hollander, Samuel Bernhei- mer, Ben' Cohen, Jacob Abrahams, and others. The following gentlemen were elected as officers for the cosuing year: K. T: Davidson, Presi- dent: Joseph. S. Phillips, Vice President; L. Heidelberg, Treasurer; Joel -H. Hollander, First. Trustee; William Levy, Secdod - Trustee; ‘Alfred Jacobs, Third Trustee; and Jacob Abra- hams, Trustee in Genersal. A Georgia Justice has decided that it is legiti- mate for barbers to ply the razor on Sundays. Seven bosses ‘were arrested in Atlanta for vio- lating this section of the code: ‘*‘Any trades- man, artiticer, workman, laborer, or other per- son whatever, who sball pursue their business, or work of their ordivary calling, upon.the Lord’s day (works of necessity or cliarity oaly excepted), shall be guilty of a misdemesnor, A test case was argued, and the Judge de- cided last week m favor of the barbers. He based his judgment upon the upplication of the word “necessity.”” He did not take the view of the municipal authorities on the necessity of giving to men an hour or two on Sunday morn- inz to shave and clean themselves for the par- pose of attending places of public worship. He frankly admitted that people mieht go to church black and soiled with dust, and micht live so_ail their lives. He discritminated be- tween indispensable unecessities and habitual necessities. He was unwilling to regard the qualifications which some close reasoners put upon the word. He thought that delicacy of appearance in_public was a required necessity, and the use of a barber's ehop might in some iostances be as essential as a drug store, inus- much as health and its requirements often de- pend on cleanliness of person, and consequent- 1y shaving-saloons were public necessities. THE SOUL'S KEPOSE. To the Editor of The Tridune. Cmcago, July 19.—If the repors of the faneral-services of the late Mamie Stevens in your issue of the 6th fuvst. is correct, the Rev. Dr. Walker, a-minister ot the Presbyterian Chureh, who offciated on that occasion, is said to have ** invoked the Divinc mercy and good- ness on the soul of her who had been so ruth- lessiy strickcn down by the assassin’s hand.” While such sentiments may be the desire of sympathetic humanity, it is, it seems to_me, a strange doctrine to be taught i the Presby- teriag Church. I sm aware that the Roman Catholic Church offers mass and says rayers for the welfare of the souls of the departed; but, nuless I am grossiy ignorant of the tenets of faith of the Presbyterian Charch, this is a new departure for a member of that body. 1f the words of the Presbyterian miniater, as quoted above, were correctly reported, he would cnlighten many in the Presbyterian Ghurch by stating upon what authority e uses them. In this connection it may be worth while to notice that the futerior of this week walks into the *‘epontaneous freshet of droozle” of the Revs. Tuomas; Revell, and McChesney in their discourses on this pitiable casc of murder, but is wonderfully silent rezarding the sentiments referred to of the minister of the body it rep- ‘reseuts, and. who, by the- way, assaciated - him- sclf with the ‘“warin molasses ™ scrmonizer at the funeral services. ., Tnquinsa. PERSONAL. The Rey. 8. H. Weller; of Lincoln, Neb., has gone to Europe for a year’s vacation, The Rey. D. 8. Johnson, of Hyde Park, bas received DsD. from Blackburn University. The Rev. J. W. Heoson, editor of the Nas _Couenant, is visiting the Church in Kansas. * Bishop Ames, of the Mecthodist Episcopal Church, is reported to be ill at his home in Baltimore. President Patton, of the Howard University, formerly of this city, will take his vacation at Hartford. o g Bishop Chatard, the new Roman Catholic prelate of Indianapolis, will shortly be inaucted into his diocese. ‘The Rey. Wolcott B. Williams has undertaken to raisc the endowment of the Michigan char in the Oberlin Seminary. The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood, Rector of St. Mark’s, in this city, bas declined an unanimous call to Christ Church, Joliet. The Rev. J. L. Fowle was receatly ordained as a missionary of the American Boardat, Wobura, Mass.. and will sail for India fn the fall. ‘The Rey. Philo Phelps, late of this city, is now supplying the Presbyterian Church at Bu- reka, Nev., and expects soon to be installed pas- tor. Thomas Case; President of Haverford College, and a memter of the Bible Revision Committee, has been bouored with LL. D. by. Harvard Col- lege. ‘The Queen has become interested in the prosecutions for ritualism, and has ordered the papers in the Mackonochie case to be sent to her for her perusal. 5 Mr. Moody feels the need of rest and slngx. after five years of constant work, and has m: arrangements 10 go to Baltimore in October and spend the winter there with, bis family. The Rev. James L. Phillips, of India, who has becn in this country in_the intcrest of the Free- will Baptist School in India, has succeeded in raising $25,000 for its endowment, and will re- tarn to India soon.” Bishop Foster dedicated the chapel on the Vineyard Camp Ground on Friday last. Heis also announced as ont of the speakers at_the dedication of the Baptist Tabernacle on Vine- yard Highlands, 3Mass., Aug-18. 1t is said within a fortnicht eleven clergymen of the Church of England have'withdrawn and joined the Church of Rome. Earl Percy and the Kev. G. R. Burrows are also said to be pre- paring to enter the Catholic communion. The Rev. J. W. Cracraft has been appointed agent of Knox Colleze, Galesburg, Iil. His special work will be to lectare in ihe Congrega- tional ana_ Presbyterian Coburches in the State, with the view ol increasing the nuunber of stu- dents- The Rey. Benjamin C. Taylor, D. D., cele- brated last Sunday the scmi-ccntennial of bis ministry in the South Reformed Church, N. J. During the past eizht years Dr. Taylor has been Pastor Emeritus, being disqualified by age from active duty. The Rt.-Rev. Iznatins Mrak has sent to Rome his resigmation of the See of Marguette. He was 2s had ver{ pour health ever since. He would take a paris] or a smaller diocese, where his strength would not be taxed as it is now. FRIVOLOUS PIETY. ‘The question is, Which doubles up the most persons, clergymen or cucumbersi— Whitehall Times. ' : . The elevated railways in New York are ful- flling the scriptural injunction toward the peo- ple by heaping coals of fire upon their heads.— smiling, the littfe one closed her prayer by saying: ‘“Behave yourself, gampa,—for Christ’s sake. Amen.” Recently, at a social gathering, Bishop Harris was invited vo sinz. He declined, but told the following incident as’illustrative of his talent inthatline: During his jouruey through Pal- estine; one’ evening, after he and Mr. Spencer, who occupled the tent with him, had gone to bed, the Bishop began humming a tune of the ~ olden time called New Durbam. Mr. Spencer joined in, and the two began. singing a verse of one of our familiar hymns. Before the verse was finished, a donkey just outside of the tent brayed as only a donkey in the East can bray. While the hills of Judea were sending hack the cchoes of this most extraordinary aud untimely performance, the drazoman put his head inside the tent, and, apologizing for his donkey, satd: “Ha! you sing one tune he think he know."” ; CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. B. F. Jhcobs:whl preach at the First Charch, comer of South Park avenme and. Thirtye- st streer, n the morning. - By- particalur request, Prof. E. C. Mitcheil will deliver his lect- ure fn the eveniog on ** Undergrornd Jerusalem, ™ being an acconnt of the excavations urderneath - the Holy City, made by Capt. Warren, of the En- ghsh Royal Engineers, fllustrated by views of Jernsalem and by maps and diagrams. b —The Rev. A Owen will preach in the Universi- ty Place Charch, corner of Donglas place and Rhodes avenue, 3:10:30 2. m. and 7:45p. m. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach in the Michi- gan Avenae Charch, near Twenty-third street, at 10:30 2. m. —The Rev. Jokn Peddte will preach in the Sécond Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan streets, 3t 10:30 2. m. gnd 7:45 p. w. —The Rev. J. A. Henry will presch morningand evening in Dearborn Church, on Thimy-slsth street. —The Rev.G. W. Northrup will preach morni and eveaing in the Fourth Church, {¥ashington an Paulina streets. —The Rev. C. Perren will proach in Western Avenne Chureh morning and evening. —The Xev. C. E. Hewittwill preach morning and evening at Centenmal Church, Lincoln and Jack- son atreets. . —The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach mornin; and evening n North Star Charch, Division and Sedzwick strects. —The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach morning aud evening in Central Church, 200 Orcharastraet. —Tho Rev. W. J. Kermott will preach morning and cvening in Halsted Street Church. —The Rev. Lewis Rsymond will preach in ths Sonth Church, corner of -Locke aad Bonaparte streets. at 112, m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Kev. R. De Baptisto will preach morning and evening in Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, —The Rev. E. K. Cressy will preach in the Coventry Street Chuich, corner of Bloomington road, 2¢10:30 a. m- and 7i30p, m. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach at No. 381 West Meadison street morning and svening. Even- ing enbject: **The Manhood of Chriat.™ + BPISCOPAL. g Cathedral Free Charch SS. Peter and Paul, car- mer of West Washinzton and Peona streets. The Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLarcn, siishop. The Rev. J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. Choral morning . raycr and celebration of the ~Holy Communion at Choral evening prayer at 7:43p. “The Rev. Samnel S. Harrls will officiate morn- ing and cvening a5 St. James' Church, corner of Cass and Haron streets. Commnnion at 8 o..m. —The Rev. M. C. Dotten will ofiiciate in the morning at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty- sixth sureet and Michigan aveage, Communion at oA m. e o s —The Rev, Francis Mansfield will officlate morn- ing and cvening at the Church of. the Atonement, corner of Wasnington and Robey streets, —The Rev. J. Bredverg will oflciate. morning 23d_evening ‘ot St Ansparins’ Church, on Sedg- wick street, nesr Chicago avenge. - —The Re¥. Clinton Locke will officiate In_the ‘morning at Grace Church. on Wabash avennc, near Sixteenth street. Communion at 8. m. —The 'Kev. Thomas k.. Coleman will ofiiciate morninz and evening at St Johw's Church, cormer of Washington street and Ogden avenue. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will oficiate morning and eyening ut the Charch of the Asccnsion, cor- ner of LaSalie and Elm streeta. ZThe Rev. C. 5. Lester will officiate_morning and evening ut St. Panis Charch, Hyde Park. The Rev. B. F. Flectwood will olliciate morn- ingond evening st St. Mark's Charch, corner of Cotiage Grove avenne 1nd Thirty-sixth street. Z'rke Hev, Heory G, Perry will officiate mora- 1ng and evening at St. Stephen’s Charch, Johnson street, neat Taylor. P —The Kev. Luther Pardee will officiate morning and eveniog at Calvary Charch, Warrea avenue, mnear Oakley wtreet. Commanion at 7:45 a. m. B “The Kev. T. N. Morrison, Jr.. will officlate morning and evenlng at the Church of the Epiph- any, Throop street; Hear Monroe. ~iIhe Rev. W. Botrle will omciate morning and z;cnmlfial Yabfi fi‘humn of Our 3uvior, ccrnerof Tincolu and Belden avenues. - < —The congregution of All Saints’ Church witt worship at the Catacdral. METHODIST. % The Rev. V. F. Lrown preaches at the charch corner of Hlarrison and Paulins strects this morn- ing. and Mrs. J. F. Willing this evening. .Dr. Thomas prgaches at Ceutenacy this morn- Ing. and the Rev. L. P. Mercer In the evening. " The Rer. T. C. Clcndenning preaches ot the State Sizoct hirch this moraiog, aad tho pasior in the evening. he. Kev. J. Atkinon, D. D., will presch fn Grace Charch, corner of North Lasalle snd White streets, ut 10:30 2. m. and 7:45 p. m. “'fhe Rev. 4. M. Caldweil preaches morning and evening in the Ads Strect Church, between Lake und Falton strects. Z —The Rev. I Adams preaches morntag and evening in the Western Aveaue Cliurch. At John Blackmors preaches In the Brighton Charch at 10:30 2. m. “The tiev. Dr. R. . MeKalg, of Fort Wayne, will proach morning snd eveaipg at Trinity Church, on Indisna aveoue, neaz Twenty-fourth strees. o Weaeran wii preach 1 tho Hol The Rey. Lipko Bederus will preach in tho Hol- 1and Chiarch, dorner of Noble end Erie streets, a8 102 m., in'the Holland Ianguage, snd a17:30 p. m. in English. . ~_The Ktev. ArtharMitchell will ‘preach in_the Firat Church, corner of Indiana avenuc and Twén- | ty-feat sorect, ar10:30 8. m. * “The Rev. Dr. Hatfleld will preach in the morn- fog at the Fourth Charch, corner of Kusk and Su- erior strects P The Rev.T. L. Patton will preach morniag aad evening at the Jefferson Park Charch. “'Tho Rev. J. Maclaughlan will presch morging and evening nt the Scoich Charch, corner of San- , of Boston, imon and Adams street§. S‘—The Rev. Dr. Withre wiil n!nc‘h 2£10:30 8. m. and 7:45 v. m. at the Third Charch, corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues. —Tne Rev, Mr. Henderson, of Danville, Ky., will presch i 10:30a. m. in the Elghts Charch, corner of Wrshington and Robey streets. . "Mr. J. A.-Montgomery will preach in the morning 3t the Railrosd Cunspel, corner of State and Fourteenth EL{Q:H. and the Vo ur Mitchell In the evening. —The Rey. Dr. Mitchell will preacn in the Sec- oad Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Tren- tieth strcet, at 10:45 a.m. In the eventag a union meeting will be held, when the Rev. Dr. Schoft will lecture on ** Bible Revision.” 5 - REFORMED EPISCOTAL. % The Rev. M. D. Church preaches_at St. John's Chureh, corues of Ellis avenue 3ad Thirty sorents rect, this mormiag. “—'l%l! Rev. F. “”. Adama preaches at Immannel Charch, comer of Centre and_Dayton strcets, this morning. Subject: *+Life's Outzoings and Life's Incommgs.” "~ 2 N Biehop Cheney presches at Christ's Church, biect: ‘* Wise in Their Geaeration, 't W : rzan will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:45 p. . 3t St,Paul’s Church, corner of West Washington and Carpenter streets. s CONGREGATIONAL. ~ = The Rey. D. §. Clark,of Clinton, Mass., preach- es at the First Church morning and evening. The Rev. W B. Wright, of Bowton, preaches Piymoath Church this morning. No eyening rvice. - —The Rev. W. P. Fisher wili preach at Unfon Park Church morning and evening. A —The Eev. C. A. Towle will imlch at Bethany Church 2t 10:45 2. m., and the Kev. G. H. Pecke in the evening, —The Rev. @, I, Peeke ivill preach in the morn- ing In the Leavitt Street Church. i . CHRISTIAN.. There will be the nsual service at the Fimt Cnarch, corner of Indiana avenus and Twenty- fifth street, this mornipg. . . : A 3 Wi Wit préaéh 1n” the Westera The man who carries around the contribution ‘box in church ought to be suorem:lyv b:pny; he ch every onc puts in and 1o one O Seh hovy mach e tukes Qui-of - B packet to put in’ it.—Hackensack Kepudlican. A heterodox sort of Christian- wishes some one to explain why, when 2 thunder-storm vis- it 3 town containing thirty beer saloons and ghtoing will travel all | Avenne Church, near Congress atreet, morning B O e oot sitiEe & chuih Nor- | 4nd Cvenint. Eventos sabjerss ot Gome 18d See.. ristown Herald. 4 —Mr. M, wiil preach at Csmpocll Hall; £ commer of Campbel aveate aad Vim Buren streety At 2 funeral in Ireland the cl 30 had not | at10:458. m. A e = e been informed of the sex of the deceased. He accardingly leaned over to the sexton and said.