Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3, ¥878-SIXTEEN PAGES. : 9 RELIGIOUS. How the Chaldean Ruins Corroborate the Pen- tateuch. The Assyrian Story of the Flood Agreeing with the Biblical Account. (arions Compromise on the Adoption of the Bible in the New Haven Schools, fieorgnnization of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The Missionary Policy to Be Aban- doned and Canonical Law, Substituted. General Notes—Perverted Piety Per- sonals—-Services To-Day. TOE MOSAIC WRITINGS. JBCEEOLOGICAL CONFIRMATIONS OF THE PEN- TATEUCH. At 2 recent session of the English Church Congress, papers were read on the definite re- calts of ate discoveries foEgyot, Nineveh, and Palestine on the statements of the Bible, by ‘Prof. Rawlinson and Canon "Fristram, who stand odly in the fore front of Biblical archwol- The paper presented by Canon Tristram had forits title, “What definite result as to the in- terpretation of Seripture has been produced by recent discoveries!” The discoveries of archrology, he said, whetber monumental or Distorical, have affccted the interpretation of Seripture In four aspects,—first, ctbnograpbical; cecond, historical ; third, chronological; fourth, geopraphical and topographical. - Their ethno- grephical import being chiefly contined to the pre-Abratamic times, 1leave in the far moro competent hands of Prof. Rawlinson. The other threc aspects affect the interpretation of 1the early Scriptures, whether pre-Abrahamic or post-Abrahamic. In all three aspects we knew pothing tiil very recently which could be looked TPON 8 LONTEMPOTary. ‘We had only vague tra- ditions or the second-hand information of later ancient writers, so that profound investizators of primeval antiquity, such as Stanley Faher, bad none of the mass of material, whether of archrological discovery or linguistic recovery, which is at our command to aid them io tracing the priruitive bistory of mao. The result is that, whether we turn to the so-called legendary epoch before the call of Abraham, or to the an- palistic period following it, we now find our- selves confronted with a contemporary and sometimes a moreancient literature, amplifving, exmerating, interpolating, bot never absolute- 15 contradicting, the terse narrative of Genesis. Tooking first of all at the historical reveia- fims of the Assyrian tablets fn the pre- Abralamic period, the Jong series of rec- ode published in _many volumes by the Biblical Arclieological Society bring before us 3 omolete Assyrian story of man from the ceation. The stors of the creation and fall Telonz to the upper. or Akkad, i. e., Cushite di- wision of the country, and in their present form are, perbaps, not the earliest legends; but even {oese are, in their original form, at least two (enturies vlder than Abrabam, aud six centuries Wder then Moses. The story of the flood and tie bistory of Nimrod were probsbly written in the south of Chalda:a, and are at least as early 15 3. (. 2000. But they were all traditions be- fure comizitied to writing, and the traditions we much older still. We have an account of the orzinal chaos. Then from chaos are gen- enited monsters or Gemons, heaven, earth, and g Weare told of the fall of the celestial be- faz, wito appears to correspond to Satan. There ¥aiwer in lleaven, The powers of evil were maquerel. The wods in due course created the guverse In the same succession as in the Mosale Lamative, at each stare pronouncing it good, the eialith tablet making the work cnlminate in the creation of man. And bere, * the God,” our God, I spoken of, while elsewhere the Baby- luotan mythuiomy is ntroduced, os thougzh the arewsicsimpricity of primeval truth bad been retained fn this tablet aloue, which was too feired 1o be tampered with, even by the priest- bood. Man is made uprigt, and endued with the faculty of speech. A long address is deliv- @d by the Daity to man, impressing on him Iis daiies: and 1o the woman her duties to her Rusbaud, and the pair are to be the companions uthe gods. Mr. G. Swmith remar] “ There isfair reason to suppose that there was a close zrecment in subjects and order between the test ot the Chaldean legend and Genesis, wnile there does not_appear to be anything like the same agreement between these inscriptions and the acconnts transmitted to usby Berosus.” Let us briefly note the points of identity. The st tablet, corresponding to Gen., i, 1, 2, be- When the nppes region was not called heaven, And the lower region was not yet ealled earth, And the siyes of Hudes had mot yet opeted s, e the chaos of waters gave birth to all of And the waters were gathered into oue place. Yo man yet dwelt logether, no snimals yet ‘wandered about; one of the zods had yet been born, Their names were not spoken, their attribntes ¥ere ot kmown. —(** Records of the Past.” vol. fx,p. 17) 1 anotner we have the creation of dryland; inthe fitth we have the creation of the hieaven- I5 bodies with much detail, the moon being e;""'“d before the sun. They are to be for fizw, for seasons, for' days. avd for _sears. it more, it declares the Sabbath to have been &rdaintd at the creation. *‘On the seventh by He appointed & hoiy day, and to cease om all business He comwanded.” But, & lk‘ . Fox Taloot remarks, * The account alls ghort of the majesty of the Hebrew Gene- sns"ror it implies that th= heavenly movements ‘;‘;_—h,l Dossibly go wrong, and therefore the h L’I! lings of the pods Hea and Bl are placed fothe planetsn The ereation of the cattle of o xnhef?' the beast of the ficld, and the creep- uiz\. uge, oceur as fn Genesis. We have the T ulale dragon Tiamet tempted him. The Fof ttea heard and was angry, because his man Debs rrunted bis purity.” ‘The curse is, ** May . “::onfiunued and at once cut ofl.” On 2 their hO d':'lln:s are seated by a tree holding out Ereay nds Lo the Truit, while a_serpent stands i bebiind one ol ‘them. Four rivers are Efl;fi nell gl 3s surrounding Gan-dann,—i. ¢., Gan- Tacm the Garden of £den, two, of them the i nd_Euphrates, Amonz_the names of T a..lnedxlumxls‘omur Cain, Enoch, Cainan, rll'm.dx. Tubal-Cain. or Bl kan, the od of fire “‘Ln;g?her of metals. The ten generations of §eaesic are represented by ten successive Kings. ‘e translation of Enoch is placed after the o and transterred to Noah. crob the famous lzdubar Jegend, the Agsvrian tho, o e Fiood, 4 need not speak. Tirenty- Fires Points in the wacrative of Genesie are e ;u the tablets, with some few discrepan- pisks m“,““;'u 10 show that mneither narrative th oovied directly from the other. We have Bl oouat of the building of the Tower o lurm.:u‘l‘, Iuterruption by divine interposition what 1h s sin, “God destroyed in the nizht Ble ev built in the dav. He scattered them Bagyy 0 maue strange their speech, aud St on was abandoned.” Then comes the 000 g!l_-\xmmu. 1dentitied with the_highest Do fevility s the fzaubar of the tublets, for whi &u‘!:dcd Bavel, Akkad, Erech, and Nipur, e & as beeu shown to be another name for T ':lal;ch of Genesis. Mr. Smith writes: historr forms the centre of the mational ‘_Eonul poetry, just as Nimrod is stated to o “Ibfun in the later traditions. I subse- tqcr 0tly found that he aereed exactly in charac- i With Nimrod: he wes a wiant huater uu‘fim‘ v the cuneiform legends, who con- i ed with and destroyed the lion, tiger, n:"i’"d, and wild bull or buffalo; animals the ost forwidable in the chase in any country. “e, }'ulcd first m Babylonia, over the region muu. {rom othier sourees we know to have been be centre of Nimrod's kingdom. _He cxtended € domivion to the Armenian Mouptains, the undary of his Jatc conquests, according to tion; aud one principal scene of his ex- m:m avd trinmphs was the City of Erech, a!v;Jl. according 10 Genesis, was the second la;m;\l of Nimrod.” The discovery by Mr. fius and identification of Ur, with its in- Dumerable inscriptions, its bricks, stamped with 4be name of Arioch (Gen., Xiv., 1), aud its tem- ples to the moon-rod and other idols. down the exhumed Assyrian ancals to e ting of Abraham. What, tlien, is the definite result as to Scrivture history? Certainly there is not an incident touched on from primeval chaos to the call of Abraham which is not fllus- {rated and confirmed by the utierances of languaze which speaks asain after u silcnce of ,000 years, thoush we have only just begun to %nhthcrn few fragments from its storehouse. e ingenuity of s destructive criticism can i’l\'fl(l nothing” against this. Subtle intellects have endeavored to evolve from their inner con- sciousuess the theory of differing Jehovistic and! Elobistic originzls put together in later ages to form the early chapters of Genesis, and shallow copyists haye assumed this a5 an accepted axiom of ‘scholarship. But historical facts dissipate ohilological hypotheses. The cylinders of As- syria expand ii-the same series the so-called Je- hovistic and Elohistic portions alike, e have been told that the Pentateuch, in its present shape, was compiled by Samuel, by the later Seers, or by Ezra. But now it is no longer pos- sible to sujrirest any origin later thau the date of the Exodus for the Instory ot Genesis, for to the Jews of the later period of Samuel the rec- ords of Assyria were inaccessible, and the structure of the language of Genesis is too | archaic to"be postponed to the period of the captivity. THE BIBLE IN TIE SCHOOLS. THE CURIOUS COMPROMISE ADOPTED IN NEW HAVES. Our readers already know that the majority of the Protestant voters of New Havenunited with the Roman Catholics in electing a Board of Eu- ucation piedged to restore the Bible and relig- jous exercises to the public schiools, from which the existing Board had excluded them. The subject of compiling a uniform form of devo- tion was intrusted to a committee of three Protestants, ex-President Woolsey, of Yale Col- lege; the Rev. Mr. Harwood, Episcopalian; and the Rev. J. E. Todd, Congregational; and two Roman Catholics, Fathers Fitzpatrick and Mur- phy. A few days ago the Hartford Courant puplished a manual of worship, which it said bad been agreed upon but had yet to be submit- ted to the Board. It was as follows: MANUAL. (To be eaid knceling.) Teacher—In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Loly Ghost. Amen. < Let us pray: Direct, we bescech Thee, O Lord, ail onr actions by Thy holy grace, and by Thy aseistance bring them 10 a happy issue; that every prayer and work ours may aiways begin by Thee, and_under Thy ldrdnnce may te tnished; throngh Christ our Children respona—Amen. "Peacher—Come, O Holy Ghost, replenish the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the’ fire of Thy love. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created. Children respond—And Thon shalt renew the “face of tne earth. Teacher—Let us pray: > 0 God, who by tne light of the Holy Ghost didst instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant us, we be- secch Thee, through the same loly Spirii, a love and relish of what s right and just, and & constant enjoyment of Iiis consolation, who livest and reignest world without end. Children respond—Amen. THE LORL’S PRAYER. Teacher—Our Father who art in Heaven; hallow- ed be Thy name; Tny will be done on earth, Childrén—As it is in feaven, Teacher—Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses 28 we forgive those’ who trespags againet us; and lead us not into tempta- tion, but deliver us from evil. Children—Amen. b THE AeELIG SLTTATIOR, i eacher—Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with Thee: blesoed Art thou amons women, o blessed 15 the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Children respond—Tloly Mary, Mother of God, gruy,for e sinners, now, and at the hour of our eath, Amen. .THE APOSTLES' CREED. Teacher—1 believe in God, the Father, Almighty Creator of Heaven and earth; and in Jesus Chris 1is only Son onr Lord, who was conceived by the 1oly Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; sufered un- der Pontius Pilate, was cracified deaa and buried; e descended info hell; the third day e arose agam from the dead; He ascended into Heave: sltteth at the right hand of God, the Father Al- mighty: from thence lie will Chilaren—Come to judge the living and the dead. Teacher—I believe in the Tloly Ghost; the Holy Catholic Charch; the communion of Saints; the forpiveness of sine; theresurrection of. the body, and Life everlasting. _Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Here the Ten Commandments, as found in Exo- Que, xx., 1-17, will be repeated, eitber oy the teacher ajone, or by the children in unison, all be- ing seated. Finaliy a hymn chosen from the “+Selection ™ will be sung by the pupils. 1t will be obvious at a glance that a part, at least, of the above could only be used by Ro- man_ Gatholic chfldren, while all, or nearly all, would be objectionable to 1sraelites and “* Lib- erals.”” No sooner was it published than the New Daven Palladion denounced the manual 25 an imposture, and said that the service sctually proposed was very different. The Courasit rejoined by saying that the liturzy published was agrecd on, and was - legitimately obtained, thouzh the Rev. Mr. Todd de- clared its publication a gross breach of trust. It adds that Mr. Todd bas written to the New Haven Journal, explaining that * the so-called liturgy, as copied in the evening papers from the Tiartford Cowrant, is but a part of the plan which is to be proposed.” Mr. Todd ex- plains that the rcligious exercises in the schools ure to be conducted by percentazes. In all the schools there will "be the read- jng _of Scriptures, the repetition of the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and, in addition, wherever there are 30 per cent of the pupils in any school whose parents desire it, these are to be permitted to withdraw into separate rooms and lise by themselyes the form which has becn al- ready published.” It is understood by the con- tracting parties that where there are less than 30 per ceut of such pupils no objections will be made to their remaining _present at the general exercise, provided that where there are more than 30 per cent cheseparate worship is allowed. Mr. Todd says this plan hes received the in- dorsement, of almost all the city —papers. Whether the plan is generally adopted or mnot Qepends of course upon the number of public Schools baving the necessary percentage, and it will naturally follow that where one-third of the children of any school are Romau Catholics a teacher of that sect must be employed to con- duct the separate exercises, ‘Ihe Rev. Mr. Harwood has written to the Courant to explain his osition in regard to the case. He says Drs. Woolsey and Bacon were absent from the conference, and that he and Mr. Todd agrced to the manual to be _used by the Catholic children exclusively and in a sep- arate roomn wherever there were 30 per cent of Cathiolic pupils. He concludes: ~The Protestants in the conference recog- nize the justice of the Roman Catholic plea of couscience. How could we do othefwise! it is our plea, used zlways and everywhere against everything that savors of ecclesiastical tyranny. Tor one, to save the public schools, to allay agi- 1ation, to unite Romauists aud Protestants in supvort of the system of public instruction, to Secure the recognition of God, oud of His fioty will and commandments, inthe schools, I be- Jieve that the plau proposed at the conference I8 the only plan that will accomplish the most desirable results without violence to religious fecling, and perhaps to what may be named re- ligious prejudice. Let the school have its for- Imia, of directory ; let the Roman Cathiolic pu- pils (when they number 30 per cent of the sum total) withdraw ioto another room, engapc in worship in_their own way, according 1o the usaze of theirown Church, and agitation upon Utle schiool question’? will cease.” reporter of the New York 1Yorid has inter- viewed members of the School Board to the fol- Jowing effect: 1. D. Bushnell thought the plan of a separate room in which certain scholars should receive relizious instruction was not practicable. He ‘believed earnestly in some sort of devotional e reiscs, and thought some plan could be de- Wsed by which all the children could recite to- gether, and that the simplest form was the best. Bt beborne had no_opinion to express at présent, but the present exercises suited him P nsug. e could not say what he would do In case the manual printed in the papers was submitted to the Board. Samuel Hemingway thoughit the manual was rather strong, and that the preseut pian ought to do well enough. A business fricnd had told bim that a committee of business-men could devise somethinz beiter than the clerzymen had. e thought their plan hardly feasible. 1. M. Welch thougnt the clc‘r- oymen had “put thelr foot in it He held that the vote settled it that a return should be made to the old ways and forms, and that was the best thing that could bedonc. John E. Earle preferred not to say how be should act 1f the ruanual should come before the’ Board. Ie hmiled when he said that five worthy gentlemen Pad got uj an admirable production, and he be lieved in Jetting them bave all umé wanted of it. They were 2 self-constituted Comumittee. Mr. Zunder, the Hebrew member of the Board, said the clerzymen had taken this responsibility upon themscives. He thousht both Catholics iiculous, and tha there was no more proba- bi‘i‘lr.)' of iszs being adopted than of the adoption of the Talmud. The dewish children would not ‘e burt by bearing the exerciscs. 1In some of tie scbools there were no _rooms to which the children coula withdraw for their devotions. To be practicable there must be oue service for all. The-Jews had 10 objection to the Proverbs, little to the Lord’s “Prayer, and none to most of the hymns, except those of bring | Moody and Sonkes. .The Committee's plan would be disastrous to the Republic, the children would be taught by to distingaish each other by thelr religious faith. 3r. Sweeney thought a plan of worship mizht be adopted which the children might comol! with without the withdrawal -of any. Prof. Walker, who, as has been-already said, voted to discontinué the relizious exercises in achools in the first place, declared that the subject could be treated only in two ways,—by oblising the pupila to conform by law to the form prescribed, or by making the schools purely sccular. It was impossible that any form of worship could be prepared which would be satisfactory to all aiths. There were no apartments for those of ditfcrent belicts to worship in, and the form pro- posed was_inconyenient, if not wholly fmprac- ticable. Maj. Mahey, the Catholic member, thouzht a much simpler form could be devised, and was in favor.of the repeating of the Lora’s Prayer and the Ten Commandments, and the singing of a hymn. 0 ” To a reporter of the New York Torld, Dr. Woosley satd: “The statement that a conference of Protest- ant and Catholi¢ clergymen had agreed upon a manual {s absurd. ~ There was a comumittee, composed of Dr. Harwood, Dr. Leonard Bacon, Mr. Todd, and myself, appointed to confer with a committee of Catholic' clerzymen with regard to a religious service to he used in the schools. Unfortunately 1 was sick and could not take part in the conference, but I agreed with every- thing that was done. The confercnce com- mittees themseives had no_ power, but they agreed 1o advise the School Committee, which had the ‘say’ in the matter, that Lhirty lessons from the Old and New Testaments, thirty hymns and the Ten Commandments as writien in Deuteronomy should be read in the schools. There was also a proyiso that iu any school in which oze-third of the pupils were Catholics these pupils should have the privilege of at- tenaing religious worship in a separate roou. 1t wasalso provided that the Lord’s Prayer shonld be read without the concluding sentence, ¢ For thine is the kinzdom and the power an the glory forever. Amen.? Dr. Woolsev had no idea ow it happened that a manual should be published ss an agreement between the Catholics and Protestants. The Protestants, he said, would never conscut to the prayer be- ginning * Hail Mary.” THE ROMAN CHURCH. IT IS KO LONGER A MISSIONARY STRIPLING IN THE UNITED STATES. Indtanapolis Sentinel. The new order of Pope Leo (or ‘“rescript” from the Papal Propaganda, as it may be more correctly termed) which was addressed early in the present mocth to the Bishops of the Cath- olic Church in the United States, is about to be carried into effect in the Diocese of Vincennes, as indeed in every other diocese througnout the country. As its influence will be in the direc- tion of a very radicals and sweeping change ln the administration of the affairs of the Church, some account of the object aud iutent of this {mportant document will be of general intercst. Thne order was addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops, and will, probably, in course of time, be promuleated by thein through the me- dium of pastoral letters to the clergy under their control. Up to the present time, however, no publicity has been givento its contents, which are known only to a few ccclesiastics hizn in authority, to whom belongs the duty of gctting in motion the necessary machinery for comply- ing with the Poutifical directions. The general object sought to be accomplished by his Holiness is that of bringing the Catholic Church more thoroughly into harmony with Amerlcan institutions. . Hitherto it has been often asserted by the oppouents of Catholicism that the Church could not be in sympathy with American ideas of sclf-government, for the reason that it was controlled entirely by the Bishops, who in their several dloceses held su- preme power, and were responsible only to their superiors at Rome, but were in no way ameua- Dle to the wishes or desires of the congregations and clergy. From the date of the issuauce of this recent order this ome-man power in the Catholic Church is at an end, and a new system of canonical law is brought into operation. The Bishops are no longer iuvested with the power 0 remove a clergyman from one part of a dio- cese to another at will, and can only make for it changes of ‘this kind under certain cléarly ex- ressed regulations. ‘Priests are henceforth to e in charge of their several parisnes in the ca- pacity of Kectors and not as pastors; aud the term’pastor is abolished in the Cathiotic Church in this country, except as applicd to a Bishop, who is chief pastor of his diocese. Clergymen will at the commencement of thelr ministrations in a diocese receive their appointment from the Bishop, but cannot after- ‘ards be removed therefrom exceot for the comzmiesion of some ccclesiastical or maral of- fense which would be a breach of canonical Jaw. Inthe eventof any such offense Leing charged against the Rector of a parish, the de- cisfon as to his guilt or innocence Wil not rest with the Bishop, but with a council of judges, consisting of a_given number of clerzymen, who are to constitute a permancnt ccclesiastical court for the trial of all clerical delinquents. “fhe machinery by which this council of judgesis to be sclected is as follows: The Bikbop tirst consults the members of his di- ocesan council, and it is their duty to sclect and Fecommend the names of a number of priests for appointment as judwes. Upon the receipt of these nomiuations, the Bishoo has no power %o appoint, but the choice Tests with the clergy of the diocese, who meet in convention, and vote by ballot oum the elec- tion of judges. The court having been thus constitutea, it will be emnowered to try all apeusations against the oriests of the diocese and report their findings to the Bishop. If the accusced is dissatisfied he may appeal to the Metropolitan or Archibishop of the provinee, and he Lias still further right of appeal to the Pope at Home. The initiatory steps have been taken in this diocese for the selection of judges, Bishop Chatard baving several days sincc consulted with the members of his council, and requested them to report to him the names of eligible ecclesiastics who should be recommended to the diocesan Synod. The members of the Bishop's council aré Fathers Bessonics and Shideler, the Vicars-Geueral; Father McDermott, Evans- ville; Father Audion, Jeffersonvilles Father Gueguen, Vinceoncs; Fatber Merse, Vincennes, of the Clurch of the Sacred Heart: and Fatber Chusge, of St Mary n-the-Woods, with Father O'Donaghue, the Bishop’s private secre- tary, who Is also Secretary of the council. The diocesan Synod to which "the recommendations will be made is to be held during the first week in Advent. Ttis understood that this uew Pontifical order was issued at the su-»?restlon and upon the ree- ommendation of the late Bishop Conroy, who in nis capacity of apostolic delezate to the Cana- disu Catholic Church had become largely ace- quainted with the needs and cl aracteristics of the Catholics in the United States, The suc- cessor of Bishop Conroy will shortly be appoint- ed, and it is believed the choice will fall upon Archbishop Croke, one of the most eminent of the Irish prelates. It is almost certain that his jurisdiction us apostolic dcleate will extend ‘over the United States as weli as Canad The foregoing simply means_that the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is under- going the trausition from youth to manhood. Ever since the establishment of the first Bishop- ric—tnat of Baltimore in 1790—the Church in this country has been regarded as a missionary enterprise, having . for its lountain head, and being responsible to, the Propazanda at Rome. Now that it has grown from a lay membership of 30,000 to over 6,000, 000, and _possesses one Cardinal, eleven Archbishops aud fifty-four Bishops, and Thas real property valued at about §200,000,000, the time has come, when it should take 1ts place in the Roman circle uon an equal footlng with the most favored Catholie countries of Europe. The result will be to deprive the Bishops of the one-man power which they have so lonyz and po- tentially swayed. ‘The Missionary Bishops were given the most autocratic oriviieizes. “Lhey had the power of transferring pastors at will “from one portion of a- diocese to_unother, of banish- ioz them from out_the limits of the diocese, or depriving them of their oflices, and there was o redress, for the Missionary Bishop was sup- posed, by his superiors at Rowe, to be more conversnnt with the wants of the Church than anybody clse, and Lo him alone wae intrusted it missionary _operations. In the Dioceses of arbor Grace and New- foundland -the missionary, system-has never prevailed. Both episcopates have been governed by canonical law, just as are the Bishoprics of Tance, Belgium, or 1taly. There no Bishop could remove a priest except for vause, and then ouly upon the finding of an ecclesiastical court. The formation of these courts is described above. BREAKING BOTTLES. THE NEW WINE OF SWING AND THOMAS. To the Editor of The Tribune. CrI¢AGo; Oct. 25.—Once Christ went to dine +with a publican, and the plous people of His day were very much shocked for, beside the public- an host, there were present other publicans, and some sinners, who ate at the same table. 1t was a bad business, and troubled the Pharisees not alittle. Aforcover, in those days, the word « Pharisee was not, as it is now, a term of re- proach, but, on the contrary, 8 title of Bonor equal to that of D. D. to-day, and 1t was all the Sohe asif the D. D.’s of this day should find a prominent relizious teacher praying, and teach- ing, and eating smong gamblers and barlots, or ¢ven Chicai7o tax-eaters. No wonder the Pharisees. were shocked, for even the disciples of John made a protest; but Jesus fustead of repenting and promising to do better in the foture, sct about justifying His conduict, and amoug other things, said No min putteth a piece of new ctoth on an 014 garment, tor that woich is put into 61l it up taketh from the sarment, and the rent fs made worse; neithor do_meu put new wine into old bottles. else the bottles break and the wino runneth ont. n this way He taught that the Jewish Church was an old garment, and the Pharisees, as its dianitarics, like so_much faded embroidery or tarnished tinscl to be turust into the rag-bag— that the organization which boasted = of a divine origin was an old bottle of no farther use than to preserve the history of the past, and that new truth can never be put into” any old organization. So we see¢ that all down the history ol civilization every uew truth has scemed to demand a new organization. While a newly-discovercd principle in the early stages of fermentation, is is never bottled up jo a creed, but, as it works itself clear the bottling process begins, and once completed there is no room for disturbingz elements. While Presbyteriagism was working out, in Scotland, its zrand idea of the “right of private Pndgment," as a bulwark against the tyraony of Rowre, there wis, among the workers, an end- less varlety of opinion aud a very grencral disbe- Mef in the tnspiration of the New Testament. There was a great lack of upiformity ot faith, and the new idens mixed with all kinds of oid idens, in all kinds of minds. So, to zet things into shape, King James ihe First called an sembly of bottie-makers to meet ut Westmin- ster and make a bottle forthis new wine, for which no room had been found in either the Church of Rome or England. Thnese reyerend workmen met, and after much earnest, honest work succeeded in turning out a good, stout bottle, which was labeled ** Westminster Con- fession of Faith.” For centurics this bottle has been tightly cork- ed, carefully, piously, and prayerfully guarded by n succession of clerzy und laity; “and so strong was the material, 50 good the yorkman- ship, that, although it was once rent in tiain, it was securely sewed up and made into two bottles, which were afterwards reunited i such way as to leave it in the arigiu:l formn and won- derfully well preserved. From this bottle the old doubts about inspiration “are all excluded, and all other serious conflicts ot opinjon are on the outside. < Well, after the bottle was repaired and made almost as wood as uew, what did David Sying do butuncork that sucred vessel nnd set about pourine fn some of his new wine? He wus not iong in discovering that the process would soun break the bottle, and, as he Joved it, both for its own sake and for sake of the Zood old wine it contains, be quickly desisted, and new keeps bis new wine in open vessels, where there is plenty of room for fermentation and ample facilities for distribution. Once upon a time: Johm Wesley pressed out a rare vintaee, and found his new wine o mui- sance to his pious neirhbors, with not. 1 bottle in England large enough to hold it, so he sct to ponring it out into all sorts and sizes of open- mouthed vessels, and calling on every living soul to come ana drink. There was a great deal of drinking done, and, in spite of all the tem- perance societies, of all the Bishops and Magis- trates and D. D.'s and devout pewholders of Encland, tens of thousands got drunk on Wes- ley’s wine, and had such method in their mad- ness that they were ever sfter better citizens, nobler und happier for this intoXication. ‘When this Iz‘m had made itself apparent, the bottle-makers took charge of the wine, in” due course made a nice bottle, called it “ The Twenty-four Articles,” mathc-ed up the wine, put it in, corked the bottie, and have f as.se- cure as any other treasure of this kind. This being the case, what right has Dr. Thomas to open that cork and put bis new wine into that old bottle? True, the zrapes were fully ripe, and have grown rich and Iuscious in an overflowing love to God and man, kindled by the sun of rizhtcousness, and bave horne the carly frosts of afiliction, Fo that they must be pressed or lost. ‘True, the wine seems full of refreshment for the weary and sin-ludea soul; but these are not regsons that this new wine shonld be put into a bottle that was not made for it. Dr. Thomas thinks that his wine is the same kind that has been pressed out of Methodist grapesas longas he canremember, and as lougas there has been any such graves to be pressed; but they who hold the bottle think otberwise, and refuse to admit it. People talk of persecution, and complain that the bottle does not grow so as to meet the growing wants of the aze; but growth is mo part of the business of a bottle. It may be all true, as claimed, that there would have been plenty of room for Hiram Thomas’ winein John Wesley’s vats and vessels; but this bas nothing to do with the question of putting it into the bottle of modern Methodism; and 50 long as it is the universal practice of mankind to bottle each idea, or sct of ideas, in acreed, so long the people of new ideas must find themselves disturbers of the peace, bottle- breakers, to be watched with jealous eyes and placed under ban. A One cannot but sympathizé with David Swinz and Hiram Thomas in their efforts to keep their several churches in their orizinal position as the vanguards of religious thought; but Luther and Knox and Wesley might_as well have tried to do their work inside the Roman and English churches as the advance thinkers of to-day to do theirs in the Presbyterinn and Methodist chiurches. Science and research haye thrown a new light upon Revelation, and relizion must be left to the ignorant, or find interpreters and interpre- tatlons for which there is no.room 1 these or- ganizations. They have their own uses fu the Sresent and fature, as they bave had in the past; but they cannot meet the new wants of a new age. Some of Dr. Thomas’ fricnds are troubled at the thought of his withdrawal or expulsion from the Church in’ which he has been 80 zealous & laborer for so many ycars; because his health is fecble, and he will not, probably, live long enough to establish the nucleus for another bottle. * Look,”.they say, “at Swing! His church dics with bim; aund so it would be with Thomas!” In other words, they will fur- nish no work for the battle-makers, and folks caunot conceive that there will be a succession of vintage ready to gush out in perpetual strcams of Dew wine, and that the world may learn te grow without bottling its ideas aud preserving them under cobwebbed corks, until from age alone they become too precions and expeusive for common use. They foryget that Christ is a wine, and that He never hasbeen, and peyer can be, bottled; but is more orless in, and always omside of, all creeds and combina- tions, accessidle to all, and ever inviting all to come to llim and find rest, snd strength, snd Thope for the future. JANE GREY SWISSHELM. MGR. DUPANLOUP. HIS ODDITIES AND PECULIARITIES. Special Correspondence of The Trivune. PAR1s, Oct. 16.—You will have heard all about the death of Mgr. Dupanloup long before this can reach you. A few more facts connccted with so remarkable a man can, however, hardly fail to be interesting. Although the late Bishop, towards the close of his career, was the bitterest and most dapzerous enemy of the Republic, it should not be forgotten that in his youth and middle age—indeed, till the decreeing of Papal Infallibility—he was a Liberal of the same kind as Montalembert and Lacordaire. In the Ecu- menical Council therc was no more ardent opoo- nent of the dogma he afterwards accepted. Pius never forgave him that, and not even all his subsequent labors in the Catholic cause suc- ceeded in winning him the Cardinal’s hat he craved for. Mgr. Dupauloun, 1y simple; read much, much, prayed much. Copious, were plain: and his wine had the reputation of being cxecrable. | Neither, by the testimony of both friends and foes, did he study his personal comfort in the matter of furniture. The most modest “cit” would have grumbled at the barrenness of his apart- ments. In wet weatber he carried a shabby old umbrella, frayed at one end, and innocent of haudle at the otner. Iis dress was to match. Unlike many bigh dienitaries of the Church, Mer. Dupanloup died comparatively poor. His whole fortune amounted to 40,000r., iwhich he has bequeathed to his godson, M. du Boys, of Grenoble, By the provisions of his yvill, his heart is to be given to the Parish of St. Felik, which zave him birth, and his_body to the Cathedral of Orleans. There it will rest in the tomb prepared for it while it was animate. We arc told that the will disposing of his worldly goods and person is not the only one Jelt behind by the late Bishop. Another, with the singulnr inscription, “Testament Mys- tique” on the cover, is said o have been dis- covered. Mgr. Dupacloup wasadistinguished member of ‘the Erench Academy. For many years, however (since the clecticn of 3 Littre), the Academy and he bad ceased to bold intercourse with cach Stber. It is usual, when an Academician dies, for one of his brother-fmmortals to deliver au oration over him. In this casc, however, the cnstom will not be adbered to, as Mer. Dupan- Toup, mindful of the quarrel which divided him and the other thirty-nine, has strictly enjoined that no speeches should be made at the funeral. . Before his death, the Bishop bad written his Memoirs. They are likely to be published soon. IWhen they are We may count on some curous in private iffe, was extreme- wrote much, thought His meals, though revelations; for Mer. Dupanloup had heard the last confession . of Talleyrand, had guided the spiritual steps of the Comte de Chambord; and, ata later period, had been the fntimate’ (and pernicious) counselor of Mme. de MacMahon. There can be litile doubt that he was the lead- ing spint in the odions and_desperate attempt made tooverthrow the French Republic last year. But for this, his fame would be brighter and his wemory more honored by his countrymen. HARRY MELTZER. GENERAL NOTES. The Chicago Presbytery will hold an adjourned meeting to-morrow forenoon at 10:30 o’clock in the Ministers’ Room, 48 McCormick Block. The 112th anniversary ot the founding of the old John Strect Mecthodist Chureh, fn New York, was appropriately celebrated last Sun- day, and provea a very interesting ceremony. The many friends who enjoy the Rev. J. Monroe Gibson’s Bible readings, given every Sunday afternoon in Farwell Hall, will be pleased to know that arrangements have been made to publish them in book form at the close of the series. | The Monday Club sermons for 1879 are out. ‘The contributors to the volume are Atwood, of Salem; Clark, of Jamalca Plain; Currier, of Lyon; ' Davis, of Hyde Park; Duoning, of Bos- ton Highlands; Foster, of Jersey City: Grout, of Contord; Kelsey, of New Haven; Leavitt, of Cumbridze; Mears, of Worcester; South- gate, of Dedbam; and Speare, of Bangor. People differ. One of the theological students at Oberlin acts ns nizht bageage-master and watchman at the railway station, doing his studying between trains, reciting mornings, and siveping afternoons. Another theologue, who entered at Oberlin tnis term, returned East af- ter a aay or two, homesick, becanse the stu- dents? rooms in Council Hall are not supplied with gas and hot and cold water. The Cook County Sunday-School Association will hold 2 convention in Farwell Hall on Fri- duy and Saturday, the 220 and 23d insts. ALl the Sunday-schoots in the county will send dele- gutes, and the best leaders from bome and abroad have been secured. Sunday-school work: in the county has been brought ip to a high standard 1n the past_vesr, and this Convention will give new enthuslasm to the work. At the recent Universalist General Confer- ence, the Committce on Unfinished Business reported that the Winchester Profession should be changed so that instead of stating thut man- kind shall be *festored,” it shounld read “prought to holiness and happiness.” A warm debate followed, and the question was decided in the negative by a vote of 31 to 25, lllflcrnn amendment to substitute “save " was 05t The San Francisco Socicty for Christianizing the Chincse recently observed its aoniversary, the Rev. T. K. Noble in the chair; the Secreta- Iy, the Rev. Ar. Pord, read the reports of the officers of the Society, including the Teport of the Association of Chinese Christians. These Chinese give sublimely, out of their povert; to Christian work, as much, at least, as ten dol lars per member. The Association has raised in the past year about $1,400. It is hoviog to establish a mission in a Chinese district, not far from Canton. A Detroit paper says: ‘A mn?urlty of the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese have signed a paper requesting the Stauding Com- mittee to call a special convention st an carly day to elect a successor 1o Bishop McCoskry. The Committee will, of course, - acquiesce, and the vacancy will ere long be filled. " Tne Rev. George Worthington, of St. John’s, scems to be the coming man. The clergy will be very strongly in his fayor, and his abundantly dem- onstrated organizZine ability will be a strong ar- gument in his behalf.” ; Among the misslops which are active and suc- cessful in planting Christianity in Japan is that of the Orthodox Church of Hussia. It-had its origin, as Charles Hale, D. D., relates, in the Consular service at Hakodadi, established in 1559, for resident and visiting Russians. Father Nicholas, the chaplain, soon zoticed that some of the Jupanese were becoming interested in the scrvices, and he began to give some atten- tion to them. The result was that he became sreatly interestod in his volunteer work among ihe natives and eained a dozen or so converts to the faith. The Evangelical Lutherans of this city have organized a Mission Seminary, to include an Orphans’ Home and School, Teachers’ Semina- ry and Trainiog School, and a_Theological Sem- fnary and Church Mission. “It plants itself Dbetween the two extremes of go-called Luther- anism—that of a kyrer-orthodozy and that of a ‘negative unionism, contending earnestly for the faith which was once delivered uuto the Saints, on the standpoiut of our fathers and confessors in 1530, in the spirit and aim of the Apostles’ Creed: ‘I believe in the holy Christian Chureh, the communion of Saints.” ’” At the recent Cnorch of England Congress at Shetlield, the pew system being under discus- sion, 3 member of the Congress.said that when T of Cabul visited Peshawur o 1869 lie was shown a fine English church at the sta- tion. When the chaplaio ot the church explain- ed to him that the- whole congregation was ranged in order according to the relative rank of the different officers, he expressed his utter astonishment. * Why," he said, “I am the chief ruler of my country, but when 1 worship in the mosque I take my place beside my poorer subjects, for in the House of God all men are equal.” The first number of the Living Church, the successor of the Province, is out. 1t is a hand- somely printed paper of twenty-four pages, threc columns to the page. Ample space is miven to Church news,botl at home and abroad. Under the caption of ** Public Opinion ” are interesting communications on ¢hurch history, Bible study, and Kindred subjects. As the orzan of the Episcopal Church of the West, the Living Church: has 2 large and erowing constituency; and, judging from the make-up and matter of the first number, it is evident that the editors thoroughly appreciate the responsibilities devolving upon them. The Sunpay TRIBUSE cordially welcomes the Living Church to s front-place in the list of its religious exchanges. The Bishop of Manchester, preaching on Sat- urday afternoon at a charch-testival in the rural Deanery of Presuwich, sald that many modern Dywmps, and come of them the most_ popular, were very namby-pamby and strangely silly. They were fuli of erroncous conceptions of all sorts of things—of God, of Heaven, of Hell, of aagels, and ke knew pot what besides. Sany of them were grossly materialistic, and be be- lieved that such had tended to form that sadly- materialistic and_superstitious conception of Christ’s presence in the Sacrament which was s0 prevalent. Some of the hymus were far too uuctuous, scnsational, a2nd sentimental; and popular theology was, he was_certain, formed P¥ihem in two different directions—one ma- terinlistic and the other emotional; but whether they resolved religion into a spectacle or senti- medt it was equally removed from the sober teaching of theChureh of England. Bishop Gilbert Haven read the other day before the Boston Association of Methodist Ministers an_essay on the Relation of Wesley and Mecthodism to Modern Thought. He claimed that the spiritual life of Protestant Cnristeodom has been filled with the influence of Weslev: that not a slave had been libe- rated. not a joyous Clristian melody been sung, ot a Bible been dropped gratuitously into ‘silling or unwilling hands, not a ramseller cou- yerted, not a Sunday-school scholar instructed, but could be traced as directly to John Wesley a8 solar rays_can be traced to the sun. Every ‘missionary, Bible, and tract society sprang from Wesley and his work. Every anti-slavery, antl- tobacco, and woman-suffraZe society took its rise from Wesley. He first since Paul emanci- pated women i the prayer room and the pulpit. These statements he supported oy adducing the fact that the Clapham Society of Enziand, Which was the centre of much philanthropic, inissionary, and anti-slavery work, was founded by the sons of a Methodist preacher. He de- clared that both literature and philosophy had folt the influence of Wesley, and that Thack- eray, Dickens, George Eliot, Mrs. Stowe, and Holmes have another atmospherc to their writiogs than if Wesley had never lived. His influence upon philosophy was manifested in this, that be was a leuler in the batcle fought in England acainst tne material philosophy of Hume, Locke, and tobus. The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal tells the following: The most_extraordinary thing in the Jine of church music has occurred very recently In a popu- Jar uptown church. It is realiy 8 battle of Lyma- books. Hymn-books are many and their friends are zealous and persistent. In this congregation There is a leading publisher who has 3 bymmn-book nnder his controf. . It bears the name of a Boston pastor. This book has been introduced nto the Congregation to_ the great disguat of the pastor. Jic hos naturally exerted himself to get the book displaced. The publisher is a deacon in the church, 3 man of weaith and influence, and has been a great power in his denomimation. He has maturally Btirred limaelf to_ have the book retained. The pustor cut the Gordian knotof satsgonism in avery Bummary manner last wees. A felegram sum- mioned the deacon to mect the pastorat a given hour at his stuay. e found the minister arrayed to poyout, who declined any conference, bat pointed to & paper lying on the desk, which be re- Qquested the deaconto sign. Itwasa request to fhe charch to accept the deacon's resizmation. ““Perhaps you wonld like the_ resignation of my membership also,” suggested the official. ‘! As sou please,” said the pastor. ‘'Ican get along Fith'a ehnrch member where I can't Zet slong With adeacon.” The siznature was attached To the paper, and the eharch Las one doacon less to-das. Whether thus will restore_harmony iga_question. Deacons often dismiss ministers, but it is very sel- dom that ministers dismiss deacons, especially a wealthy und influential man. The church has had a ten years' lingation over the dismissal of a Trus- tee. Tt may cnter onone equally vesations over the summary dismissal of a deacon. The Sunday-school workers of the First Dis- trict of Illinois, consistinz of the seventcen northern counties, will hold their fifth conven- tion at Elgin, IIl., commencing Tuesday, Nov. 5, and continuing until ‘Ihursday evening. Rep- resentatives from these counties are expected, and the good people of Elein will entertain them. Any aceregjted Sunday-school worker may be considered n delegate. Railroadlaccom= motations on the Chicago & Northwestern and Chicazo & Pacific Railroads have been sccured ata fare aud a fitth. Some workers of noteare to be present, and the prospt for a larze gatherine are very flattering, ‘The Convention is undenominational and unsectarian, and so all Christiaus are welcome. A Sunday-school bazaar will be an attractive featare. Among the speak- ers will be the Rev. M. M. Parkhurst, of - Chi- cazo: Dr. John Willlamson, of Chicazo; J. G. Terrill, C. M. Morton, B. F. Jacobs, E.P. Porter; Elder W. H. Smith, of Mendota; many others whose names are on the pro- gramme. WEEK OF PRAYER FOR YOUNG MEN. The International Committes of American Young Men's Christian Assoclations, represent- ing 1,000 Associutions, with a membership of 100,000, in accordance with the instructions of the Louisville Convention, have issued a call for the observance of Nov. 10 aud the week fol- lowinz as a season of thanksgiving and of special praver for God's blessing upon young men and work in their behalf. The World’s Convention of the Associaticns, held at Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 13-18, 1873 (in which ecleven nations were represented), joined heartily fu tiis uppointment, so that in all parts of the world this season of prayer will be observed. The American Committes sugeest the following topics for meetings each day in the week: Exhortation to Young Men: ‘Their Power 3 =ik, 93, 345 onng Men, Their Power LJohn,ii., 13, 1¢; Eph., Someining Stroager Monday. Young Men, Kings, xi.,28; xif., 26, 3 Nov. 12, s for Good: Prov., xx., 2 Vi, 10, 11 Nov." T, Than the Strength of Young Meri; Tsaiah, xl., 25, Wednesday. or. 14, Tharsday. e : s harsdsy. - THow to Teack Young Ven: 5 Nov. 15, Friday. Young Men, Their Special Temptations; Ecct., xi., 8 107 LL Tmm.. ii., 22 Nor. 16, Satur The Fatfern for Young Men; Luke, ., 3 Acts, X., 38, 43. The Committce issue u cireular to pastors askine their co-operation, and request, if prac- ticable, 3 sermon to yoitns men on the Lord’s Day, and such otner observance of the week as they deem desirable. ‘I'ne_Commlttee accompany the cireular with a brief statement of the importunt work in their charge among the 800,000 ruilroad- men; the 30,000 young men in colleges; the 60.000 com- mercial travelees, aond the 500,000 Germun- speaking young men. In all but one of thesc fields they have a - special visitor employed to orzanize and_stimulate wise cfforts by Chris- tian youns men. The workers in the i zations are maiuly the young. men in ctiurches have the most confidence, aim is to do such work as commends the chureb, 1o parents, to business-men, and to young men themselves. PERSONALS. Canon Simpson has beea clected Mayor of Appleby, England. The Rev. D. H. Cooley, D.D., has resizoed his pastorate at Canton, I1l., to accept 2 call to Free- port. ‘The Rev. Dr. James H. Means, of Dorcester, Mass., has resigned the pastorate of his church in Boston. The Rev. Z. 8. Holbrook, of this city, has ac- cepted a call to the Congregational Church at Methuec, Mass. . The Rev. J. M. Batchelder, of Albia, In., is about to leave his pastorate for a seitlement in Osborne City, Kau. The death of the Rev. Dennis Platt, a prom- ineat Coneregational pastor of South Norwalk* Conn., is anuounced. ‘ The Rev. R.C. Hastings and. Miss Harriet Townserd ailed from New Yo ‘The Rev. J, H. Lotkwood has resizued his pastorate in Williamsbury, L. 1. ‘The charch is loaded down with debt and depleted by emizra- tion. Tae Rev. E. F. Atwood has been commission- ed by the Home Missionary Sacicty to occupy the ficld in Dakota of which Deadwood is the centre. ‘The tidings have been reccived from Eogland of the conversion to Catholicism of the Duchess of Sutheriand and the Rev. Mr. Waite, a Fellow- of Oxford. Dr. W. B. Bond, Dean of St. Georzre’s Cathe- dral, Montreal, has been chosen Bishop of the Diocese of Montreal in the stead of Bishop Oxenden, resigoed. It is now definitely known that tbe Rev. W. P. Mackay, the great Enelish preacher, and author of ‘“Grace and Truth,” Wwill be in this ity ou the 17th iust. “The Rev. Heary H. Rees, recently appointed as a missionary to Japan, urder the auspices of the Baptist Missionary Union, will soon sail to enter upon his work. The Rev. Thomss Street, D. D., o prominent member of the Presbyterian Synod of Central New York, died recently at the age of 65. His home was ot Cortland. z ‘The Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D. D. has been elected permanent Dean of the General Theological Semnary of the Protestant Episco- pal Church in New York. . The Rev. Robert Patterson, formerly of this city, aud recently of San Francisco, was last Sunday formally installed pastor of the Centrat Presbyterion Church of Cinciunati. ‘The Rev. James M. Gray has resizncd his pas- torate of the Cnurch of tlre Redemption, Brook- Iyu, to accept that of the Reformed Eoiscopal Chureh of the Corner Stone, Newburg, N. Y. Dr. H. M. z, pastor of the Dudley Strect Baptist Church, Bostou, declines the call to the Newton Theoloical Seminary Professorship, Telt vacant by Prof. Caldwell’s removal to. Vas- sar College. 2 g b The Elders of the Presbyterian ‘Church g Sturgis, Mich., prooounce a5 a false’ and mali- cious stander the story that their pastor, the Rev. Mr. DeWiltt, publicly encouraged the use of intoxicating beverages, and was dismisscq the Church therefor. The Rey. Dr. William Cbauucey Langdon, whose resignution of toe Rectorship® of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., was offered and. de- clined at the Easter meeting, has resigued the charge of that church, to take effect on the first Sunday in November. The Rev. Davis W. Clark, of the Columbia Al E. Church, Cincinpati, has been transferred by Bishoo Harris to the Obio Conference, and sta- tioned at Broad Strect Church, Columbus. The Rev. M. M. Kugler bas been brought from Love- land to fill the vacancy at Columbia. The Advance says: * Fcllowship was with- drawn from the Rev. F. H. Buffum, of Hart- ford, several years since. Ilis appearance since in Illinois and_Vermont as a minister can bave no warrant. - He must be reinstated by a Coun- cilon Repentance in order to be a recoguized minister ot our churches.” PERVERTED PIETY. David was of short stature. Hence his re- mark: “1 said in my haste tall men are liars.” ¢ TWhat does Good Friday mean?” asked oae schoolboy of - another. “You nad beiter 2o home and read your Robinson Crusoe,” was the withering reply. « Sandy, what is the state of religion in your own?" “Bad, sir; very bad! There arc no Christians except Davie and myself, and I have my doubts about Davie.” Dean Stanley was surprised at a station by 2. lean person With & tuft of red chin-whiskers putting his head in at a car-window and shout- ing: * Hellow, Stanley! Hooraw! How's Af- riky#" The colored brother in a Virginia church just hit tbe nail on the bead when he prayed at the close of a white brother’s sermon, ** Lord, bress de brudder to whom we has listened to so patiently.” ‘The Rev. Joseph Cook wants to know “if God has 2 good time.” Ask some scaside hotel derk; ho comes nearer to being God than any one else that the interviewer can reach—taking him at his own estimate.— Worcester Press. Senior class-room. Mr. L.—*Doctor, conld the wicked find any pleasure in associating with toe good, in the next lite?”? Dr. A.—*No, !ir."g Mr. L.—“Then wasn't God kind to pro- vide hell for their ‘comfort 3" —Rochester College Laper. " The story is told that the Rev. Dr. Bellows once pleased an uneducated man so much with a lecture that he quietly drooped a dotlar into Dr. Bellows' hana, and remarked: “Iheerd vour lectur’ last nicht. Iapproved your views, and want to see 'em forrarded.” A little boy In 2 Sunday-school pat a poser to his teacher. ~ The lady was telling her class bow God punished the Ezvptians by causing tie first born in ecach houschold to be slain. ‘The little boy listenea attentively, and, at the proper in- terval, inquired: * What would God hava done if there had been twins? ™ The Congregationalist says: *In the Town of Blank s a clerzyman of a statistical turn of mind. Tle kas a record of the attendance at every service of his church for a dozen years or more. Recently, in closing the service, he gave the benediction thus: *The grace of God be with you all. Eightecn.” ™ - - Dr. John Brown, of Edinburg, tells this story: ‘Janet,” gaid the minister, * what would you say if, after all fle has done for yon, God should let you drop into helt!” ¢ Even’s he likes,” answered Janet. “ If He does He'll lose mair than I’l! _do.” She thought she was safe, when His word was at stake. A teacher asked one of her class what was ths first line of the plece of poetry which described Danicl’s feelings on beinz cast into the lioa’s den. The youngster was posed. The teacher said, *Come! come!” sharply. Thereat the boy exclaimed, hucriedly, ¢ ow, Miss; it was *Good-by, sweetheart, good-by.’ " A minister examined his scheolboys thusly: “What is the meaninz of the word ‘repent- ance#?" Boy—* Please, sor, aa divvent knaa? Minister—*‘ Now. if T had stolen a loaf cf brend, what should I be2” Boy—* Please, sor, locked up.” Minister—* Well, shoutd 1 feci sorrv:?? Boy—*“TYes.”” Minister—" Well, why shounld 1 feel sorr catched. There was a revival mecting going on Just op- posite a corner grocery. Two or three nights a puzzled patron of the latter had been trying to comprehend the refrain of one of therevival sones they sani on the other side of the sirect. Finally he asked, *Who Js this erc Dirah Moore, au7 way? They keep a-slnmin® *We'ra oin’ hum to Dinah Moore,’ an’ then keep ot stayin’ a good while afterward.” ’ Making Sunday a day of rest is trictly fa -ac- cordauce with the Seriptural injunction, but people have go many different notions as to what constitutes “rest.” For instanve: First pickpocket, on Sunday outing, to sccond ditto, who loungés alogz with hishands fn Lis pucicetst w1 say, 'Arry, [t isn’s geateel to kee hands™ in pockets that way.” Second piek- pocket: O, that’s my way of observing the day of rest. I've gob ’em’ in other people’a pockets six days i the week.” _“What’s the woman charged with!” said the Court. “8he’s a deadbeat and vazrant, your Tonor," said the offcer who arrested he: hen the woman spoke up und said: I I can prove that I'm all rignz, will vour Honor let me go?!? “Of course,” sald the Court. “Then,” said the prisoner, “ here’s the family Bible, by whiclt vou'll see I'm Mol Wrizht "—— *-Saw my lew off,” shouted the officer, who saw the poiut, i she hasn’t beat the Coart, too.” And the Court rubbed its nose with its forefinger. and genzly marmured: * Diseharye the prisoner.” fn Baltimore, some sixteen years ago, a pri- vate soldier, a littlethe worse for Hquor, stepped, up to 2 zroup of gentlemex in frong of the Eu- taw House and announczd that be placed his trust “In_Ulveses Grant.” No attention was id to him ut first, but he repeated, loudty, ientlemen, I place my Truss in Ulysees Grant.” At this a clerzyman felt bound to Teason with him, aad said, ** It's all very well to have faith in vour Gencral, my boy, but your trust should be tn a lticher power. Now, I have the utmost confidence in Gen. Grant, but Iplace my trast in God.” & 7That’s where vou're wronz. old man,” said the soldier, *and I'll el you why. I put my trust in Ulysses Grant. It Is e, 7 ju'l Lack on God. Supoose God fails you, whae's your rescroe 2 CHURCH SERVICES. PRESDYTERIAN. The Rev. Arthur Swazey. . D., will preach in tha Forty-first Strees Church, corner of Prairie ave- nue,at10:43 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Kev. J. 1. Walker will preach at the Re-- unton Church, on West Fourteenth strect, in tha morning, on **Followlng God," and In the even- iny on **Animalism aad Spiritaahism. " Z'The Rev. J. Rederns will preach in the Holland Charch, corner of Noble and Erie strects, at10 a. m. in Datch and at 7:30 p. m. in English. —The Rev. Artkar Mitchell preaches this morn- iog st the First Church, corner Indiana avenue and Tywenty-frst street, and this. evening at Railroad hapel, No. 715 State strect. —The Rev. J. Munro Gibson will preach morn- jag and evening at the Second Charch, corner of Michizan aveane and Twenticth street. —The Rev. J. Abbott French: will preach at 10:45 a. m. and 745 p. m. at the Fourth Church, corner Rush and Superior steeete. —Prof. F. L. Patton will preach at 10:30and 7: 36 atthe JeGerson Park Caurcl, corner of Adams aad Throop gtreets. . R Tiavrti will preach at West Church, corn d Pe srects, at 30:10 and 7:50. Morning - subject Tho Gospel in a Sheet of Zinc.” Gospel mevting inthe evening. —The Rev. James Maclaughlan will preach morninz and cvening at the $coich Church, corner Sangzamon streels. 29 - EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Panl, cor-, ner of West_ Washington and Peora streets.” Tha Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLaren, Bisaop. The Rev. J. Ji. Knowles, priest in charge. Choral morning! prayer aud celebration of the “Holy Communion ai 10:30a. m. Choral evening prayerat 7:30 p.m. e Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate in St. * Church, corner of Cass aud Huron streets, 135w m. and7:30p.m. Holy Communion at§ 2. m. Fhe Rev. E. Sullivan will officlate in Trinity Chueeh, corner of Twenty-ixth street and Michi- gan_uvenue, at 10:45 o. m. and 7:30 p. m. "2 The Rev.Francis Manafiéid, Rector, will ofliciate in the Church of the Atonement and St. John’s con- solicated, cornerof West Washington and Robey strects, 3¢ 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 F. m. —The Hev. J. Bredderg will ofiiciate in St, Ansgaring' Charch, Sedzwick street. near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. . —The Rev. Clinton Locke will pficiate in Graca Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at ila. m, —The Rev, Arthur Ritchie will ofliciate in the Church of the Ascension, corner of LaSalie and Elm strects, at 10a. m. and 7:10 p.m. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will oficiate in St. Mark's Church, corner of Cotiage Grove avenue and Thirts-sixth street, at 10:30 o. m. ana 7:30 P- m. "fhe Rev. G. F. Cashman will oficiate in St. hen's Church, Johnson street, nesr Taylor, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. _The Rev. Luther Fardce will officiate in Calvacy Church, Wurren avenue, between Uakley streetands Western avenue, at 10:30 o. m. and 7:43 p. 1. ZThe Rev. 'T. N. Morrison, Jr., will oficiate. in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop sticet, be- twoen Monroe and Adams, at 10:20 2. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will ofliciate in the Churct of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden ave- nucs, at 11 2.1, and 7:30 p. m —The Rev. II. C. Kinaey will officiate morning aud evening at St. Sicphen's Church, Jchuson street, between Taylor and Tivelfth ateeets. SPIRITUALISTS. A Spiritualists’ and Mediuws' meeting will be held st 3 p. m._at No. 408 West Madison atreet. Mrs. Corz V. L. Riclmond will conduct ser- vices at10:45 1. m. and 7:45p. m. i tae Fires maciety Charch, corner of Monroer and. Ladin streets. will discoursc upon the condition of spirit life and infants, nodeveloped buman spirits, aad all who ave avy . malformation, idlocy, or insanity. In the cvening the spiritof George 'Whitleld wall d:ecourse upon the salvation of soule. INDEPENDENT. John E. Morns preaches morning and eveni the Bereen Church, corner of Fulion ana streets. '—George W. Sharp will preach 4t 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. in Darr Mission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenue. '—Mr. G. A. Casc will preach morning and even- ing at Calvary Tabernacle, corner of Hoyneavente and Fiournoy street. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Che Prozzeemive Lyceum meets at 12:30 p. m. in the Third Unitarian Charch, corner of Mouroe and Laflju streets, '—The Res. M. M. Parkharst will preachat 3 p. m. in the Washinztonian Home. —Mrs. J. A. Kanguse preach in the Gospel Femperance Charch, corner of Noble and Ohio streets, at4 0. m. - —'Pue Kev. A. Monroe preaches at 10:30 z. m. in Tnion Tabernacle, corner of isbland avenue and Tweatietn strect. 1n the evening ordination serv- ices be held. = —Disciples of Christ meet at No. 220 West Ran- dolpk strect at 4 p. m. i3 3y —There will bea frce meeting at No. 213 Wea! Madison sireet at 2:30 p. m. e Rev C. F. Clapp and A. W. Safford will preach and sine the Gospel at the Latzicy Avenas M. B. Charch at 10:30 & m. and 7 . Mathewson preaches Lo the Advent Chris- Green Street Tabernacle, Nu. 51 South Green street, at 10: and 7 m, —The Woman's Cbristian ‘Temperace Uzton holds consecration meetinga for ladies at 2:30 m.,and Goepel temperance meetinzy, for every- i s dsilve o, Lower Fatwell Al - ‘for tne week commencing Nov..d are: Montay, Miss M. A. Baker; Tuesdas, 3rs, T. L. Carce: Wednesday, Mrs. i §. Furbush; Thur- day, Muss Mattie Alden: Friday. Mrs. W. J. Ker- mott: Satarday, Mre. W. G. 3iller. —The Central Meeting of Fricnds is held at No. 50 Dearborn street, Room 1, at 10:30 2. m. 5 —Figer W. C. Thurman will preach at the cornee of Ohio and Carpenter strects worniog and eve: ing. Subject in the: evemmng:' ‘*Daniel’s Prophecy.” TEMPERANCE 'DIKZCTORY. Meetings 1o be held thisweek: very aay—Lowor Facwerl fall, Arcado coors, at3p. m. 2 Subusytadisns and Lincals streets, TSmELIY " Boy—* Please, sor, 'cause you was - In the morniug the =pirit of A. A, Bslion .