Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1878, Page 9

RELIGIOUS. van Worship and the Sab- Sylbnth-School Convention at Round Lake. ; 's Criticism on “ What Is 4 Inyl?;lel Bible ?" from a Lib- eral Standpoint. qhe Theory of Divine Justice Rel- ative to That “Test Case.” 'What the Religious Press Ex- ¥ pect from the Berlin Treaty. An Interview with the Rev. Arthur Tooth, the Famous Rit- ualist. Notes — Personals — Frivolons Piety—Services To-Day. SYLVAN WORSHIP. SCESES AT ROUND LAKE. From Our Owun Correspondent. Lase, N. Y., July 25.—There are ople here who rise every morn- wu:ha?z:a( the 6 o’clock chimes,and take O rebreakfast pilgrimsco to the Holy Land At8 o'clock they 20 to morning service. a0 hour later they drup in to see how the idren's mecting prospers. At 8:30 they takealessen in the pormal class, and put their nowledge agsinst that of thequick teacher. ‘Feren 'elock finds them fresh for the morning \ure, o which they give dose hieed, perbaps yakinz copious notes. By noon they are willing: toderotean hour to eating, aod another to ‘it the Biblical Museum, or 10 zathering wound the brassband stand, or to friendly curerse. At 20'dock they listen to the after- pcnlecture. At 4 they are again in the nor- sl dass-room. An nour before tea Is given to showing fricnds the wonderful city of Jerusa- 1em, or the polnts of interest within the camp- ground. At § o'clock they attend the evening service, commonly hearing a sermon. At 9 there isa praisemeeting yet remaining to be ot oat of the way; and 8 10 o'clock the night . bells warn thefaitbful to their couches. . Doring nine days these wood people have fol- Jowed this programme nearly to the letter. Whst they will do to-morrow, when there are Do more meetinge to at- Tyend, does not now appear. They might fish on the Round Lake, only that there are few fish to catch, and that they donot care to fish. They mizht do hell a dozen fhings, which probably they will not. They might £0'awsy, and probably most of them will. They possess staying qualities for going to neeting, and make that their chief occupation, fecreation. and amusement, all in ove. The Aisembly, with its fuil programme, has delight- ¢ them. Presently Chaplain McCabe and those eminent revivalists, Hammond and Pay- &, are coming for a_week of their warm . and rusing work. A little while later the temper- oo claus will mather under the leadership of Treocis Murphy, who seems to have the fire of Jather Matbcw in bis veins. So these an- mancements will draw the mecting-roers back, d Round Lake will, with a fortnight’s inter- nission, be a busy plsse—busy in its own pecu- ar wag—until September. ¥ Atwhatever time, life bere s not much dis- tacted by variety. Tie first day usnal’lly X lansts the features that may be considered “sorel, and tlhie sccond day often exhausts the visitor’s desire to remain. On the other hand, the quiet and the freedom from the commorn waar and whirl are the very inducements that iad men to seek rest In this grove settlement. ‘This life differs from that of the country villaze b that the inhabitants of the camp have witing in particular to do. They form a wamonity of idlers, where each can follow his wilsa far as the facllities at command will tiow. In such case, where holiday reizns and theides of carninz one’s subsistence is put into the background. no wonder there is o sort of ‘wmreality aoous it, and a relief that makes peo- e content, 1orgetful for a time of everything zing on outside the camp-sround fence. ~ Add” tdto this is the purpose of stidy and of ad- vnoement in religious lite. Ta such as seck divertiscment._and pleasure, this is mot an attraetive abiding-place. 1t was not intended forthem; and if by chance they stop 10 sec w*hat mauner of spot it is, they sgon go on azin. Round Lake is pot .nerely a camp- mectiog ground, however. Maoy cottaze-owners bring their families hither early in the summer and remain through the warmn season. \When thereare no mectings the place does not Jook deserted by auv means. Year by year the number of permanent summer residents in- esses. There is also a small population resi- dent throughout the vear. The site is health- {ul, there {s plenty of playground for children, 204 all ¥hio choose this as 5 summer home are 2senred of protection in peace and quict. To many there is ever a charm in the idea of living inthewaods. It may not be real camping-out, bm it 4s as near an approach aus comfort will tolerate for apy lepgth of time. The Asso- cation is Methodist, but the grounds are not Tun onasectarian basis. At this Assembly, just closing, half s dozen denominations were . Tepresented by the lecturers, teachers, and ers. ‘The utmost liberslity ts shown, and evervbody is welcome: to come and enjoy what- eser is provided. The Sund:f-sd:ool Assembly, which closes viths farewell mecting to-morrow morning, is 1be beginning of a distinctive work not hitherto uodertaken here, a work in_pursuance of the idea £0 effectively illustrated at Chautauqua, in Btate, at Atlanta, Ga., and in the Sunday- school assemblies at Lake Blufl. The purpose istomake the Round Lake Assembly 2 perma- zent institution, supplied with every facilitv for sindy. The course adopted is the well-known course of Sunday-school normal study arranged at Fair Point fu 187 by a committec of gentle- mea representing ten different denominations. course is covered each year by lecturers, normal class exereises, conversations. addres: & and sermons. At the close of cach Assem- Uy a sowpetitive examization is beld, and the Suessful candidates receive diplomas, Liecomn- figthus the Round Lake Alumni Association. ¢ course lflduales forty l;ssons, covcn'ng‘ su;n s the place and purpose of the Sibbattschoal, " the inspimtion of the ble association of the Sabbath-school, Bile hitory ard _chronology, the teach- &% oflice “aud work, Bible geoeraply, gwlnhy, institations, and interpretation, dif- cuities and mistakes in teaching, practice in tivating memory, and other lessons bearing ¥ on the teacker’s work. There are three and three years are required to com- Petethe course, which will recommend itsell Houw toany teacher o worker in this im- Partant ficld. “;fhé fitst assembly has been vory successful in ingors accompliched. Dr. Vineent, who was 3 is too well known fn Chicago asa uday-schiool worker 10 need further mention. be was the leader in originating and perfect- Ve fnternational series of lessons, 40 ie Bas men the chfe! in promoting these assemblics at foluanqus. He brousht an_able corps of as- s, trained in thr special departments of Dormal teaching. Among these was Frank Beard, the caricaturist, who has a large_talent n':fhilr‘um—muns in chalk and charcoal. Thelist of exturers and preachers contained the names g h‘mlnm aud able men, and their discourses The,06el, Tithout exception, of a high order, th ouly thing wantiuz to fulfill the hopes of 0% enaced in the movement has been omle~more peopie by hundreds. Yet 5l remembered thal it tovk three g dOU yoars to secure 8 laree esdance at Chantsuqus, and there u ey 2son for complaint. ~Then, throueh the ing of the people in this neighborhood that o 20d consequently religious _places, 4 Uit be thoroughly free. the charzing of an been m fee kept away hundreds who have e In the Labit of visiting the grounds. Fri- oy 2t at the cutreaty of the railroad com- Bad e fe was removed, and charge was padeinstead to the park of Palestine. This s & pretty sure woy to realize the ssme ount of money, since few wonla fail to see mm attraction that was added tothe With- snecial refcrence to the Sunday- anop tudies. The mistake will uot be made Tave g '),':ur Tet the managers at Chataugua ‘inhabitan ed an entrance fee, and the iere do not appesr to take offense THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 28, I878—SIXTEEN PAGES 9 :& nn. ylnlr.wny of getting repayment for large The meetings of the ten days inclnded; among {he more interesting featares, loctmrcs y;t eBgv.‘Dr. Townsend, of the Boston Uni- Jersity. on (“The Bible a Miracle™; by the Rev. Till.u: xgn Talmage, on_The Bright Side of D V5 by the Rey. Dr. Darling, on * The evelopment of Divine Truth in the Sacred Aymn-_:"; by the Rev. Dr. Edward Exgleston, on **Christian EndeavorMethods ”; by the Rev. Dr. Newmav, on * Original Truths in Christian. Ly'"; by the Rev. Dr. Chadbourne, President of Willlams Collee, on * Sermons in Stones”; and 1}})‘ the Rev. Dr. Fowler, on “The Bible the rophet of Science.” Dr. Newman's lecture was one of the ablest hehas yet written, and will probably form part of the'book heis said 1o be wniting on the same subject. Dr. Femles- ton was thoroughly interesting in his descrip- tion of the methods emnloged 5o _eflectively by him in his Brooklyn Ch of ‘“The Christian gv;fll?cz:;." lol,thelr “rmefs““z features were s of Prof. Van Lenmep, t an Oriental exhibition. B, tomethes wit Dally lecturcs in Palestine Park and Jerusa- Iem were given by Dr. Wythe, their builder, Prof. Van Leoncp, and Dr. Newman. The latter, who lived for some months in Jerusalem, expresses his unqualified admiration of the manner in which the model is constructed, and says he can not only pick out the house in walcn beresided, bat see the very window from which he waswont _to throw orange-peel into the court betow. This model of Jerusalem is indeed 2 work of art, and awakens general enthusizsm. Dr. Wythe began work uvon it in Januars, as- sisted by his daughter, and was cengaged uearly five months in its building. The inclosure is sixty feet square; the scale one foot to 150 feet. The surveys made by the English and French Governments form” the basis of the models, the buildings being 1aken from over 200 stereo- scopic views and from ground-plans. The city was laid out with the utmost accuracy, and Dr. Wythe tells me that not a_street or building in the modern city is omitted in this model. 1t is easy to see why Mark Twain pronounced It the nobbiest ' city be had ever seen. Jerusalem, seen at this size, is thoroughly picturesque. The prominence of the public buildings, the hun- dreds of little domes dotting the houscs, the tiny flags of the Consulates, the splendid square of the Mosque of Omar, all help to give a ro- mantic effect, atded strongly by the high and massive-looking walls. The H{fly Sepulchre, the palace of the Latin Patrlarch, the Arinenian and Roman convents, the Rotischild Syuagozue, the Via Doloross, the tomb of David, with the little American cemetery hard by,—these and many other points of inferest aré easily to be found. The walls and buildings well represent the limestone, quarried beneath the city itsell, of which Jerusalem is built. The cnvirons ap- pear to suflicient extent to show the interesting glacu across the valleys of Jehoshaphat acd ihon, such as_Mary’s tomb, Absalom’s tomb, the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane, the pool and village of Siloam, the pool of Gihon, and the Russion scttlement. This model conveys an idea of the Holy City such ascan be obtained in Do other way save by a visit to the original Palestine. Among the visitors of the week was the Rev. Mr. Van Meter, formerlv of the Ioward Mis- ion in New York, recently of the Vatican Mis sion in Rome. Mr. Van Meter gave mec an in- teresting account of his labors in_Protestant~ {sm, almost under the walls of the Papal Palace, aud says be intends to return this fall to carry on thie work. First, however, Chicago will be included among the cities where be will try to find help toward spreading the Bible in Italy. Hisreturn to this country was caused by the bard times, the Society under whose aus- jccs he was workine finding it impossible to cecp up its collections. Mr. Van Meter will re- turn uoder the direction of an iudependent Board, composed of gentlemen of high reputa- tion, who have been deeply interested in the progress of his labors among the Italian children. After to-morrow this city in the grove will be a place of thorough quiet for a week. Itisa good place in which to wait for something to turn up. H.G, WHAT IS THE BIBLE ? 'A LAYMAN’S CEITICISM ON A NEW COMMENTARY. What Is the Bible? An attempt to answer the question in the lizht of the best scholarship, and in the most reverend and catholic spirit. By J.T. Sunderland. G. P. Patnam's Sons, No. 182 Fifth avenue, New York, ‘This js the title-page of a book, the advance sheets of which have lately. come to my band. Having carefully read the work, I am prepared to say that the author, as he desired, nhasap- proached the subjeet in the most reverent spirit, and let shioe in his little work the best lights in modern Biblical literature, calling to his aid the works of such men as Matthew Ar- nold, F. C. Baur, Davidson, Ewaid, Mulier, Stanley, Tiele, and otbers. The rcader of this book will find a list of these writers in its care- fuliy-prepared appendix, which, by the wey, is not merely a list, but, being somewhat on the style of Spurzeon’s *‘ Commentators and Com- mentaries,” it gives in a few and pointed re- marks the main features of each writer; with this difference, however, that the author com- mends the writers Spurgeon might condema. 1t _is evidently intended that this sball be a handbook, and that not merely for those inter- csted in theological studies, but for a larger class which Las little time for such study. I trust that this is the heraid of a larre numper of handbooks setting forth the claims and doc- trines of the liberal faith. Now to the review of the book. The first chapter treats of the “ origin and growth of the world's sacred books.” Similar to the Old Tes- tament, many of theso books are combpilations of the writings of different authors, centering in no particular person; others, though com- ilations, centre In. some Derson, as the New Testament in Jesus. All, however, owe their sacredness to time. * What the fathers prized, the children vencrated, sud the children’s chil- dren lifted up into the miraculous and the divine.”—P. 18. Were it not for the sacredness given by time to the Bible it would be ditlicult to conceive how men who question everything else bend before this book without a word, hold to the delusion that a cunning Jacob, a blood-stained David, and an adulterous Solomon were favorites of the Holy God,—how they see crrors in the accounts of creation as given by other sacred books. and vet hold to the equally erroneous one of the Old Tesiament, or how they reject the miracles of the monks, but build taeir faith on those of Elijab, Jesus, Peter, and Paul. ‘There is one point in this chanter upon which a volame mignt be written,—and, indecd, should be written,—viz., the practice of reading be- tweep the lines in the sacred books. Hitehecock finds fu the first chapter of Genesis 8 true geo- logical account of creation. Christlieb, in bis chapters on Natural Religion and the Trinity { Modern Dounts and Cliristian Beiicf "), reads into the Bible ideas which would startle the authors of that book. Busonell finds there his tieory of “ Vicarious Sacrifice.” No one else could do 8o, and Peter and Paul would wonder how he cver mapaged to so twist their words. “This may cxplain how it bappens that the Bible is an inexhaustibie well (f). We take the waters ont of the deep wells which God is. opening for Himscif in our inner couscrousness, and pour them iuto these Bible wells: then, drawiog them out asain, cry: “Dehold fresh waters from the old wells.” 1In closing this first_cbapter, 0ar author gives passages from the Vedas, the King, and the Zend ~Avesta, calling our attention_to their similarity to passages iu our Bible. From this simitarity our author concludes that ** Relizion js as universal us sunshine, or I Tts fountains are in every land, its oraphets dwelt under all skics. It has given mankind not, one sacred book, but many."—P, 39. “I'te second chapter is uccupled with an as- count of the orizin and growth of our Bible. Our suthor calls the Bible a vollection of He- brew hterature. ‘F'his Jeads him to speak of the, chief characteristic of this veoote. He finds that * in war, in politics, in art, in philos- ophy, in literature other thau religious, thev Mot excel. But relizmiously they werc mos femarkable."—P. 4. The Greck was ever ques- tioning; we have thercfore Plato and Aristotle. The Rotnan was ever at war; we have therefore Scipio and Cwmsar. The Englishman is a re- former; we have therefore Richard Cobden and Johu Bright. The Lebrew was a relizious thinker; we have therefore Isaiab, Jesus, and Palll. ¢ next asked to consider the authorship and chronology of the diffetent books of our Bible. After giving the conclusions arrived at by the best Biblical scholars hie refers us to their works, letting us know by the way that we know little or nothing as to the persuns who wrote thie books of the Bible, or thie time when they wrote them. In this chapter serious opjection is taken to the maoner in which our New Testa- ment canon was settled: Firsi—On account of the great disagreement about what books were and what were oot canon- dcal. Second—It is not agreed upon by what Coun- cil the cagon was settled, Laodicea, Carthage, or that of Trent. Third—After these Couneils, books in the canon _were ob{lecud o by such men as Lutber, Zwingli, and Calvin. ¥ F%fl’h—l‘h% imorance and credulity of the e in which the caunoa was sectled. .gEfldcnfly our autkor does not entertain the notion of some that_the ancients possessed all 1he learning. Indeed, we are inclined to believe that. he wou!d call the * fathers ™ vest-pocket editions, and compsred with whom the scholars of our day are encyclopedias. In this chapter we are led to be- Jieve that the canon of Scripture will never close; that inspiration is not 2 pool out of which a few drank and it was dry. but a river which flows on forever. 'To the question, When will the canon be closed? our author, if we may judge from the hints in this chapter, would answers ~ * When there is no soul in belni, ana no.God to spesk toit; when the cverlasting sorings have become adry well; when the io- finite God is exhausted, the sonl having ab- sorbed all there js in Him, then may the canon be closed with an avathema_before which not only you and 1, but also He, may tremble, Tntil then let us hear nothing of the closing of canons or anathemas.” R In the third chapter_our: author asks himsell the question, Is the Bible infalliblet He™ ob- jects to answering this in the affirmative, be- cause— First—Infallible transmission s as necessary 25 infallible origin. Second—The Hebrew Jangusge was written in consonants; we, thereforc, need inspired men to supply the vowels. Third—We need infallible translators. Fourth—Not only must ane. book be inspired, bu sixty-six. % Bl'l’i_]'t]l—Thk doctrine has no support in the ible. Sizth—The doctrine did mnot appear until modern times. g Wher we come to the study of the Bible we find there much that is very far from favoring the idea that it is infallible. We flad: First—It contradicts itself (Comp. 3 Sam., xxiv., 1, with 1 Cbrop., xxi.,, 1; 2 Sam., xxiv., with 1 Kings, xv., 5; 2 Kiogs, ii,, 11, with John, ii.. 13, ete., ete.) Second—There are in it mauy historical and acientific crrors. Third—Its representationssof God are often not only childish but immoral. 1t may be said that these objections have all been auswered. To- this our author returns avsyer: “They have been replicd to, but never apswered,” nor in the nature of things can they be. If, however, the Church desires to hold to the infallibility of a book which makes God a being worthy rather of our pity, hatred, and exccration than of our adoration (Gen., vi H 18am., xv., 11; Gen., xi,, 18-21: Deut., Xxxii., 41-2; Psalms, 1viiL, 10115 J08., Vi 21, Viil., 2), it does 50 at its peril. In the fourth chapter we have the author’s parting words. Here he gives us to understand that he isa firm believer in *inspiration ”*; that he belioves that much in the Bible is God- inspired. He cannot think, however, that It contains all the sayings and doings that are thus God-given. Indeed, he doubts whether the world has books cuough to do so. He would have us hold fast to the zood anl reject the bad, or; in the words of miners, treasure up the mold while we throw away the dross. And this i uot as difficult as we may at firstimagine, for not ouly do we find truth, but truth finds us. {tcomes nine-tenths of the way toward us. e sce, therefore, that he. is very far from following the absurd advice .of our orthodox {riends to accept all,—wheat and chaff,—or, the cqually absurd one of our infidel fricnds, to re- jeet all. For, if we find in the Bibls Ucu- teronomy, xxxil, 408, or Jos., vi, we have aiso there the parable of the * Good Samaritan.” If we find there 2 Samuel. xxi., we have also there the parable of the “Prodizal Son.” 1f it coutains the 10 Psalm, it also contains the Ser- mon ou the Mount. If one of its characters isa cunning_Jacob, another is the open, noble Peter. If one be the voluptuous and selfish Solumon, another is the suffering and sclf- sacrificing Paul. If one be the blood-stained David, another is Jesus, the Prince of Peace, the Christ. GERMAN, THAT “TEST CASE.” THE QUESTION OF FUTURE PUNISHXENT. 2 To the Editor of The Tridune. OrroMwa, Ia, July 23.—ToE TRIBUNE pro- posed a few months ago a test case of the ortho- dox faith in everlasting punishment. The case was substantially this: “A violently wicked man shoots a respectable but unregencrate neighbor. Now, If orthodoxy hold that this good ncighbor is sent to hell by that murderous shot, and that the murderer by availing himself of offered salvation during the few remaining months of his life gain Heaven, then it must be false.” This is truly a {est case. It fuvolves all the areument that can be brought forward against the orthodox doctrine of hell. The Bible and analogy are on the side of this stern doctrine. There is little with which to oppose it but sup- posed cases. These cases are made up in such a way as to make it appear that the oac seat to Hell should have been taken to Heaven,and vice versa. By such a supposition orthodoxy fs proved false, or God unjust. These cases always prove two things, and no more. First, that the opposition to the doctrine of future punishment is based largely upon human likes and dislikes; second. that man is not qualified to sit in final judgzment upon_his fellows. Itis casy to supoose cases in which it would be diffi- cult for raau to decide what ought to be doue. Orthodoxy does not claim that e can. Church- ‘membership and personal profession are not the final arbiters of destiny. Christ says, “Judae not.” Orthodoxy holds that the character with which a mau goes out of this world will deter- miue the futare condition, and that the Judse of all the carth will do right. This mystiflca- tion that comes to man i his low plane of per- sonal sympathies—narrow and often wholly erroncous judgments as to character—doces not come in the way of the final Judge. He does not see men with uncertain and mingled charge- ters and of mixed relations to Himself. He makes no wistakes in dividmg the sheep from the gonts. Heis not reduced to any doubtful decisions in winch a very indistinct shade of difference n moral characters opens the door of Heaven to one and shuts the otber in Hell. Iie looks at the very essence of men sud says, “Tie that is not for Me is azawnst Me.” They seem very near each other in our vision, but to the all-sceing Eye thero appears a rocky moun- tain range dividing them, and carrying the very outflow of their natures to opposite destinies. The whent and tares erew . together, and per- haps looked alike, but were entirely distinct. ‘They must come o certain separation and wide- 1y-scparated destinies. The rizhtcous are called wheat, the wicked chafl, so distinct do they ap- pear to the great Judge. We may rest assured that not u single germ of truly rightcous cbar- acter in this strangeiy-mixed world will fail to be garnered in the skics. The chaff will as cer- tainly be driven away. Orthodoxy truly holds that depravity runs through sl the generations of man by reason of tae stn of Adam, but it also holds that grace came by Jesus Christ sufficient tosupply all of man's needs_and help him to rigntcousness and heaven. The propagation of the race was predicated upon the great Tuet that as sin abounded grace did much more abound. This race mects cyery chid that comes into the world and_constitutes it 1 mem- ber of the Kingdom of Heaven, 1t 1s thus se- cured from Hell until it deliberately rejects righteonsness and chooses sin. The great and Invarizble law is Iaid down by Christ Himself, when he says: * This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light.” Noone will be doomed to Hell who does not deserve it, and consclously deserve it. The heart passes the first sentence of condemnation. Even of the heathen it is said: *Their conscience also buar- ing witnese.” The judgment of that day will be a righteous judement. Nor will one be ban- fshed from the Divine presence who has the clements of righteousness in his soul which will qualify him for Heaven, or even make it de- girable. As rizhteousness - attracts some men herc and repels others, so will they o to their own place at the flual judg- ment. in_ regard to the supposed case, Orthodoxy does believe that if the murdered man had lived in disubedicnce to God, in the rejection of Christ, and died in his unre- generate state, that he will be amons the num- ber *turned into Hell.” On the other band, that the murderer, if he traly repent,—believe in Christ, and thus receives pardon and rezenera- tion,—will be saved in Heaven. What is there in such an adjustment of the case to make even those who have monopolized the thinking of the age to stand aghast? It wasnot the bullet that sent the man to perdition. It was his sins. The murderer did not kill the soul. It is not a particle worse for the man than it would have been if a thunder- | bolt had rifted mim, a falling house croshed him, the ponderous train mangied him. Itis no worse for his destiny than it would have been had sudden congestion scized hig brain, or even lingering consumotion have eaten uv his life white flatteriue his hopes. If the nun must be kept out of Hell because murdered, what is to be done with him! Does the fact of his being shot change his moral character.—readjust his relations to God, give him atiinities for holiness, or an aptitude for Heaven? If 5o, the shotgun has a great moral as wetl as political sirniticance. Maoy ministers mieht better be armed with' sucn mighty weap- onsinstead of the *Word,” and go forth to ‘people Heaven oy shooting down the multitude of pleasant but " unregenerate persons about them. Adranced thought has certainly achieved awonderiul feat whea it removes from the Jus ment-seat character and substitutes the ventitions circamstances of cach man’s taking- ofl. A new study is opened to the aze in which inquiry s to be madeinto the azencles of fevers, contasions, raiiroad-disasters, wars, murders, in determining the moral destiny of men in the Jife to come. On the other hand, is there any- ‘thing so strange and unjust in the supposition that the murderer might be saved? This salva- +tion in mo way adds to the penalty that bis un- repentant victim suffers. In human govern- ments it {$ not an uncommon thing for crimi- nals who manifest a spirit of repentance and reform to be pardoned. They sometimes very *quickly undergo a radical change in their char- scter, and are welcomed back to socicty and re- ceive the smiles of the best citizens, wiile their victims suffer on by reason of -the - irreparable wrong they inflicted uvon tbem. There are miur- derers, who violently sent’ their victims into eternity, who have not only_reformed but have become great reformers.” The'poblic loves to speak their praise and do them bonor. Liberal- minded preachers hasten to congratalate them, and oftcn hold them up before their congrega- tions as examples to incite ‘others to reform, while at the same time they are thrown into theological spasms in supposing that murderers may rcpent and be saved while their victime may be lost. They also continue to preach re- pentance and remission of 8ins to the worst of their congregations, some of whom are guilty of as great sins as murder. They welcome them to the privileges of the Church,zadminister to them the holy sacraments, and lead them along in their new life, while their ipnocent victims are the loathsome and suffering wrecks of humanity. The princi- ple implied in the supposed case which is ex- pected to explode Orthiodoxy, would sweep away 2 moral rovernmeat, in which mercy isextended to the gmilty. It would forever shut the door of hope and reform against humanity. 1t would silence the preaching of *‘repehtance and remis- sion of sins.” Thus the argument of Liberalism agaiust Orthodoxy will, i€ pushed to its logical sequences, expunge mercy from the Divine Goy- ernment, and shut man up in inexorable fate. Thus extremes meet. and such absurdities must. ever foliow the dcthronewent of a just and mercifal God, and the substitution therefor of the little petulance and vindictiveness of the human heart. J. W. McDoxraLp. THE BERLILN TREATY, WIAT THE RELIGIOUS PRESS EXPECT FRON IT. ‘The relizious press is fitled with the praises of Lord Beaconsfield and his tactics at the Beslin Conaress. The editors eulozize him not because ot the political power and glory that has come or may come to himself and Great Britain by his shrewd diplomacy, but ratber because of the opening up of Asia Minor and Persia and *he districts thence on towards India to Christian missionaries. The Christian Advocate 8ays that with Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar in the hands of the English, the Mecditerranean Sea is little more than a British luke; that India will be reached from the Ameri- can churches in less than twenty days; that there will sprinz -up a chain of mission stations from the heart of the Anglo- Saxon Church to the heart of heathendom, and missionaries who have been working for forty years in the neighborhood of old Babylon and Nineveh can be reinforced by a larme number of new toilers for the building up of Messial’s Kingdom in man’s first home. - This new thrust- ing of the sword of peace into the dead relizions of heathendom, the Adrocate suggests, will pro- auce such scenes as often occutred during the first evaueclization of Northern Europe,—name- 1y, whole communities becoming Christion at once. Something like this has already oceurred in one of the famine-districts of India, Tinne- vally, where & series of Villages, comprising 18,000 people, have thrown off heathenism and askea for Christian teachers. The outeome of the Berlin Congress, the Advocate insists, is more clearly relizious and ceclesiastical than political, thoush no religion was meant. The Ezaminer and Chronlcle takes substantial~ 1y the Advocate’s view of the Mediterranean being a British lake, but thinks that Gibraltar and Malta arcof small account compared with Cyprus, the possession of Which opens_the way to the Euphrates and India, and is, therefore, of much greater value than the long-coveted prize of Ezypt. Aside from all other aspects of the casc, it is pleasunt to think of Cyprus being ouce more in Christian hands. Biblo students think of itas the home of Barnabas and Mna- son, and as the scene of Paul’s first missionary triumphs. In Enclish hands it may be expeci- ed to rain rapidly in population and in vroduc- tiveness. And the influence of a strong Protestant power, 50 near to Asia Minor and Syria, will unquestionably be of ereat advantaze to the Christian communities of those coun- tries. The Christian Union calls the attention of students of prophecy to the fact that Great RBritain owes ber acquisition of the Eastern Mediterranean to o Jew. But no prophet, it says, can ventore to foretell the eflect which this acquigition may have on England’s Eastern commerce, or on_the future civilization ‘of Laypt, the oldest Empire of the world, or on Falestine. The Christian provinces of Turkey have gained a troudlesome .but “an invaluable boon,—liberty. They are rid of the Turkish yoke. Dd they know enough to plow without 2 yoke and 2 brad? Liberty is the great school- master, and _the liverated Christian provinces arc admitted to this school. So far from be- lievinz that the war waged between Russia and Turkey amounted to nothine, the Evangelist cousiders that, judzed by its resuits, it has been one of the greatest campaigns of mod- ern times. If the English people, who are so_elated by the ncquisition of Cyprus, fully understood all that it invotves, they mizht not be quite so loud in their shouts of triumph. Hoivever, whether it be a good thing for En- gland or not, the Evavgelist believes it is o rood thing for Cyprus and a good thing for “Turkey, The changes accomplisticd and others which seem likely 0 result from the new posi- tion of England in the East will be u great eain to the cause of humanity, of good government, and of Cliristian civilization. The Observer looks upon the occupation of Cyprus by the British Government as more ox an event than at firstsight appears. Its geo- fraphical situation makes its possession by a distant Power a_formidable menace to the rest ol the world, and it would not be strang: Russls, France, and other vations, perbaps Austriaavd Italy, should find that the old bal- ance of power 15 disturbed by the preponder- ating _influence of England in the centre of the Eastern seas. Allthe power she (England) employs will be for the advancement of Chris- tiau civilization, and the religious world will re- Jjoice with thanksgiving that the same Govern- ment which has so long been beneficent ir: India, will, for the present, at least. be felt for zood whoere the despotism of ‘the unspeakable Tutk* has been for four: centuries supreme. Thas the Kingdom of God is extended as the powers of darkness arc put down, and the reitto of righteousncss and peace established in the earth. Tne diflicuities which England will en- counter are indecd great. It will be'often de- feated iIn its attempts to securc order, 2od honesty, aud religious liberty; but, so far as the terms of the treaty will justily its mterfer- ence, we know that the new power will be ex- erted for the progress and hapoiuess of the people who _have beer for ages under the tron heel of the false brophet. ~ ‘The Christian Iute:ligencer believes in 2 Provi- dence {n human affairs whose logic is irresisti- ble: “Turkev bas long been weakening, has been sick and ready to die. Now comes 1n the sirong arm of - Great Britain at the right moment and offers a protectorate. The Turk- ish Empire has run_its couse. It goes into bankruptey. - Tts zoods and effects, such as they are, need no administrator. Now that Englund takes' the gnardianship of Asia Minor, we may be assured that the Protestant missions of that vast remion will be safe to prosecate their work. Should Palestine be made a free and indeperd- ent State-1t will bea justice to.the Jews. If Tyt becomes an English colony no lover ot Laman ‘prosTess ought to de sorrs. Whena raitroad shafl have been run througii Aleppo to Bagdad and on to India, old Asia will begin to awake from the stupor Of 2ucs and the seats ot long vanished Empires will he stirred with the pulsc;;’ of pew lile. Gou takes no step back- was s Tho Catkolic Review sees im Lord Beacons- field’s diplomacy the elements of audacity and genius, and thinks it more than probable that momentous religlous and political consequences will follow his™ extraordivary stroke of diplo- macy. But the /teview avpears to be altogether too sanguine of what may be the ultimate out- come of these jmoortant movements. Here is what it says: * Among the Provinces of which England thus becomes in name the protector, in tact the ruler, is Palestine. The Holy City. the holy places—Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Mount of Olives, Calvary—all the spots made sacred by the fect of our Lord and memorable as the scenes of His teachings and His sufler- ings, will pass for the first time uunder the control of a Christian - Government. What the Crusades failed to accomplish diplomacy has done. Beaconsfleld has proved more potent than Richard of the Lion Heart. 1If England were a Catholic country now, the future would be plain. But, non-Catholicasshe is, she is ruided Lo a degree of which sne is_un- conscions by her surviving Catuolic instincts and traditions. - The Holy Land is still precious to millions of her people who are aliens from the Church which was established in Jerusalem, and which sent from there ber first Pupe to cs- tablish his Sce in Rume. The time is not very distant, perhaps, when England shall return to ther first love and become Catholic again, as she as for a thousand years before the wretched apostasy of Henry and Elizabeth tore the iaith from her. Then the cradle of the Church, re- stored to her by the hana of her repentant daughter, would become a Chrisjlan city, and Jerusalem again would be the joy of ihe whole earth."” Our Jewish exchaoges are equally jubilant with our Christian. The Jtgjormer admits that Tord Besconsfield’s desirc to Dlace tne toly Tand under English orotection admits of no doubt, and that the effect of this would be to improve the condition of the Jews residing there is perfectly sure. It would also make the Holy Land a desirable place of residence for the .oppressed Jews of Russian Poland and “the Danubian Rrincipalities, who would no doubt settle there iy larze numbers. ~ Bat that Lord Beaconsfield or any other sane person shouid think of restoring *the laws of Moscs and the _old Jewish system ™ nod of reviving the Jewish; ‘nation is out of the guestion. Such a restora- .tion could never be. brought about by human ' agencies, and is not looked for or wanted by the Jews taemselves. - The Jews are now so numerous that Palestine cou'd .not hold one- half of them. The old Jewish system is alto- getherunfitted to. the aze in which-we live. The laws of Boses, s far as they affect the question of civil government, are and must {forever remain obsolete; they were admirable in their day, but their day has long since zone by, Says the Jewish Messenger : **The world moves! " Religions liberty is now a orinciple of international law. Where it Is de- nied the Great Powers may intervene for its en- forcement. No part of the trizmph at Berhin is of such universal consequenco as this declaration of boman right. AmeriCa was a century in adgvance of Europe, and America, while sbe did notsign the Treaty of Berlin, had previously. through her Con- sul at Bucharest, secured the concarrence of the European Powers in action, which anticipated the conclusions of divlomacy. ' For the first ime in the history of man a nation's cinim 10 existence as a State .s made n.lchudcnt upon its acceptance of the great principles of religious equality for all creeds. Thirty years ago but onc of the Powers represented at Berlin accorded the Jew fall civil rizhts; und successively in Great, Britain, Austria, Germany, Iialy, and Turkey, have the burriers been sweptaway that separated tne Hebrew from his ncighbors, = Can Russia long delay the conces- ston in” her own dominions of civil and relizions equity, which her vcteran Chancellor sustained as the right of the Jews in Rouman, Bulgaria, and Servia¥ Orr out-of-town relicions exchanges are editori- slly pitched 10_the same key. They look to the building of the Euphrates Valley Railread and the opening up of Asia to Christian inflnences and Christian _mssionaries ns never before, One of them—the Laplist Outlook, of Brookiyn—looks upon the xction of toe Berlin Congress as the un- conscious [ulfllment of the prophecy. Russia has stopped ** the way of the Kings of the Fast,” the children of God and oelievers in oar Lord Jesus Christ have been prepured. The British flag waving over Cyprus makes all Tarkey tribu- tary to Enziand, an 1 secures for the Gospel a wide and effectual door of entrance into the lands where the Mosiem's sword has alone htnerto been the luw. IReferrine tothe articies of the treaty which declare religious liberty. the Outlookeays: ** Thus the River Euphrates is dried up. The Turkey of the past is gone. Thoughr hos met thought: will hus come in contact with wiil; but above all and turoagh all the band of God is seen. Noiselessly the prophecy recorded in Danles, xi., 44-45, has been faifilied.” ARTHUR TOOTH. - AN ISTERVIEW WITH THE FAMOUS RITUALIST. New Fork World. The Rev, Arthur Tooth, whose trial and im- prisonment in London, Eng., for violating the Public Worship Regulation. uct raised such a controversy, arrivea fu New York yesterday. He was found at the Windsor Hotel, and although suffering from illncss and exbaustion conscauent upon his lonz journeying, talked freely with a reporter. He is slender, of me- dium hight, and bas dark hair cut close, and large dark cyes, shadowed by dark lashes. His face, smooth-shaven, is an oval, decreasing raoidly towards the lower portion, the chin be- ing swall. His complexion is naturally dark, bronzed, no doubt to some extent by his six months’ stay in the tropics. In speaking he is very animated, gesticulating gracefully, and never hesitating for a word. “I am onmy way. home to London,” said Mr. Tooth, *“after a vacation of six months, which I have spent in Japan and the Philippine Islands. I came direct dcross the continent {from San Francisco, and shall take stcamer for London to-morrow. Things at home demand my presence; the aspect of affairs warns me to make all the haste possible. You would like to kuow what I thiuk the sizus portend as to reli- gious matters England? Well, I have but little hesitation in saving that Disestablishment will come zbout. within the next ten years, and T am convinced that it will be u happy daay for the Church when it js secompiished. It is not necessary to point ot the evils which are, as 8 matter of course, entailed by the Establisament. Look, lor exampte, at many of the clergy, forced. into their positions = from ‘motives of cxpedicocy and accepting livings in the gift of rich families without any thought of consecration. Such a man is a fagot of inconsistencies; as soon as the bond is severed he gocs to picces. For the last 150 vears the State has been making encroachments upon the Churcti. Slowly at first, fecling its way apd careful not “to” arouse suspicion; but Iaiterly tbese encroachments lave become wyore bold, unzil the fact became s patent that the. alarm was sounded. Take my own trial as.un exam- ple. When I was summoued for trial [ informed my Bishop that I would giadly appear before an ecelesinstical court, and would bow to its decis- jon, but that I would not submit to any de fon'rendered by a civil court whose authority to interfere in ecclesiostical matters L did not recognize. Well, the Bishop would not grant me the trial 1 demunded, and 1 was brought before Lord Penzance’s Court. You know -the story of my trial, conviction, and imprisonment, and” it i3 not necessery for me to ‘g0 into detals as to that. OI course, I protested. My case was brought before three Judges, and they decided that the law under which I Wwas couvicted, the court in which I was tried and the Judge who sentenced me were all creatures of a receat cre- ation., and upon a technical point I was granted my liberty. Now this very law, *The Public ‘Worship Regulation act,” is, in my opinfou, un- constitutional. It was passed in spite of the protest of the Convoeation. which is the voice of the Church. What right has the House of Commons, in which Jews, infidels, and dissent~ crs far outnumber the Churchmer, to make Jaws for the Church? The Church had laws of its own. It had courts and Judges, and yet all these were declared illegral by this new act. in addition to all this, and as if to insult the Church and degrade the clergy as much as pos- sible, Lord Penzance was made Judge of this Court. Now, Lord Penzance was Judze of the Divoree Court, and aceustomed to hearing the most offe details of Ifamily troubles; be- sides, he will have a chunce to appear ia a di- Yorce court soon, if he gets his deserts, not as a Judge, but as a defendant. Such a man as that was appointed to decide on matters of Church polity, and to administer ecclesiastical law. This encroachment of the State npou the Church is sure to bring about dissolution sooner or ter. The movement towards disestablishment bewan in lreland, spread to Scotland, and is now active in Englaud. The opposition to me aud to those who think us Ido, and who are known as Hizh Churchmen, dots not come from earnest evangelical Christians, but is the ont- growth of ignorauce and prejudice. The mod that attacked my church was an jgnorant mob, and, more than that, it Was a hireling wmob. One of the members, who was badly injured by being trampled unou, was taken to the hospital, and while there confessed that he and his com- panions had been bribed to join in the disturb- ance, beivg 5 shillings & day for their serv- ices. Thusitis we arc persecuted by men of no religion, led on by malcontents in the Churct.” We are fighting a State-made court, and our battle is against the encroachment of the State rather thag any law or dogma of the Church. ¥ “Now, as to Ritualism, the altars, ond the candles, and the vestmentsabout which so much is said and so littic is understood. Why, one of the men who oppos¢ me the most violently characterized Whitsunday a3 an excrescence of Catholicism! Ilis ignorance upon the signifi- cance of that festival should hase kept him silent. 1f the festival of the Holy Gbostis to be abandoned, why not_abaudon’ Christianity and have done with it? Now, no onc carcs less about the Ritualistic movement than I do. 1 have never enjoyed myself vetter than when I have preached in a Lot chureh in a black gown. Of course. I wonld not officiate in my own chureh without my chasuble, but Iwould preach without a gown at all and in any Protestant church if invited to do &0 and if it were consistent with my other labors. 1 am Broad Church enough for that. I iwear the vestments and condut the scrvice in the manner_which T believe to be sctdown in the rubric, which plainly commands. it _appears to me, tbat the Vestuients and services should be ‘those em- ployed in the secoud reizn of Edward VL This is plainly 2 matter of history, and I follow what 1 beticve to be the requiréments of the vow [ made when I took orders. I think the High Church movement is growiog in England. When I first took my parish, nine years ago, the income was aboud £300 a year; now it is £3000. I mencion this_ to show the increased zeal of the peopl, disclaiming that is is solely of my personal labors. The opposi- st us will fail from its own inhercot wealko That is_the conclusion to which I have come. Evenif we had not the right in this controversy, the oppositiou would fal from its own inherent weakness.” GENERAL NOTES. A conference of Universalists will be beld in Fort Atkioson, Is., in the course of four or five weeks. i . The next Conference of the Illinois Uni- Fersalists will be held in Peoria on the first Tuesday in September. The University of Japan at Tokio has 800 students and twenty-five forelzn Professors, the most of whom are unbelieverss In the lfbrary of 35,000 volumes there is no copvof the Seript- ures. - Draper’s ** Conflict Between Science and Religion 7+ is n text-book. : The'thirtieth andual session of the Universal®, ist Couvention of Indisna will be held at ¥ort Wayne, commencing Wednesday, ly- 81, 8t 3 p. m, ~The sessions of the Convention usually continue until Friday, -thal- Saturday: in(::; Sunday may be devoted to’'religious serv- Intelligence from India shows a remarkable .increase In the number of converts. The Bishop. of afadras reckons about 80,000 bantized natives in his diocese, thouzh there were. not 50,000 in 1862. In China some progress is made, but in Japan there are only eighty-eight native Chris- tians. There is such a thing us’ making histe slowly. Z ' There are now more than 200,000 Mennonizes inthe Tmited States, distributed throuzh per- baps a dozen States. They are a people of thrift and_cnergy. and by thelr good conduct commend ‘themselves to those among whom they live. "Their relizious beliefs aoproach more nearly to those of the Quakers tham any others. They.refuse the Old Testament, and deny that there is any oriainal sin. In Great Britain there is an ordained minister for every 673 of the inhabitants. 1n this coun- try about 700 is the number that falls to each preacher. China would require more than 400,000 ordained missionaries to stock it in the sanc proportion. Dr. Duff estimated that to {uily supply India would require the entire min- istry of Scotland, and wmauy pious laymen be- side. Itis well that the true mission policy seeks to grow the chief supply on the ground. TIn addition to Profs. Reusch and Friedrichs, Profs. Langen and Mentzel have withdrawn from the Old Catholic Srnod on account of the action giving priests permission to marry. The number of Old Catholies in Germany is 51,864, showing a slight decrease since last vear. . The bulk of the decrease is in Baden atd Bavaris. There is an Increase in Prussia. . The priests re- main the same as last_year—iifiy-five in num- ber. Six have been removed or have resigned, buhithere are about the same number of ac- cessions. There has beeu a serious outbreak at Kalisch, in Russian Poland, between Jews and Roman Catholics. Recently the practice of the Jews to inclose their houses on the Jewish Sabbath with a wire fence to indicate that no onc might P3ss our or in was_probibited by the Govern- ment. The Jews blamed the Roman Catholics ior this interference, and when the latter had their procession on Corpus Ubristi Day, and had frec way, with altars at nearly every street- corner, the Jews became indignunt and excited, and made an attack on oue of the .altars. The Catholics retaliated, and destroyed the Jewish synazogue, aud compelled the Jews to take refuge In thelr own houses. Twelve persons were killed, and much property was destroyed. THE BEATIFICATION OF PIUS IX. The Roman_ correspundent of the Unita Cat- folica states that_the process.for the beatifica- tion of Pins IX. will commence forthwith. Innumerable petitions, disclosing prodigions {ncts, arrive at toe Vatican from all parts of the world. Wherefore, the Holy Father appears disposed to ive a special autborization; for the Sacred Congregation of Rites, by dispensing with the prescribed rules, can immediately initiate the process for beatification. The docu- ments arc 50 many that it could not be retarded ; they cannot, probably, be examined in less than three or four K;_:lrs. ‘The process will be opened by Cardinal rtinelli, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. Whe modest tomd of Pius 1X. is the resort of a large number of de- vout pilerims; and especially on_the Feast of 8t. Peter great crowds were to be seen there offering up their prayers. The .ifonde, the Papal Nuncio’s organ, states that the Vatican has bad to wmoderate the ardor of persons who, too eazer to promote the beuti- fication of Pius IX., have asked for the suspen- “sion of the ordivary canonical rules, Memo- rials were addressed direct to the Pope, but, ac- cording to the regulations of Benedict XIV., the Bishops of Sinizaclia, Imola, and Spoleto, where Pius IX. was born, or spent most of his life, 1nust collcct evidence of bis virtues or mirecles, and the usual inquiry must then be made by the Vicariat, before the Pope can an- thorize the introduction of the cause and decide on its results. THE_CONSOLATIONS OF CLERGTMES. From the Cincinnati Commercial: If members of the sacred profession bave a weakness, it is for good things to cat. This in- firmity is a pardonable onc. The world gen- erally’looks on it in thelicht of an amiable failing, which may readily be forgiven ina body of men who have almost no other infirmity. So' many of the consoiations of common men are denicd ministers that they surely oueht to en- joy the best of whatever the good Lord made to eat. The rclief of wicked Janguage is denied them, even when the thermometer is in the ninetfes. A minister may not shake his light: ITantastic toe, or indulge in any of the exhilarat- ing amusements which lift the heavy spirits of other men. The sinful horse-race is denied him. He may not take pride in his gooa clothes, and to admire his wood looks in a worldly mirror is an abomination. He may not make haste to be rich. Hc may not forsake a poverty-stricken congregation to accept the call of a wealthy one.” That would be deadly. There are drinks that are not permitted. What, then, may the goodl man do! He may _cat. Yellow-le: chickens would appear to bave been created with a special view to the needs of ministers. REFORMED EPISCOPACT. ‘The American Bishops now in England took a prominent part in a meeting of the Socicty for the Propagation of the Gospel held in Oxford on the 19cth of June. The first gpeaker was Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, who offcred the follow- ing resolution: . * That the multiplication of religious divisions furnishes additional reason for Churchmen throughout the world to draw more closcly the bouds of unity among them- selves:” and made it a text for some cnitical remarks on the rise_and progress of the Re- formed Episcopacy. We quote from the report iu the London Guardian : . He was grieved to say that one of the latest ex- hibitions of this sect spirit_had accnrred within a certain_portion of their own body, who called themselves ** Reformed Episcopalians, " who were a great deal more Protestant thau Protestantism, and_cortainly very much less Episcopalian than the lowest type of Episcopacy which had ever been seen in the Anglican Churcn, These Reformed Episcopalians did not much disturb Charchmen in America. and he hopeu they would not much dis- tnrd Churchmen in England. How singular it was that in the midst of the tlinmination of the nine- teenth century members of any church which held the pure truths which bad been handed down to them by the Church of England should find it nec- essary to invent something more suitable! There wis already a sect within this new sect, and it was probable that in §ix or eizht yeara chere would be ten ot twenty. It was not a sect of this kind that could ever have any real intfucnce; but it illus- trated the absolute Decessity there was for those who loved the truth to ko each other, to have their hearts bound together by love and charity. to pray more carnestly for the powers of the Holy Ghost to xeep them more close to the fonndations of that Rock on which the Church was planted. THE ‘‘ HOOKERS.” The name of Amish or Omish quite frequent- 15 aopears in the press of the countrs; few per- sons who sce it know much about 1t, except that it belongs to a religious body of German origin, whose members wear hooks on their clothes in- stead of buttons, aud hence are often called wHookers.” The Amish, Wwho number only about 10,000 in the United States and Canaaa, meet annually in conference, Whicli is their most. fmportant ecclesiastical cvent. They are a branch of the Mennonites, originating in Ger- many, and derive their name rom Jacob Amen, a ngid Mennonite preacher of the. seventeenth ccntury, though it was first aoplicd to them in this country. The Amish adhere to the Men- nonite confession of faith, and differ but little from the regular Meononites. This year the Amish Conference was held in_or mear Eurcka, IiL, in June. On the first day some 400 or 500 people met together in a chapel four miles from any towo, or rather, in a large shed, for the churd propér was occupied by women aud babies. This was their Sixteenth Aannual Conference, and it continued in session four days. Not- withstanding the unfavorable weather and the almost impassable roads, the attendance was good. The mecting-house being too small to Sccommodate the people, a buge shed, covered with fencing boards, was erected at one side; and in the centre of this was a platform, occu- picd by the preachers and a few of ihe clder and elect women. ‘The listencrs were carefully eeparated. The women and girls, with heads covered by tidy black silk caps or stitliy- . starched sunbonnets (none wear hats), meekly and modestly looked up to the preacher from the ronzh-board seats on ote. side of the platform, white the men and boys, with coats and vests fastened with hooks and eyes, occu- pied the seats on the other -side,and with hon- st and attentive faces gave beed to the spoken \Word. A young preacher, when asked why he wore hooks ead_eyes, replied: “For the sake of the old people of my congregation. 1 mever Wore them until I began Lo preach.” The new ‘Amish do not wear hovks and eyes. This is the greatest difference between the bodies, the doc- trina! differences being insigniticant. \henthe meeting broke up, the brethren all saluted one another with the noly kiss. They regard the “kiss? as an ordinance of equal importance Dg the Lord’s Supper, baptism, and feet-washing. The Lord’s Suppet is administered twice a year, —in the spring and in the autumnp,—and it ison these occasions that the ceremony of fect-wash- ingis posencd. \ PERSONALS. The Bishop of Ossory (Irish Episcopal Church) succeeds his fatber, the late Dr. Gregg, 88 Bishop of Cork, defeating Canon Jellett in ths election. 5 The Rev. R. H. Davis, of Granby, Mass., goés to Japau as a missionary. . Thé Rev. Fred. Adkins has reccived a call to ‘the Baptist Church in Goshen, Ind. The Rey. ‘A. W. Ringland, of. Mt. Pleasant, 18.; has aceepted acall to Belmont, TIl. The Rev. W." Swartz, of Kenosha, Wis., has gone on a missionary tonr throngh Minnesots. * The Rev. G. D. McCalloch has taken caar of the Presbyterian Church L4 of the Preah u’g et es at Paw Paw Grove The Rev.E. A. Reed, of Springfield, Mass. Das accepted & call to the Madis 3 d formed Chureh, New York, 0" AveaeRe- ‘The death of the Rev. L. C. Maryin, nent Universalist clerzyman, [s snnoanee died at Clinton, Mo., azed 71. The Rey. Joseph H. Tiwitchell, of Hartford, hasgone to Europein company with *Mark Twain,” who pays all expenses. The German Moravians have elected John F. W. Kubn as Bishop in the room of “Bishop Reichel, deceascd. Ho becomes a member ot the mission department. The pastorate of the Rev. Charles Wood, who for five years has ministered to the Central Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, has closed by the resignation of Mr. Wood. The First Presoyterian Church of Peoria, 1L, g?\:;enfingad :he \;.illohlhlalrd, a licentiats e Fresoytery of Huotin to ly . fhem unti 1he 1ot of Octabers " 0 PP . Valdirlezo, Archbishop of Santiago d Chili, died last month, He ks Dorm i 190¢ 1 Suatiazo, und yas created Archbishop i 1847, els sucees 'al i Ho im0 fhonee ¥ 2 Solar, Bishop of The Rev. Ezra Tinker, of New York, is in the clty, and an effort is being made to sécure him for the Oakland Church. Mr. Tinker has had great success as a preacher, over 400 conversions resalting from his preaching last year. Dr. Mitchell wilt take a vacation, Whither be wili flee fronrthe presence of his work we do not kuow. When he wakes up from his rest uoder the juoiper tree he will order his cake from a bill of fare, aud give the angel & quar- ter to see that it 13 well done!—Ziterior. M. Wadaington, Prime Minister of France, is & Protestant, and an active member of Pastor Fiscly's Church, in Parts. Five of the nine heads of Dopartments in the Frouch Government sre of the same religious belief,—a good comoliment to the worth and brains of the Protestants of France. i THE REV. L. W. BACON DECLINES. - ‘The Rev, Leonard W. Bacon has declined.the call recently extended to him by the Third Presbyterian Church of Pitisburg, Pa., to be- come its pastor. In his letter, which was writ~ ten from New Haven, Conn., on the 1st inst., e says: ‘The reason for this decision Is not the pecaniary * romi- He Toss or personal inconvenience that 1t would have - costme to accept yonr call. These would have been well compensated by vast opportunities of ueeful service in the ministry of the Gospel. Neither have [ any apprehension _that my ministry in the Third Charch would have been hindered by lack of unanimity smong the people. Some of tha ‘minority were among my vest helpers while I was with you, and doubtiess would_have been again. I have never found any sign of a factivus spiritin the church, in any quarter. It would hve beon 2asy to distegard or resist a factions opposition; baut the sober conviction of some of the most faith- ful friends of the church, interested In every way in its prosperity, that Iam not the best man for the work, cannot but weigh with me in making up my mind, cspecially when tbey hold their opinion with entire pesonal good will toward me. Onlya clear and unmistakable case of duty contd have ius;mcd me in removing to Pittsburz; and the de- iberate - negative opinion of some, and the sig- nificant abstention from voting of so many more, make the case, to say the least, a donbifal one. ‘The decision of the matter on these grounda makts it unnecessary for me t0 g0 into the ulterior ques- tions that would otherwise have arisen. It is with reluctance, and after conscientions heaitation, that I turn away {rom a fleld of labor s0 srdzous, butso fall of promise. I earnestly pray that tha .man exactly fitted for the vlace may soom bo found, and the reatwork of the Gospel committed. to the Third Charch suffer no delay, INDIANAPOLIS DIVINES. - The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cluein- Gazette, writing under date of the 10th, And now Dr. Withrow denies that ho bas the least idea of locating in _Chicago, or that he re- grmrds Boston as a cold Unitarian city. The vari- ous items on this topic may be summed up ns foltows: Dr. Bartletc is well, neser better. Dr. Rartlett was spoken to about the Presidency of amilton College, but very tnformaily, and by no ne having aathorlty to speak. Dr. Bartlett $vonld't think of occupying sach s position for {ove or money. He'sto old, and too devotedly attached to the work of the minlstry. Dr. Bartlett doesn’t intend to leave Indianapolis nor the puipie of the Second Charch, ' His people are pleasant, and his salary large. enough for -a modest man. Exit Dr. Bartlett. Dr. Withrow has no thought of_being recalled to the Second Church in this city. Dr. Withrow goes to Chicago on inancial business.and bas consented to preach for Dr. Kittridge, o Preabyterian minis- ter. Dr. Withrow knows nothing of any Congre- gational church in Chicago, nor any member con- nected with any Congregational church in Chlea- Dr. Withrow never corresponded with any Coneregational church in Chicago with a view to Tocation. Dr. Withrow knows nothing abont the chilliness of Boston in a_relizions pint of view. On the contrary, he never lived in a church or city where the people are more alive to the questions of belief and right living thau in Boston. Dr. With- row, during his pastorate of Park Stréot Church. bas added 250 to_its membership, has cleared off all its debts, and bas not the slightest idea of n change. Dr. Withrow left for Chicago to-day noon. Exit Dr. Withrow, and muy Heaven for- give. your cqgrespondent for discussing a mare’s nest of yr:nhgra. 3 FRIVOLOUS PIETY. A tittle 8-year-old girl, in repeating ber prayer to her mother every night, insists on praying to be made ‘¢ a dood Epislopalian Wepubitan.” ~ | *What is the outward and visible sign in baptism?” said a pecson to his Sunday-school class. *The baby, sir,”” was the prompt reply. In the way of worship in hot weather, a man thinks he is doing well enough when he allows his wife to go to church.—New Orleans Picayuns. So many cities claimed Homer as .a resident and citizen, that we incline to the opinion that heé was a Methodist preacher.—Burlington Hawk- ege- The Rev. Dr. Martineau says that in oneof the scenes of & German play Adam is represent- ed as running across the stage on his way to the. Garden of Eden to be created. © - - It is well to look at both sides of a fan. Oma stheated ” Sunday in Philadelphiathe other day, the minister was fanning himsel{ vizorously. He did not see, but the vovgregation did, that the roverse of his fan borethe inscription, % Bay Bowgles® Bitters.”—Boston Transeript. Colleze Profcssor (to Junior, who has been taking udvantage of his absent-mindedness): & Young man, I find, on looking over the rec- ords, that this makes the filth time in two years that you have been granted leave of ab- Bonce to attend your grandmother’s funeral.” At Westficld, Mass., a man was caught steal- {og meat from the market. [n reply to his plea 1o be let off, and his declaration that, God help- ing hitn, he wonld never steal ° the one wga detected him sald: “God helploz voa! Why, you scoundrel, if I hadn’t caught vou stealing, you never would bave known thers was a God ! - A plain-speaking country minister was asked one day how it happened’tnat, considering the good example suoposed to be set before them, 50 many ministers’ sons should tarn out ne'er- do-wells. “That's easily accounted for,” sald the divine. *You see the devil kenghe cannot get haud o' the geese, 50 he just Bfakes grab amang the gaislins!” 1t is not aiways a successfal operation to teack 8 2year-old child Its prayers, however intelli- gent it may be. The other day a young. mother was showing ofl the early piety of her offspring t0 some callers, the result being mucbly as fol- lowa: * Gorbesspapa, Gorbessmamma, Gorbess- baby, avyerzotanycandy?” That infant thought religion was sweet, anyhow. Epitapbs do pot always tell the truth. When' a citizen, greatly given to beer, but otherwise worthy, was suddenly taken off, his friends erected a monument to his memory, and had in- seribed on it, *Take him for all jn all,” etc. A sarly critic objected, saying; that it would be better to have it read, **Take him for half-and- Dalf, we shall not. look upon his like sgain.” A minister’s Jifc ‘nas frequent disappoint- ments. During the’ great revival a stolid, matter-of-fact farmer Went into the Inquiry- roow, and was at once taken in hand by anxious and zealous workers. He scemed to be visibly affected by the hymn thac was sung, aod-after the prayer one oOr Lo tears were apparently dis- covered. When asked, *Brother, do you feel any change?’ he made a rapid and instinctive movement of his hand in the direction of his vest pocket, and then settlinz back in_his chalr with a sigh. replied, * Not 2 cent; that's jusc what I’m after.” CHURCH SERVICES. 5 . EPISCOPAL. . Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Paul, cor-. ner of West Washington and Peorma streets. The Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLaren, Slshop. The Rev. J. H. Enowles, priest in charge. -Chboral morning prayer and celebration of the Holy Comumunion at j