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THE CHICAGO - TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, KOVEMBER 24, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. RELIGIOUS. f Tyndall's Confession of m}'flith--n‘lateria.lism Re- pudiated. .5 Adam a Negro ?---Southern Chivalry Shocked .at the Thought. Jn Open Paper on the Pulpit Con- demnation of Presbyterian Billiards. gible Revision and the Unre- finbility_of Luke as a Historian. General Notes=--Personals==-Fious +~ Yumor---Services To= Day. BIBLE LESSON. FOR CHURCH AND HOME. Gospel of Mstthew, Chap. xxi., 8th to 21st e : Mecting the End. mz: False Reports—Foreboding Signs— sssored Provection. ‘Parallels are Marthesw, xxiv., 1-18; Mark, xif, 1 2 | T prophesy. Fulfiliments. N e— 7 omerCbri xtv came jnst after Jerusalem i feil._Theudus, Judas. Acts v., ! 36, 37, and Simon Acts, viii., Tacitns, and Josephus. o (Caliguta, Glandius, and Nero. Alexanaria, A. D.38.° Selucia, e tion. 5 CommOtion: 1,000 Jew killed. 4 ation V5. ation. - [Same as above. 5 Esnibquakes. In Crete A, 'D. 40. Rome51. Apumea”in_Phryzia 53 Lao- ! aicea GU. Campania 56, Prophesied Acts xi.. 28: fulfilled A. D. 49, in Judea, third year of Nero. At Rome. A. D. 653 39,000 died, and there were many more pest- | Jences. - ehts'Tosephus. Meteors, voices, sns- £ Faadtal bt T o eworda. " Voice in the Temple, **Let us 2o hence. £ Pestilence, Ezamples. 7 Persecate you. Stehen, Acts. 7 ana 8, 1: and | fomes’snd Acts, 12 24 and vl oyusgogue. |One lone period of persecntion: L ‘l’ Cor.. 4, 95and 13 an 3Prisons. [Panis pereecntions more namer- | ons (Hfl‘lLAclx‘ relate: 2 Ce 4Before Kinrs. 5Widen your Act . 10 Phil., 1, 12- " feld of testi-i 13, Acts. 3, 8. _Acts, 26, 1. mony. Math.. 10, 17, 18. tDont meditste Math., 10, 19, 20; 4, 8; and 74 mouth wis-! Acts, 7. dom. John. 16, 13 sGrennp, (Matthew, 10, 21 4Hiateq by all. 5. 18, E Pian of peril. Plan of protection. 1Sia, tends falee Pro-| 1'Jesus preserves from hets. terror. £ **War, 2} ** forccastes our end. 3 ** Commotions. 3] ** affordsusthebest : 4 chance to testify 4 * Sationve.Nation,| | *% enys Restin Me. 5 * Phyeicaljndement| 5| ** takes the place ' x of care. 6 *Mental forebod-| 6 ** ixourpresentand L. suflicient help. 7 4 Persecniions. 7, ** is more than all » onr focs. § ** Officia] hate. 8 *¢ followers the : | world hates. 9 *Family treachery.| 9! ** gives perfect fe- 1 curity. B * Death. 10, ** commands pa- i tience in peril- 1 **The world's hat-11i ** commands obe- i red. dience and its 4 ] wisdom. Lesson. ¢ are in danger of being deccived. Mauy will profess Christ's work. We must not follow any oue else than {_Christ. o civil commotion should alarm the [ Christian. iWe itve in a world of terrors, ‘Christians must look for persecution. We mnet cast all care on God. Christlikeness not Joved by the world. hri<t insures perfect protection. PROY. TYNDALL. HIS CONFESSION OF FAITH. Cleteland tierald. ?m}_umy no one of thewnodern school of, Wenlists has been the subject of more virulent «round of his supposed materi- " 'm to religion thaa Prof. Ty &ll. Not even Darwin, the reputed father of teevolution theory, which is held responsible dorall the sins of scientific materialism, has so If:nlefl the wrath of that class of theologiral ddenders whose zeal is ant to be in inverse pro- partion to their knowledze. The reason for this wobably lies in the fact that Tyndall has been more before the public in verson than Darwin, ndthat some of the cxpressions deemed offen- fiie were uttered under circumstances that e them the appearance of a defiance and & :;“_mze 1o bis assaflants. That much of the Mm:fmllnz displayed toward both Tyndall MDMD is due to misconception, misquota- o }n& possibly in some cases misrepresenta- !m(‘td vir Jangnage ana views, cannot be s l‘l{\'thosc who know what both writers e teadils malntained, who are familiar with m"flmslhu actually used, and who have - ‘fln what magner their words have been dis- ol and views travestied by those whu de- e them 25 determined foes 1o religion, ferly g 18 euthrone the material and ut- mnimf&'“f the spiritual, ind whose creed is boras 10 the one dogma, * There is no God nlx Matter” m??.,’;fi.;‘,“"’“"“ from the first shown an im- tentatioy lflfls!numm.or malicious misrepre- Wilenee “‘L bis ‘real position, and it is'this im- Tt £ondlch bas drawn upon him more fre- fou sharper_assaults than have heen di- Yeury of m:!l his fellow-scientists. Becoming & S contest, e has maude a full and metement of his position toward both Siee, religion, after which there is no pos- gl s¢ for misconceiving or misreprescat- The m::ire dense inorance or shecr malice. tack g )on of the explanation is a fresh at- IO im a2 comparison of Prof. Virchow's o ‘Publlshcd\'ielrs on the present position Wiy l(]zlul)on theory with those attributed e The defense of the latter not only tho gt attacs but againstall previous, takes tignh i:@ u?t apaper on * Virchow and Evolu- c,,“m e November number of the Nineteenth g rich is also to apoear later as an in- sflnm"nu‘,o 3 new volume of * Fragments of bis conti, it Prof. Tyndall takes thereader into the puidence and reveals the process by which oty “]:ns and deeplv religious child devetoped lsn;m:n who is charged with bolding relig- work, pought. When a boy he disliked school- wha' g use his teachers gave no vitality 10 CY taught. Tnstead of studying his “Wo mtnseml Lis mind over the question Sriptraiae God” He was well versed in mmmfi for he loved the Bible, and was ol g by that love 1o commit larze portions t lfi‘mn . Later on he became adroit in Cotres o RScnmunl knowledee aguiost the ,_fimflnm ome, but the charactenstic doc- oL that Church marked only for a time e Eiens nti»t Bisinquiry. He was perplexea by body, wb_bonm(p and the resurrection of the be Gep, ile afloat on the &ca of speculation 0 to study Carlyle, and was so much im- Of that v 23t he found asserted in the works an poiter especially the ethical side of e ,i_tlx:mrq that he became a student of sci- Dhgsicat e Tesult of his long investization into o Phenomena nas been to decpen that lgiony fsstery, which he basalways felt. “ Re- U8 feeling,” he declares, **is as much a wig, 33 any other part of human consciousness, of g 5tit. on its sabjective side, the wave ume’ucre beats in vain.”q « Iyndall repudiates the doctrine of pure f 1 By quotations from hed works during ‘& period of more than twenty years down to the present time he shows that he has never varied from onc idea: the srandear and the littleness of man; the Yastuess of his range in some respects and direc- tions, and his powerlessness to take a single step in others. Whilst he claims that it mav be atfirmed that the brain of man, the organ of his reason and sense, without which he can neither think nor feel, is an assemblage of molceules, acting and reacting according to law, be admits that there the metliods pursued in mechanical sefence come to an end; and if askea to deduce 1rom the physical interaction of the brain mole- cules the least of the or thought. we must acknowledgze our elpless- ness. Between molecular mechanics and con- sciousncess is interposed a fissure over which the Jadder of physical reasoning fs incompetent to carry us, The phenomena of matter and force come within our intelicctual range: but behind, and above, and around us the real mystery of the universe lies unsolved, and, a8 we are concerned, §s fucapable of solution. Standing between the materialist on the one band and the theologian on the other, Prof. Tyndall says to the former: * The facts of ob- servation you consuler so simple are aimost as difficult to be seized mentally as the ideaof a soul. If you abandon the interoretation of grosser minds. who imnee the soul as a Psyche which could -be thrown ont of a window—an entity which s usually occupied, we do not Kknow how, among the moleculss of the brain, but which 'on duc occasion, such as the intrusion ofa bullet or the blow of a_clith, can fly away into the reions of space—if, abandoning this Teathen notion, you approach the subject in the only way in whi¢h approach is possible—it you consent to make your soul a poctic rendering of & phenomena which, as I have taken morc pains than anybody else to show you, refuses the yoke of ordinary physical laws—then f, for one, would not object to this exercise of ideali- . ‘Turniug to the theologian he remarks: 1 say, and say it strongly, but with good tem- per, that the theologian, or the defender of theology, who hacks and scourizes me for put- ting the question in this light, is zullty of black ingratitude.” WAS ADAM A NEGRO? A SOUTHERNER OBJECTS. Louistitle Courter-Journal, Moncure D. Coaway, in a recent letter frem London to the Cincinnati Commerc’al, says: 1t isnow a pretty African version of the fallof man that Adam and_Eve were necrocs, and only ‘when they had sinued and heard the Creator calling wwere their faces stricken with that pale hae which has continued among the more sinful races. It now appears frowm the carliest fablets on the subject that there is more ground for this tradition than it has hitberto been credited with, —at_least so far as the color of the first pair iu concerned. The tanlet ix in the British Museum, brought by the late Georse Smith. Aninscription, marked ‘K, 3364, con- tains fn it an account of the creation of man by the god Mir-Ku (noble crown). **To fear them (the gods) he made man; the breath of life was in him. May he (the roa Mir-ku) be established, and may hiswill not fail. in the mouth of the dark races which his band has made.” ‘This is the carliest al- Iusion in existence to the Biblical account of crea- tion, and it distinctly point fo the first race oeing dark. This confirms what Sir Henty Kawlinson #2id_long ago. that Adamn means +*dark race,” in distinction from *‘Sarkun," light race; and George Smith thousht that the account (Gen., vi.) of the sons of God marrying the daughters of men, meant the Sarkn_intermarrying with the Adsmn. 1t appears, therefore, that Adam was a necro. 1t does not appear so 10 us, with due defer- ence to Mr. Conway and Mr. Rawlinson. The Hebrew word Adamah means the ground or “ljke the ground,” or ruddy, like clavey soil, according to Gesenius, the distinguished He- brew scholar. Josephus, who follows thie Jew- jsh traditions, savs: © God took dust from the ground and 1ormed _man, and juserted in him 1 and soul. This man was called Adam, which in the Hevrew tongue signifies one that is red, because he was formed of red earth, compounded together, for of that kiud is virzin or true eartn.” Tne Hebrew words adam, adamal. adami, and admah ali come from the same root, adam, which means red. The conclusion is that Adam ot his name for the sole reason that he was a red or ruddy man, and that he was created with that color. IThere docs not appear auy other meaning to the word adam. ‘There is another arrument. The fine esthetic taste of the Creator would be satisfied, upon arriviug at the cephalization phase of His crea- tion, with nothing short of a human being, with head erect, of extraordinary physical beauty and symmetry. The typical begro is not the beau ideal of human fori or color. onccontends thatheis. The white, or the red or ruddy man of perfectly-aeveloped physical and mental nature, more nearly satisties the conception of physical perfection.” The uegro, it we adliere to the doe- trine of the unity of the human race, was a sub- scquent phenomenon of progenerstion which we do not attempt to explain. CROQUET. 1TS RELIGIOUS CONDEMSATION. St. Lowrs Republicn. The Rev. William Willett, Wesleyan, of Chi- cago. suid of playing croquet: *‘The practice Jetracts from the glory of God and the ealvation of souls.™ The latest, and in many respects the best, writer on popular astronomy—Prof. Simon Newcomb, of the Urited States Naval Ob- servatory—in discussing’ the dimensions and distances of the stellar system, says: o give an iten of the relative distances, sup- avovager through the colestial spaces conld Travel from the sun to the outermost planet of our svetem in twenty-four hours. So enormous would be his velocity that it _would carry him across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York fo Lwerpool, in jess than 3 tentbof a second of the clock. ~ Starting from the #un with this velocity, he would cross the orhits of the inner planets in rapid succession and the outer ones more ¢lowly, until, at the end of 3 Lngle day, he would reach the ' confines of our wystem, crossing the orbit of Neptune, Bur. thoueh'he passed cight planets the iirst day, he would pass none the next; for he would have to journey eithteen or Lwenty years, without diminu- tion of speed, before he would reach the ncarest star, and would then have to journey as far again before he conld reach another. All ‘the planets of our system would have vanished in the distance in the conrxe of the first three days, and the fun would be but an insignificant star in the firma- ment. & L Tt is the Maker and Ruler of all this, ‘whose “glory "—according to the Rey. William_Wil- Jett—will be “detracted from” bya_childish rame played upon our peity planet! It is the Staker and Rulerof Newton's universe, Her- schel’s universe, and the bonndless uuiverse- stretching eyond the mighticst reach of the mishtiest telescope, who—according to the Rey. Williaa_ Willett—is to be in some mys- terious way injured when a few children, of Jarger or smaller growth, knock wooden balls about with wooden mallets! What conception of God can the Rev. Willinm Willett have? What sort of religrion can he present, with suci contemptible 1deas of the head and fountain of all religion¢ Why should sacrilege and blas- phemy be denounced from his pulpit, when he himself—ignciantly we hope—virtually declares that the Almightyis jealousof the attractions of croquet? 1t is such Inmentable folly as this, though exhibited with the best intentions, which docs more damage to the causeof Clristianity, in the estimation of intetligent people, than all the scientific or unscientiic scepticism extant. And if religious teachers cannot av reducing ihe Creator to the level of the creature, and judging the Infimte py finite staudarus, the \risest course would seem to be not to mention His name at all. BIBLE REVISION. CHANGES IN TNE INTEREST OF SCIENCE AXD TOLERATION. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cuicaco, Nov. 22.—Your correspondent, Wiy, writing Nov. 15 under the ahove, title, nas, either through inadequate information or carelessness, drawn somwe radically incorrect conclusions as tothe effect of recent criticism on certain doctrines and facts held by the ma- jority of Christians. L E 1. lHA: implies that_L Jons, v., 7, which has Jou been considered spurions, is of funda- mental importance in _proving the doctrine of the Trinity. 1t is a sufficient reply that theolo- Piaus do not._rely upon a few isolated passages for the proof of this doctrine, althoue] Doapuismal formula, Matthew, x<viil, 19 tizing them in the name of the. Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,” of the apos- olic bencaiction, 11, Corinthiuns, vii.. 14., “The ce of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost,” Presuppose the Trinity. I nced not remark that the manuseript authority in favor of these passages is unimpceachable. ‘The doctrine of the Teinity Is coniirmed b tnem, although it does not depend nainly upon them. 9, The fact of the ascension of Jesus would ot be impuaned, if 1t were proved. contrary to the opinion of some of the very best. critics,— snch as Bleek, Hilengleld, Scrivener; sce a thorough discussion of the subject in Speaker’s “Commnentars on the New Testament,” Vol. I, New York, 1878,—that Mark, xvi., 9-20, is not from the evangelist, and that Luke, xxiv., 51, orizinally read: Aud it eame to pass, while ie bicssed them He parted from them,” with- out the,words, ® And was carried up into Teaven,? which Tischendorf omits on the au- thority of two MSS. Alford says: “To ex- clude the words, as_Gricsbach and Tischendorf do, is rasn in the estreme, in the known inac- curacy in this matter of the Sinaitic and Cambridre_codices.” But, yielding these passages for the sake of henomena of sensation .| far as_ argument;westill-have Luke, ix., 51 * Whea the time was come that lle should be received un™s John, X¥., 17: ©1 ascend unto my Father” §Cpmn..\' , 62); Acts, i, 9: ¢ While they be- heid, He was takn up, and a clond received Him out of their sight.”. There ure many other pas-. sages of such a character that Weiss, in his last cdition of “Meyer'’s Commentary ot Mark and Luke,” issued this year, does not dispute statement that the”astension s a fact which stands immovably fixed, although in other mat- ters he often controverts Meyer's positions. 8. Your correspondcnt has, however, given the most palpable evidence of a want_of thorough- nessio his statements under Mark, xvi, 16 ** He that believeth and s baptized sball be saved; but _he that believcth wot shall be damned.” Bat supposing we excludesthis sud the other passages quoted, what follows?—that Christ did not utter such words? _In Johu, ili., 88, Ilc is represented as saFius *¢ He that be- lieveth on the Son hath_everfasting life; and be that belieseth nov the, Son sball not sce lifes but tie wrath of Godabideth on him.” Instcad of Matt., xx1., 44, which we are asked to resign .as spurious, we have the very smme words in Luke, xx., 18: * Whosoever shull fall upon that stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, 1t will erind bim to powder.” Again, in- stead of Mark, vi., 11, which is bela by some. 10 be of doubtful manuserint authority, we have Matt., x., 15: _**Verily I say unto you, 1t shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodum and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city,” Comp., xi, 24, and Luke, x., L2 Kinally, if were to admit that Mark, ix., 4446, may be spurious, the force of the quota- tion &till “remains, for in verse 4S we have the same terrible refrain: * Where their worm dieth not, and their fire 1s_not quenched,” of which “Tischendor?, In the last critical edition of Lis Greck New Testament, sa; “ Iune vegsun (48) nemo amnitt:t—no one omits this verse. The conclusion, therefore, which your corre- spondent draws, in view of these fu without foundation, and it is certain houest revision ol the text cannot s change the New Testament of our father: i SamueL Ives Cuntiss, Jr. LUKE. UNRELIABLE AS AN HISTORIAN. o the Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, Nov. 21.—Luke, us ‘a historian, is quite unreliable. If we are to accept the Gospel of Matthew as a correct account of the life and teachings of Jesus, then but little reliance can be placed upon the history of the same as given by Lutke, his account belng widely variant from Matthew’s. Not only was Matthew’s history first written, but the author was a companion of Christ, and onc of ‘His apostles. It was also the Gospel which, more than.cither of the other three, was used as authority by the early Kathers of the Church. Indeed, it is quite problematical whether it be not the ouly one written in the first century. ‘I'he only evidence we have upon this subject consists of parallel passages found in the four writers of the first century,—Ignatius, Barns bas, Hermas, and Clement of Rome. Of these parallel passages, while we have three or four parallel with passages in Luke, two paratlel with John, and none_at all with Mark, except such ws are also in the other Gospels, we have efzliteen or twenty parallcl with Matthew. The evidence is not very satisfactory, because il es parallel in Luke and Clem- if Luke quotes Christ as say- certain thing, and Clement quotes him as ing saying the same thing, we know not for certain whether Clement takes from Luke, or Luke from Clement, or botli from common source, say from somec one of the many apocryphal Gospels then extant. The eviden: uch as it is, is much stronger for Matthew than for cither of the other Gospels. The followinz ure some of the most important particulars wherein Luke's history differs from Matthew’s: 1. While. nccording to Matthew, Joseph, the reputed father of Jesus, was descended from Solomon, son of David, in a dircct line, every Jink in the chain of descent being given, Luke traces himn from Nathan, a son of David also, and brother of Solomon. From this point downward the genealogy is, of course, entirely different. 2. According to Matthes, Jesus was born m the reign of Herod, some two years before his death. But accordine to Luke, Jesus was born at the time of the taxing, when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria. Now, we learn from Josephus that, alter the death of flerod, Archclaus reign- ednine years, and was banished. Cyrenivs was then made Governor of Syria, and uader him the assessment and taxing took place. This is ihe time which Lule. in his second chapter, fixes upon for the birth of Ch But this was at least cleven years after the occurrence of the same event, according. to Matthew. It is true that other circumstances recorded in the first chapter of Luke scem to corrohorate Mattherw. The difference in_these chapters is one of the circumstances relied upon by Schlciermacher, ‘whose theory is that Luke’s Gospel is a compila- tion of diffcrent manuscripts, and that no part of it was written by Luke himself. 8. Luke’s_history of the childhood of Jesus is entirely diffcrent from Matthew’s. Accord- ing to Matthew, Joseph was warned at Beth- Ichem, i adresm, not to return by the way of Jerusalem, but to take thechild and fice into Egypt, to escape the bloody designs of Heroa. Joseph did so, and remained 1n Bezypt until the death of Herod. But, uccording to Luke, when the days of Mary’s purification werc ended, they bronght Jesus from Bethlehem to Jerusa- lem, where he was publicly presented in the Temple. These discropancies are the more serious, from the fact thatwe donot have the testimooy of Mark or John on either of these points. But this is not all. Luke, if, as is commonly supposed, be wrote the Actsof the Aposiles, coines there in collision with Paul. That Paul wrote his Episties in the first century, and that they are substantially genu- ine as,eiven in the New Testameat, s gen- erally conceded. The fathers of - the first centitry, already referred 10, especially Clement and lgnatius, are full of passages varallel with Paul’s Epistles, swhile his First Epistle to the Corinthions is expressly referred to by Clement, who, in writing to the same Chureh, speaks of what the * blessed Paul ” had written there. Now, in the first and second chapters of Paul’s Epistic to the Gallatians, herelates his expericnee, showing that for over scventeen years after his conversion he preached exclusive- iv to the Gentiles, and afterward to the Jews. But Luke, in the ninth chapter of Acts, repre- scuts Paul as preaching to the Jews immediately after his conversion. Would it not be well for those now engaced in the revision of the Bible to consider seriously whether the volume would not be improved by omitting the writings of Luke altogether? ¢ SOME DOUBTED.” PROF. SWING CRITICISED. Rettgio-Philosophical Journal. In making the grand rounds among the out- posts of the *“Army of the Lord,” we reached, Jast Sunday, one of the advance picket-guaras, under the charge of Prof. Swing. This faith- ful, zealous, and trained officer is constantly pushine forward, only a little in the rear of the tirst picket line. & ! Prof. Swing’s discourse was on the subject of « Poubt,” and, as we sat in McVicker's beautiful theatre and saw the great throng of earnest, in- tellizent people, fillng every scat from par- quette to dome, listening to the slow, unim- Bassioned. meastired words of wisdow flowing so quictly from the lips of the speaker, we doubted if a finer, more hopeful, sight could be witnessed anyivhere in the world. ‘The general tenor and broad catholic spirit of the discourse would have commended it to every intellizent Spiritualist, however much he may nave doubted some Of the speaker's assump- tions. From many good points we sclect the foliowing paragraphs The words o e R “*Bat some doubted ** ap- i, therefore, to all times,and ate not the pecil- 1ar disconragement of our own menial and moral dynasty. Unable to determine the auantity of modern doubt, let ns treatitas a fact, and let us mark some of the features of the great fact. Be- Jiet is based upon evidence, or supposed evidence, and hence that which uffects the evidence of the public_will always aileet the ublic faith. The Hevelopment of tiic: reasoning faculty in the fast two centurics has made sad havoc of the evidence in the case. Witnesses who once stood on the stand in the utmost respectability, and whose evi- dence would in a few minutes send a **doubter™ to the flames or to a_duneon, have one by one been ifmpeached. and some of them have been withdrawn by the parties who once sumimoned tiaem 1u so much confidence. + . . 'Thus mendoubt,notalwaysbecausethey are wicked, but because, as reason moves forward under the double impalee of new internal power and new information. it finds the evidence of yes- terday fnsuflictent for the faith of to-dsy and to- morrow. _ Each new school-bouse, each advance in the ratio of men _who can read and write, will create a chanze in the public belief, and it will not be untrué if 1 eay that each wave of education is a new wave of ekepticism. Wratever renders the logical facaity more powerful must make maukind wiinow out its past belief. Tne more powerful the light the more visible are all defects. In concluding, Mr. Swing said: Let us review hastily the reflections awakened by the colil words that ‘‘some doubted.”. The *+doubt™ will always attend the human race, be- cause tae fatare Jifé is not a dcmonstrated reality: bat out of doubt will come n perpetual study and a2 marching of the host from the less true to tae more trae; 1t will cut down the first wilderness, ot to make a desert, but to open np rich fielas of Truits and grains; it will lessen the quantity of no- “tions to be believed. but it will Improve the f\l"fllb £y of what shall survive its analssis; it ~ill take Bumanity up in 1ts kind arms, and’ bear away from the letter to place it up amid the **substantially ftrue” of the two Testumentsi it will combine Tizhtconsness and affection with its tears, and then what it lacks in secing it will make up in patient whaiting. It expects no pericct vision here. Tt has Do hops of secing the universe from the low valley of man's lifes it will wait nntil death shall bear the foul to 8 hight that =nall redouble a thousand times the breadih of the horizon beneatit tae once- clouded fect. B “ Because the future life is not & demonstrat- cd reality.” These words mark the speaker’s distance from the cxtreme front. of the advanc- ing host. Looking about over that vast audi- ¢ we saw dozens whom we kuew could have risen in their places and_ testified to a positive knowledgge of a future life: to whom the future life is a demonstrated reality. The talcated theatrical manager through whose courtesy and ood will Prof. Swing is niforded sucha splen- did auditorinm can zell the speaker that to him the futare life is_a demonstrated reality. So, too, can Joe Jefferson and others who have stood upon the stawe from which the gmood preacher says **The fature life is not a demon- strated reality.” So, too, can Brother Swing’s good Iriend, Mr. Amos T. Hall, the trusted Treasurer of a powerful milroad corporation, throuzn whose hands yearly flow more thau §20,000,000, and from whose . beautifully spirit- ualized face whole scrmous of £oodness, purity, love, and spiritual knowledge ma. be read. And thus we might go on enumerating to the talent- ed preacher the names of many of his fellow- citizens and neighbors who have advanced a day's march farther than he has. ABOUT PREACHIN PREACIIERS WIIO DID NOT LIVE IN A BOTTLE, AND SOME WIO DO. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cnrcaco, Nov. 22.—I had the unspeakable good fortuue to be brought up iu the old Scotch Covenanter Church, whose preachers believe that their field of labor is the world, and that it there is ony subject which they may not discuss it must get out of their field. The. differonce between it and all other branches of the Presbyterian Church is. that it has from the first repudiated the Constitution of the United States as **Acovenant with death andan agreement with Iell,” because it pro- tected Slavery and refused o acknowledge the existence and authority of God. It holds the extreme Calvinistic view of salvation through the sacrificial death of Christ; but lolds also that there can be no other evidence of aceept- ance with God than newness of liie. 1t regurds t+y profession of religion as an sssumption of an howor outwelghing all carthly crowns and domintons, and not a condescension. 3 In other words, Scotch Covenanters never- patronize the Lord, but teach that, to be ad- itted into the number of thuse who shall, at Iast, stand upon_the rigit hand of the Great White Throue and hear the welcome salutation, “Come, ye blessed of My Father, iuherit the kingdom' prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” is an honor to be purchased by the loss of all things m this life, meluding Jib- ertyand life_ itscif. Moreover, they arc not content with getting their own souls saved. Whnen the Rev. James Renwick refused to ac- cept the Royal clemeney which would have pre- served his life and living for a scemingly smatl concession, some of lis brethren who had ac- cepted asked him, Do _you not believe that wecan vet besaved and yvet comply with the requircnients?”’ he replicd, ““Ob, yes! O, yes! Fur be it from me to timit_ the mérey of God!” “Well,”” they answered, “is not this enourh? What more do’ you want than the salvation of your soul?” *No! no!” was the reply, “That is not enough! I want to honor my Lord and Master!” And he died a painful and ignominious death rather than make a false profession. He would neither speak nor live a lie for life and a good living, with salvation thrown ju; and yet he never dreamed that he could reach Heaven on any other plea than that of the thief on zhe Cross,—divine merey v With this school f religionists zetting one’s soul saved is ouly a part of s Christian’s busi- nessin fife. Salvation is fruit groving on a tree whose roots and branches run through all the ramifications of this world and all other worlds, and so all subjects of human interest come into their pulpit discussions, sud this has a tendency to develop a sturdy sense of duty in ali rela- tlous of life. The pastor under whom I was educated was Dr. John Black, of Pittsbure, fathetsof Col. Sam Black, wno fell fighting for the Union at thie battle ot Fair Oaks, where he ana_his regi- ment were literally cut to pieces. and also of Mrs. Rodman, widow of Geo. Rodman, who expended millions of Government money €0 honsstly that business men looked on and said: 7T here is not one man in 10,000 improving their own property who could use the money so eco- nomically and wisely.” 1 suppose.it never oceurred him that he could have embezzled any pajWef-the-pubite funds; but, if be had thoughtof it, he must have known that his wife never would have used o dollar of money that came with dis- honor, and that she could always !ve inside his income, no matter how small this might be; that a last year’s bonnet had no terrors for her, but & staia’ of dishonesty large as a_fly-speck would ruin _the costliest” sct of diamonds. If women of this stamp were sufliciently namer- ous. we would kave few, if any, defaulters; and Af our pulpits were teaching hotesty more and sensational piety fess, society ould not, could not, be the rotten thing it is to-dny. From Dr. Black’s_pulpit-teachinzs I learoed avery lare part of all tue little I have ever Lnown of political economy, sclence, and _his- tory. Two of his sons died in_the Christian minfatry. One of his daughters, Mrs. Wiler, as a preacher’s wife. tanght agriculture and house- Dold cconomy, down in the Egypt of this State, and was thought to have accomplished as much for the benefit of the peopleas lier husband, whose mimstry was said to be blessed. - Another daughter, Mrs. McClelland, raised nine chil- dren, all useful members of society. ‘This con- gregation mever furnished a defaulter or a Rebel; and one man now living in Chicago, the son of n member, was in sixty battles and one hundred skirmishes of the War of the Rebellion, and defended a bridze against Rebels until his command was almost aunibilated. It was Scotch Covenanters who issued the first American Deelaration of Independence, down in North Carolina; and from first to last their re- ligion runs into all the aflairs of this life. "This_being the kind of religivus teaching to whien I was accustomed in early life, and Dr. Black being remarkable, even in that Church, Tor practical preaching, it is not strange that, in late years, I have seldom braved:the carbonic- acid gas of the pews for anyihing likely to be found in pulpits;. bue sometimes I do go to chureh.hoping to find something that will com- pensate for the poison I must inhale. In this hope Iwent to the Presbyterian Church of Swissvale in the summer of 1577, The preach- er took lis text from the writings-of Paul, asa matter of course, for that solitter of theolomical Tairs is about the only one of the sacred writers from whom a modern preacher can get a sub- fccl sufliciently abstruse to display his logical ecerdemain. It was “But they, measurinz themselves by tnemselves, and comparing them- sclves among themseives, are not wise.” “"Oue could almost have fired a musket-ball from the church-door to a large workshop from which some hundred hands had recently been dismissed,—thrown out of work on account of traudulent work which rained the vatue of the ronerty. The case had been the subject of eral investigation. The innocent were suffer- ing with the guilty. Men were loafing. or steal- ing. or painfully lunttng work, und their fami- lies sufferiug; plenty of work to be done and ille men refusing such wages as employers could give without positive loss! Another mus- Kket-shot from that stands the coal-bank moutbh,' where Oatman was shot to death for doing his duty, his murderers sheltered by their accomn- plices, and ot a jury in the county that dare convict them onany evidenee; andin thatsermon was not one word about the importance of a stable measure,—a fixed standard of richt and wronz 15 applying to the affairs of this life. - All around the reverend speaker seethed and boiled the turbulenee, and discontent, and ruf- fianism which cnlninated in the July riots about six weeks after; and that sermon would have been just as appropriate in any other part of the world where 2 small congregation was la- boring to pay a church deot aod a_high salary to the speaker. 1t was all about ?’irltu:fl gifts and graces, and the duty of building up the chureh. Last summer I went tothe Congregational Church in Princeton of this State. The fathers of that town had built 2 school-house and sunk a well and cesspool in such close proximity that the contents mingled. Children were poisoned by drinking the water; diphtheria broke out and sbread us an epidemic, and the preacher enjoin- ed his hearers to see the hand of the Lord in the death of the murcered little ones, and be re- signed to the will of Providence. In the autumn, while visiting io Bureau Coun- ty, I went to the Congregational Charch of La- Moille, and _the preacher read the twelfth chap- ter,of First Coriuthians,which, so faras it speaks of ‘the Church, treats of a condition of things which has entirely passed away. There are no miraculous gifts now, and no pretension to any; but the allegory of the body, and the duty of each member to do its appropriate duty, makes it one. of the most Ym\-cr(nl Iessons to good order that it s possible to conceive; but all this was passed over, and the text was * Covet the best_ wifts,” or which the preacher gave usa carefully written introduction on the great diffi- culty of understanding Scripture, and the im- portance of having it explained. Holy Writ in general is very abstruse, and thercis great danger that devout readers may wholly mistake jts meaning; but this _passas in particular, was likeiy to ge a stumbling-block to the uninitiated! While he beat about the bush to show the nevessity of his presence, [ opened my eyes and ears, and my mouth also, in stupid wonder as to what possible difficulty there could be in_ understanding those four emall words; and iy astonishment but increased on hearing that folks were lil:2ly to fecl, on reading that passawe. that it contradicted the Ninth Commandment, which says, * Thou shalt not covet thy meizbbor’s wife!™ Well, that seminary sermon was preached largely to empty benches, and the gifts which the few Yolks pres- ent werc to covet ware those that would fill the sews, and bring in more folks to be thus eu- izhtened. All around were active business men wrestling with the temprations of life, sut- fering its sorrows and disappointments, and not aword to interest them; no hintof anyald which could possibly be given them excent bringing them-into communion with the Church and teaching them to'say its porticular shibbo- Ieth, teaching them to distrust their own reason and cominon sense, and come oud zet this young man to talk dictionary to them! i Well, last Sabbath evening I went up to_the coruer of Monroe and Paulina streets to hear the Rev. Meloy, when, lo and betold! what does he do bug read that same chanter. He is a man in middle life, with o Scotch head as square as a packing-box, tapering to a small chin; a splendid head, with a sanguine tempera- Inell‘l& full of zeal, and one who vught to do a broad work in this broad world. He belongs to the United Presbyterian,—a Church which never £old men, women, and children to buy commun- jon survices and pay preachers’ salaries, and which did wood work in_the Anti-Slavery War. He rend that chapter with evident avpreciation. ’lllle Ieszon of the words—*If the foot shall say, because Iam not the hand I am nct of the body,’ is it therefore not of the body?’'—was made apparent even by mere resding, and, when he took for his text a passage from the third chapterof Numbers. appoiuting thesous of Merari to carry the boards, and sockets, and- curtains, ete., of the tabernacle, he had the whole ques- tion of sociul order before him fu this era of so- cial disorders but he did not touch it. Ris sermon was on the duty of the pew-peo- ple in the pews to fill up the empty benches. Now, all this is bottle preacning. Each church has a little wine in a bottie, and each churen insists that its work is to take care of its particular_bottle, and get folks to come and be refreshed by partaking of its wine. There is no hint of the immortal ‘‘vine” growing out in the open air, offering refreshment and rest to weary wayworn _pilerims, wichout asiing them to do some impossible thing, or to wound their consciences by saying thev have done what they cannot do. Faith in Christ is o very simple thine; but, as it has been explained by theo- logians, is of all things most fncomprebensibie; but doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with Gpd, Is something thatfall moder- ately sane peaple can understand; and when a church confines her labors to the business of in- creasing her membership and her teachings to merely theological queetions, she has betrayed ner trust, as the *littie leaven whicl is tv lcaven the whole lqu'" as the standard-bearer of the Author of tbe Moral Law, and governor of the world. A mao who does uot reach out- siders und ‘make them better without convert- ing them to his creed, preaches in a bottle, and isa bottled preacher, quile unworthy to take the name of Him who left us the Sermon on the Mouat. JANE GRBY SWISSHELM. GENERAL NOTES. Japan has filteen Protestant missions and 161 missionaries, including wives. Of mission sta- tions there are ninety-four, and of organized churches forty-four. Bishop McLaren has aopointed to-day as Hos- pital iSunday throughout the diocese. The of- ferings will be devoted to St. Luke’s Hospital, which isin pressing need of substantial dona- tions. Missionaries whom the American Associations have sent into Africa during the past year have endured the climate hetter than was exoected. At Good Hope twenty-two members have been added to the chureh.” * A branch_of the DMennonites, called the Evangelical Mennonites, has decided to expel from the Chureh any member who gets his life insured. Tywo ministers, refusing to be gov- erned by the rule, have been excommunicated. The English Weslevan Methodists formed in 1872 2 denominational jnsurance company. with a capital of §125,000. Nearly two-thirds of the connectional property is insured in it. The income last year was §15,000, and the loss about 33,000, The choir of 300 male voices being organized by Prof. Case meets forrehearsal Monday, Tues- day, and Friday cvenings of cach week. Al Chiristian _young men desirous of joining the an:m are invited to meet With them at Farwell -Hall~ - ppeudig st i 1t is considered more than probdble that the new plan of reduced representation in the Pres- Dyterian Geoeral Assembly will be approved by a mujority of the P tiwo Presbyteries have voted,—twenty-seven af- firmatively and fifteen negatively. A committee in Liverpool is eneaged in rais- jne o fund of £80,000 for the purpose of having a Bishopric established there, the new diocese to be set off from that of Chester. The subserin- tionat the time of a reccat meeting of the Com- mittee amounted to over £60,000. ‘The Waldensian Church of Italy has thirty- nine churches, twenty-four stations, sixty-two preaching-places, 2,530 members, and 15,523 occasional hearers. During the past vear 201 Tembers were received. There are sixty-six minmsters, of whom fifty-six are in active service. The interest in Dr. Gibson’s Bible-rendings, at Farwell Hall, is increasing. Last Sunday afternoon about 1,200 persons were present. To-day, at 4-0'clock, a song service will be aiven at the hall, in which the quartette of the Fourth Presbyrerian Church will gssist the Biiss choir, sollowing_which, at 4:30, Er. Gibson will give another Bible-reading. The American Sunday-School Union has re- ceived 510,000 a8 a _lezacy from the late Miss Mary B. Danser of New York, and the late Myron Phelus of Lewiston, Iil., sho was for many years an earnese friend and a Jiberal con- tributor to the missionary work of the same soicty, has left it n legacy of $5.000, besides makin a wenerous provision for his own local church school. ‘The best and latest authorities give the whole population of the world as 1,423.917,000, and. as to religious distinctions, divide this number as & follows: Romnn_Cathotics.... 270,000, 000 Greck Church. . Trotestants of a1l sects Sews. ‘Al others The leaders and topics of the noonday prayer meeting at the rooms of the Y. M. C.’A. next week will be as follows: Monday, the Rev. M. M. Parkhurst, [ Tim., iv., 12-16; Tucsday. the Rev. E. R. Davis, Our Noonday Meeting; Wed- nesday. the Rev. C. F. Gates, Dan., Vi, 1-23; Thuraday, the Rev. J. C. Huntington, Thanks- giving; Friday, B. F. Jacobs, Gospcl Temoer- ance; Saturday, the Rev. Wl F. Crafts, Sunday- school lesson. The Second Presbyterian Church of Peoria, wlll celebrate its twenty-filth anniversary on Saturaay and Sunday, Dec. 7and 8. An inter- esting prozramme_has been prepared for the oceasion, and the former pastors still living— the Rev. R. P. Farris. D.D.; the Rev. W. E. MeLaren, D. D., now Bishop of the Diocese of Tilinois in the Protestant Episcopal Church; the Rev. H. V. D. Nevius, D. D.;and the Rev. W. 1. Green—have been Specially invited and are expected to be presant and assist in the exer- cises. An effort is making in the Reformed Episco- pal Chureh to do away with the observance of Lent ns o church fast. At a recent conference of clerzvmen in Philadelphia it wos decided to recommend the policy of abandoning the serviee to the General Standing Commitiee on the srround that thie indulzence in worldly pleasures Before and afuer Lent is increased by way -of compeusation by enforced abstention during the season of fasting, and upon the further eround that uniform moderation of life fs the Charch’s avent need, and that this may be better sccured Sithout Lenten observances than with them. The Sunday-School World for January, 1879, will contain a sccond series of articles upon Bible-Revision, trom other distinguished schol- ars on the American Committee. Some of the articles of this new serics will relate more espe- cially to the Old Testament; its text, rendering of proper names, the italics of the authorized version, and similar topics. Fourarticles of this <eries are already in hand, s furnished by Prof. William Iewry’ Green, D. D., of Princeton Seminary; Prof. A. C. Kendrick, D. D., of Rochester University; 'Prof. Thomas Case, LL.D., of Haverford College. Pa., and Prof. Charies A. Aiken, D. D., of Princeton. Extra copies of the January number will be !umlshcd as before, at six cents per copy, oOr 5 per 100 copies. Bishoo Burgess, of Quincy, has ordered ‘the following special prayer to be eatd in his diocese in commemoration of the cessation of the yel- low-fever scourze: 0 Almighty Lord. Who alone controlleth sickness and dvath, we give Thee hearty thangs that Thou ‘thast tarned back the pestilence from the parts of our Iand lately aflicted by Thy heavy wisitation. and hast ~stablished health. O thank the Lord of all lords,for His mercy endureth forever. We praise Tiee for the good cxamples, in charit: aitk, and patience, of all Thy members, and pecially of those wno, through travail nnd disease, pave entered into rest. We baseec Thee to grant to our brethren whose lives Thoi 4, and 30 us, Thy servants, whom "Thou hiast soare 2:ace to present souls and bedies a livinr sacrifice fo Thee, and. in the midss of Thy Church, always 1o magnify,Thy mercies, throagh desus Christ, our Redeemer.* Amen, NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN CONFERENCE. The winisters of the Eastern District of the Joint Synod of the Norwepian Jautheran Church in the United States areat present holding their annual Conference in tbe Rev. O. Juut’s church, corner of Mayand Erie streets. The services commenced ‘Wednesday morping, and will close Tuesday evening, nexi week About forty clermymen, principally from Wisconsin, Iilinols, and zan, are in attendance. among whom are the Rev. H. A. Preus, the venerable President of the Joiut Synod, and the Rev. J. B. Frich, President of Eastern District. Sessions_are held irom $:30 to 11:20n. m., and from 2:30 to5p. m. Wednesday evening the Rev. H. A. Preus delivered, in the Rev. Junl's church, an excellent pastoral sermon from Eph., iv.. 15, luculcating_the duty and_importance of speaking the truthinlove. Tbursday evening was devoted to a public discussion, at the same chureh. of the apostolic exlhortation contained in Eph., v., 2L ‘The most important and to the general pub- lic most interesting work before the Conferenco is a discussion of the Scriptural and Lutheran doctrine of the Antichrist. The following is a translation of u series of theses drawn up and uted by the Rev. -Halvorsen, of Coon Wis,, and claiming to be a correct eX- position ot Scriptures and the symboiical books of the Lutherau Church on this subject: Thesiz 1. Defore the second advent of Christ. a great defection will take place in the Christian Church, and Antichrist will be revealed. IL Thes., . Tun., iv., 15 1. John, ii . 2 # 1. The Scrivtoral Antichrist is not an individual person, but rather an ideal person, the term Antichrist is a collective name. ther Scriptural designations of Antichrist (*‘man of ein,” ‘‘son of perdition,” *-that wicked. " etc.), are likewlse to be accepted as col- Jective name 11. Thes., 1i., 17; 1. John, iv., 3, 4; I1. John, vii. Thesis III. The power and operaston of Anti- christ pertain not to sccalar affairs, but to spiritual thinge. e rules and exercises authority over the sonls of men within the Christian Church. Il Thes., il., 4. Thesis IV. False doctrines arc the fonndation of the power of Anti-Christ over souls, and also the means by which this power is exercised and propagated. Thesis V. Other chamacteristic traits of Anti- Christ are: (1) Enmity against God. against Christ, against the children of God. against divine truth ) Hypocrisy, or a false, outward show of holi- »18— () Contempt of the divine institution of mar- riage; (4) 'Tsurpation of divine authority on earth and in Heaven; (5) Hankering after temporal power, unlawfal combinations with secular pofentates, and making use of the same as azents and instruments for the accomplienment of relfish eud: (6) Empioyment of signs, lyiue wondess, false- hood, and deceit for the- establishment and exten- s10n of his dominion. Thes.. ii., 93 Rev.. xvii., 2 Thetis VI. Wnrneas, All theabove-cnomerated characteristics which Scrptare ascrives to Anti- Christ are found concentrated, s it were, 1n Papacy; and 3 WHEREAS, In the Papal Church more than clse- where {alsé doctrine has becn systematically de- veloped and_organized in direct opposition to the divine truth, which was proclumed by the Reformation: therefore, Liesolced. Tunt Papacy, i. e., the Papal office and institation. 18 the true and proper Anti-Christ predicted in the Holy Scriptares. Thesix I has been *adopted by the Confer- ence, and Thesis 1L is now being discussed. Friday evening another interesting public dis- cussion took place, at the Rev. Juul’s Churel, in the presence of a larire audieuce, the subject being X Cor., xi., 23 The Kev. G. H. Stub will preach in Our Sa- vior's Cnarch. corner of May and Erle streets, at 1022 m. to-day. The Rev. A. Bredeson will preach in English at the same place at 7:30 D.. m. At the Norwégian Lutheran Church, East Erie strect, the ‘Rey. Bjurn will oreach in the forenoon at 10: 30 o’clock. Inthe evenims the Rev. A. Andersen will bold an English service same place. Rev. Whvistendahl will preach in St.Paul’s Chureh, corner of Park avenue and Lincoln strects, at 10:30 a. m. The Rev. L. Shewen will preach in the eveniug. PERSONAL. at the The The Rev. William Chancey Lanzdon has re- sizned the Rectorship of Christ Church, Cam- bridge. The Rev. E. Smith Barnes has resigned his charge of the churches at Poynette and Louis- ville, and acceptea a unanimous call to the First Presbyterian Church at Columbas, Wis. ‘The Convention of Methodist iozal preachers at Trenton recently adopted resolutions of thanks to Prince Bismarck *for his noble and broad defense of evangelical Christianity.” The Rev. William P. Pawe, azed 88 vears, died recently at Longwood, Mass. Mr. Paze was o graduate of the class of 1805, at Harvard. 3lost of his ministry was speut in the State of New York. The Kev. James K. Kilbourn, who has been for four years missionary of the American Board in Monterey, has been spending a few weeks in this city, taking his first rest trom his arduous labor: The Rev. 1. N. Freeman, of - Lockport, N. Y., who lias been supplying the pulpic of the Tnion Park Congregational Churces, lae been upex- pectedly called iwme by the death of a member of his former church. The Rev. William Easton, D. D., who has served the United Presbyterian Church ut Octo- rara, Pa., more than fifty-one years, has heen compelled to retire frow active work on account of the infirmities of age. Since the meeting of the Presbyterian General thirty-eizbt ministers of the ludine Drs. Hodge, Nickels, William Church_have : Tlotehkin, Brace, Nassau, Stmith, Street, and Wilsou. Mr. Beecher recently received a letter from Tom Green County, Texas, signed *H. C. B.,”" in which the writer savs: ‘ Nearly two years awo L wrote you gaying that God had sent me to g 1 for $70. I have not yet heard from you. Send the draft at once, Dayable to my order, and God will reward you.” Mr. Beeeber has sent the following reply: DEAR Str: Inreply to your letter of Nov. 3, I will eay that 1 await the proper commercial docu- ments. Any draft the Lord may mske upon me, in your interest, I ehall esteem it an honor 1o meet promptly. Asyet [have not been notifled Dy the allezed drawer, nor has any draft been pre- gented through the regular charnels, It may be worthy of inquiry where the hindrance or mistake Ties, inasmuch a8 I receive hundreds of letters like yours informing me of the Lord’s wiil. but without the Lord’s signatare and_without authentic com- merciel paver. HENRY WARD BrEcmei. HALF-SHELL PIETY. An clewantiy-bound copy of Sankey’s songs was put up at church fair and raflled for. Was this a game of chantsi—1Whitehall Times. “You bizoted nigger,” said Sam to Pete. «Biegted, what you mean by dat?" asked Pete. “Why" replied Sam, ‘bigoted means you know too much for one nigger, and not *nuff for two.” 4 Change cars for the Garder of Eden,” “All aboard for Babylon,” ‘“This train stops twenty minutes for dinner at Nineveh,” will be familiar cries on the completion of the Euphrates River Railroad.—Eimira Advertiser.’ x “ 1)id you attend the church fair last night?” asked a mivisier of, one of the male members of Tnis congremation. * Yes, sir.? I didn’bsce ou there.” said a sharp-eyed Deacon; * I saw Jou by tbe outer door at closing-up time.” 1Weil, I attended two of ‘em home."— Youiers Gazelle. Just for the sake of arrument let us suppose that some miserable, Beartiess wretch should rob the grave of Adam. Where is the mau who would offer $25.000 reward, or even give a pair of ol shoes, for the caprure of the thicves and return of the remains? - Echo anywers, ** Where is the man? "— Boston Post. It was in a Stamptown Sunday-school & vis- itor, who was interrogating the “children, asked the question. * Why was Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt? There was a pause, and _then a small bov, with 8 preternataral * srowth of head, piped out, “I s'pose it ‘was because she was t00 fresh."—Newark Sunday Call. Do yon make any reduction _to a minister?” sald a young lady in Richmond the other week toasalesman. “Always. Are youa minister’s wife?! **On, no; I am not marricd,” said the lagy. blushing. * Dauchter, theni™ No.” The tradesman looked puzzled. **1am enzaged to a theological student,” said she. The reduc- tion was made.—Naw York Evening Post. < Y¥hy,” said she, 2s they stood watchine the prisoners eat dimmer on Blackwell’s Island, S yvhy,” she asked, as she violently faued her- self and pulled her seal-skit sack more closely around her; * why are those soldiers standing aronnd the tables like Paradise!?” - She ralsed Ther parasol triumphantly and moved toward the stove. One by one they took a guess at it and gave itup. * Because,” said she—* give it uo? €every one of ;youi—because they're a-gardin’ a- feedin’.” And they wept with mortification, e N iRt i B I ol oS B R i R b A P R i b i W 18 R AN B M AR o SR el o e S i A RO B3 a— and said such & pun was too abominable.— Graphic. s We recall a story of aclever Scotch clerzyman who declared it impossible to be equally thank- | ful for great and small zifts. Heacted on this declaration when be said srace. At one time when the table was loaded with plenty, and that of -the most toothsome Kind, he said, ‘“For the rickes of ‘Tny bocnty and its blessings we offer our ‘thanks”; but on another ocasion when oaly a washinz-tay dinner graced_the board, ba said grace frith an ill-grace. as follows: ** W thank Thyg for the least of these Thy mercles.” However, ndt evers one has the good scase to say even that moch. Little Johnny, the vouthful contributor of the Argonawt,” records this moral tale: A preccher wich had been a wicked gamier fore ha was a preecher he secn o feller wich was 2 gam- ler'too, and he sd, the preecher did: *Tie jest play cards with this pore mizable sinner, zad win ol bis munny, and wen he is ousterd way be be will'listen to the divine trooth and be saved.”” So ther played and the preccher he winned ol the feller’s munuy evry cent. and then ne “Now sce how wicked you have ben for to loos yure munny, and yare whife and baby= baven’t Zot 1o bred Jor to eat.” And the famler ha S¢ “That’s s0.” and he bust out a cryin. Then tHe preecherbe sed: **Pore sinner, if you prommice me unto yure onner to not play cards agin fle'ziveit ol back, cos Ime a preecher.” So the gamlcihe was o stonish, and he sed: I never sce seeh a zood man, L prommice, ves in decd, and hesven bless yoi !’ and he busted out cryin agnin, the gzambler did. Then the preech- - er he give him back ol his munov, and the feller put it in his pocket, and whiped his eyes. and blode his nose gratetle. and then he thot a wile, aod prezty sune he coffed, and he said to the preccher: *I feel mity mean takin back this Lundred dollars from a man wich bas rescewed me from card plan. tel you what Ile do, you {;uh up a other huodred agin it and weel toss up for the pile, heds or tails, best two out of thre.” CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach in the For- ty-first Strect Church, corner of Prairie avenue and. Forty-firs: street, at 10:45 8. m. —The Rov. S. Rederns wili preach in the Rolland Church, corner of Nobte and Erie streete, at 10 a. m. in Dutch and at 7:30 p. m. in Enlish. —The Rev. Franklin W. Fiske will preach In the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thir- ticth.gireet, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. “The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach in the Re- unlon Church, Wit Fousteenth street, mear Taraop street, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. Monroe Gibsan will presch in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Trwentieth street, morning and evenine. —The Rev. J. M. Worrall wili_preach in the Eighth Church, corner of West Washington and TRober streets, at 10:30 3, m. and 7:30 5. m. —The Rev. James Maciaushlan will preach mornine and ¢vening in the Scotch Charch, corner Sangamon and Adams strects. “The Rtev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in the First Church, corner Indizns avenne and Tiveaty- fiest strcet, at 10:50 a. m, Evening service heid atthe Railroad Chapel, No. 715 State street, ac7:30 p, m. _The Rev. John Abbott French will preach in the Fourth Cl Rush and Superior gtreets, at 10:45 a. m. and p. m. Evening subjeet: _*+The Dible in China. "~The Rev. Lenry T. Miiler will preach in the sixth Church, comer of Oal_and Vinceunes ave- nues, at 10:30 o. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning snbject: *~The Chicago Sabbatin. ™ —The Rev. Henry 3. Field, of New Yori, will preach in the Thied Church, corer of Asuland and Oggden avennes, at 10:30 3. m. Subject: **The iission Work of the Christian Charch, ™ a8 seen by himself in foreign lands. Tae Rev., A.E. Kittredge Subject: *+The Life . P. L. Patton will preach in the Jeffer- nrch at 10:30 a. m. and 7330 Di m. - Daniel Harries will preach in the son Park € —The Rer Welsh Church, corner of Sanzamon ard Xonroe streets, at 10:30 8. m. and 7.50 . m. * ke Rev. W. T. Melog, D. D,, will presch in the First United Presbyterian Chirch. corner of Monroc and Palina_steeets, 3t 10302, - and 7:30p. m. EP1SCOPAI. Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Paal, cor- ner of West Washinaton and Peora strects.” The Iit.-Rev. W. E. McLaren, sishop. The Rer. J. 1. Knowles, prieat in charge. Choral moming praver and velebration of the Holy Communion at ., 10:10a.m. Cloral evening prayer at 7:30 p.m. ho Rev. Samuel S. Harris will officiate in St. Jamex’ Church, corner of Casa and liuron streets. 3t10:45 2. m. &nd7:30 p.m. Holy Communiun at8 e Rev. E. Sullivan will officlate in Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixthstreet and Michi- gan aveave, at 10:453. m. and 7:30 p. m. Seata free in the cvening. —Thne Rev. Francis Mansfield will officiate in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washing ton ond Robey streets, at 10330 2. m. and 7:30p. T —The Rev. J. Bredberg will officiate m St Ansgaring’ Charch, Sedzwick street. near Chi avenuc. 2t10:30 a. m. and 7:50 p. m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke . will officiate in Grace Chnrch, Waboash avenne. near Sixteenth etccet, at 1Ta. m. o0d 7:30p. m. Holy communion 2t 8 2. m. R _Fhe Rev. Arthur Ritchic will oficiate In the Church of the Ascension. corner of ulte and Stm gtrects, at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Holy Communion at 8 3. m. % K —The Rtev. 3. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark’s Charch. corner of Cottage Grove avennc and Thirty-sisth strect. at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . m, P CFhe Itev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Calvary Charch, Warren avenue, between Oakley streetand Western avenue, at 10:70 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Toly Communion at 7:43 & m. ~The Rev. T. N. Morrison will oficiate in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strect, between Monroe and Adams, at10:30 a. 1. and 7:80 p. m. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will ofiiciate in the Church of OurSavior. corner of Lincoln and Belden ave- nues, at 11 4. m. and 7:30 p. M. ) The Rev. D. F. Cushman will officiate in St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor 2nd Tywelfth stzeets, at 10:30 2. m. aad 7:30 p. m. Zr. C. M. Gilbert wili conduct service at Em- manuel Charch, corner Tiventy-eighth nnd Hanover streets, at 7:50 p. m. BAPTIST. The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach at 381 West Madison sireet morning and evening. Evening subject: ** A Living Christ, and Not s Dead Onc, ‘Object of the Christian Faitw.™ s " The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach in ihe Michi- gan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third streat, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. _The Rev. R. De Laptiste will preach in Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taglor street, at1l 3. m. and 7:45 p. . 3 '—The Kev. -A. Owen will preach in Universi- ty Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Jihodes avenue, a¢10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Lewis Raymond will preach in the South Church. corner of Locke and Bonaparta streets, at 118 m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. A. Henry will preach in tho Dear- bornStreet Church, corner of Thirty-sixth street, 2t 10230 3. m. 90d'7:30 p. m. _The Rev. Jobn Peddic will preack in the Second Church, corner of Morzan and West ionroe atreets, 561030 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. B. Huibert will preacn in tbe Fourth Chutch. corner of Washington aud Paalina streets, at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. “The Rev. C. Perren will preach in Western Avenue Clinrch, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 3. m. and 7:30 0. m. —The Rev. E. K. Cressy wiil preach fn the Coventry. Street Chuch, comer of Bloomingdale road. at10:30 &. W. an p. m. —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach in the Cen- tenninl Coareh, corner of Lincoln aud Jacksen streets, 8t10:30 0. m. and 7330 p. 1 —The :Rev, R. P. Allison will preach in the North Siar Church, corner of Division and Sedg- wick streets, at 10345 & m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. C. Hasethnhn wiil preschin’ the Firet German Church, corner of Bickerdike aad THuron strecta, at 10330 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Tife Rev. L. G. Carke will preach in the Twenty-Afth Street Charch, near Weatworth ave- nue, at7:30 p. m. b Z'The Rev. E. O, Taylor will preach in the Con- tral Cburch, No. £00 Orchard strect, at 10:45 & m. and 7:30 p. m_ _ __The Rev. W. V. Everts, D. D., will preach fa the First Chiarch, corner of Soatb Park avenuc and Thirty-frst steeet, at 11 a. w. and 7:30 p. m. “The Rev. H. C. Reichenbach wili preach in tne Nordish Tabernacle, coruer of Noble and West Ohio sreets, 2t 10:30 a. m. and 7:10 p. m. —The Rév. Jobn Ongman will prench in the First Swedish Church, Oak street, near Sedgwick street, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 . m. METIODI3T. The Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach in Centenary Church. Monroe street, near Morgan, at 10:30 a. m. In the evening Judge E. R. Faize will lecture o8 **The Harmony of the Liible ana Science. __The Rev. S. McChesney will preach in the Park Avenne Chnrch, corner of Kobey street, morning and eveninz. In the evening he will deliver second lectare on **Infdelity. ™ The Rey. W. F. Crafta will preach in Trinity Church., Indiana avenue, mear Tiwenty-fourth streer, in the morning on *:Theeaninz of Ctarch Membership.” and at 7:30 p. m. on ** I the Bible True in its Reference to Human Nature aud Sci- ence?” 3 —The Rev, ur. Williamson will preach at Michi- gan Avenue Church, near, Thirty-second street, at 0:103, m., op **lmmortality:™ at 7:30 p. m. on *-Babrion.? —The Rev. J. M. Caldwell will preach at West- cm Avenme Charch. corner of Monaroe street, morning and evening. —The Rev. R #. Bosworth will preach in Trinicy, Cuurch, Englewood, morninz and evea- ing., ZThe Rév. 3. M. Clendenning will preach in the Langley Avenue Cbarch at 10:30 3. m. and . m. “The ltev. £. M. Boring will preach o the State Street Charch morninz and eveninz. Mora- ine subject: **Sons of God."” Evening: **Trust in, and Love for, an Uracen Savior." " The Rev, M. M. Parkhugst wilt preach in tht First Church, corner of Washington and Clarz strcets. at 10:43 2. m. and 7:45p. m. Evening subject: - Abigail.” “Mrs. Jonnié F. Willing will preach in Em- manael Charch, corner of Marrison and Pauilna Strects, mornine and_cvening. Mlorning subject: L Elydy Opening Moasen.” Evelngs **The ealer. " . ZThe Rev. Robert D, Sheppard will preach in Grace Coarch, coraer of - Norih LaSalle and \White - streets, mornlnz ond eveatnz. oming subject: