Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 18] 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES o ] ing the congrerations of the same upon | and they hold it most sincercly. To their pecal- | Jaw. of virtue, of honesty of evorything that | by -certificate, 557,755 500,85: ' it 5 RELIGIOUS. “th Contivem. of Europe. and. the Bishop of | fur mind thore s no death, What. appears: 10 be | cistineuishes. tan_from the hrite, Huat relates | mersbees of Smainachoon miom i e | el mychiirch offcers sitting orth ol el the Inlicuats Bitop, Thay'ee s Bear- | gune over,” sald the painter. * Well, but whers ; An Encyclical Letter from the Recent Pan-Anglican ° Conference. The International Jewish Conven- tion in Paris--1is Aims and Objects. Togmatic Theology Versus Music-— ~ 4 Review of Judge McAl- lister's Decision, \ . geminiscences of the Rev. J. N. Watson, a Celebrated Methodist Pioneer. General Notes==-Personals«=-Dubi- ous Divinity=--Services To-Day. LAMBETH CONFERENCE. S ESCTCLICAL LETTER IROM TIE PA: GLICANS. London Linwes, July 0. Toe results of this Confercnce have just been g to the world in the forn of an_eneyclical Jetter. In considering the best mode of main- tsining union umong the varivus Charches of 1he communion, the Committee appointed to determine that point first of all recozmze the estentiul aund evident unity in whici the Church of England and the Churches in visible com- munion with her have always heeu bound to- galer. Tozether with this unity, however, therehas existed amonz these Churches that variets of custom, discivliue, and form of wor- aipwhich mecessarily results from the ex: dcbyeach *particular or national Church of fts right “tu ordain, change, and abolish orrites of the Churceh, ordained only cerem by man's authori so tiat all things be done 1o cdifying. here is at present no reat ground for auiety on account of this diversity; bt the desire has of late been larsely felt and expressed that some practical and eflicient meth- s should be adopted in order to muard azainst :sible sources of disunion in the future. The method which first naturally sugesests itself is that of assemblisg 4 true Generai Council, such 25 theChurch of England has always declared Der readivess to resort to, but in the present condition of Christeudom this is unhappily but obriously impossible. The experiment, now 1wice tried, of 8 Confercuce of Bishops called tosether by the Archbishop of Canterbury, aud meeting under bis presidency, offers at least the hope that the problem, hitherto unsolved, of combining together for consultatfon representa- tis of Churches so difierently situ- ated 2nd. adwinistered may find, in the course of events, its own solution. Passing to details, the Committce recommnend that those dioceses which still remain isolated should, a5 cireumstauces may allow, associate tnemselves into a province or provinces; that common work should be undertaken wherever the opportunity shall present itselfs that let- ters commendatory should be given by their onn Bishops to clerzymnen yisiting for a time other churches than tbose 1o which they be- Jone; that letters commicndatory should be given by their own clercymen to members of their flocks going from onie country to another: that some centre of communication among the churches in England, Iretand, Scotiand, Amer- i, India, the Colonies, and elsewnere, throuzh which ecefesiastical documents of importance mizht be mutually circulated, should be estab- lished; and that throuzhout the churches of ¢ communion 3 season of praver for the anity of Christendom should be observed after the oresent year. The Committee call attention to the fact that communion in worsnip mav be endangered by excessive diversities of ritual. While they con- sder that such large clasticity in the forms of worship is desirable as will mive wide scope to all lemtimate expressions of devotivnal fecling, they appeal to the Catholic principle that order d obedience, even at the sacritice of personal preferences and tastes, lic at the founaation of Christian upity, and are cven essential to the stecessful maintenance of the faith. The Cow- uittee on Voluntary Boards of Arbitration for Churches to which such arranzem be wylicable recommend gexerall astical province which has constitaied for the erenise of discipline over jts clergy a tribunal for receivine appeals from diocesan murte should be held respousible for jts own decisions in the exer- dise of such discipline. The Committec arc ot Prepared to recommend that there stould be iy one central tribune of apoeal from such womnclal tribuuals. If any province 15 de: oas that its tribunal of appeal should have Yawer 1o obtaiy, in matters of dactrine, or of disdpline iuvolving a question of doctrine, the + tpision of some counil of reference bitore bro- Downcing scatence, the Committee consider tat the ‘conditions of such refercuce must be Getermined by the proviuce itself. In dioceses which have not vet been combined into 2 prov- ince, or which ynay be geographically incapable of being so combiued, appeals should lic from e diocesan courts to the Archbishop of Can- terbwry. The circumstances of each diocese must determine_how such consensual jurisdie- tiun could de enforced. The Committee, in con- point out conditions which should be observed in the trial of 2 Bishop. Thereport of the Committec on the position of Chavlains and Chaplaindes on the Continent of Europe and clsewhere having carefully considered a wemorial addressed to he Archbishiops and Bishops of the Church of Eacland by tour priests aud other members of the Spanich and Portyguvse Reformed Epis- copal Churet » prayine for the consecration of 2 Bishop, canuot but express their hearty sym- Dathy with the memorialists in the difiiculties of thelr position; and, baving heard a state- Ineat on the subject of the proposed extension of the Episcopate to Mexico by the Amcrican B urch, they venture to sugzest that, when a isliop shail have been consccrated by the American Church for Mexico, he migut be in- duced to visit Spain and Portuwal, and render Euch assistance ot this stuge of the movement 25 Way seem to um vractical and advisable. We now come to the report, of the Committee vpofuted to receive questions subuitted to in writiog by Bishops deeiring the advice - of the Conference on ditlicultics or problems ther bave met withn their several dioceses. Auteution has been called 1o the following sub- ts: The position which the Analican Church Z‘flwld assume toward the “0ld Catholics.” pplications for intercommuuion _between themsetves and the Anglicau Church from per- gons cunnucted with ‘the Armcnian aml other Cliristian. communities in the East. The po Hon of Moraviun ministers within thie territorial s of dioceses ot the Anglican commuuion. uz.u_ West Indian dioceses. The Chureh of ayti. Local peculiantics Tegarding the laws of wartiage. A board of reference tor matters connected with foreizu missious, aud difficulties arising fu the Churcli of England from the re- vival. of obsolete forms of ritual, aud for er- Toueous teaching on the subject of contession. **Tne fact that a solemn protest is raised in 0 many churches and Christian communities usbout the world against the usurpation of freSee of Rome, and “uamst the novel doc- b ® promulzated oy its authority,” the Com- uye say, *Is & subject for thanktuiness to Ashty God. All sympathy is due f te aglicay Church to the churcbes and fudi lalsprotestiny azainst the: ors. and !ab Tgit may be undes speaa! difficultes trom the s4aults of unbelief as well as trom the pretea- JHous of Lome.Lh 15 our duty to warn the L in the year 1870, acy uver all men aud morals, va tne [y us do not demand x iz e 5 W2 deprecats needless divisions, %t 10 teose Who ure drawn to ps v the “udeavor to ree themseives from the voke of i’“und superstition we are readv o oZer ail D, and suck privileses as enunciaied 1 vus 5 ttee recommend tnay {luestions of the cluss now submntted 1o them deal with in this spint. For the consid b , however, of any definite cases. v] Tice and assistance may from tinic o 1ime be goubt, your Committee Tecommends :hat the o Lob.fhnps of England and Ireland, the Bishop odon, the Primus of the Scoitish Episco- Chureh, and the Presidiog Bishop ot the testant” Episcopal Church in the United of Americs, the Bishop superintend- Gibraltar, tozethier with such other Bistops us they mav, associate with themselves, be reques ¢d to advise upon such cases as_circumstances nay require.” Considering unbappy disputes on questious of ritual, the Comumittee desire to adlirm the principle *that 1o zlteration from lonsr-accustomed ritual should b made contrary to the admonition of the Bishop of the diocese. Further, having in view certain novel practices 2nd teachings on the sabject of confession, 1t is the deliberate opiniou of the Committee that no mivister of the Church is authorized to require from those who may resors tu him to open their ricf a particular or detailed crumeration of all LUCir sins, or Lo require privabe confession pre- Vious Lo receiving tie Holy Communion. At the gaie ume, the Committee do ne it W anv way the provision made in the Book of Cowsuon Lrayer for the relicf of trounled con- scieues. THE JEWISH CONFERENCE. OMJECTS AND AIMS OF THE I'ARIS CONVENTION. New York Ierald. The Board of Deivgates of the American Israclites is a large and infiucutial’body, repre- senting as it does the wealth and intelligence of 2 quarter million Israclites in the United States. The purposes of the organization are manifold, embracing cducation aud 2ood broth- crhood among the Je cverywhere and of every uame and phase of belief. The members of the Board and congregations and benevolent sociations which they represcut contribute liberally toward the intellectual, moral, and so- dal ifwprovement and awelioration of their brethren aud co-retigionists in less favored lands. They are represented in the Atliance Tsraclite Unirerselle, whose headquarters are in Parig, aud which numbers amone its members the leading Jews of Great Bntain and the Con- tiwent of Europe. The Bourd of Delerates of American Israclites meet annualiyand consider the condition of ther brethren abroad, and make appropriations for the mainte uance of schools, teachers, mini ters, synarogues, ctc., ubroad. The recent events which have taken place in the East foretokened Lo American Jews opportuni- ties for aiding their fellow men which should Dot be overlooked; but that European Israciites mighit be partakers i such boly work, the Al aucs Israclite Universel'e was requested to call o ceperal conference of Tsraelites from every land to meet in Paris in Aurust. The Conlerence began its deliberations on Mond rarded as the larzest and most impe thering of Israclites that this centur produced. thonsh it be. in order, the thirteenth grand assembly of the Alliance. All syna- #ugucs, schools, sovicties. and constituted J sh bodies througbout the world will have a vuice m the Confereuce by their represeatatives. It will_undoubtedly not only command the re spect of the outside world, but speaks ulso with authoritative voice to Israclites eve Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Tioland and Ameriea' will be repre- sented Dby - some _ of their ablest statesmien, bankers, and merchants, who are Jews. 'Tlie questionsto be considered are few, namely: The development of the difiance Lsrae'ite Universelle, the means to be employed to extend the action of Israclites in favor of their coreligionists; educativn, amel Eastern Jews aud those in professional work, and agricuiture, and stats ties of the race. It is remar; no authentic record of the Jewish race in cuce. The people that once were s0 particular in this regard that they could trace theiwr gene- alogies back for centuries and keot records so regular that not even a jot or tittle was mis- pluced, are now as iguoraut of themselves as the rest of us are. The historical archives have been geattered as far us the people thewmselves. ‘They are to be gathered into some central vlace and preserved. The restoration of ruined and abandoned temples in old European lands aud the promotion of tolerztion taroughout the world will receive consideration also. ‘The Alliance has very wisely excluded from its list of topics all questions of a doetrinal character. The admission of such topics at this time, when Judaism in Europe and America scems to be in a state of transforwation, wouid esult in discord aund disunity, whereas the tendency everywhere to-day, among Jews and Christians alike, is toward wreater umty, if not uniformity. ‘This omission of doctrinal topi is, however, regretted by some American Jewish writers and _preachers, who believe tuat thi matter will demand consideration aud adjudica- tion ere long. But they think that the longer it is put off the barder it will be to setile. ‘Lhe independence avd disintegration of Jawish con- gregations in many countries will in a few years materially increase the obstacles to be over- come- The Conference will declare in languaze that cannot be misunderstood that.the Israclites of Eurone and America demand or their brethren still oppressed the rights to iwhich they are eu- titled and will recoznize their reciprocal obliga- tions to the land of tbeir birth or adoptivu. The Jews of Russia, for example, if admitted to full citizevship, are 1o qualily themseives by conformity to the educatipnal and social tests ol their country, withont vietding in devozion to their_own religious cusfoms. Wherever Jews and Christians are equal before the law the ob- tions of citizensinp are paramount, and the Hebrews are willing to accept the burden with ihe benefit. In Russis, for instance, the 3,000,000 of Jews resident there are compelled by Law to reside in certaiu vrovinces aud parts of cities. They shouid, and probably will hereafter, have the same right as others to ot will where they please and live aud carry on busiuess as they in- dividually may thivk be: The extension of the cducatiornal system of the Allunce, which implies sceuldr traming in accordanee with toe times, the preparation of children for their future oblizations as citizens, is a subject of grear importa: American Israclites will beartily co-operate. How far u policy of o ¢d cwmizration may e instituted and mair is a question to be submitted to tie Conference. It 1s understood that an iuteresting paper ou this subject will be submitted by one of the representatives of the Board of Delegates of American Israelites. “The attention ot the Conference wiil be particu- larly dirceted to the condition of the Jewish residents of the Danubian prinsipalities, and of Russia, Moroceo, and Persia, the best means for securiny industnal and educational advan- 1ages for the Jews of Jernsatem, and the adop- tion of plans for the promotion of Hebrew cau- cazion enerally. Attempts bave already been made to convene a body of thia kind, notably jo reward to Roumaniau affairs, at Brussels and at Daris in former but-tms year the Synod partakes Of a srander, brosd- er, suvlimer character. It is to weld torether nationat Jews of ull climes. Important as this Synod 16 and will become, much ot its work will be advisory rather than Jegishitive, But the emiuent deputies vresent rrom Lurope, Asia and America will find therr views and thies unconscivusly vxpand by a few day: chanee of 1deas, while the papers submitted to the Synod will stimulate thought and promote vigorous action. T was needed, says the Jewish Jesenyer, a Synod of tois Kind, to inculeate the principle, necessary to be recognized to-dav, that Juda; is higher tin synazosism. Intoo many lands Lbas Judaism unconsciously umed the breroy- atives of the dommaut Clutrch, with its party l1pes of orthodoxy and heresv. In teo mauy synarowues have pinufore preachers, scarcely eraduated from their school-primer, iustilled a Judaism shorn of all its strenwth, its majesty, aud1ts nativnal grandeur. Action is needed, i ction, which shall thrill our race as er besore been thrilied. Dircct and simultuneous mussionary aad educational efforts’ awmong _ the Israelites ol all which shall upliit_them from the of 1rnoravce and teach tbew refinement, s well 1s Judaism, §s the ultimate am of the Allance Israclite, and toe Paris Syuod will vledge itself to this rational work. THE SHAKERS. “7THE PERSONAL KEIGN OF GOD RESTORED.” 2 York Fimes, That very singuiar body of persons ccmmonly Jmown as Shakers—their proper name is the Tnited Society of Beitesers 10 Chri Second Appearfug—is sa:d to have materially inoreased ace 1570, and to o nearly 12.000. s is remarkable. inasme as, be:ieving and ! rizdly adherie to cehbacy, they can fecrait ouly by cxterual accretion. They ments (1he seet s their rav! Dave elenteen Sep entirely contined o the Unized States), of whick there are two 1 Mame, tvo I New Hampshire, tourin Mas useiis, vte tu Conoecticit, tbree s State, d twon Keatucky. Trey cow helieve the Kingdom of Heaver has a estabhished, that Christ has come upon ea¥in a second time w the forin of Mother Ann tAou Lee, az Evchshwomau, born Man- chester, Was ihe Jounder of the seet, haviag emtzrated therve with x :mall baod uf disci- ples srortly before the Revoiutionary tvar); aca that the persopal rexwe of God has been restored. . Thev butieve also that the pew drspensation has begun, that Adam’s sin has been atoned: that man has heen delivered from 1 errors except 21s_own, that the curse has been removed from labor: and that the easth and all it coniains shall be redeemed. This would scem to be a comtortable sort of creed, death being merely s change of form, a traus- fizurazion, which does no: i them from the parified cyes of the sain 0 1O resurrection nor have they avy faith m Heaven beyond what they call” “hvimg in uu- don,” which is their present state of existence, Upon entering into uaion, they think that_they leave behind uil earthly relationship and iuter- ests, ji ust us if they bhad been separated from . Those who have ©passed out hit,”” as they phrase it, arc still’ in union; aud tie Shakers have perfees faita that they dwell in daily communion with spirits of the departed. Indeed, thiey profess to be more familiar with desd than with the living. Labor is, iu their eyes, more than noble,—it is sacred,—a sacerdotal function, especially when emplored upon the soll in adding ro its avun- dunce and beauty. Cousistently with their faith in 1ne second appearance of Christ in the form of 2 womun, thev believe there is « feminine s well as a masculine essence in the Godbe motherkood not fess than fatberhood of D hich would scem to bea sort of compr with the Roman Catholic doctrine. The Society is mainly ncreased by girls sua younz men; but married couples likewise join it, bucoming then as brotilers and siste: They are almost invariably noted for virtue, couscientiousness, health, prosperity, and contentment. They are the solc peoble vi this Continent, it not o the faze of the globe, who for more than years have lived towether harmoniousiy Tundawental priuciplc of commuuity of property. THEOLOGY VS. MUSIC. JUDGE MALLISTER'S RECENT DECISION CRITI- €ISED. “The immortal cowpositions of Handel, Haydy, Beethoven, aud Mozart alone nave done more toward inspiring pure and lofty re- ligious emotions iu the human Leart than all the utterances of dogmatic theology. sivec the cldest of those masters was born.”"—MceAllister. J., in People vs. Potteicser, Criminal Court of Cook Count: Were tiis dictum, obiler indeed, not so akin to Dlasphemy it mizht pass as the crudity of a mind great in one department of human knowledge, but. its proper fields being torsaken, floundening in the vain attempt to compare the achievements of an art. pleasiug it is true,to the effe icnce profound as it is noble. By what ew wire is tie state of the human heart teicgraphed to the mind of the learned In what reporg does he find * all the ces of dozmatic tueology since the By what meter does he measure the com- marative effects of music and theolory ¢ B st sublime cotipusition of any of these music-writers, what istencers are fed by the sounds produced to the same train of thoughi heotozs, through its doctors, teaches, and those who listen to its utterances, unless they are themaelves physically or mentally imperfect, must dwell on the thouihts expounded by the orator. Hereafter, when a full Bench is to be address- ed, instead of the utterances of the advocate. instead of words of arrument * conyeying sense from soul to soul,” let us listen to the inspinug strains of Mozart und Havdn, and, the opilogac being warbled, await the “pure and Joity” opinton to which the Court may come. Abolish the pulpit; send theswinisters to learn melod aud barmony, aud the concord of sweet sounds; turn our theological institutes into conser tories of musi zanist, the pianist, the violinist hercafter serve the aliar, for lo! these many days music has donc more for rehgion than all the utterances of dogmatic theology. O wondrous discovery! For vears, for centuries, the world and caven itself have 'been blind to the interests of religion. The moralists of Greece and Eome, Socrates, Cato, and their followers, were oblivious to the powers of the Orpheiun Iyre. The Teacher is misquoted; His words were misunderstood: a new light has burst upon the world, and we now read, *Go forth unto all the nations playing unto them the numbers of Handel and Becthoven.” Admirable woddess, Music, come forth. Too long iave the religious feclings of mankiod lain dormant; come, the Judges, the wise ones of the land, doth cull on you to assume the place among men erst held by dogmatic theolog; which an_Aquin desiznated the Queen of S¢ ences. 'Tis not a century sinee, 1 4 country as avilized as l?ll' 0Wn, reason was enthroned on the altars of’ God; now let music, a lesser Lene than reason, sapplaus theology. * But,” says the Judue, “the poet of Nature and the poct of Puritanism evinced the most exquisite appreciation of music.” * There- fore.”” we are left to conclude, “ music is more heavenly than theology.” Anacreon and Sapolio, who were fn their way poets as great as Sbakspeare and Milton in theirs, burned, if we are to judze by their ‘poetry, With the most _exquisite avpreciation of amours aud bacchanalian revels, whose pleas- ures to intensily music was called fn and cawe. So that music like other pleasing thines may be. arned Lo as to higher uses. The music to whose inspiring strains an army rushes to the midst of carnaze and acath would [all nearly lifeless were it not fortlie words aud sentiments of virtue and ot patriotism with which its notes are_associated in the minds of the soldiers. v cusbrines Handel 2mong the master in- tellects of the world, placing him but little be- low Raohacl and Phid1as, as the Judwe informs us; thus his own authority, Lecky, gives the pre-eminence to painting and sculpture over the sacred musicof its acknowledged master; so that according to the Judge’s logic music holds but the third place among tnese three of the fine arts, aud dogwatic theology must look to sce her glory ccibsed and ber utility surpassed not only by music. butin a still greater degree by sculpture and painting. We are not unwithiue to pay the homage of our admiration to the genius of these masters, the Judee’s calendar saints, nor to the art which they have adorned and elevated, no more thau to recognize the refining influences of the study of letters and of the other fine arts. But we must not suostitute admiration of works of art for the awe inspired by the truths of religion, taugit by its handmaiden, theotogzy; while 1t 2 allowable to delight in the pleasures of music we may not silently accede to their supplanting the great principles of religious doctrine. Musicis 2 motion imparted to air or otner vibratory bodics and communicated to the mind through the organ of hearing. As mawv is delighted by the taste of pleasant viauds, luscious fruits, and rich wines; as bis eye dwells with satisfaction ou the prospuets of beauty that the carth and the heavens disclose, and which the paiuter aimost transports to his can- vas; as his smell is excited and charmed with the freshuess of morning, scented with the sweets that a thousund species of shrub and flower yield to the gale; as his touch with teuder dalliance lingers on swooth surfaces and silky substances, §0 is he delizhted by the strains of music. All these are wood, but _only imperfect moods. in- deed, the Jower animals enjoy them not only in common With mag, but come of them evenina r neasure, for their orzans ol sense are far more scute thau those of man, and con Quently the scusations produced in themn by means of these senses, whether of pain or pleas- ure, are inteosified. Man can never appreciate the raptures that thrill the beating breast of the lark as, high ahove the world, it pours forth its meloaious notes and drmks in its own creations. But could not a mind devoted for a filetime to the investigration ot law imagine 2 higher senti- ment thuu the emotions less lively thau brutes and birds ¥ feel, which music. no matter of how high an order, produces in the soul of man? is trie Milton savs that music might create n ibs of death, and that it grew sweet that the listeuers were all ear to drink in its sounds. But such excessively figurative lanzuage or its_cognate ideas, while, perbaps. allowable in “ Comus,” is at least unworthy of the dignity of the bench. But Milton never asserted that the science of sciences was less bencficent to maun in his highiest interests than musie. Music is not even a spiritual pleasure, for we cavnot imagive music without matter and the force and qualties of such matter. Poets and figurative writers paint Heaven as a glittering elvsium where ranks on ranks of spirits with celestial psaltery awakeu immortal echoes, and pour their pogsy and some around the Eternal's tnrone. Nope but chiluren imaine these thing. to picture the reality: Music is helu by all t he a beauteous thing. now an adjunct of Zood, and ow of cvil. With what propriety can it be declared by such a person (a Judge). from such a place (the tribunal of justice), to such au auditory, (a Chbristian commonwealth), that s retined luxury is Lroductive of higher sen- timents of relicion thau the teachings of the science of God?! izious ewotions are those awakened in the by a thankful coptemplation of ower, who from uothing made us: of God's love, wha died for us; of God's good- wno preserves us: of the: beauty of God, image 15 the order of the universe, whose Justice is tbe rute of worids; whose greatness We fizure by the ocean. the storin, the lofty moautain. and the cadence of a million sohere: and whom we can detine ouls by denying that there s n Ilimu want of perfection—the Intinite. Dozmatie theolozy is the science which treats of the uature, atcnbutes. and excellencies of God, that, are settied truths amonz men. It matters not agamst their tixedoess that they are ussailed and denied. They are and will re: taain forever true; to these men turn for light in thefr perplexity; for relief in adversity; on them are based the present cousolation and the fature hope of mun. The ideas of justice, of s Thev Jook for | him to supernal beings, .hinze .on the belief in the God of dogmatic tueélosy. Destroy that belicf, and every abstract” Zood becomes u chimera. S, We are not desirous or willing to abridee the right of the Jud:e to tntertain in respect to music the sentiments be exnressed or any oth- ers. As u'mun among his feilows, his mind and its provesses are his own; . dudeed, we could ex- cusg in a weasure a public expression of feelings, heightened, it may be, by the phenomenal int strumental abilities of u member of his own did this expression come in another ¢, but surely none can fail to con- demn this assertion. that on its face is absurdly false, to reprobute tius prostitution uf the judi- cal position to the enunciation of doctriues at variance with the reliwous feelivgs of 2 great part of the communityi derogatory o God m the science which treats of Him, and hitherto ex- pressed only by me not afraid 10 stand before the world undisguised voluptuaries. LEx. BIOGRAPHICAL. THE LATE REV. J. Y. WAT20N, OF THIS CITY. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. PITTSBURG, Aug. 14.—Few, if auy, of the old- time readers of ‘TiE TRIBUNE, of the Methodist faith, éan have forzotten the Rev. J. V. Watson, who, about a quarter of a century ago, cdited the Northuestern. Christian Advocate in Chicago, Your correspoundent met With an old Chicagoan a few days ago, who was surcharged with remi- niscences of that distinguishied divine, who had few equals and no_superiors as a chaste, elo- quent, eltective pulpit orator. Mr. Watson was born in England, but accom- panicd his parents to this country when he was ad of about 12 years. The family was poor. d youny Watson deft pretty much to his oW resotirees to acquicg an education, but he iulierited a vigorous inteliect from his mother and pluck [rom his father, which comprised his stock in trade whenhe landed upon the shores of the New World. e attempted several busi- enterprises, but failéd in all of them. He bysically weak and could not discharge the w dutics of u seculur carcer. Finally, after a short course.of study, he drifted into the miuistry of the M. E. Church, anl piaced on a arenit in Southern Indiana, making Madi- sou bis_hcadquarters. He was now about 2 cars of are and had reached, he often said in atter life, the acme of bis ambition. He w young. talented, eloquept, the idol of the ru rations to whony i broke the bread of Indiana, at that early day, contained mauny celoquent men, relizious wd secular, The Rev. Whatten, Methodist, whoss awtul descriptions of hiels haunt the writer of these reminiscences to this day; Wolf, Campbeilite; Trimble, of the same_denomination. who' was’ koown_as the aveeping parsen; Hewry S. Surne; Ned Mc- Ganizhey, who ran for Governor against Jdoseph A. Wrizht. and died ag Chagres while en route alifornia; Ned Hannegn, who subsequent- 3 ved two terms as Uiited otates Senator, was Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, and ended his career by murdering his_brother-in- law at_ Coviogton; asbbel P Willard, afterward Governor, whose, remaing repose in a mcglected srave at. New Albany, but nonc of these were so potent before the people as the youth(ui Wat- Son; who, away down at_Madison ot the Ohio River, grappled with original sin, and won a reputation for eloquence and power which has survived the zeneration that heard him. After traveling the Madison circuit for about two years, Mr. Watson driftea to the South- west, and roamed as an itinerary for se 1 years through the -wilds of Missouri and an: But the duties were tou exacting for lis frail constitution; consumption sewzed upon hitn, and be was compelied to dissolve his itin- erary relation with the Church. He was soon atterward appointed to the position of editor of the Nurthucestern Christ-an ddvocate at Chicago, where he did_the best and mest effective work of his lite. His style as a writer was singularly clear and graphic. - Some of his articles written at that time are spleudid examples of terse and Jucid Enghish. . Your correspondent heard Mr. Watson preach at Attica, Ind., two or three vears before the late Civil War. It was during the session of the District Conterence. Biskop Ames presided. Mer. Watson introduved his sermon with ihe characreristic remark: *1 have, in consequence of ill-health, been obliged to compile a few notes to assist my memory; but I shall throw fire into the notes or the Dotes into the fire? He was then standing on tac very brink of the grave; the always futal disease which he had contracted in the Southwestern wilderness had atmost done its perfect work: and he returued to Chicago to die in the midst of his 1awily. ‘The sermon was a wonderful effort. John land Matlitt, in the heizbit of his fame, never stirred an audience more profoundly. His coal- black eyes, which werc uausually larze and brilliant, shone with supernatural splendor; his thin, white face scermed to reflect the radiance of Heaven; his voice, at tirst weak and uncer- tain, grew ‘steady, loud, sud sonorous as ho warmed to his work, and filied the house like the peal of a trumpet. Whenhe had firfished be fell exhausted into a chair and was carried to a private bouse, where he remained fn a critical state for several hours. Mr. Watson wasaman of medium heizht, sleader. but well proportioned; his hair sod eyes were superlatively biack; his face was thin and pale almost to snowy whiteness, but was re- markably exoressive of the operations of his mind; he dressed plainly, but with exquisite taste, usually weariue a Iong cloak over a well- fitting sut of broadeloth: his accentuution was eriect. In speaking he brought every muscle into play, making liberal use of his arms, and bending and twisting bis body into all manuver of snapes to ewphasize the glowing words that fell from his lips. A year or two before his death Mr. Watson related to your correspondent an incident that oceurred while he was stationed at Madison, which, ie said, gave him more sgouy ol spirit than any other evewt ol hislife. A flatboat Janded at Madison from Pittsburg, baving on board a famuly consistine of husband, wife, and an only son about 20 years of age. ‘Thev were Euglish people, and all of them were avowed jufidels. In aday or two the young man took sick. and, as is renerally the case with infidels when tney feel they are about to dic, hie exores: ed a desire to see a clergyman. Mr. Watson was sent,_for. e had 2 taik with the young man, and_succeeded in_overcoming bis objec- |, tions to Christianity, Promisiug to return next day, Mr. Watson took his leave. Next morning the disease took a turn for the worse. The suf- ferer repeatedly called tor Mr. Watson, but was answered that he was not there. At moon be died, almost his last words _being, “Has the mimster come?” Mr. Watson had failed to keep his promise to the dying man, He had goneto fill an appointwent, léttine it slip his memory altogetner. Le said the voung man died penitent; but nevertheless he would not formve himself for the awiul con- sequences waich wmight bave resuited from his faiture to keep his word. He néver broke his promise again. The M. E. Church has developed many grext and useful men. Of these the Rev. son was one of the most conspicuous. Ife sleeps in the beautiful cemesery at Chicago. T J. HOUSE. - GENERAL NOTES. The first aunual convention of the Ilinois Christian Ministerial Association will pe held at Eureka, 1., beinving Aug. 20, and continuing one week. A Jewish rabbi was lately brought before a police court at Manchester, Eug., for slaughter- ing an ox according to Hebrew methods. Pro- fessional testimouy was given to prove that there was no unnecessary suflering inflicted, and the charge was dismissed. Eight Andoyver graduates in the last and present classes have chosen the foreign-service work. Three are already in the work, two 2o to Japau in the fall, two to India, and one to South Africa, and another zoes to Ceylon to heip his father, the Rev. E. P. Hastings. The Enalish Wesiesan Conference, in session at Bradford, has chosen as President the Rer. Dr. J. H. Rigre, who visited this country a few vears aco and surprised his friends by writing an article for the Cordemporary Kev.es in 0pno- sition Lo the disestablishment of the Church of England. ; The Rev. Dr. B. F. Crary, a minister whose work is in Utah, expr ine opinion that the churches 1n that Ternitory have faled Lo make auy impression on adult Mormons. He s *Nearly all their atiempts to_cvangelize Mor- monism bave been failures. What they have paiped has been by elow, persevering work at the foundations—the education of children.”. The State Church of Sweden is offering less and less opposition to the spread ol dissenting denominations. ‘The Buotists bave a strong foothold in the Kingdom. and the Mctbodists are rapidly increasing. Tue latter bave dedi- cated four chapels fn the Stockholm District in 1he past year. and are building three more. Tne preaching services have generally a large attend- ance. . : Dr. Edwin E. Hatfield bas issued in advance of the publication of the minates of the Pres- byterian General Assembly ine statistics of the Churcb for 1578. They show thirty-seven Synods, 178 Presbyteries, 636 candidates, 331 Jicentiates, 4,907 ministers, 230 iostallations, 201 pastorial dissolutions, 5,269 churches, 35,277 members added on examination, 21,553 members added total of communicants has boen: 1874, 05,8345 18_4 ,210; 1877, 557,674; 1873, 567! -us in 1878 for all pu poses were $3,231,050; i 1872 they were §10,- 036,526 Most of this decreasc is 13' the item of current congregatioral expenses. An ingenuous Enalishman, who deplores the neglected education of the cleray in the matter of 1mpressive reading, recently wrote to Mr. Irving, sugeesting that he should give recitals from” the Scriprures. The proposition was Tatuer startling, and the actor modestly declined to attempt the instruction of persons who have not yet acquired the art of reading Holy Writ witli expression. : Bishop Grezg, the Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church fo Eneland, has reccived an address trom residents of Cevlon, asking in sub- stiuce for the forming of n branch of the Church in that island. Among the siguers of the ad- E members “of the military and . It will be remembered that ension has been cat in Ceylon by the measures of the recentiy-appointed Bishop, Dr. Coplestoue, who is an extreme Ritnalist. The American Baptists have a_theological seminary in {ndia, It is focatea at Ramapatam, and is called the Brownson Theological Semi- pary. The native assistants of tbe Teloogoo MissioRl reccive their training init. The first cluss, consisting of seveuteen men and four women, was graduated tiis year. The women are wives of some of the graduates, and have made as good a record in their studies as uny of the men. All the eraduates are said to have passed ood examinations. The English revisers of the: Old Testament have elosed their fifty-second session. The tirst revision of the minor prophets was tompleted, and the revision of Esther was contined as tar ueeud of Chap. 2. The company, since their first meeting on the 30th of June, 1870, have sat for 400 days, working six hours cach day, and thus have revised the whole of the Ol Testament for the first time, with the exception ot part of Esther, Job, Lroverbs, Ecclesiastes, Solomou’s Soug, and Danicl. They have ulso been a second time through the Pentateuch. Excavations within the rails of St. Paul's churehiyard, London, have led to the discovery of the tounaation of the cloister and chapter- house of the old Cathedral, the marble carvings of the fourteenth century being in_excellent preservation. The site is an historical one, for in the chapter-ouse which rose over these foundations, was the meeping-place of the Con- voation uf the clerzy tilF¥Woolsey transferred their sessions to Westminster, und even after that time the Convoeations of Elizabeth assem- bled there, in the first instance to choose their prolocutor. The Episcopal Vicar of Winchcombe, En- gland, on a receot occasion buried two children with one service, except that in the case of one, who was the daughter of ~Wesleyan Methodi: L omitied the words **in the sure and certain hope,” but turned towards the ave of the other child, whose purents were Church veople, and repeated the sentence in which they oceur in its integrity, Tae Viear's discrimination being published, he denicd the story. Whereupon four persous who were ‘present sizned a declaration declaring his denial 4 falsehood. i ‘The Rev. W. J. David, u graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary, has returned from a brief visit to Enwland for health to his field of mis- sionary Tabor in Lagos Yoruba. On his way he visl%fl Liberia, and speaks very encouragingly of tife prozress of the colored Bantist Chiurchus. He states that without any heip from the Unted es nine Baptist meetimg-houses have been recently commenced or coinpleted in_Liberia, Tne Baotist Sunday-school in’ Mourovia, under . A. Johnson as Supcrintendent, was very flouristiing, and §1,800 had been cxpended upon the meeting-iouse, and the Courch was without r‘l‘gbu l};a\ler the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. orrell. At Nice a curious question has arisen hetween the Jesuits and tae municipal authorities, in which a cousiderable sum of money is involved. Aun American lady, a convert to Roman Cathol- icism, left $60,000 to the churcn of Father Laviene on condition that she should be buried within tie precincts of the editice. The wuanic- ipal authorities opposed such a step as being against the health regutations, but the ecclest astical legatees thought Lo et over the diflicu ty by burying the heart ouly in the churen. The family, however. will not permit the body to be cut. This is the preseut state of thie problem. which Is causing great perturbation in the minds of the Jesuits. > The Baptist y savs that o Methodist churchin New York City advertised that its pulpit would be occapied by a preacher of “‘marked peeuliarities.” To yetan audience to hear a converted Jew in Brooklyn, it was an- noanced that the “ Doctor will sior some cel- ebrated hymns in Hebrew and Englisb.” the same city o sermou was preachied: on * Be- fore and Behind,” and in New York a society proclaimed that a ** cornet ” would be a feature ot their worship n Tuture. Our exchange c cludes: “Veruy, some Christian peopic i very little faith in the attractive power of the cross, and it is no wonder that hall empty churches show so often that results are accord- ing to their aith.” At the aoniversary ot the Free and Open Chureh Association, beld in St. Paul’s, London, on the 15th of July, the preacher was Bishon Doaue, of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Albany. In the course of the sermon he said that it was inconceivable thal men should as- sigm places in the house of God for money value to any human beins, not only for use, but abuse; not only for accommodation, but exclu- sion. ' He condemned the pew-rent system, us also a method they had in America of building churches on the stockbrokers’ system, by which every contributor of 500 was assizued a certain s. This system, he contepded, deserved the condempatiou inficted on the money-changers in the Temple. Here is another straw ou_the crecd _question which shows how the wind blows: The Glas- sow Presbytery of the Established Churcli of Scotland bas presented an overture to the Gen- eral Assembly to tle effect that the requirement made of the native preachers in india that they shall subscribe to the standards of the Church of Scotland is a hindrance to the establishing of a native chureh in India, and the Presby asks thar the General Assembly will order the preparation of a simple evangelical ereed which shatl be adapted to the uses of missionarics and their native cnurches. The General Assembly has directed the Committee on Foreizn Mis- sions to taxe thesubject in hand and report next year after conference with other Presbyte- rian bodies. Bisiop Smith, of Kentucky, who is also the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, resides permancntly at Hoboken. At the last session of his Diocesan Convention be asked for a continuauee of permission to reside out ol the diocese, on the ground that the ac- cumulating duties of the Primus require that the Presiding Bishop reside at one of the great ceatres. Bishop Smith expressed the opinion thai the provincial system should be adopied. The Conventivn regretted that they were not able Lo grant the Bishop's request on the ground on which be placed it. 1t was creating a new order of things. to which the Diocese of Ken- tucky was not prepared to accede. The Con- vention, however, permitted the Bishop to re- side vut of the diocese on the zround on which he origmnally placed it—tbat of increasing age and intirmities. Dr. Schaff, speaking of the revision of the Bibte, sums up some of the importaut points as Tollows: 1. The translation will be made from a greatly improved test. Since our present version was made several nundred mannscripts of the Greek ‘Testament huve been discovered and compared, chief among which are the Vatican and Sinaitic. 4. Etrors ol typography aud of grammar whicn are found in the prescnt will not_ be found in the new version. Forexample, **strain at a gnat’” wilt be correctly rendered * strain ont a gnat.” 3. Inex- et trapsiations, many ivstances of which are found 10 onr Bible, will be corrected. 4. Words which ate obsoleie, 1f they have 2 meaning that ts not undersiood, and words which are still used, though with o changed slznfication, —suc vent and let, —will not be retained. Bible will have a dillerent arranyement frota the old ope. The prose portion will be printed paragrapbs, a8 the sense shall reanire. and the poetical portions will he orinted in the form of Doetry, according 1o the laws of. llebrew varallel- ism. The arrangement of cuapler and verse miay be retamned 0a the wargin. Notwithstanding ull these changes, ‘the new Bible,” says Dr. Schail, **will read Jike the old vnc: 1t will be a conservative trauslation.” Tro instances of pleasant fraternization be- tween Jews and Unitariaus bave just colze to notie One in Kalamazoo, Mich., where a uniou lawn pares was beld andthe proceeds Qivided between the -ewwsh and Unitarian Churches; and the other in Quincy, 11, where the Rev. J. Vila Blake exchanged puipits with the rabbi. Says Mr. Blake: 1 preached for him {the rabbi) on Saturday twmorniny, and the next moruing be tilled my pulpit. I veve preached in 2 sypagogue betore, and it was a memorable da¥ to me, becanse I enjoyed the beautitul ritual so much. 1 liked the reading of the Hebrew prayers and the resbonses of the cougre=ation, and the music was beautiful and fimpressive to me deyond my powers Lo impart, it was so simple. so chaste, su religious, 0 stately, and yet s0 spontaneous. Theu the sitting of the President and the Vice-President im the pulpit with the rabbi, to assist in the service,—ihat seemed to me an admirable feat- ure, and in accordance with the very genius of congregationalism. It looked so social, 50 nat- pral, S0 sincere, so helpful! I wished that rare ing. part in the service and_ settinz on it the seal of sovial mterest, T ies gave me ‘ a hearty welcome, and asked we to cote agam: and the rabbi, after my sermou. said from the pulpit to his people that he was zlad to see me there; and he advised his people 10 £0 to ehurcl ofen on Sunday mornings, 50 2s to keep afive @ warm and geuctous sympathy with other thau their own peculiar views, aud because also hu- mavnity and morality are the same cvervwhere, If only all churches and sects would follow that spirit ! : PERSONALS. Waiter Bashele has been ortaued at Chester, Pa., for the Baptist mission in Burmah. The Rev. G. W. Peck, of Syracuse Unisorsity, s elécted Presidens of Heddizs Colleze, Abing ton, IM. A Seiwyn College is to de foun bridge in bonor of the late Bishop Se! fund aiready amounts to £15,000. Among the recent victinis of the famine fever in China is the Roman Catholic r Apostolic, of Tehe-ly, Southeass Ching, Mgz, Davar. The Rey. G. D. Mackay, of the Canada Pres- byterian Mission in Fortosa, has taken for a wife Chang Mia Tsoug, & young native convert. ¢ will commence rewular sersi at M’ r's nexy Sucday, the 25th. Ihis healtl s as goud as ut uuy tue in several years. ‘The Rey. Dr. Perrin bas withdrawn his resig- nution as pastor of the Conzremational Chureh, Wolcottville, Coun., at the tnauimous request of the Society. Mr. Thomas Kelso, a leading Methodisy of Baltimore, lately deceased, was “the founder of an_orphaus’ hume, to which he appropriated $120,000. By his will he left nuwmerous bequests to charitable instituzions. The Rev. Dr. R. W. Pearsons, of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. Pittsbursr, whose char- acter has been the subject of conswderable in- vestigation, has aunounced his purpose to va- cate his charge in the full, Tke Rev. J. P. Gilmo: Church, at Lawrence, Muss., has been presented. witn $2,000 by the Irish Catholic societies of the city and his congreration, and goes o Europe on a three months' vacation. The bealel of the Rev. Dr. Moore, of Geneva, N. Y., is notas wovd asit has been, but he is jubilant over the pavment of the aebt o his Cchuren_there. Dr. Moore was formerly pastor of the Washington Avenue Chureh, Brooklyn. The Rev. Thomas E. Babb, of Worcester, Mass., has been 1nstalled pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Victor, N. Y. The Rev. Rob- ert Ennis is_suppl. the West End Church, Albany, and the Ki B. Clagtiorn the church. at Collingyitle, N While the Res. Georze Muller was in this country he traveled nearty 25,000 miles, preached 300 tumes, aud was ovliged to dechine more than 3800 invitatious vo preact. On returning home, be finds his orphan house and other eaterprises in excelient condition. ot St. Mary's The Rev, Dr. B. M. Palmer, the emiuent Pres- bytern divine of has given a llustration of self-si While away on his summer vacatiou, he learned that the yellow fever had broken out, and he at once re- turned to tne ¢ty to give his personal cfforts toward mitigating the horrors ot the scourge. “The Res. C. P. flard, who has for some years been dorug missionary work at Madras, finds the climate ol India gisastrous to his health, and therefore returns to thi Since 1574 he bas been pastor of the Vepery Methodist Epis- copal Courch 1 Madras, sud has 1o addition es- Lufilis!lmd a number of Sunday-schools and day- scliools. Lord James Butler has formaily scceded from the Irish Episcopal Church. He tovk an active and promivent part in the debates ot the Gen- eral Synod, and earnestly and aoly advocated revision of tume praver-buok. ‘The changes made did not satisty him, aud he witindrew from u Churen whose formularies he could not cou- scicntiously aceept and use. The Rev. Alexander Macarthur has beea called unanimously to the putturate ol the Tab- crnacle Churcl, Brooklyn. M Scotch birth, w: i College, and, pastor of the Second Churel, Wilnungtou, fur wwo years. Jetievivg further theoluzical studies would be advautarzeous, hie weat to Crozer The- olvgical Seminary. from which institution he was graduated in’ Lhe Jast class. The bulls appointing the Rt.-Rev. J. J. Keane Bishop of Richmond were received by his Grace, the Most Rev. Archbistiop, Thursday murniog last. The consecration will take place Sunday, Aug. 25, in St. Peter's Cattedral, Richunond, Va,, and’ Archbishop Gibhous will officiate ut Le ceremony. Al the Birhops of the Balu- more province, with seversl prelates. includiz Bishop Foley, of Chicago, fro other barts of the country, are expected to be present. Three members of the family of Scudder are now conneeled With the mission of the Re- formed Courch in Indiy, of whieh Arcot is the centre—tue _Rev. J. W. Seudder, M. D.; the Rev. Joan Scudder, M. D., and H. M. Scudder, M. ). Durmg the fummne this missivn has taken charze of 2 medicat relicf camp, whicn ad nttuc times 25 many as H000 inmates. i s also_opened day nurseries in seventy places, and saved thereby hundreds of children. As a covsequence of tms charitable work, the prejudice of the natives against Chris- tian teachiers and teaching is reported to have sreatly dinnisbed. ; DUBIOUS DIVINITY. Did the carly Cbristian Fathers take summer vacationsé—Cincinnati Breakrast Tabie. People who are pious only durlng camp-meet- season are called “grasshopper Christians.”? —Boston Fost. Yellow fever has appeared at Cincionati, and Sunday-school scholars there make an hour teaching the old inbabitants how to pray.— Kronikle-Herald. uitoes are bred upon the waters. We ardently wish they would not return until after mauy days, and thus fultill the Scriptural in- juction.—New Orleans Tenes. «Thank Heaven,"said atormented passenger, «there are no mewsboys in Heaven.” *No, replicd the newshos, * but what comfort do you find in that?”" The man didu’t say, aod every- body else looked pleased. Bereaved relatives, who send in a lenetby and very flattering picce of obituary poetry, ask: + Do you think we vould udd suything moret” Yes: ‘you might add a 33 bill 85 2 guarantee of Zood Taith.— Home Sentinel. i One of the old bluc 1aws of Connecticat sai o one shall run on the Sabbath day, except revercntly,” Imagine a man just out of church pursning a fiying hat revercutly before a hizh ind, and iu the presence of an’ interested con- gregation! Said an sristocratic little miss: “Ma, if T were to die and o to Heaven, should L wear my moire-antique dress:” * No, dear, in_the t world we shall not wear the atuire of this.”” Thew, ma, how would the Lord know I be- longed to the best society " A Presiding Elder of the Methodist Church asked a brother who aspired to a license what was the difference between an exhorier and a preacher, “Well, you sce” was the answer, 4 preacher takes a text and sticks to it, but an exborter ain't oound to stick.? The persistent wreteh who_is_ always askiug, &1s this hot enough for you?” will get his re- ward oue of these day. When a dark-com- plexioned old persoa with horus shall lead him fn, erying, ©Is thix bot enough for you!” he will understand all.—Louisedle Courier~Journal. Brother Jasper got out his smoked-glass, put on a double pair of spectacles, took a long sight at the bright luminary of day, saw i. dodee Dehind the pale orb of night, and. turning him- sell excitedly to @ zroup of admiring brethren, exclaimed. *-I knowed it! Desuu he do move! I'secd him done zone done it wid dese berry eses! "—New Haven Kegister. .41 gever see such a fellow to growl as you are,” said one leading resident to another in a saloou b Commercial Kow. * Nothing satisfies you. You put me in mind of old Crabb over in Marysville. He found s tues stivkin' up _one mornin’ au’ went to Heaven. Anotber of the boys pezged out 2nd Weut there limself. He hunted up Crabb an’ asked him how he was petw’ along am’ how he liked the lagout. “\Well,? savs Crabb, *jt's at’s a fact, but 1 ain't quite comfortable. You see, I got mv wings Wt cowin’ up, an’ this halo don’t ft e’ " Drinks. An artist was once engaged to wake a larce paioting for a cathedral. - ‘The subject chosen was the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israel- ites. Aftera ume the piciure was completed and huue ip the catbedral. cosered by a heavy curtain, and a zreat crowd of neople assembled to see it unveiled. Al faces were turned in ex- pectation to the curtain. But. Jo! wheo it was drawn aside, pothing could be scen hut a wide expanse of water. 1n a rage the Bishon turned 10 the artist and exclaimed:. *I thought [ asked you to paint a picture of the Lsrachites crossing The Red Sea.”” “True for yous: that’s justit,” said the painter. **But wherc are the lsracl- | are the Egypuans#” * They’re gone under.” We have in our city 2 colored barber. who is 3 very cutbusiastic Baptist, and frequently en- fages in theological discussivns. I approached Lim one day while entangled n one of thess ous with an oid_Gerian from n the coun- v ¢ hartier ad evidenuly been .advocating rather strongiy we C1 1 i e by mch‘\\flni g1y doctrine or practice of im: * Well. s2id the German, “T joost don't mémber but three places ih the Bible whers i entioned at all—anly three places, where the tians were pursu- ingihe dsraclites through the Red Sea, and the Lord caused the waters o fow back on them, and tiey were immersed. e second place was where tie Lord commanded Nouh to take all Dtz famly into the Ark, aiter ihich be caused ! , andall those Thethird place was where the3anior zaused the devils to 20 into the herd of swine, and they rushed dowu asteep il nto the sca, and thes were all nimersed. e oniy repiv toe batber wade to tis was, “Yas: yas! yas "' —Murpec's Maygazie. CHURCH SERVICES. . EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church $5. Peter and Paul. cor- ner of L Washinzion and Peoria strests. The Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLaren, fishop. The Rev, J. , pricst in charge. Choral momung prayerand celebrationof the Holy Communion at 0 a. m. Choral evening prayes at 7:30 p. —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate morn- and evenmiat St. James' Charch, corner of Cass aud Haron streets. Communionat Sa. m. —TheTev. M. C. Dotten will ofiiciate in the morniag at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty- sixth street and Michigan avence. —Tlie Itev. Francis Mansiield will officiate mor- 1azand vening at the Charch of the Atonement, corner of Washington and Robey strcets. —The Itev, J. Bredbery will officiate morning and cvening at St. Ansgarius' Charch, on Sedg- wick strect, near Chicago avenue, ~The Rer. Clinton Locke will ofiiciats in tha morning at Grace Chiuzch, on Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth strect. Communion at 8 a. m. he Hev. Thomas K. Coleman will officiate moruiuz and evemny at St. John's Church, cotner of Waslnurton street and Ogden avenue. —‘T'he kev. Arthur Hitchie will ofticiste. morning and eveuwi2 at tue Church of the Ascensiou, cor- i and Efu stree c S, Leater will officiate_moy St. Paul's Charch, Hyde Pack. _ —The ker. L. . Fleetwood will ofticiate morn- inzand evening at St. Mark's Church, corner of Couae Grove avenue 30d Thirty-nixth street. —he Kev. G. F. Custman will_oficiate morn= 102 and evening st St Stepben's Churcl, Jobnson #izeet, near Taylor, —T'Be Kev. Lu aud eveninz at” Cal y Church. \Warren avenue, near Oakley streel. Communion at 7:45 a. m. —The kev. T. N. Morrisou, Jr., will otticiate morning and evening at the Church of the Epiph- any, Throop strcct, near Monroe. —The Kev. W. J. Petnie will omciate morning and eveningattae Churcn of Our Savior, cornerof Lincolu and Beldcn avenues. > congrecation of All Samts’ Charch wiil worsbip morning uud eveninz at the Cathedral,car- ner of West Wzshington and Peoria strects. —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate in the Church of the Holy Commuuion, Maywood, at 10:302. ™. and 7:30 p. m. BAPTIST. The Rev. R. P. Allison preackes at the North Star Church this morning, and the Rev. W. G. In- man {0 the evening. —The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach w the First Charch, South Park avenae. corner of Thirty- hest street, at 11 g. m. and . m. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach in the Michigun _Avenus Church, mear Twenty-third street, at10:30 3. m. R. De Baptiste will preach moruing and cvening in Olivet Chureh, Fourth avenue. ~The Rev. E. K. Cressy will preach in the Coventry Street Chutch, corner of Bloomingion road, ar10:50 a. w. and 7340 p. m. —The Kev, A. Owen will preach in the Universi- ty Placc Church. corner of Douglus place and Rhodus avenue. at 10:30 2. m. atd 7:45 p. m, —Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paolina streets. Services 1n the wurnin. —The Kev, J. A, UHenry will preach morningand eveniny iu DearbornStreet Church, cotnee of Thir- th street. he Xev. C. Ferren will preach in Western « Church morn:ng and evenng. L E. Hewil will preach morniag and 2t Centenmial Chureh, Liucolu and Jack- rects. e Kev. W. 3. Eermott will preach in Cen- tral Chyurch, startne’s Hali, Cuicag avenue, be- uween Clark aud Dearborn streets. at 10345 3, n. —The_fiev. Lews [aymond wili preach my the South Unutch, corner of Lucke and Bonapacte wUILA, m. and 7246 p. o rvices will be beld w the Second Churcl, organ und Mourve sizeets, ut 10550 . . F. Raslin_preaches av No. 381 West Madison street morning and evening. —Tne Kev. Thomas Powell will preach 1m the morning at the Michigan Avenn: Chureh. 2 —There will_be morming il evening serviced the Church ou Dearuorn sireet. near Thrty-stxtis. PRESBYTERIAN. 7The Hev. S. Redevus preaches at the Holland Churcb. corper of Nobly iud Ene streets, mornigy and evenin . T. Meloy preaches at the First Tnited Ciserch, corier of Mouros and Pauhpa sireels, mornng and eveniug, e itev. J. 1l Walker preaches at the te- union Church. Mormiug subject: ** Daily Mar- vels." Eveumg subject: *~Temperance.™ ZThe X. Darrett wirll prescn in Weat- minster Charch, cornec of Jackson and Peoris strects, ot 103808, m. Subject: >~ The Door.” “The Sacrament uf the Lord's Supper will be sadministered by the pastor in the Fullertow Ave nue Choreh at 10350 . w. z -—The Rev. Prof. F. L. Patton will preach in Jefferson Park Church, corner of ‘Throop and ‘Acane streets, at 10:30 4. m. and 7:45 p. . —The Ren. D. 8. Gregory. D. President of Lake Forest Tuisersity, will preach in the First Clusch, corner of Indians uvenue and Tweuty~ first street. near Fourteentn, ac 10:30 3. m. ~ The Rev. A. L. Frsoie. of Des Momes, 1a.. will predch i the Secouu Charch, corner of Michi= can avenue dud Tweuticth strect, morning and evening. The Rev. W. L. Gage. of Hartford, Conn., will preach in thie Fourth Church, corner' of Kash aud_Supervr stieels, 41103455, m, No evening sery F ne Rev. J. Stoart Robinson, of Louisville. will preach mormuz and - evening at the Thicd Church, coruer uf Ashland and Ogden avenues. —Thne Kev. J. M. Worrall will ‘preacn_worning ana evening av the Eighth Church, coruer of Washington and Gubey strects. —There will be 2 _Gosoel meeting, led by J. A. Moutgowery, at_the Keformed Chapel. State and Fourtceuth streets, in the morniog. The Rev. D. S. Gregory will preach in the evening. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. ¥. W. Adams preaches at Christ's Church this mormng. Subject: **Chnstian Faith 4 Liational and Intelligent Belief. ™ He preaches at Immangel Church, coruer of Centro and Daytom streets, 10 the eveniug. —The Rev. M. D. Church preaches at St. John's Church, Eilis avenae, uear Tuirty-seventh street, s morRI: —Mr. It. il. Burke will preach in Grace Church, corner of Hoyne ang LeMoyne streets, at 10345 2. m. awd 7:4b p. m. Murning sub >+ The Pro- cession Halted ™2 eventns ' 4 Gen. Buckingham will conauct the services in Imwanuel Church, corucr of Centre and Dayton ireets, in the morniug, and the ey, . W. Adams will preach in the eveDing. 5 i “~Thc lev. D. N. Vandeveer will preach in St Paut's Clurch, comer of West -Washington and Carpenter streets, at 103508, m. and 7:45 p. m. I Rev. K. il Bosworth will oceach for the Trimty Cbarch ta Tillotsou’s Hall, Englewood, st 103458, m. No eveniug bervice. METHODIST. W. E. Meags preaches at the Forty- reventh-Steet Charcl awrutng and evenin. —I'he Rev. V. F. Brown preactics at the Jacks on-Strect Uhurch Inis evesbug. 5 O e Hev. K. liell presches at No. 224 Polk reet this even e ltev. A- Gumey preaches at St. Paul' ‘The Re Churen, corner Mazwell street and Newberry ave- nue, wormny aud cveuin: b —The Kt e, M. Bristol preaches at tepary Chnren this murming sud e Rev. Joseph T, Ladd the evening. e e ev. Dr. Williamson preaches at the Mich- evoning. gau Avenue Chirch Wo: T e ey Dr. Wo L. Willing will presch in the Langiey Avezae Charch, corner of Thirty-uinth street, ut 10:30 a.m. &nd 750 p. . § Tthe Iev. W. 't Thornion wuil preach in the Park Avenue Church 8t 10:303. . No cvening service. 3 i It Rev. Dr. Jobn Williameon will preach in Trinity Church, Iudiana avenue. near ‘'wenty= Tourth «trect, 10 the worning, and the Kev. C. F. thie evemng. ’ The ev. Cbarles . Ebery wil preach morn- {pgand eviningat the Free Ghurch, No. 49 North Sorzzan street. i £ “iThe Kev. W. A. Spencer il preach momning and eveninz at the Fimt Chureh, corner of Clark and Wastungion sirectz. —Mre, J. F. Wil will preach at Eminanzel Chareb. coruct of Harrisun and Panilpa streets. Subjecta: Moruing, **Frivate Prayer™; evening, © T The Model Younz Man of the Binle, ® CONGREUATIONAL. ‘The Kev.A. A. Ellswucth, preaches at Plymouth urch. e Rev. G. 1. Kichards, of Madison, Wis., will preach moruing aud evening 1 1o¢ Union Park Churcn. . —Tue_Rev. W. F. Day will preach in the Leavitt Streel Church in the morminy. The Rev. Dr. Stevenson, of MHontreal witl ach tn the First Clhurch, corner of Aun and Wakhinirton etreels, moruine and evenlng. ZThe Rev. M. Adams, of Dakota, will preach morning and evemny at the Lincoln Park Chinrcl, coraer of Soplita aud Munawk strects. —Tre Rev, E. F. Wilhams will_preach morning aud evening at ihe Forty-sevenih Street Charch. INDEPENDENT. Services will be held 1n Upivn Chapel, No. 97 South Desplaines street, by David Waid Woad, as 7:40 p. M. . —Mr. George W. Sharp will preach in Bgre JMission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenue, at 11 e 0. 745, m. o T sty wit preach T the mocatnz Pardee will officiate morning * SN | | E=nl