Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 17, 1878, Page 9

% THYE CHICAGO RIBUNE RELIGIOUS. Another Characteristic Ser- mon by the Plymouth Pastor. Jr, Beecher Says Thers Was No Adam, Wo Evey No Eden, No Flood. onderful Growth of Method® jsme-What 1t Has Done . for Civilization. The odern Explorations in Pal- esfine——Identification of Biblical Geography- General Notes==-Personal Mention ..-Pious Humor=--Serv- jces To-Day. SUNDAY LESSON. FOR COURCIT AND HOME. Lgways put Christ’s teachings fnto theology. o theology into Christ’s teachings.—Luke, gxchsp 1st to 10tn verses. LESSON. is scarching for lost invidividuals. 1. Jesus 1 L dene B 0 #ve the man of worst repute. i\%’il&;fi Yt let discouragements cost us Gl o e afisid et njuring your digaity in iag Chrial. 2 2 sz Clriele ever real sceker before be arke U8, 15 sy in baste to savo eeekers, 1 (N b id to miingle with sinner ifilfil‘g‘fib;umtfiis lesson shows **just what Jas does and. just what man must do. TLACE. 7. Jecns comes man's way. a looks at every sinner. kY 5::: ’spuks in s Word to evesy lost man. 4. Jesus bids all be in haste. sass toall, come home. & e omices fo be our resident guedt. 3 Jetus acknowledies faith for others. % Jove 1s the sole wission of Jesus. AN NCST— Soek o koW Jesuk. Te determined to find Jegus. 1 5 Took st desus over tne heads of his fellow- P ome to Jesus from choice. Come in humility. . See Jesus with Joyv. 7. Prove his conversion. & By benevolence. b By restitution. : ¢ Byreparation. § Perdect love produces perfect sympathy. INPERYECTION. Eeif-nterest is the law of evil. Mutaal interest is the law of humanity, PERFECTION. Self-sacrifice is the law of Divinity. ALL A MYTH. EZECHER SATS THERE WAS NO ADAM, NO EVE, 50 IDEN, NO FLOOD. Erootyn Eagle, Nor. 11 Last evening in Plymouth Church, after the rolutars, the choir sang *¢Praice the Lord, ‘Praise Godt in His Sauctuary.” Mr. Beecher read the twenty-seventh Psalm. Then Hymn 437 was sung: Our Christ hath reached His Leavenly seat, Thronzh sorrow and through scars; The goiden lamps are at His feet, Ang in His hanos the stars. Mr. Beecher prayed, and Hymn 657 was sung. The test was Luke, xxvi., 27: ** And beginning st Moses and all the prophets, He exponnded ato therd in all the Scriptures the things con- cerning Himself,”” Mr. Beecher spoke substan- dstly 25 follows: % This was epoken by oot Master after His res- urrection. We 63w how the religious books of the Ieractites were named at the time of our avior. Ther were called Moses, the prophets, tod the writings or Scriptures. This text was Jike esying Hejoterpreted these as they referred totlimseli. The OJd Testament had passed out of the use of many who called them- 3 klres Christians. They thought *it was superseded by a fuller - revelation, -and that, therefore, we need not go back to it. Being superseded by other and better, there was pouse for it. One resson was that there were many things in the Old Testament which strained belicf to the uttermost—so many Erauge iniracles, 50 much that was wonderful— &0 that they found it easier to put aside the Old Testament altorether. It was not the preach- er's object to eritivise 50 as to tear to pieces, but 10 present the different facts of the Old Testa- ment so that we mizht usc it to advantage. Yaving rejected the theory of a literal and ver- bal tnsgiration, and accepred the theory of fhe fuspiration of the race ot holy men, dr. Beecher 1ow proposed_to apply the theary to successive books of the Old Testament. There were some paris that sll men rejected. Where was the a0 who taught that Leviticus was bindine on us? The wuole Jewish religion was gone— changed. The tive books of Moses were called the Pentateuch. In the Old Testament it was , @lled the Jaw. It was made up of the first five books, Gienesis signified the beginning; Exodus, arung fortn, and was_the history of the deliv- ernce of the Israclitea; Leviticns related 10 the gervice of the tabernacle; Numbars was rocalied because it recorded the numbering of the people; Deuteronomy was the second oving of the law. It was Moses’ farewell let- ter tolsracl. Mr. Beecher would take a part of Geoesis and wrive a geoeral view of it. 1t was divided into two parts, the first twelve chapters being a history of the vast time which preceded Abraham, and the second that of the Ratriarchs. The tirst part inight be said to be the history (1) of creatior, (2) of Eden, (3) of tbe floud, (4) of the Tower of Babel. These tive Iooks had been attributed to Moses. It was ot Do great importance who wrote them. They {b!omllrgel,r the product of Moses, Mr. Beccher . Boag, either compiicd from ledends or tra- Gitione, with his own personal bistory, down to e vutrance of the promised land.” That ac- Efluns irom other hands did not come upon ic books of Moscs was not plain, and_these :m‘ bave come st a late period. If there m';ged o be a tampering with the books, we b remember that fi was different then from Dov. Where books were made on_lead, and s ly one existed in a nation, and unknown to .!;nmmmou people, a phenomenon, standing o ‘c.:md where Jater on monks perpetrated m‘l W‘cm called pious *frauds, we must s fD! the same rule as now. Now, for bl s)bom inject statements into Froude the cany Fould be an “outrazes but jn De kn ¥ 2ges, when 2 man dotted down what o :‘:‘, m'r wen later on to put to it what Y thouut were: additfonal facts was not dilmnc mege or ainugal. Modern cril m might ooseet where the line wes. The question of the b d-f)‘ of Moses was of very little moment i ers. The books were here, and ous re- um‘n Toi them was to depend on their con- ts. The facts recorded in the first part of iy u::s :::iere not to be received as though nitahy in ourday. Inspired records werc - le tothe agein which they were given, md:‘man thought that in the beeinning God .‘m:"fl aod wrote, or dirccted ihic s then hflnd that the thinz was ns True mow s be was mistaken. We must take every- o mE‘J:n as it stood. But there was no fact oty dispatable than this: that the Bible was sid) continuous flow of thought. The Bible m made up of diffcrent pooks, adapted to men Then lerent ages, under aifferent circumstances. oy ruth which in one age mizht be brought 2oasa ray, inanother seemizht be brousutout = izht. The books of the Old Testament 1 zl’li‘uub;c_ tothe childlike requircments of lmun‘mc‘ Ii the sun was declared to move ok d the carth in the early age, science which agught that it stood still was not to b dis- & ‘gflbcm_use it did not_conform to the Bible. ool the six dave’ creation, a prophet rose who Hnt“d by the siructure of the carih ¥ it must have taken thousands of ::S 16 develop it. The creative work Wt h“_fi one of days, but ot periods ;‘ might have been ages. The vast idea was mflmfinn was by the word of command, in- Tantancons. The “bends of the globe were owing that the method of God in the orizipa- b nof the world was one of, successions, aud at one thing crew out of another and unfold- st Sglence, Tightiy so called in its.ascertained s sud words, was as much the voice of God iIxs1 the voice on Sivai. Fact was God, and lowed what He desizned, and it was blasphemy Jor a man to deny its divine_otlization. ‘The drocess of which you brought out a picture kemed o be the process of creation; first an Jutling 2nd a blur, aod then afterward, as the ;;ce developed, fullness and completeness. We wbr’;noz et come to the end of inspiration. The le thing a5 described in the Bible, even in the faze of modern reprint, was grand and beau- tiful.” It was a fact that the world did not spring from chance, but by method which was aivine, That the erection of the race and earth was the result of unitary thouzht, was an idea of the uarrative. The history of creation was furtber back than Moscs. How came it that, away back, so grand a conception was given to primitive man? Modern science showed a marked ideality between the recorded procedure and that of scientific rescarch. This old record, compared with the record ol God on the rocik and the sofl, was . wonderfully correct. It all the curious scientific facts known wow had been erowded into this description, it would have been unintelligible to the carlyrace. The Garden of Eden hiad been held to be a literal statement of fact., Mr. Beecher believed that it was an allegory, fuil of solritual meaning and answering ‘o the parables of our Lord. It was supposed that Adam and Eve were created in perfect mauhood, and that their posterity were made to depend on their acts, and that by their guilt we were to be adjudged sinful, aod to be damned becnuse Adem ate an apole. That mizht do for a theo- logical seminary, but not for common-sense veople. The Roman Church baptized infants to cure original sin. The theologians held that every man had two kinds cf sin, juherited and actual, and that bapiism was 1o clear out the inherited sin and give a man a fair chaoce to sin ou his own hook. A 1amb in a woll’s den was alamb. Man was a fallible bejng, temptable, mutable. That fact was in the allegory. As mu- table and liable to fall into sin, he represented nis posterity. The flood was next. ‘This was 2 record of fact, but whether of such facts as supposed was doubtful. Betore men knew of ~Airica and Amel and the vast oceans, and when they supposed the earth to be flat, no doubt there was a great deluge, and so far as they could see the whole carth was covered with water, and some _bcasts were saved in au ark. But to suppose that all the carth was destroyed, and that twos or sev- cns of every creature down 0 5 bUg OF 4 mos- quito were preserved in the ark, was 100 much for Mr. Beechier to swallow. How could Noah gather or stow away couples or sevens of over 500,000 differcnt animals! We were to inter- pret the flood as those did to wham the record was miven, The Tower of Babel was an expla- pation of the different languages of the globe. T'his recora was no doubt the best explamation that could be then given. When men were di- vided and scattered’ there grew up languages suitable to the wants of men. Ilere was the record of a basis of dispersion, but not that, in the same hour, men began to talk in different Janguages. ‘The knowledee in the record of the 01d Testument trom the first appearance of man on the earth down to Abraham, must have been very smaill. Thousands of thousands of years must have been unfolded without a record. How iznoble the race was when we first got a plance of it, and how rude, sud crude, and merely animal. - They understood noue of the laws of thezlobe or the laws that ruled it Man kpew nothing of himself, so far as the rec- ord showed. No man knew that he bad a heart or a liver,—in which the Devil resided. [Laughter.] Not a word of instruction was given as to right or wrong, oruny cthical sy {em. Men were wanderers, savages, and the life of socicty which was slowly evotved was not known. \Vhat provision was there for worship auring the period before Abraham? There was no pricst, and little if any knowledge of wor- ship. There was no Church, aud the attempt to carry it back was done by such violent and im- robable stretchings of fact asought to makean onest man retch. How restricted, too, was the knowledge of God and of His teachings. There \as no literature of Jchoval. The Eternal and the Creative was talked to the race until a very late period. Moses zathered all together, and 1he Creation, the Garden ot Eden, aud the Flood was sll the result. These records showed the beminnings of the humau race, and they gave us a chance to compare theig knowledge with ours. They had ne knowledsze ot a future state, judg- ing by this record. But believing_ that it was the way of God to develop by revelation as the ages went op, the record was of great valye. Suppose the preacher was to take onc of tedld pictures ot angels and fill them out according to modern notions of angels; the picture might ook bezter, but the record of a past age would be gone. Mr. Beecher read the Bible now with much more pleasure than in his childhood. = He heard therein the whisperings of God to the primitive man. The botfom of society represent- ed the beginning of the world, and as od be- gan with carly man, 50 we had to beginwith the Savage now. Mr. Beecher ‘closed by urging on_his hearers 2 careful and intelligent perusal of the Bible, claiming that by the lizht of modern suiences and criticism it only became more wonderful and beautiful, and was entitled to our admiration and regard. - METHODISM. THE WONDERFUL GROWTE OF WESLET’S FOL- LOWERS. Bishop Daggett, of North Caroftua, recently delivered an address at the Certenary Method- jst Church, St. Louis, on *The Progress of Methodism During the Nincteenth Century.” Methodism, said the learned Bishop, wasa religious movement which is not indicated by the title which it bears. Although that title has become distinctive of it, it s not so by defini- tion because it is not expressive of its peculiari- ties. Applicd cither seriously or derisively, it has been adopted 8s s permaucnt cognomen, and It has been converted by its adherents into 2 grand denominational designation. Nor is Methodism, properly sveaking, a doctrinal movement. It brought uo new or startling theological dogma into existence. It was not professed to bea revelation or a new creed of Christianity. It was based substantially upon she existing formaulas of the Church of England, except that it eliminated its Calvinisticand ritu- slistic elements. What is Methodism? Itis a type of Chris- tlanity which, while it holds in common with afl Christians the fundamental principles of divine revelation, maintains an exclusive and consist- ent interpretation of its doctrivne. It teaches the doctrine of total depravity, the necessity of jmmediate salvation, attested by the perfect witdess of, the Holy Spirit, the duty of entire sanctification, of a holy life, of good works, and of perseverence thercin until death. It enjoins not only strict attention to the ordinauces, but a regular observance of certain prudential Theans of grace in accordance wigh them, as sub- sidiary to final salvation. It adopts the itine- rant mode of evaneelization. It may be detined according to its spirit rather thao according to its form. It may be epitomized, jo_the words of Dr. Chalmers, .8 ** Christiapity in earnest.” 1In its proper sphere it was as genuine a_refor- mation in the eizhteenth century as was Martin Lather’s in the sixteenth. The latter was prin- Gipally a reformation from the errors and Superatitions of Fopery, while the former was a revival of the extinet life of orthodoxy Taken sectionally, it canmot boast ity. Its entire history does han 140 years; but the does not alfect either its integrity or its validity, since it does mnot pro- foss 1o be, and is not In any Sense, a new rure- 1ation, but merely the reassertion of the spirit- ‘ual prerogatives of the full revelation which God has given. And it makes its appeal exelu- sively to that infallible standard, and its adber- ents demand that it be judged by - that tribunal alone,—they will surrender to no other court of juriediction whatever. O e were Teminded of the birth of Metrodism, when, in 1739, eight persons went o John Wesley to be instructed i the plan of Tedemption. That smail fountain has extend- ed into au ocean, that ger into a forest which CBakes likes Lebauon. _1n that fecble wathering was concenirated o vital cnerzy Wi was to Torio ftself iuto an _organism of robust capacity and of migantic Droportions. It possessed ele- ments whieh separated it from the surrounding multitudes and which identified the members. At the commencementol the ninctcenth ceun- turs Methodism had been in existence sixty years. After marvellous vicissitudes, romantic achicvements, and remorseless opposition, it hod arsumed 3 definite aud compact existence, Jt bad taken 3 shape which settled jts permanency beyond question. It had aequired a name and 2 place in history, and become a living factor smougst_the azencies of e betant Christianity. an 1500t had estab- lished its operstions in all of tne [i)rm\.'[ml cities and towns and villages of England, Ircland, and Wales. From XNew York, its salicot point in Niporiea; it had_spread in ail the then existine States and Territories of the United States. In England it had consoliaa] d itself intoa per- Teetiy orzanized and legl Iy recognized body, Lo TN the appliances of an effective ceclesi tical system, workiug jtself from the lower classes—for whom BO organization never, did more good—up to the highest strata of socicty. Tv demonstrated the problem that Christianity ilize us well as save. In 1500 it had only cg, ‘members and 637 traveling preachers, in Europe and America. In the Eastern Hemi- sphere it bas since xtended irom England, Ire- Jand, and Wales ioto France, Italy, Germauy, Shitzerland, Denmark, Hotland, Sweden, Nor- Svay, India, China, Japan, Bombar, Beneal, Bul- o, Oceanica, Austrli, Africa, aud the fands of the Pacific Ocean. Inthe Western Hemisphere it has extended into every State ana every Territory now. wwithin the limits of the United States, to the British Possessions ia «North America, into Mexico, and into South Americs, occupying in this last region thousands of positions, and interspersed smong the permaoent seats of population. It mixes itself with oumerous bands of emigrants, progressing to the uttermost points of human babitation. Methodisin, Bishop Daggett con- tended, had obtained a larger hold upon the world than auy other branch of Protestant Christianity. 1t had done more, he arzued, than any other church to bring about rovivals of re- Jifion and morals, to preach the Gospel to the poor, and advance the masses educationally and socially. He held that Metnodists now could claim that their church was the peer of any as rearded learning, and the literary and oratori- cal ability of its preachers and the social stand- ingz of ite members. In the three great branclies of the Methodist Cburch there were an -agare- gate of 1,072 literary institutions. In 188 the Teported number of ministersin all the Lrauches of the Methodist Church is 27,812 traveling preachers and 6,130 local preachers, makingz 3 total of 96,992 preachers. In the absence of canonfeally ordained ministers a requisite number of assistants had to be raiscd from the laity. Henceforth Metbodism was never to ex- act any definite degree of theological or collegi- ate cducation as indispensable, altiough it can claim to have within its ranks as learncd a body of preachers as any churcn. It lias got preach- ers to suit all oceasions, all ranks, and all condi- tions of society. At this day no pulpit on earth always a more imperial influence over the pub- lic mind than the pulpit of Methodtsm. -The legislative machinery of the church was de scribed as peculiarly clastic aud plastic, nadapt- ing frself to all emergencies and all the requirc- ments of the times. _1le claimed that its perfec- tion was such that there was less - friction in its internal cconomy than ju any other administra- tive structure oranized by the genius of man. Its materinl progress is absolutely confounding. The church property alone was cstimated at the last census to be worth $69,854,121. Allow- ing for the past six years of the present decade, its value now must be botween 550,000,090 an §109,000,000, with an annual income of $20,000,- 000. Then take the numerieal proeress of the members of the church, In 1500 the members amcunted to 188,065; in 1577 the number was 4,172,579, which, with the ministers, smounted 10 4,500,000. In its Sunday-school department there are noless than 3,663,733 scholars, with 485,006 teachers. Is was no too much tosay that 16,000,000 were under the influence of the Methodist Church. This wasnot all. Meth- odism had been the means of bringing ba hundreds of thousands of Protestant Christia 1o the other churches. When the final day ol reckoning came it would be found that the debt of Protestant Christianity to Methodism was great beyond measurement, while the debt of Methodism to other branches of Protestaut Christianity was almost nil. What was the future of Mecthodism? Would it die out, and was it now decaying? He adwit- ted that there was a tendeng: uo\\'ndnfis to de- part from firs priuvciples. \ Much of the old fire and energy and the native simolicity were want- jng, and fashion was creeping in. But he pre- dicted a glorlous future. He -belicved that there would be a rencwal of the old spirit. Methodism was no longer a smatl sect, ridiculed by the learned, the wealthy, und the witty, and roviled at by the degraded.” it had carned for itself a place in P'rotestant Christianity. It did not present_its claims to the exclusion of other branches of the Christino Courch, but was braced up for the race in the Christian lifc. The reverend Bishop drew a_number of word pictures of Methodism—of Wesley aud his elzht students, of the Gospel plan of salvation, of the love-feast with the water and bread, of the trav- eling preacher, penctrating the forest and cross- ing the prairies, of the camp-meeting, with'the thousands of voices rising up in praie on the fragrant air, of the missionary ship, with sails outspread, ready to start, of the glad tidings, of the church, of the prayer-meeting, of the family altar, of the schools of lcarning and the literary institutions, and lastly of the Mctho- dist Céntennigl. In_a few touching words he referred to his experience of half a century, and expressed the hope of meeting his hearers in Heaven at the next Centennial. PALESTINE DISCOVERIES. IDENTIFICATION OF MOST OF THE PLACES MEN- TIONED 1N THE BIBLE. t. Louts Glode-Democral. A fow years ago two works of the greatest importauce for tée thorough comprehension of the Biblical parrative were commenced almost simultancously, and both are now far advanced towards their conclusion. Both were planned and have beea carried out by Eugland, and one —the revision of the translation of the sacred text itself—has received highly valuable assist- auce from the labors of 2 committee of divines engaged in the same cause in America. The other, the exploration and survey of the Holy Land, has been conducted under the auspices of the Government of Great Britaln, upon a scale cqual to that of the famous Ordnance Maps of England and Ireland. In many respects the new maps and the -accompanying illustrations of Palestine are even superior to these. They cover more than 500 square miles of the most important portion of the Holy Land, laid down onascalcof one inch toamile. Thisislarge enough to show almost eversthing on the ground. Notonly the cities, and the towns, and the willages, but also the ruins, the roads, the streams, the buildings, tombs, caves, cisterns, wells, anod even the rock-cat wine-presses, are marked with mar- velous accuracy upon tie tienty-six large sheets of which the whole map is composed. Even the plantations of olives, figs, vines, and palms are distinguished, 2od the Roman milestones and many similar relics or antiquity are insert- ed. More thun 9,050 names have been collecred, catalogued, and translated, so tnat the descriptive meaning of thg nomenclature. and its rclation to the He- brew can ut once be ascertained. This is an ex- traordinary development of the principles laid down by Karl Ritger in his Erdkunde, for by its incaps, with a 1f#tle aid from chronology, the student can build up awsin for himself the Pal- estine of Joshua, of David, of Herod,.or of Baldwin, and compare any onc of these epochs with the country s it i5 to-day described by { the claborate. pamphlcts and books pul ed under tbe superintendance of Sir Moses Montefiori, or the works of the theusand and one travelers who have dwelt upon the scenery, the manoers, and customs, of the land whose nssociations appeal to the aflcetion and vencration of the Clristian and the lsraclite alike, and even the Mussulman Ulews, teaching with the Koran in his hand in the Mosaue of St. Sopbia. Henceforth the hilisides of Carmel, the rich plain of Esdraeton, and many another historical seene in Holy Writ, wiil be lovested with a very pewness of Jife. For it appears that of the 632 Bivlical names of places in Western Palestine, not including certain doubtful words in Ezra and the Chroaicles, no less thau 43+ have been identified with tbeir modern terms. Caoa and Capernaum and Al are now recognized_almost beyond dispute in Kefr Keuna, Minieh, aud 1t ‘The tombs of Eleazer and Phineas, of ‘Abisiiua and Ithamar, have atlast been posiiive- 1y identified in the Vitlage of Awertah, and there 15 no longer any reason to discredit the tradition which places the tomb of Joshua in the bamlet of Kefr Harris. Amonest all theze new discov- eries there is a remarkable instance of the value of philological studies in elucidating the prob- lems of ancient history, and of the new impetus which the revision of ihe Scriptures, whea com- pleted, will rtainly give to the discussion of geographical as wellas theological questions. It hapens that in Judges, Xv., 8, and iu the passage referring to Samson, in which it is szid that “ne went down aund dwelt on the top of the ook Etam,” the word “top” isa mistransia- tion, and should be either cleft or chasm. This mistake has loug puzzied antiouarians, but it has at-last been explained. Toe rock Etam is now Atab, and Mr. Conder, onc of the chief ex- plorers, has found there a cave precisely adapt- ed to the retreat of the strong champion of. feraol, It is called Hasuta,—the Cave of JRefugre,—and is 230 feet long, 13 wide, and from 5 to 10 feet in hight. Al about it. the names and iraditious prove that it wasin the neizh- borhood of the scene of Samson’s exploits, and this single incident shows the learning and the care with which the survey bas prosccuted its work, ana the bright lzat which has been {hrown upon so many points ich have been Ritherto dubious or entirely unknown. There is another and a very singular point, which is well worth noticing for many reasons, and especially becatse the controversy respeet- ing the aushenticity of the Fourth Gospel isnow raging more holly thau ever. The precise site of Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John bap- tized, bas not hitherto been determined with _anything approaching to certaiuty, and those who rejected the fourth cvangel arzued that, il the generally-received sitc were the true one, it must lhave been @ichty wiles from Cun3, and, therclore, in those days it would have been impossibic to bave made the journey in three days, according o the narrative of the first and second chaoters. Now the exploration has shown that there ure forty fords across the Jordau, the name of only one” of which, Abara, means a passage, Or 2 Terry, and is only twenty-two miles from Kefr Kenoa, the ancient Cana of Galilee. If, then, Bethabara be the correct reading and not ‘eth- any, Mr. Conder argues at great length tlat Abara was the scene of the baptism of the Savior. What we have eald indicates the na- tarc of many of the results of this great under- faking. When the maps and the accompanying jndices, wmemoirs, and descriptions are at last Dubtished in such’ a torm and at such a price as will make them accessible to the zeneral pub- Tic, it will be found that many thines which have hitherto provided food for the fiercest de- bate bave been satisfactorily cxplained; but, as is always the case, upon every subject indirectly a5 well as directly connected with theology, the publication, upon a multitude of others, will also serve to sharpen afresh the weapons of the controversialists. = CREEDS. LIT EACH AGE FORM TI'S OWIi. To the Editor of The Tridune. Cmicaco, Nov. 15.-In mj letter of Sandny, 3d inst., “Breaking Bottles,” there occars, probably through my ueglect to use quotation marks, an error which waferially affects the sense, and I therefore wish to correct it. I am made to say that Christ ‘13 2 Wine,” and cannot be bottled. Itoughtto be & vine. He says ‘himsel, *¢1 am the true vine. My Father is the husbandman,” and I wished to recall the firure to show how impossible it is to confine Christianity to any one of our creeds, and so to induce people to consided that may be it is not necessary to form a new creed, a pew or- ganization, for every variecty of Caristian thought. 1t Christ is a vine may we uot expect ot least vearly crops of vintaze, and is it best to bottle up the new wine of this vear, for fear there may be an end of production! In other words, is it best that preachers who differ from a majority of those in the same organizotions should either remain in thesc organizations, or form others which shall survive them? Arc we to suppose that the ministrations of- Prof. Swing are of less value to the world because he may have uo successor, because no man Wwill step joto his place and continue bis work when he isno Jonzer able to pursue it? Arc we quite sure that this is the exact kind of work which will be needed uext century, or 6ven next year? ‘His ideas may be antiquated fifty years aence, and we may nced a_man in MeVicner's to pro- claim everlasting bell-fire and blue flames of Dbrimstone without end. 1t is quite certain that the opinion of the world .mever can alter the facts of eteraity, and that, whatever these facts are, they are without - reference to our jaeas on the subject. 1t Is only as our opinion affects our conduct that it is 3 matter of mo- ment, and, if the world discovers that a gospel of mercy fosters a reizn of crime, it will soon exchange its ideas of Divine benevolence, and worship the God who puvishes iviquity, and so protects the virtuous from the aguressious of the wicked. - 1 only to-day received a letter from s friend living away ou the frontier, and in it she says, 4] would like to hear Dr. Thowas, or any other man who could persuade’ people to be trood for the love of tiod, not for fear of the Devil; but am afraid no one can do that, for +The fear o' hell’s the hangman’s whip to bold the wretch in order!? and the world caonot get along without the whip. Suppose thereis no hell, and what are we 2olug to do with Alva and Jeff Davis?” No doubt Divine wisdom can dispose of them 50 a5 to answer all the ends of justice, and yet show no lack of mercy. A beliof in eternal tor- ments did not prevent their being what they were and are; and only that creed which makes men better ean be worth preserving. - We know little of the creeds of tne churches in the first century of Christianity, but have reason to belicve . that ~each conarcEa- tion differed from all the others in its articles of faith, and that each was a small Republic, somewhat lile Swing’s congregzation, without 2ny central authority to which it was amcnable. Duriug our aoti-Slavery, giruggle many of the Christian people who carried it through found independent congregatious, as * Comeouters,” while others remained in the old organizations, onthe principle that ¢ a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump,” znd that it was the duty of anti-Slavery men to keep upthe agitation inside the churches. - The same questinn opresents itself now to those men who have **outgrown ™ or fallen be- hind the churches to which they belong. There is a wave of fecling in favor of liberal Chris- tianity, and the question Is whether it_is better for those who agree with Cauon Farrar on future punishment, and with Bishop Colenso on inspiration to withdraw from the churchies whica consider them heretics! It scems tome that no ‘one sbould be deterred from such astep, fur the reasou toat be may not hope to build up a scet which shall survive him. It is each one’s busi- ness to do the work laid before him, the work needed in his own day and generation, without mach reference to future :ages. The best for any time is always best for all time, and 1f the Reformers had simply done the work ot their own agze and spent less time making bottlesand bottling up their new wine for future use. they would really have accomplished more for atter ages as well as for their own. [ There is no view of Christ’s character of which religious teachers 50 oiten lose sight as that of €y vine,” a growing, {ruit-bearing vine, cver- areen and full of verdure, ever yiclding its succession of glorious fruitage. He does not grow in a bottle, does not live in 3 creed, an will be forever new and forever yielding wine. The present * advance. thought ” seems very attractive. It is soothiug to think of a God ail merciful; but 1 see indicafiops ola ings timn when we sball think more Dt o %mam Joss of His mercy. It.was the mercy theory Which dictated the national policy toward the South. Coristian magnanimity forbade punish- inent of treason, and now we find that, after banding the Goverument over to the men who soushit its destruction, and thus making the strongrest possivle appeal to their magnanimity, and while pouring out Bympathy, and aid, and. money like water to relicve the wants of the Soutls, the North bas been met by a most mur- derous spirit on the part of those she has been conciliating. N “While tue people of the North were collecting money, and medicines, sud foot, and chaw- pbugne, and ice, and_nurses, and doctors for Loufsiana, she was collecting murderous gangs to destroy the principles of civil liberty, aod put to death all sympathizers with Nortbern ideas. Tn view of the present state of afluirs, it would not be strange if in five yoars our liberal churches would have joined the iltiberal in their belief in a good old orthodox Hell! * even Dr. Thomas may sce his way to a larie sprinkling of brimstone in bis scrmons, aud Pruf. Swing come to believe in the * Confession of Faith, Catechisms Larger and Shorter,” and as much total depravity as our Calvin taught or im- agined. Calvisism suited the want of tneworld at one time: aud, i{ 1t shouid once more be re- quired, it would be evolved guite reaaily from primeval” principles. The vintaze of the time would bring it, and men might have spared all the trouble of preserviag it in a creed which is 5o apt to become a zetter. * Suflicient untothe day is the ovil thereof,” and_each season brings its requisite good, and it is time men would stop making creeds for future gencrations, and be coutent to do the work of their own. JANE GREY SWISSHELAL new BIBLE-REVISION. CHANGES IN THE INTRREST OF SCIENCE AND TOLERATION. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cricaco, Nov. 15.—Not long ago, an article appeared in THE SONDAY TRISUNE written by Prof. Ezra Agbott, D.D., LL.D., giving a list of “the more important and remarkable” of the varions readings in the New Testament of which “the genuinencss is more or less ques- tionable.” ‘Perbaps your readers did not fally realize the importance of these passages, and the revolu- tion which their omission [rom the Bible would work, both iu the bistorical and doctrinal features of that yolume. The following are amonz the readings the genuineness of which is not coosidered fully cstablished : 1. TnHecaven, the Father, the Word, and the oly Gliost; and these three are onc. And (}mm are turee that bear witnees in earth. —1 Jokn, v., T—8. 5 That this passage has long been disputed, is 3 fact well understood by Biblical students, and its importance in refereuce. to the doctrine of the Trinity is too obvions for comment. 2, So then after the Lord hud epoken unto them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God. —Ifark, xvi.. 19. 1t this passaze is spurious, there is left no ac- count of the ascension of Jesus, since Mark and ke are the only Gospel historians who relate it, and_the parallel passage in Luke has for some time been known to be an interpolation. ‘That fact was demonstraced when the Sinait- jc manuseript of the New Testament, the one believed to be the oldest extant, was discovered py Dr. Tischendorfl, about thirty years ago. The live at the close of the iifty-first verse of the twenty-fourth_chapter of Luke, *“And was carried up into Heaven,” was, in the Sinaitic munuscripg_found written at the top of the page, in aPdifferent handwriting, and_a mark made near the middic of the pagc to shoy where the words were sought to be inserted. ‘The line at the top of the page was writtcn by a_later hand, and it is conceded by scholars that it was mot o the manuscript as originally written. The aifference in the handwriting is obvious upon the slightest examination. 3. But perhaps the most important passage is the sixteenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of Mark: le that believeth and is baptized shall be eaved; put he that believeth not shall be damned. This denunciatory langoage, which was sup- posed to have cmapated from Jesus, was adopted by Paul and Clement of Rome, and other writers, and laid the foundation for, the bloody persecutions . which have defaced the pages of nistory for so many centuries. Paul, in the same spirit, says, in his epistleto the Gallatians, first chapter, eighth verse, ** Bt though We, or an angus from Heaven, presch SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. o any other gospel unto you than that which we have preachied unto you, let him be accursed.” Again, Gal, v, 12: I would they were even cut off which trouble you." In = his first epistle to the Corinthians, Ca. 5,v. 2, he ‘says: ‘“Avndyeare puffed up, and kaye not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.” And again, same chapter, fifth vere, ‘‘to deliversucian one uuto Satan, forthe destruction f the flesh, that the spirit may be say ed, in the day of the Lord Jesus.” These are the passages’ from which the Mormons derive the doztrine of ‘““blood atone- (meut,” that is, killine the body of the apostate for the zood of his soul. _Clement of Rome is stillamore expiicit. In his cpistle to James, second chapter, he relates his ordination attbe hundsof Peter, in the presence of the assembled brethren, and gives the charge of Peter, the closing part of which, addressed to the brethren, is as follows: Wherefore I _commnnicate to him the power of bindinz and loosing, so that in respect to every thing which he shall ordain in the earth. it shall ve decreed in the heavens. For he shall bind what ought to be oound, and loose what ought to be loosed. ns knowing the rnle of the clurch. :rl;cxgax'.er; hear l}ém.naur k“lll‘m\‘ing that he who zrieves the president of the trut Chrlst and nflgnds the Father of ‘nll.h‘ on amins: ‘Wherefore, he shall not live; -therefore, it be- hooves hum who presides to hold the place of a physician, and not to cherish the rage of an irra- tional beust. Just what the function of this * physician™ might be, and whether it included blood-letting or other surzical operations, with the view of healing the patient before exccuting the deeree that he *“should not live,” we are not informed; but it is not difficult to conjecture. Not only is the authenticity of the passaze in Mark denied, but others also of a similar de- nunciatory_character, as we learn from Prof. Abbott. For instance, the following: And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever itshall fall, it will grind him to powder. —Matl., xzi., 4. Verily, I say mnto you, it shall be more toler- able for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judg- ment, than for that city. —Jark, i., 11. Where their worm dieth not, and the fre is not quenched. —AMark, ir., 4i. In this connection it is to be borne in mind that we have no manuseripts of the New Testa- ment written during the first three centuries af- ter Christ. If wehad any of those, 1nany other important_interpolations would_doubtless ap- pezr, a3 changes and interpolations were then the order of the day. Especially was this the case with cyerything written in the first cen- tury. Of the Epistles of Iznatius, eight have becn proucunced spurious, and the other seven were 50 changed that they appesred in two forms, called the long and et reconslons: Scarcely hnd scholars agreed which of these shouid be cousidéred genuive when a third form was discovered in Syrize, which is claimed by some as the only true version. i All lovers of religious toleration and of the utmost freedom of opinion and beliel will re- joice to see so mucnh evidence of intolerance found to be spurious; or, whatamounts to pret- ty much the same thing in a revelation, not well established. No one should object to the work of expurga- tion zo!u;inn 50 long as such paslages are ascer- tained to be not sufliciently authenticated. GENERAL NOTES. Forty-one Presbyterics have yoted on the over-,| ture for reduced representation in the Presby- terian General Assembly with this resuit: In favor, 26; against, 15. The Archbishop of Canterbury and many oth- er English Bishops have recommended the ob- servance of a “day of special prayer for God’s grace and gifts to Sunday-schools and teachers.” Mr. George Scott, of Glasgow, Scotland, in whose charge Mr. Moody left the meetings in that country, will speak to youus men especially in Farwell Iall to-morrow night. Tnesday be will lead the noonday prayer meeting. There will be special services at Trinity Meth- odist Church at 10:45 to-morrow in memory of the Iate William Wheeler, at which_the. pastor, the Rev. W. F. Crafts, and Judge Grant Good- rh::} wéll address the meeting. Old settlers are invited. . Chimuev-sweeps bave lately held a congress in the Town of Orcbo, Sweden. The ' meeting opened with psalm-sioging and prayers, aod de- ‘bate pertainiog to the moral and social improve- ments which it might be desirable to introduce among their numbers. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued In- structions that iu future no licenses for the mar- riage of divorced persons are to be issued from the Provincial Court. Two applied recently, one being a divoreed person, to the Rochester Diocesan Court, aud were refused. Of 191 Congregational ministers who have @icd during the past four years niucty-seven had passed (l):edll‘lmz‘:;f 70 years, and g:ne!y-four had - 1 aygrage age being 65 years 4 ‘mun‘&‘ns‘ n?r‘l'fl‘days‘:j%@i’hverngc “duration-of their ministry was thirty-four years ‘and seven months. The adjourned meeting of the Society for the ‘Promotion of the Knowledre of the Bible in the Orizinal Lanzuares will convene at_Bible-worlc room, Farwell Hall, Monday 2t12:15p.m. At the roport of the Committec ovn Permanent Or- ganization will be acted upon and permunent oiflcers elected. ‘ Hell, according to the patives of the Marquesas Isiands, is a region of profound darkness, to which no ray of light ever penctrates, except on the arrival of a spirit from earth, who, on en- tering, is olized to pass through a flame of fire exhafed by 2 demon which keeps guard at the portals. This singeing, as it were, is the only punizhment which the doomed suffer. Some of the English Bishops are socaking thelr opinions very freety. The Bishop of Chi- chester everywhere denounces the Ritualism +which is working so_much mischief iu his dio- cese. The Bishop of Manchester says that many modern hymns, and some of them the most popular, are very namby-pamby and strou; ely silly. They are full of erroneous conceptions of all sorts of things—of tiod, of Heaven, of Hell, of angels, aad he knows not what be- sides. -Bishop Schereschewsky assigns four obstacles to the success of the Gospel in China: 1. The Government, as such, is intimately connected with Paganism, both as regards worship and doctrine. 2. The overwcenin national oride and ranity of the Chinese, which leads them to despise everything which emanates from a for- eign source.” 3. The intense conservatism of the raling class. 4. The unhappy way in which Western nations first came into contact with the Chinese. Twenty-nine correspondents from various paris of New England agree, fn the Congrega- tionalist, that there has been a very marked change of late years in the way in which Sun- day is observi The writers cmphasize the evils resulting from the runnin of Sunday trains, aud the prevalence of Sunday excursions during the summer season at points along the seashore. Reference is also made to the in- crease of riding and walking for pleasure, even among Christian people. The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at its last meeting iu New York, aaepted resolutions calling upon the National Government to strictly carry out tir provisions of tie tresties with dapen and China, and appointing a cominittee of seven to co-operate in all practicable ways with other Chnstiar bodies in efforts Lo secure to the Jap- anecec and Chinese in future treaties all the rights of humsnity when nhe‘{ come to_us, and justice in our intercourse an trade with them in their own lands. The Rev. W. P. McEsy, the cclebrated En- glish divine, who has been holding very suc- cessful meetings throughout the country, has made arrangements for a serics of meetings in this city this week. He will speak this mornine inthe Second Presbyterian Church, and in the evening at Moody’s Chicago Avenue Church. He will aadress special meetings at 3 o’clock of the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Mondav night he will preach 1a the Wabash Avenue Methodist Church, Tuesday night in the Thira_Presbyteriau Chureh, and Wednesday night in the Chicazo Avenue Church. Jt is not generally known that a very consid- erable body of the Irish Weslevan Methodists have refused to follow the lcaders of that scct in its departure from the principles and practice of Wesley, by scparating from the Charch of Ireland. The ** Primitive Metbodist Society,” Dreservine the distinctive usages of the earl Methodists, retaius firmly ita conoection wit! the Church, and aliows 1o one to hold office in the Socicty who is ot a communicant of the Church of Ireland in good stending. The Lord Bishop of Kilmore is the President ot the boci- ety, which numbers about a thousand full metnbers, ana some five thousand in connection with its work. The recent embezzlement of a large sum of money by the Assistant Clerk of the Euglish Cu- rates” Augmentation Fund is another, jostance of faithlessuess and mismanagement, %00 com- mon, unbappily, among thosc charzed with the control of trust funds. This defalcation {8 par- ticutarly deplorable, because by it public coni- dence in a most commendable charity is perioa- nently tmpaired. The funds of the Society were contributed in small sums from all parts of En- gland; often at the cost of considerable self-de- Tial on the part of the givers. The mouey was destined for the benefit of the many devoted and hard-working' curates of the Church of Eno- gland; whose stipends arc ‘miserably inadequate. The" squandering of a fund so sorel and so painfully zathered is a great crime, not only aainst the givers and the intended bene- ficiaries of the charity, but against the cause of charity tself.—The Lviwg Chisrch. In answer to a **Subscriber,” who asks for in- formation as to the diflerence ‘between the 0ld” and “unew ! schools of Congrezational- i4m, the Advance replies: : All doctrines that are not true arc essentially novel; all doctrines that are truc are **old.” older than the stars; they are, at the same time, new,"—new a3 the morning's suntise, mew as the law of gravity. new as the principie of electric- ity, whose freshiy discovered or newly appiied. potencies and adaptations for the heiping of the world's civilization are every day amazing and de- lighting all observerss e do not know 10 which school " our inquiring **Subscriber™ belongs; but if he is curlons to know to which the Advance owes feslty, we unbesitatingly reply—to both! In connection with the revival meetings which the Y. M. C. A. expect to_hold in t.his%?w. un- der the leadership of the Rev. Georgze F. Pente- cost and Mr. Georwe C. Stebbivs, the singer, it is proposed to organize a choir of 500 male voices. Prof. C. C. Case, of Cleveland, will have the managemcnt of the music, and mem- bers of the Apollo and other musical clubs will be invited to co-operate and join the choir. The first rebearsal will be held to-morrow night, and all who can sini and read music are invited to bz resent. During the revival, which will ba commenced the first day of 1879, meetings will be held at Farwell Hall znd in the differcot di- visions of the city, and this -large, trained choir is e:igcctud tobe an important adjunce in the worl A New York letter to the Boston Journal says that the new Catholic Cathedral will soon be put to use. It will be the rage when opeued, 2nd will be without a rival on the Continent. All “the region about the Catbedral belongs to the churchi convents, Priess héuses, asylums, and schools occupy the land. Back of the church and oo Madison avenuc is the home of Cardinal McCloskey. It {s an old-time, antiquated dywell- .ng, like an old New England farm-house,—a double house, with swelled frouts both sides of the door. No baok clerk, with an fucome of $2,000a year, would live iu_it. Here Bishop Hughes wrote his famous * John” dispatches in the daysof Gov. Seward, aud other wen famous in the Iand have slept under this hum- ble roof. ‘The school question fn” New Haven continues to attract much attention. The publication of a ritual for use in the schools, in_ which the phrase * Huil Mary!? appeared frequently, alarmed_the - Protestant religious press, and thelr eriticisms have brought an explanation from the Committec having the matter in charge. This ritual was ouly for Catholic schools. In schools which have a Protestaut majority, the Protestaut order, comprising **a short passage of Scrinture, the Lord’s Prayer, und the Ten Commandments,” will be uaed, and if 30 per cent of the pupils are Roman Catholics tnese may witharaw joto auother room and use the Catiolic manual. ~*¢ 1t is un- derstood that in all cases Where there arc less thun 30 per cent of such pupils, there will be no objection made to their being present at the general excreise, provided that where there are more than 30 per cent the separate worship is allowed.” . EDIANDEL 3. E. CHORCH, A revival has been in prozress for the past two weeks in this church, under the leadership of Mrs. Willing, the successful lady evangelist. Last Subbath was much like what used to oc obiained in the Tabernacle mectings. A large number arose for prayers, and many crowded into the inquiry-room. Wedaesday leat tbe subject was - The Graat Physician,” and was larzely attended by medical siucents. The conversions already number tweaty-five. A church less than a year old that would be- gin & scries of special services just betore elec- tion, during the excitement of a hotlyontesied political campaign, deserves ore than a passinz notice. Its - history is briefly 1s follows: Some yenrs ago Mr.Owsley built, on the corner of Paulina and Harrison stieets, a commodious brick chapel, proposed to have the Gospel preached every Saboatn free to all. ieligious serv were so_ conducted for about two years, until bis evangelist, Mr. Barnes, leit for favors nore abundant in Kentucky. Then the First Congregational Church rented the chapel and ed on a mission Sabbath- gchool, Last January it was turned over to the City Missionary Sécicty of the M. E. Church, the Rev. W. C. Willing Secretary. The last’ night of the year 1876 a watch-mght service was beld, under the leagershio of Brotliers Bell ana Elderkin. So great was the inierest that special mectings were heid every night for some weels, and many were converted. Jan. 25, these young converts, with Christians living in ‘the Vicinity from other churches, maxing, in all, forty, were, ot their request, organized iuto a ccparate cburch by the Presiding Eider. The mames of the Stewards —aad jeaders were at the time published in this paper. These evangelists whose labors hed been so successfui were soon called away, and, by unanimous request, Mrs. J. F. Willing, & weil-known and successful Christisn worker, was invited to continue the effort of leading _souls to Christ. - e presence of the Lord was ‘20 manifost in savine power from nlcht to niglt, that in March last it was decided to name this church Emmanucl (God with us). At recent meeting of this young church, which now nun- bers 150, the organization was perfected Ly electing the following officers: Trustees—Mr. T, Wilce, A. H. Wilson, Jr., E. B. Holmcs, Dr. f. C. Duncan, Dr. C. P Pruyn, Dr.E.3. At- wood, A. H. Wilson, Sr., C. H. Ferzuson, and E. A, Sherpourne. Stewards—Dr. T. C. Dun- ¢an, Dr. C. P. Pruyn, D. C. Jones, W. & Tow ers. . 3L Hitcheock, George H. Brown, E. B. Hoimes, Mrs. J. Wilce, Mrs. J. Sherbourae. In conpection with this church is 2 flourishing Sabbath-school,’ of which G. W. Chamberlin is Superintendent. The portion ol the city where thig church is located i3 being built up with chotce residences, The proximity of two medi- cal colleges, Cook County Hospitaly and a very thickly built-up portion south, east, and west. ives it as grand a_ ficld for uscfulness as the most earnest Christian_could select. There is no other Evaneelical church within half a mile of it, and no Methodist society within a mile in any dircction. Emmusnuct Charch certainly has a farge and promising fleld of lubor. ‘This Se- clety bas a four-years' lease of this chapel at a ioderate rent, aug the poor as well as rich tind a cordial welcome. Active Christians are being attracted thither, and tais will soon be, doubt- less, a strong as well as an active organization. ST. ANDREW'S P. E. CHURCH. To the Editor of The Tribune. Curcaco, Nov. 16.—Taat is the name adopted by the St John’s Church at a parish meeting hoid at theie chureh Friday evening, Nov. 15, 1878. ‘This church is formed from the Church of the Atonement being merged with St. John’s, and that organizatlon still coutinuing as it has for the past twenty years, with all its rights and privileges unimpuired, under a pew name. I am thus explicit so that the many who have been paptized, confirmed, sud_martied in the Church of St. John's, and have had their chil- dren christened there, may have no fear that the recoras of all these past years will cease to exist. The records of the Glinreh of the Atone- ment. as well as St. John's, be in the hands of the proper anthority of that old (new) par- jsh. and can be referred to as in the past. ‘It is St. John’s, under 2 new name, ang take charge ‘of the retords of the Atonement. St. Andrew’s Church bids fair to be one of the most success- ful on the West Side, and will fill = void long Jecded. It isout of debe cntirely, und will re- main so, sod, thus unhampered, may do our Savior's work with zeal and enerzy. The Atonement bas had an eventful carcer, was one of the oldest churches in the clty, Bat of later years have beca in debt, like manv others, and in conseguence of no use as a Chris- tian organization. St. Andrew’s Courch has one of the finest quartetie choirs in the city. It is tnau;‘::h to m)f‘ ‘that Messrs. Leffler and Allen are a portion of it. PERSONAL. Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, still con- tinues in poor health. The Rev. S. A. Gardoer has resigned the pas- torate of the Universalist Church in Peoria. Archbishop Gibbods last Sunday dedicated the new Cathotle Church—the largest one in the State—at Hoboken, N. J. The Rev. Dr. Edgar, of Nashotah, Wis., has declined the nomination to the Crocker Profcs- sorship in Griswold College. The Rev. Jonn K. Karcher, late Rector of Calvary Church, Rochester, Mion., has gone over to the Roman Catholic Church. The death is announced of the Rev. Joshua Britton, of Fort Atkinson, Jo. He had for many years been 2 prominent Mason. The Rev. William Sym, formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church, Newark, N.dJ. died at Binghampton, Oct. 30, in is 82d year. ‘The Rev. W- Easton, D. D., who had been for fifty.one years a pastor at Octoraro, in the Pres- b_nytry o[y}?nfladelunh, haa resigned his charge. The death is announced of the Rev. Charles }]nm::nond, LL. D., for many years Principal of the Monson Am&emy, at Monsou, Mass. The sad event occurred on the 7th fnst. The Rev. H. M. Collisson, lately of Washing- ton, D. C., has accepted a cail to St. Paul’s Re- fortoed Episzopal Church, on West Washinzton street. He will enter upon his pastorate duties to-day. preaching morning and evening in St. Paul’s Church. The Rev, N. F. Ravlin, Free-Wili Baptist Church astor of the First this city, tendered his resiznation en last Snnday, to take effect on the 1st of December. The Soclety will consider the subject on next Thursday ‘evening at 3L West Madison street at 7:30. Mr. Saukey bas received a cordial welcome i England. _Before beginning his evangelieal - work he will spend a brief time in travel snd in. search of rest on the Continent. One critic s3ys of his voice that it is stronger. if anything, aod more vicorous, than when be left Eogland over ibree yeurs ago. Mr. Christopher R. Robert, the founder of Robert College at Constantirovle, died at Paris Nov.3. De was born on Long Island fn 1301. He became fnterested in the work of the Amer- can Home ‘Missfonary Society at an early age, and bean a conncetion with it which continued till his death, and tor along time he had been its treasurer. ‘The Rev. Dr. Henry Jones died last Saturday of heart disease at his home on Golden Hili, | Bridgeport, Conn., at the advanced ngeof 77 ~ years. e was a graduate of Yale College, and snortly after the conclusion of his_theological studies entcrad the ministry of the Presbyterian Chnreh. His first charge “was at Greenfleld, Mass. He married Eliza, daughter of the late Noah Webster, of dictionary renown, who survives him. Tree years ago they celebratect their golden. wedding, upon which occasion there was a happy reunion of the members of the family. Thercare two surviving children who will deeply mourn their father’s loss. QOue is Dr. H. Webster Jones, a well-known physician of this city, whoresides on the West Side, the other, Mrs. Beecher, wife of the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher (brother of Henry Ward Beecher), of Etmira, N. Y. Dr. Jones when he learned of the sudden illness hastencd to_his father’s bed- side, but death had alreat atmed its victim a few hours before his arrival. The Rerv. Dr. Jones retired from the ministry mauy years ago. He was a ripe ¢cholar of considerable reputa- tion, was beloved and admired by all whohad the grood fortune to know him, and his loss is a sad onc to a larwe circle. He was remarkably active 20d cheerful, though so advanced in years, up to the day of his death. PIOUS HUMOR. Thecolored brother fn a Virginia charch just hit toe nail on the head when he prayed at. the close of a white brother’s sermon, ‘“Lord, bress de brudder to whom we has listened to so pa- ticotly.” ‘Editors Hke brevity; but a man who was ro- cently banged in Indiana suited them to well. He made no remarks about Heaven, but nodded to the preacher and said, **I'lt see you latter 5 and then the trap fell.” Hewas reading in the paper the other even- ing of Dodd, Brown & Co.’s failure. When litle5-year-old went 1o bed that nizht, said she, Mamma, who shall £ pray to now thit Dod has failed?"'—Eoston Transeript. Pa asked an up-town boy the. other day, ¢ ywhat is meaot by paradise?™ * Paradise. my son,” replied the father sloomily, “ paradise, my son, is the latter part of next summer; when your mother goes on avisit .to your grand- mother.” ¥ Professor (blandly)—*¢ Mr. Y- bow did the monasteries acquire sa much wealth during - the fourtcenth century?” 3ophomore (tnought- fully)—* Well, [ don’t exactly know, sir, uniess they passed around the plate at both services.”” —Coliege Papar. Dr. Byles’ wit once met with a severe retort. Encounterinz 3 lady who, baving declined an offer of marriage from the Doctor, had married a gentleman of the name of Quiney, be said, 8o, madam, it appears vou preler a guinsy to biles.” *Yes,” she replied, *for il there bad been aoytEing worse than biles God would have afilieted Job with them.” The Rev. D. I. Mitchell. of Kansas, who was Greenbeek lidate for Governor in thai State, was preachinz a few evenings avo at a ‘amp-mecting of colored people. He was de- senbing_ the Celestial City as pictured in the Book oi Revelaijons, with sates of silver and precious stoucs, and streets paved with gold, when one of his colored hearers shouted out: «Stop dar, Brudder Mitchell! No gold and fllvn;'r,lu dat place. . Dey’s twin relics of barbur- m ¢ Good old Deacon H. belonged to the Taber- nucle Baptist Church, Utica. His wilfe died, and five months later the gooa old maw, al- though about 70 years old, had stirred.around araong the maidens and picked up a new part- ner. The deacon visited the first regular Thursday evening brayer-meeting after the event. His beart was full when he arose to Spoalt, Said he: “The Lord first fliled my cap of afliction by takiag away the partner of my joys, bat blessed be His name. He has given ‘me another.” ‘A hearer revorts these elegancics in one of the promincot palpits of New Hampshire re- ccut?y: In his prayer the preacher said, *We tnank thee, O Lord, for the gilt of the Para- |.¢¢te.2_ In his germon lie said, ** For these rea- gons theJew was admiraoly adapted to be-pres- ent at Jerpsalem and witaess the debut of the Holy Spirit.”” And azain he auoted Romans Yiii., 35:39, thus: ‘“For I am persuaded that neitber death, nor life, et cetera, snall be able to separate us from the love of God which Is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” * k A minister in the south of Scotland had a parishioner, who, to show her affection for her astor, scat him every morning by-the hands of er dauzhter a couple of what she wished him o understynd were new-laid ezgs for breakfast. The eges on being deliyered were menerally Sarm, a8 if just taken from the nest; but oos morping the - minister’s maid, on takine the egzs from the girl. observed, “The ezes are no warm the day, Jeanne; are they are no fresh?” W Ou ay,” said the girl; * they’re quite” fresh, but my mither couldna et the catto sit on them this morning.” % CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. L. J. Halsey will preach in the Re- union Charch, West Fourteenth strect, near Throop street, a£10:30 a. m. The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach in the evening. —The Rev. W. F. Melvy will preach in the First United Church, corner of Monroe ana Paulina streets, at 10:30 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. ¢ —The Rev. S. Rederus will preach in the Holland * Church. corner of Noble and Erie atreets, at 10 2. m. fn Holland and at 7:30 . m. in English. ‘The Rev. J. M. Worrall will presch In the Eighth Charcn, corner of West Washinzton and Robey streets, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 D..m. —The Rev. James Mzclanzhlan will preach morning and evening in the Scotch Charch, corner Sangamon and Adams strects. ~ _The Rev. Artunr Mitchell will preach in the First. Church, corner Indiana avenuc and Twenty- firt street, at 10:50 a. m._ Evemng servica held atthe Railroad Chapel, No. 715 State street, . at7:45 p. m. B s The Kev.' A. E. Kittredze wili preach in the “Third Church, corner of Asbland and Ogden ave- 7 m. d_7:30 p. e course 0 young people. —The Rev. ArthurSwazey, D. D, Forty-frat Street Church, corner of nue, at 10:45 —The Rev. the Fourth streets, 3 willpreachintha rairie ave- 2. m. John Abbott Fronch will preach in ‘Church, corner Rush and Saperior 5 2. m:and 7:450. m. Evening subject: ‘The Bible und Confucing.™ _“The Rev. Henry T. Miller -will preach in the Sixth Church, corner of Ouk and. Vincennes ave- Tues, at 10550 a. w. Aud 7330 p. m. ’ ““The izev..F. L. Patton will preach in the Jef- ferson Park Church, corner of Throop and A streets. at 1 3, m. snd 7:30 p. m. 'The Rev. J. t. Walker will preach In the Filth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth strect. in.the morning. . —The Rev Henry T. Miller will preach in the Sixth Churck, corner of Oax and Vincennes av- ennes, at10:30 8. m. aad 7:30 p. w. —The Rev. Dr. McKsy, of England, wiil preach {n the Second Chusch, corneg of Michigan avenia & Tweatieth street, in the morning. The Rev. J. Manro Gibson will preach in the evening. "The Kev. W. C. Youang wili preach in the Fullerton Avenue Church ia the morniog. Sunday- school concertat 730 p. m. EPISCOPAL. - Cathedral Free Charch SS. Peter and Paul, cor- ner of West_Washinzton and Peorn streets. - The Rt.-Rev. W. E. dMcLaren, Bisaop. The Rev. J. It iKnowles, priest in charge: Cioral moming prayer and celebration of the ~toly Communicn a 10:0a. m. Choral evening prayerat 7:20 p. m, —The Kev. Samucl 8. Harris will odiciate in St James’ Charch, corner of Cass and Iluron streets, 2t10:46 o m. and7:30 p.=. Holy Commugion at8 3. m. —The Rev. E. Sallivan will officlate in Trinlty Churéh, corner of Twenty-sixth sireet and Michi- ran avenge, at 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. Seats free in the evening. = Rev. Fraucis Mansfield will oficiate in St. Andrew's Church. carner of West Washing- ton and Rodey streets, at 10:20 a.m. and 7:30p. . —The HKev. J. Bredberz will oficiate in St Adsgartus’ Ghurch, Sedgwick stregt. near Chicago avenae, at10:30 2. m. and 7:30p. m. '—The Rev. Clinton Locke will ofiiclate in Gracs Church, Waoash svehiue, near Sixteenth street, a2 11s. m. 2nd 7:30p. m. Holy communion at 8 a.m, _The Rev. Arthur Ritchic will officiatein the Churcn of the Ascension, corner of LaSalte and Elm streets, at 10 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. Holy Commonionat $a. m. ¥ g —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood wili oficiate in St. Mark’s Charel, corner of Cotiage Grove avente 2nd Thirty-stxth street. at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 v Luther Pardeewill offciate in Calvary - ‘. - —The Rev. Charch. Warren avenae, between Oakley streetand u. m. and 7:30 P, We 13 Tosern mienie, aiaba. m oly Commaunion at 7:45 8. < = 3 olicls 4a she The Bey. T.N. Morrison