Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1878, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUKE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER &, I878—SIXTEEN PAGES. e - RELIGIOUS. ¢ Attitude of the Roman Church to American Secret Societics. “ An Alleged Letter from the Vat- jcan Dranded a Shameful Forgery. 4 Lively Little Breeze Over the Conflict Betwesn the Church _ and the 0. U, A, M., Col. Ingersoll’s Mistakes of Moses Reviewed by a Jewish Rabbi. Generz! Notes, Personals, Saintly Humor, Services To- Day. BIBLE LESSON. FOR HOME AND CHURCIH, DEC. 8§, 1878 Jescon: Luke xxiii., 33-40. Tuge: Friday, April 6, A. . 30 from 9 2. m. to 3p. ™. Holers: Liberius Crsar. Emperor of Rome (eventeenth year of Bis reizn); Ponting Pilate, Procarator of Judea (ffth year); Herod Aulipas, ter-2xch of Galilee (thirty-fonrth year). BETWEEN LESSONS. 1. After supper Jesus went out of the city and {owards Bethany. 3 He turned aside at the foot of Mount Olivet futothe grave of Getlisemane, where He suffered e apguish. - il nd & band sent to arrest Him followed i to this sacred spot. " e surrendered and was led back into the 4" First He was taken to the houee of Aonas, 4u6 thence to the house of Caiaphas, -the high P e a preliminary cxamination was held. % During this esumination Peter, in the outer cots thrice denjed Di+ Lord. & he Sanbednm qnet nest day at dawn to try JOFus. I80e was arraicned before them as a false proshet and blasoaemer. T0. Saborned witucesed utterly faled to convict im. nll. He finally pleadea gmilty, boldly, sfiirming ghat He rras the Carist, the Son of God. 12. Jle was then ‘condemned for blasphemy and 1 bufeted. 13 « nable to 2o noy farther, Te next led ‘pefure Pilate by the Sanhedrim, on a new charze. 14, He wasaccnsed of making Himself a King, ‘but the accusztion was not sustaincd. 15 li eeditions teaching having occurred in Galilee, 3f anyw-ere, Pilate sent him to Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, who was then inJerusalem in zepdsnce at the Passover. 16. Herod. after jusulting Him, ecnt him back to Tilats, ciad. by -way of mocizery, in the imperial ool P37 Filate was convinced that ierarchal envy lay st the bottom of ChnisU's prosecution. 18. He, therefore, made scveral ineffectual ef- foris to save dlim. 19, Pilate Srally zave sentence against Iim. 20. The foltowing ceremony preceded the sen- fence: Pilate washed bis hands vefore the people, @ring. **1zm innocent of the blood of this just peron”'; the hicrarchy and people answered, ac- cepting 1he dreadful responsibility, **lis blood beon us and on our children.™ ). Jesus was now sconrged, ipvestea with o watlet rode ana a_crown of thorns, derisively ac- cepted, and immediately contemptuously disowned 25 Kine, spit upon, aud emitten. etc., etc. 22, €q the interval paseed between the sentence £ud the execution. Ex LANATION. DProphecy. ] Pulfillments. H 3 They were Those having the condemned in comie. i Calvur, churge. 'Latin for the Hebrew Golgotha, ‘meaniug & **skall,” “CrucificdBy neiling Dim 10 the Roman Him. ™ crose. Intolersbly cruel, “And theYost likely thieves or brigands, malefact ore. **One on thei**Nnmbered among the trane right hand™ ;.'rrsxfurs. "—Isu., Jish., 12, ful- tilled. 31**Then said,The last thing a mansvonld do. Jesus.” |Tatier. for-/Oh! Divine compassion! Was | “give." etc. | eversucha prayer made be- forv, and can it be repeated® “They parted See P3., xzil,, 18. The per- i i quisite of the roldiers. meut. etc. | g 35*The people Some in eadness, some curious, stood."etc. | rome in zladnese. “Theralersal-The venersble men of the 20denided”; Sanbednm. Shame! Shame. **Let Thmsave A mean and cruel taunt. Himself.™ | YVinerar.” :The eour wine of the oldiers. i Possibly a mocke: 1 Thou bedews mocked by calling him King,"ete.] **Chrst,” Romaus by calling | nim **King.” **Asuperscrip-'As usual over the head of a tion, "etc. thus doomed culprit, describ- ! hix oflense, etc. “In letters of To nccommodate all visitors 48 8 Greek, Lat-{ from all_purts of the great in.and He-; Ruman Empire, who were rew.™ | niow oresent at the Iassover. ““This §s the This the chief pricsts desired to Kinzof the] bavechanged. put unavailing- Jews.™ Iy (John, xix., 21). Pilate’s revenge, 5 “Railed on Botb thieves did at first:one re- { hw." i pented and prayed. 40“RecbukedDoubt] wuidenly converted, Thim, " like Zacheas, Paul, etc. *Cond emm-/Punishment. * 4We indeed Confession of guilt, right pre- Justly. ™ ‘paration for pardon. “But ibis “Asad know is nnocent.” A ! man,” Food witness, €Lord. re Great humility. Hehas faith in Cbrist, and crics for forgive- noss and is saved, £+ very positive prelade to a weighty #ta At once. As soon as the spirit is Withme in Paradise™ | *Sbuil thon be m of the dead with me, " ete. T 4 “The eixth 12 o'clo i _hour. i“Darhness,” Not au cclipse. for the paschal *‘Earth.” | moon was at_its fall. 3 ' sloom possibly _from clouds overthe ‘‘iand ™ or *‘earith.™ “Ninthhoar. kened. ™ y 07 the That which contained the holy i lemple was of holics ju the temple. i from natzral eshaustion, 1*I_commend **1 intrast it, commitit.™ @y **Gave up the His pirit went to God. The I|__ghos.™ i world was redecied. PCRPOSE OF TIX To fllustraze the literal ful S concerning Messiah's sufle rrp#g;ly . 6. 712, Ui “le hath 16 form nor mme\x.mu"’ s " deNo beauty that wi should dexdre Iim. ™ +He is despiad o ejected of taen. man of surrows, | OX. jment of the prophe- nzs and death. (4. 1, 30). with this B K Crucify Him, crncify Him, o & 0 “+ 3y sonl is exceeding s;fl’ _Scquzinted with sorrowful, ™ ete. *¢The people and lers derided Him.™ o “*The coldiers also **\e hid. as it were. Vfl'l‘lmcc! from Him * He wes cospised.” | e ‘mocked Him. ‘He was wounded for; ++This Man hath done O tranegressions ‘notling amiss, ™ With Tis stripes we, *~The Son of Man must Ml negdsmuifer. ope B negit foened nat T, Bt Jesus Bold Jle yasken from prison cace. 28 from judement.” **He bath CoNYTA yieted op th ourcd ont, **And yiclded up the His eout unto Beath. " ‘ghost.” fle ehall divide the” **They parted His car- ol w1t the strong. ™ menzs, cte. ““Malefuctors sre on band and one on He wes numocred b the transgressors, " 1 e left 1 B350 $abijt38 was intensely interceted here I some ime purpose. £ Tz oh); t for - Vlich Tie Hinsclf thoronzhly belleved in that fo All maniing ve i ts cen- terinz here, ind gy have infinite interests ce: m:;_,lm s _Glamld at jeast profoundly examine s whole gabject. & ite Crucitxion of Jsens was a logal marder., i Bis ket prayer was in belalf of His en The Roman soldiers were not the last tomake flt'r&cb._:rndm of Chriet's effects. Hor qhe penitent malefactar's prayer was a mod- ‘.\-cmc»s. submiseion, and drevity. " fincer cun repent in s very iast hoar. eligious prejudice destroys common hu- 1 Tatadh : Aetion 3“;‘&:;‘;‘;,5 from the redecmed but a (12 Since Jesus has died man may Jve in life 1 eternal . CHURCH AND STATE. TOPE LEO AND AMERICAN SECEET SOCIETIES. Boston Heraid. ‘The Catholic Hierarchy in America has enjoy- cd such unrestrained freedom of action, without interference of any kind from the Vatican, since Catholicism first took root in this country. and the Prelates of the Church inthe United States have aiways been considered so sagacious, intel- ligent, and judicious by the Popes and College of Cardinals, that an extraordinary flutter of excitement and no little comment were caused yesterday afternoon by the reproduction in con- densed form of a statement from the New York Catholic Hera'd sctting forth that in- structions had been recefved by the Archbislio) of Baltimore to aamonish the” clergy in North America to watch and guard against the wiles of the “Order of the American Union.”? Many lending lay-Catholics” were dumbfoundsd on reading the article in question, and hardly knew what opinion to express, while those most la- miliar with the usdzes and methoa of wovern- ment denounced the statement as false, not- withstanding it apoeared, as was alleged, in 2 Catholic orzan. The Order of the American Union has no connection with the O. U. A. M. and is of more_recent oriein, naving first been heard of promincotly during President Hayes’ first ‘year of service at the White House, when ft was charged that the Executive was a member of the Order. The extract from the Cafholic Hera'd, as repruduced in New York yesterday, was as follows: f . In the midst of all bis troubles, Pope Leo XIII. iz not nnmindful of his children in the United States. He has addressed the followng letter to the Archbishop of Baltimore: . To the Most Rererend Juraes Gibbong, Arcikbishon of Daltinore=Mo~T ILLUSTRIOTS AND MOST BEVEREXD s preme *Congregation of ihe foly Oilice on 24th uit., ook into consideraziona speech Dublished oh the Gth of May of this yearby a paper cailed the New York fAlevald, and dellvered by the Prestdent of asoclety called the Urderof the Ainerican Unfon, whiich breatlies the most deadly hatred o the Catbolé relidon, and fn which most vllainous schiemes ore gfiered for its utter extirpatien, wero sich & thing pos- W erefore, the Sacred Congregation hag ordered that a copy of the safl address be sent 1o you, with the view that by making the wmatter known your Girace might take pains. 10 admonlsh the other Tishops of North Ameriea to use all care and diifgence 10 study and fnforin themselves on the arts and scliemes of s0- cletics condemoed by the Church, esnceially of this so- calied **Order of the‘Americsn Unlon, ™ In- order thut they e more Teudily zuard the falthful fron ma thelr wiles, and. at the saime time adopt such meany as will profect the Church from any damage which Inigh resilt to her from the plots of these mplons and godlesa men. Iuthe meantime I pray God to bless and Preserve you. ficme, Trom the office of th Propagation of the Faith, this Your Grace’s most humbie wervant, : Jonx Cazp. Stigos, Prefect. THE PURPOSES OF THE ORDER. Mr. Edwin A. Cowles, President of the secret Order of the American Union, declares thut the real object of the Order is to oppose, by all law- {ul and honest means, the political power of the Church of Rome. and its encroachinents on the rights of non-Catholics, it has been charzed, says Mr. Cowles, that the object of our organi- zation is to make war upon the religious doc- trines of the Catholic Church. The great ob- ject of the 0. A. U. is to awaken the American veople to the dauger that menaces the futurcof our country by the extraordinary increase of the Catholic efement in our midsi. In1790 the num- ber of Roman Cathorics in this country was about 30,000. To-dav they number 7,500,0000ut ofa pOJl)_ulnLIon of 45,001,000, an increase of 250- fold. 'The number of non-Catholics in 17 was 3,000,000. To-day they numberagr,500,000, an inerease of le: an ten-fold, h a ratio of jncrease of ont previous to 1860, in thirty-two years from m@w the Catho- lics wilt number one-third of, our population; in forty years; two-ifths, and in ffty-two yeurs (1930) from now they will outnumber the non-Catholics. To guard against the danger arising from the numerical superiority of the Cazholics, we pro- pose to create public sentiment in favor of pro- tecting our children azainst the future domi- nation of that Church by adding an amendinent +10 our National Constitation forbidding appro- priations out of any public funds for the bene- fit of any institution under scctarian controh forhidding special lerislation for the benefit ot any one religious sect, forbidding the exemp- tion of any property from taxation, except pub- lic property, requiring all ecclesiastical prop- erty to be held by Boards of Trustees, and re- quiring all new voters to be able to read and write before exercising the elective franchise. Our Order consists ot ex-tiovernors, ex-St tors, Congressmen, elerzymen, and so on. know no nationality in oursmembership. Our revresentatives are enrolled from France, Ger- many, Ircland, Eneland, Scotland, and other nations. Our members consist of Protestants, Mebrews, free-thinkers, all - banded together to resist the encroachments of a commion enemy. OPINIONS OF CATIOLICS. ‘Within an hour atter the appesrance in print, in this city, of the dispatch anuouncing the al- leged letter from Rome, the writer called upon several prominent. Catholics and asked their opinions concerning the reported admonition of Pope Leo. The tirst gentleman, well known in the Cathedral congreaation, read the dispatch over, and, sfter atdeast a moment. of retlection, said the story was improhable, as the Pope and Holy College never interfered with American politics, and certainly, after appointing a Cardi- nal, they would thiuk it more unnecessary to de so than ever before. There must be some mistake about it, the gentleman thoughs, and the matter certainly deserved full investi- wation. _Another gentleman, who, a quar- ter of a century ago, was cven better known from his connection with the Iloly Cross Cathedral on Franklin _street than he is to-day, aud who was beloved by Bisho[) Fitzpatrick, and is'now highly estcemed and admired by Arch- bisnop Williams, was conversed with. “Iie said that the Catholic Iferaid wasa respectable pa- per, and could not have published such a state- ment. He would not believe the story until he had seen the Catholic paper, and then he sbould wait for a verification of the report, jdea of the Pope interfering with polities in ‘America was supremely ridiculous, and every Catholic knows that the Bishops and clerey gen- erally are too much engrossed in other matters to grive time and Jabor to “studying out the schiemes of sccret societles.” I anything of the kind should by any possibility be contemplated, the Bishops themselyes would look after the matter in their own dioceses without instruce- tions; but THE WIHOLE STATEMENT WAS A FABRICATION, s was the telegraphed report toa Boston paper, Just before election, that Cardinal McCloskey liad directed the clergymen of his archdiocese 10 lend their support 1o = certain_political That was a campaign dodee. The iatest story must undoubtedly have somethine behind it, and the wentleman betieved the alleged let- ter from Rome was written in this country by & member of the ormauzation referred to. and the object must be to advertise to Society. The Archbishop would lauah at so absurd and silly. a dorument, well knowing that it never ema. nated from the Pope or Collewe of Cardinals. Otiier laymen expressed similar opinions to the above; but, in_order that judgment might be obtained from as near the archiepiscopal head s possibie, a visit. was paid to 8 clereyman who is pastor of the larsest congregation and parish inthe Diocese.and who isa member of the Archbishop’s Advisory Council, After reading the printed letter he asked: ) “And this, you say, appeared in the Catholic Iferald £ “¢‘The credit is given that paper, sir,” was the Congreeation of the day of August, 1375, reply. e you can say without fear of contradic- tion. sald the,pastor, * that {t Is a forzery from beginnine to end: that L am of opinion thiat the Catholic Jerald has been badly duped, and can- pot afford to fall into such biunders as to pub- Jish spurious documents coueerning - the Church.” «aye you ever heardof the Orderof the ‘American Union?” was asked *Yes,” repilicd the clersyman, *T have heard of it. I believe it was said President Huyes was a member of it, and when he was asked aboutit ne equivocated. But, my dear sir, the Cturch docs not bother herself nbout such Jittle things except to fnstruct her children thatit is contrary fo tlie teachings of the Church toaid or coun- tenance sceret societies of any description. As for proscriptive orders like this one, there positively no necessit, for sayinza word about Tt tn any of the dioceses, and certainly not trom Rome. IT WILL DIE A NATURAL DEATI, s simiilar orders have dicd, and the less noto- riety it zets the sooner it will- expite. As for this letter. it carries the proofs of forgery on its face. You will see it is dated Aug. 22, und the matter. it is claimed, was considered 3 month rior 10 that time, or in July. four months ago. e\'hcrc hias the letier beeu since that time! How comes it that the Catho'ic Ilerald receives it before it reaches the Bishops? Then again, in a communication of that kind mention of the secular press would not_be made, and the form of the letter, in conclusion, is not in accordance with that observed in communiegtions of that description. S -nressions as ** brearhes deadly batred,” us schemes,” * utter extirpation,” *plots of impious and godiess men,” are all foreiem to the vocabulary of the Vatican, and would not be countenanced_ or tol- erated. | Commuuications sent out by Cardinal Simeoni, whom L know well, and who is a wood and pious mau, and are couched m the choicest softest cxpressions, @hd the letiers ng between the Pope and Blsmarck, the latter showed the greatest hostility to ¢h, were as mild aud inoflensive as if was thc warmest champion ol the Yes, you cai that the published let- It might have been Taigh. 3 terisa base fabrication. ) intended for usc belore the late election, and been withheld for some reason. At any rate, if it had been received at all, it would first appear io Archbishop Gibbons® orzan, the Calh- olic JMirror, of Baltimore. and, if the Cardinal received it, the Jetter wonld bave uppeared in the Catholic Te'egraph. Another word about it. A génuine letter from Rome would be addressed 10 His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, the head of the Chureh in America, [and not to Avch- bishop Gibbous, who is, comparatively, a young prelate. 1t would be an insult to tne Cardinal to iznore him and instruct [the Archbizhon of Maltimore to admonish the! Bishops of America, No, no. The lntter is a palpable forzery, and the newspaper in which it originally appeared bas been dupea.” Hiere the conversation turned on other topics, and, after a short and pleasant chat with the reverend gentleman, the visit terminated. POoPE BOB. . A HEBREW RADBI'S ESTIMATE OF THE GREAT FREE-THINKER. Cincinnatt Commerclal, Not. 1. At the Plum Street Jewish Temple last even- ing, Rabbi Wise delivered to a large-congrega- tion, in which there was an extensive sprivkling of members of Christian churches, a sermon in- tended as partial reply to Col. Inzersoll's lect- ure on the * Mistakes of Moses.” The Rebbi said: This congregation needs not this evening to pray for Col. Robert, Ingersoll’s soul, for he says Le has none, and in this instance we are bound o believe him, as he is judze, jury, and wit- ness in the case; and there may be men without souls, as there are some without conscience, others without reason, and quite a number with- out principle, The tirst man of whom the ssible says that he prayed was Abraham. lle prayed for Abimelech. But Col. Ingersoll, we suspect, is not smitten with that disease. He prayed for the wicked peosle .of Sodom and Gomorrah, to which lass beiongs no American cltizen, of course, as *Mitchell's Geography ” substantially proves. Jacob prayed when his brother Esau approactied him with an armed force; and the Colonel has come to usun- armed, and without any force except a few harm- less agents of the Boston Lecture Bureau, who take the money, show the show, and depart in ‘peace. Moses pr: ter Miriam whenshe was leprous, but Mr. Ingersoll is no womaun, and his excellent exterior betokens no leprosy, Joshua praved to make the sun and moon statid still, but Mr. Ingersoll is_neither the ereater nor’ tue lesser fight, and to thebestof our knowledge nobody wants bim to stand still at any place. Taking Eible narratives as memnrv aud oing into_research as superricially s Col. Ineersoll does, I could find no. precedent in the Bible to suit the case, and am bound to imagine this congregation meets not this evening to pray for the soul of Col. Ingersoll; it is our usual Friday-evening mecting to receive the “Bride Sabbath,” as our ancestors havealways done, al- thoush they did not understand literally the Bible narrative: 7 Speaking of imagination, it reminds me that Col. Ingersoll said he could vot imagine the istence of & frod. lmagine God! Any -profc sor of philosophy would faint if he wastold tha illomical expression. How can God be imagined? TPerhaps one ot Mr. Ingersoil’s manufuctured wrotds could be imagined in a disorderly imagina- i s only physical objects of nature or com- ions thereof could be imagiued, notl else. What kind of a @ot would that be which could be submitted to the imagination of a man without a soul? It must be the miniuture or packed edition of an idol, made by man, such as Col. Ingersoll purchases and exhibits to amuse tall babies. It must be that sort of farcicatl gods which he describes in bis burlesques. lie 15 not the first quack who would not take his own medicines, nithough he is certainly among reasoners the first who would imagine Delty, for none tries to imagine that which reason only can grasp; none will permit himself to be led | astray by imagination where pure retlection only can reach the aim. “Fhe perversion of ideas springs from a mis- take about Moses. A god or gods have been fabricated at the expense of Moses, until each little priest had his own snuz little god that could be used as the crusager’s emblem or the license of the auto-da-fe, to massacre and glut in human gore, or the frail wowman’s last resort of love, to make hencst men out of rogue: pure souls out of the dregs of hell. The eod or gods variously depicted, miscellancously described, and promiscuously applied become abjects of imayination, hence also of the farce, The mistale Is that Moses was cbarged with all the follies of theological jugelers and sopnistie- The God whom Moses taught is mphaticaily tbe God whom no man can see and live,~—the Great I An, who is the ], the Bzo, the Subject of the universe, the law, the life. the love, and the intellect of the cosmos, the Eter- nal Jehovah, essence itself and the absolute sub- €tance, in whom all things are as =1l objects ol o man’s tender love are in his soul, of whom all things came and into whom ail return. This is not a God fabricated by man, henee He could mot beimagined by man, as no man to himscli. can imagine & being superior to This s the God taught by Moses: the other guds may be subjected 1o farce and rib- aldry, while the true Deity is too sublime even for ihe pyrotechnical displays of Mr. Inirersoll’s disentangied bumor. It mis about Moses which feeds his boiler to tweedle the rusted think-apparatus of twaddles The God of Moses is too great for Mr. Ingersolls hic ouly deals in gods which can be imagined, and in speaking of mistakes of Moses he reverently passes by the God of Moses. The man is not as bad as bis reputation. I maintain that Col. Robert Inzersollis not half as bad as his reputation. The man was per- secutedl by his countrymen, was defeated in his political uspirations by church-members, and thinks the Presbyterians have doueit. Heisa man of prominent talents, belonging to the debtor class, nll vnaceount of the Presbyterians; he was _teased, persceuted, and wounded in his pride, and so he became a public lecturer. But business fs business: it one_wants to make money he must know how. ITe could imagine that people o to thecircus to sec theclown, tothe theatre to laugh over the comedian. People want tun 1o be amused, alcohot to foree the blood to the brain, to fill up the vacuum. Ile could see that earnest men who reason on principles would not t: with the masses. Aware of his own talents as a humorist and an orator, of the searcity of humorigts in this country, and the plenitide of slace, low comedy, and uncultic vated taste, he could only choose the carecr which he did choose,—a career of ribaldry, to lauch over everything holy, to sneer alike at human follies, frailtics, virtue, ang_ piety; and 45 o business man he has chosen weil,—he makes plenty of moncy and burts nobody ‘moral elfect he will never have upou anvbody, because there is no moral force in his burlesques. He is no Thomas Paine, Thomss Jefferson, no Vol- taire, Strauss, Feuerbach, or even a Ileinrich Heine, be he Jacks the research, the erudi- the systematical learning, and the moral backbone of cither of them. He will not set Rome on fire in order to sing fr his baleony the destruction ot I'roy; he Ia the fire and the torch. It is all pyrotechnical ribaldry, which sweeps aWaY Inany a consumptive snperstition and lauzhs many a prejudice ont of existence; but truth takes care of itsclf. Let the man alone; he is better thav his reputation. One thing, however, 1 cannot forgive him. 1 will put ud with the rest. 1can never forgive him that he permits himself to be peddled out, instead of wooden nutmess and wooden hams, by the Boston Lecture Burcau. Amonir all the Jumbugging institutions in this country this is the worst. It is worse than patent-medicine venders; worse than traveling quacks with Jong advertizements; worse, I sar, than book-azents and chromo-peddlers; and. in the emplatic language of Col. Robert Ingersoll, T will suy that it 1s worse- than the Presbyterian Church. Tt is o heartless, faithless, and honorless money- making institution, which docs not care a snap for anymoral princiole, aud will engage Mephis- topheles or the Archangel Gubricl, if money can Dbemade out of either. I cannot forgive any mau or womau who hires himself out to that literary brothel. This i3 my maiu objection against the very humoristic Colonel. You think, perhaps, I ought to be very angry, because the gentleman spoke of the mistakes of Moses, and ridiculed the zreat lawgiver of the Jews. Let me tell you first, anything over which You lauzh leavesno particular impression be- hind. That which roesnot through the avenues of reason or the depth of the moral sentiment in o short time bproves effectless. Scorn is a terrible weapon to achieve moment- ary success, but it is worse than worth- less after a sccond sober thought or a healthy action of the feclings. Then let me say tne theotogy of Moses is certainly be- yond the reach of Col. Ingersoll, for he is no Teasoner; he can soit, but he could not think with philosoohical minds. He never studied through vr even read any of the philosophical systems of Germany, England, or France; nor has be the ability to doit. e is no naturalist of any descrintion, has never troubled himse about any specialty thereof, ana so he talks about, maiters and things in_sencral as is the ‘American custom,whas the Germans call 1Wurst- philosoph’e, wood enongh as- jokes or for beer- house reasoni: When he speaks of thein- finite he becomes too ludicrous for snything, especially fer men of thought to make aniyinime out of it. He will mot upset the theology of Mose: Tac law of Moses is also sccured against the Colonel’s possible attacks. He will com- menve no trouvle with his Blackstone or Hugo Grotius, or the other writers on law who main- tain that all law rests upon the Mosaic lexisla- tion. Thirty-five hundred years of history and ths coramon congent of the civilized world at this end of the nineteenti century are o little too much for any man to upsct. e savs he could write a better Decalogue than Moses did, hut that is said ouly: he is Hot xoinz to do it; he will not even 2dd a category of law to the ten. Well, then, if he is ot thewan to attack successfully the theolozy or jurisprudence of Mozes, I have no cause to object to his lectures. He _ridicules Bible storics, but that concerns literaliéts only, not. us, Ifall the stories of the Pentateuch bé ridiculed, denied, or otherwise disposed of, it does not change an fota in the jurisprudgoec or theolozy of Moses. Let the literalists take up that pars; it does not concern us 50 very much. Here, again, is a point which makes me feel bad and badly disposed to the eloquent numor- ist. Why does he continualivrepeat that which others have said often betore him; why does he not bit npon something orizinal? 'He rejen old rags in new shoddy, and that is unworth a mnan who has any pride about him. Ile does sometimes worse than th beignores his op- ponents, whick no hones B tdo. He ~peaks a Iong yarn about the bistory of ereation, alwavs assuming on air of orizivality, without havine the honesty of_mentionng ¢ven Dr. J. W. Dawson’s work, * The Origin of the World,” which upsets his whole twaddle. Itis dishoriest to make people believe that a thinesaid is indis- putable, when it has been completely upset. Tte appeals to the apotheosis of labor to im- peach Moues, beeause it said in the Genesis that tiod cursed man. ** Inthe sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread!': and labor is a blessing of*man. Did all Socialists clap Hands? If not, some must Lave thonght this is the language of a demagozue, who is either a hypoerite or a seif-deluded man. Labor and hard labor are two different things, and the *‘sweat of thy bros ?? points to hard labor, which rests like a curse upon the poor man, and s the_severest punishment fmposed on the eruninal condemned to hurd Inbor. 1l talks about the ercation of woman like an ignorant man who has not the remotest idea of ihe difliculties among biologists, considering the differentiation of man and the orurin of sexes, 8o be talks about the littleness of the ark aud smites Charles Darwin in the face, insteaa of saying this proyes Darwin’s theory on the origin of species. He scorns at the God who destroved His own children and undertakes to teach the Colonel “of Peoria how he should educate his. 1t all depends upon what_kind of children one wishes tobring up. _ Usually every pareat, briog up hts own kind. God wanted to bring up God- like children, and when they would nou do it He gou themt out of the way in preference to de- stroying haman freedom or perpetusting wick- edness. If it is only to bring uo such children as Robert Ingersoll, of Peoriz, Ill, no such stringendr Is necessary. Musquashes €row spon- taneously in abundance. ‘Fhien be speaks about 600 pigeans a day for three priests, and does not Know that there were no_pizeons i wilder- ness, and the Mosaie sacrificial polityvas not in- troduced: till Josbua had takern “the Lund of Canzan, and then there were more priests than there are to-day -humorists in Americ, for Joshua gave them quite a number of cities, and 1would vot be astonished if those American humorists could eat more pigeons than tney can do roud iu this world. But what is the use to speak of the mistakes of Mosest Speak of the mistakes abous Moses. Did Moses write the Gevesis? Says Col. Inger- coll, * 1 do not know™; and he does not know several other things. Did Moses write the Tistorical portions of the Pentoteuch? Says the Illinois Colonel again, *1 donot know.” 1fhe has written all that, did the transtators and commentators which the Colonel read represent correcely the ideas of - Moseg? ou’s know,” says the Colonel. If those ¥riters do represcnt the matter corsectly, have these voints which the Colonel ridicules never been discussed and refuted? **Don’t kvow,” savs the Colonel: and decent men must not curse; still they are permitted to'say. * Why do you talk of mutters of which you know so preciously little? That is all excusable, however, in this case. The hu- morous and cloguent gentleman is out on a Jesture tor, and wants to succeed. This can be done by reckless ribaldry only. It makes no difference whezlier hell or gods, devil or Moses, Pope or Presbyternan Church—auything that will pay must’ be pressed into the service. The Colonel’s field is small, he has no great choive of subjects, and be must take the first best to ridiculeit and make it pay. He has that particular talent, and could not do the saine work in another field. Lecaunot criticise ‘Anstotle and Emanuel Kant und make it pay, Decause he cannot read tnem. Ie cannot ridicule Carlyle or Stuart Mill, because he can- not understand them. So he picks up some small storles which the children know, and dishes them up in his own humoristic way for the amugement of biw babies. 'The wan under- stunds his business to the Itell you, be is not as bad as his reputation. I bex & thousand pardonsof Col. Rubert lugersoll if I wronzed him. I did not mean to o fun of him in any way. 1 myst also beg pardon of this audience that T afd 1ot exhaust my own subject, **Mi tukes About Moses.? Lwill try to do it justice next Friduy evening. As we have not et this evening to'pray for Col. Robert Ingersoll, of Peorin, Iit., ler us close this mecting with prayer for ull good men, who are apostles of humanity, messengers of consolation from on histh to weepiug humauity, pricsts of truzh and light, conscientious guides on the path of morals and virtue. and Hke Father Abraham, Jet us pray also for the wicked people of Sodor and Gomorra, that gooduess prevail and truth trinmph forever. CORRESPONDENCE. SHALL LUKE'S WRITINGS BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BIBLE? v the Lditor of The Tribune. CirtcaGo, Nov. 80.—W—— in last Sunday’s Trisuxe ¢loses an article, which is emtitled “Luke Unreliable as a Historian,” with the fol- lowing que 4 Would it pot be wetl for those now engaged in the revision of the Bible to con- sider seriously whether the volume would not be fnproved by omitting the writings of Luke altogether?” He maintains that Luke is uoreliable as a his- torian (1) on’ account of the late origin of his writings, (2) becanse of some aleged discrepan- cies between them and certadu facts as found in Matthew, and Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians. Let us consider the ficst point. There are some inaccuracics of statement in W—s article, tending from.a merely scientific poiut of view to shake our confidence in his conclusions. L In speakine of Matthes’s Gospel as ori inal, he scen aware that many critics now botd the same view in regsrd to Mark’s Gospel, chuiming that Matehew was derived irom it. 9, IIe mentions as four writers of the first Ienating, Barnabas, Hermas, and Cle- This is an unfortunate state- writers except the century, ment oL Rome. ment, since not one ol the: last is definitely nssigned by the best crities to the first century, and even he, as willappear from the followini, shonld not have been cited by W——as Clement. but as psendo-Clement, who also belongs to the second century. 3. fle makes no distinction between Cle- ment's genuine epistic to ine Corinthians and the second gourious one when he remarks: “If Luke quotes Christ as saving u certain thing, o Cloment quotts him us sayine the syme thing, we knew not for certain whether Cle- twent takes from Luke or Luke trom Clement, or both from a conunon source.” For fu the only genuine espistle written by Clement two pussagres ocenr in which he uses expressions very similar io those in the Gospels of Mat- thew, Mark, and Luke. Tow idle it is to argue the question of the aze of the Gospels from a comrarison ol SIres appears from the fact that Evanaelical eritics do not claim the priority of the Gosprls, because sages in the Apostolic fathers resem- in the Gospels.. Since the Apostolic fathers are often inexact in their quotations from the Old Testament, and since they lived in such proxunity to persons who bad been actors in the New' Testament history, we cannot be sure, when we find coincidences ip thonght and expression -with the Evangelists, whether they are quoting from _them, or mercly from sub- stantially the same (iospel prociaimed by the preachers ot that period. 5 While the argument for the originality of the Gospels cannot_ he demonstrated with scicutifte certainty. stillthe chain of testimony is g0 strong as to render it morally certain, Tt is an intercsting fact, and one which ren- ders the comp on of those Gospels:in the carly part of the second century improbable, that tlw Apostolic fathers disclaim all original aathority, aud acknowledge their inferiority to the Apostles, especinlly to Peter and Paul. ‘Turping now to the “positive testimony as to the origin of the Gospels, the carliest witness is Papias, whio was a friend off Polscarp others dequainted with the Apostics. He wrote a commentary on the oracles of the Lord. “Marthew,? he says, * wrote the oracles in th Jrebrew tohgue. . ... Mark.astheinterpret- erof Peter, wrote down accurately, thouzh not in order, all that he remembered “that was said or done by Chirist.” - Anouber witness is Justin Martyr, who, in his writings (140—150), mentions the " ** Memoirs of the Aposties, called Gospels,” w posed ‘*hy, Ilis Aposties and their followers,” and which, he lirms, together with the proplicts, were read in the Clristian service. He furiher remarks: *1n the memoirs which, I say, were composed by the Apostles and those who followed them,” and then quotes a passage which is foand only in Luke, a follower of Paul (Dial., ., 103; Luke, xxii., +). In another place lie refers to the ** Memoirs of Peter,” which is recorded or'7 in 3 Peter's follower (Dial., c., 4063 Mark, iii., 16, 'The Muratorian Frasment, which is_assiencd ics to 170—18Y, speals of Luke as the 4 Luke, the phys! by the. third Evangelist as follows: ' Sheriff. eian. after the ascension of Christ, having been taken into his company by vuul, wrote in his oWl name to the best of his judgment.” ‘Tnese testimonies, and others which I ¢ 10 5vace to mention, are §0 strone that Tischen- dorf says that our Gospels were known and rece- oznized in all the churches mn the last decades the second century. [le also points to the us speaks with ereat fervor of the fons which he received through rp, lis teacher, of the things which be had heard from John and the ather Aposties, in re- gard to which Irenweus testities that everything agreed with the Scrivtures. - Tischendort’s inference is, in view of such tes- timonies from those who stood so nearly related to the Apostles,that our Gospels could not-have arisen in the mddic of the second centary. When we consider thut the Apostolic fathers disclaim the possession of equal authority with the Apostles, to whom they refer with the greatest deference. and the improbability that the Gospels arose in the first half of the second cencury, we can accept Tertullian’s testunony as the crystallization of that which we founa in Justin Martyr: **John and Matthew out of the number of the Apostles implant faith in us; Luke and Mark out of the number of their fol- lowers renew it.” So strong; are the arguments in favor of the origin of Luke’s Gospel in the first century that eren Keim, who belungs to the rationalistic school, dues not st the time later than 100, and Meyer, m accord with Irenieus, and ow internul grounds, says that it cannot have been written later then 70—8); and, in re- gard to the meiiuineness, he aflinms that- it is established by external witnesses without ex- ception. Certainly, so far as the origin of Luke’s Gos- pei is concerned, there is no reason for its re- Jection: and, with reference to the alleged dis- crepancies, we think we can show in another article the absurdity of W-—"s proposition which conld only .procced from a superticial survey of a few arguments on the nezative side of thequestion. SAMuEL IVES CuRTIss, JR. WILL NOT ABANDON LENTEN SERVICE. To the Editor of The Trivune. CuicAGo, Dee. 2.—A paragraph appeared in your columns some ten days ago, to the eifect that an effort was being made in the Reformed Episcopal Church to do away with the obsery- ance of Lenut. 1t was stated us a matter of fact that, ** At a recent conference of clergymen in Philadelphiy, it was decided to recomzend the policy of abandonme the service to the General Standing Committee.” Belicving that the statement had no founda- tion in fact, 1 wrote to the Rev. William New- ton, Reetor of the Church of the Covenant, Thiladelphia, askine for information, and -re- ceived m reply a letier from which the follow- ing is a quotation: Iam beyond ncasure astonished at what you tell me. The article inthe Chicago papers is w/- terly untrue. No sich meeting has 0 place. No such desire oxists, No such purpose is entez- tained. I thing that nothiug could surprise onr brethren here so much as the statement to which you refer. Every word of it is a fabrication. There is not the faintest shudow of truth whout if. The season of "Lent is far too precious to us all toallow the thonght of its abolition. Too many memories clinz around it in the past—too many sa- cred and joyous unticipations for the future. = We Tove it too well, In denying the statement. Ithink you can scarce- lyaoitin Tunzuage too strons and unqualified. Yery truly, your friend and brother. b WriLLiam NEWTO As the paragraph has gaited wide publicity through its appearanee in Tue TrimuNE, and has beéwn used to the injury of the Keformed Episcopal Church, I feel sure that you will pub- lish this denial of its truth. Very respeetfully; Cuanies EDwarD CHENEY, Bishop Reformed Eniscopal Church. SALVATION AND BANKRUITCY. To the Editor of The Trilune. Dusuque, In., Nov. 25.—Your article on “Some of the Causes of Skepticism,” iu Sun- day’s paper of 10th inst., furuished fresh thoughts for the thousands of muortats in this worla who are anxious for a religion frec from superstition. _And as a coust: reader of Tue Trisuse I hope you will continue the good work of_teaching the people their - duty iu this life. Will you please inform us how it is that, if a positive belicf in the atoaement and ou the plood of Jesus Christ i3 the only means of sal- vation, o man who has occepted all the terms of salvation can pav bis creditors less than 100 cents on the dollar, still retaining a competency out of the reach of the law? Also please expiain how it is'that women who have accepted Christ and are professed followers of a “*meek and jowly Jesus ¥ are servants to style and fashion, and are as worldiy as those that Dbave not been couserted. When the cleansing power of the blood of Christ is fully shown in those. that have accepted It, tnen ministers of the Gospel will have easy work to fill the churehes. Give us more light, Mr. TRIBONE, on the atonement. Resoectfully, - Joux FuLLER. L-~NOTES. GENER4 Die Gartenlaube, a_weekly paper published fn Germany, which opposes Christianity and is es- pectally bostile to the Roman Catiolic Chureh, nas u cireulation of 600,000. i The Peddie Institute, n Baptist Academy at Hightstown, N. J., is advertised for sale by the All the money needed to save it but £10,000 has been subscribed. It cost $150,00C. Union Park Congregational Church will be oe- cupied Christmas week by the Rer. N. A. West, who will lecture on * Six Evenings in_Europe,” with liue visual illustratious, and good music. An Italian correspondence of the Fortnightly Review, writing from Rome, says: “1f the word Protestant could be aceepied as the synonym of anti-Papal, the Italians are. at present, the most Protestant nacion in the world.” All the efforts of the Vatican to ameltorate the condition of the Roman Catholics in Foland are stated to have been unsuccessful. It is be- Jeved that the Pope will make a final and direct appeal to the Czar, and shoull this prove fruit- less his Holiness will issue an Encyelical letter denouncing the conduct of Russia to the Cutho- e world. The Standing Committee of the Protestant Tpiscopal Diocesc of Massachusctts have voted that applications for recommendations to be re- ceived as candidates for holy orders, and appli- cations for Geacon’s or priest’s orders. shall Tie over one month from the date of the meetingat which they are_received, and that notice of all stels app! shall be published in one of thie Church journals. The venerable Dr. Puscy was unable to keep * an appointment to preach at Oxford University on accoun of ill-health. Ilis sermon was read by Canon Liddon. It was a detensc of theolozy from the attacks of natural science. The sci- cnce which doces not deny God. wrote Dr. Pusey, migbt forzet Him. It would very likely ac- kuowledge Him if it were asked, bat it was so Dbusy about secondary canses that it hud not time to think about the first. In his * Apologia pro sua vita,” Father New- man says, when speaking of ihe Church of En- gland, from which he apostatized 1 have no wish ti see it overthrnwn while it Is what it i3, and while we are so small 2 body. ot for its own sake, but for the sake of the many conarezatiors to which it ministers, 1 will do noth- ing_ agamst if. While Catholics are ro weak in England it ia doing our work: and though jt does us harm in a measure, ut present the balance iz 1m our favor. The Y. M. C. A. Railway Men’s Reading- TRooms, which have been peatly fitted up und furnisked by Mr. Marvin Hughitf, General Man- ager of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, on the corner of Kiuzie and Canal streets, will be cpened with appropriate exercises, consisting of addzesses by leading Christian railway men and others, ood music, ete., on Tuesday even- inm, Dec. 10, at 8 o'clock. T. W. Harvey, President of this Asseciation, will preside. A cordial invitation is extended to all railway men in the city to be present. The Lecture Committee of the Y. M. C. A. have arranged for & eourse of frec medical lecs tures for young men (only). The first to be iven Sattrday, Dec. 14, at 8 o'clock p. m., in io\\ er Farwell Hall, by Dr. N. 8. Davis, Dean of he Faculty ot Chicago Medical College. Sub- jeet: Influence of Social Ilabits on Health and Character. Other lectures will be delivered by Drs. Jewell, Andrews, Danforth, and Hyde, ‘who have kindly consented to address the young men of our ity on popular and practical topics. Dates and subjects will be announced hercafter, Lot every younz man who sces this notice be present hiinself and invite his neighbor. A few changes in the Methodist Church sys- tem have been suewested by “*a prominent 1a; man” in the New York Methodist, a3 follow: 1. Abolish the oftice of Presiding Elder, and so fill sevéral hundred vacant pulpits and save many thousands of dollars in traveling ex- penses. 1. Elect enough ‘Bishops to zive each charge of about two Confercnces for four years. 3. Let these Bishops visit every portion of the territory assiened at least once a year, presiding at the few church trials that oceur, but spending most of the time in_preaching and butlGing up the churches in spiritual - thinss. 4. Let the Bishops be clothed with the same general pow- ers that they now posscss. As intimate ac- quaintanee with a particular portion of the worl., if joined toagencral knowledze of the whole, would not qunnt them. for wise action when assembled as a board."” Last summer the First Congregational Church, Oberlin, apoofnted a committee to in- yestizate and report ou_the running of cheese facteries on Sunday. Eleven such establish- ’ P " ments in the vicinity of Oberlin were visited. and all were fonnd to kecv at work on Suml and to be suppiicd, more or less, with miik on that day by church members. In one exse e factory was within the hearing of the worship 1 the neighboring chureh, and was in operation from 4 in the morning until 10 at night every: Sunday. In ancthier case 2 Sunday-school Su- perintendent amonz these who furnished Sunday supplics for the factory. The report of the Committee Leld that Sunday work in ciicese factoris was unnecess 3 ot view, and the Chuarch unanimously put on record 138 determinaton that it will not bereaf- ter countenance the practice in any of its mem- bers. The sugwested topics for the week of prayer beginning the New Year arc as follows: _Sun- day, Jan. 5, 13579—Scrmens: Christian Union. Monday—Thankseiving for the blessings of the Year past, sod prayer for their continuange. Tuesday—Prayer for the Church ot Christs its ministers, its growth in gruce, and its enlarae- ment. Wednesday—Christian cducation; the the young; colleges, seminarics of unday and otner schools; Christian Associations of Young Men and of Youns Wom- en. ‘Thursday—For nations; rulers and peo- ple; for peace and religions liberty in the earth. Friday—The Press; for a blessing on publishers. editors, and authors; the cause of temoerance and otiier social reforms. Saturday—Flome and forcien missions and the conversion of the world. On Sunday evesing, Jan. 12, it is sug- gested that public union mectivgs be held for prayer, praise, and. tho presentation of gie ob- jeet and work of the Evangelical Alinnce” In France thers are in all 200,000 persons under vows, exclusive of the 45,000 ecelesi- astics in receipt of pay from the State, Of men in this class there are five lemily author- ized congregutions, which have founded 115 purely religions establishments st home and 109 abroad, the fotal membersbip of the con- arcentions heing 2,418; while of unauthorized religious establishments there are 334, number- ine 7,404 members. Tw Catholic_as- soclations of men A edueation of the youn i : founded 2,450 estab- u 5 members. Then there are thirty-five diocosan ¢ ions of 3,794 members, G+ communities of 16,741 members, 602 unauthorized establishinents of 14,003 mem- bers, and 335 conzregations devoted to the education of the younyr, the number of schools under the direction of the htter being 16,438, It appears that of the 200,000 persons avove mentioned only #,300 ate men, 2od of thy the greater pact are engaged in education. Of the women, shout 40,00 are enwazed in teach- ing, while 3,000 are devoted tv pureiy religions duties, THE SUCCESSION TO CARDINAL CULLEN. ‘the Catholic feview has received from Dublin a speeial cable dispazel wiving the result of the serutiny by which, according 10 canonical uszge, the Metropolitan Chapter and pavish oriest vl Dublin setcet three for preseatation to the Fove, so that fie max seleet one .;‘uct:tswr to the late Cardinal Archbishop Cul- en. £ After the usual tormalitics the yvoting result ed in the nomiuation of the following: the M Rev. Bishop MeCabe, d'gx 48 votes: the Most Hev. Bishop Mor who received 7 votes: and the Rt.-Rev. nor Woodluck, d gns, who received 1 MeC isat present the s pointed by the chap! “ardinni’s Tifetin was Viear-General of Dublin, amd two or tilree years since was appointed- Sishop-Ausitiary to the late Cardinal, an appoistment winch did not confer the right ot succession i Coudjutor would enjoy. clerey, eujoyed the confidence of the Iate dinal Cullen, 2ud showed marked abil administrator. As 1 canonist he w: lishments with 3,21 a long tin Car- v a8 an examined on the O'Keefe trial some years ago with great distinction. Mer. Patrick ¢, Moran is at prescat Bishop of wrave. Archibishop Tro nent scholar, thecl ie_was foruerly historian, and author. Rector of the Irish Colleze in Rome, a Professor in the Propazauda, and subsequently seeretary to his kinstman, the late Cardinal Cnl Mer. Woodioek is Rector ot the UCatholie Uni- ,_a post in which he su Ged Johu v Newman. _He was formerly President of the famous Missionary Coliege or All Liallows, Heisa canon of the” Metropolitan Carhedral, and was a Viear-General ot the late Cardinal The Pope usually sclects one ~of the names thus presented 10 him, or he may pass over all of them and select sote one else, for rezsons only known to himself. It is probable that he may not do 50 nuw, for the names thus sent to him arc those of eminent and devoied servants ot the Church in Irelund. - SCARCELY PIOUS. Samson was the greatest trazedien of bis day, because in his 1ast act be brought down the house. 1t was a bald-leaded clergyman who took for his text, “ The bairs ot our head are all num- bered.” : Every man isa miserable sinner in church, but out of churchit is unsafe to say much about i, except to a small man. One reason why maore people did not zo into the ark is, that Noab neglected to advertise in the daily pape Tuere is a great moral lesson contained in this fact. Give the average American xirl her choice be- tween going to Heaven and mar inio the nobility, and sce how few charms™ Heaven has for her.— Keokuk Coustitution. The only missionary ever sent to Alaska gave the business the cold shake nssoonas he stepped ashore aud secured the oflice of Postmaster. The whole country isu’t worth three minutes’ prayiug for. When o man has a hole in the toe of one of his sovks, and is pulling on u tizht boot. and the sock works up around I instep, then it {s time to ask him his private opinion of Pantheism as an orthodox doctrine. “Mother, does God sce eversthing that’s done?” asked a little one. “Yes, my deur, everything,’”” was the reply; “but why do you ask?? “Because,” said the artless child. think that, to say the very least of it, it is very foconvenient.” A class was being examined recently in asea- beaten town of Sussex. The subject underdis- cussion was the flood. Among the first ques- tions put was, ** flow did Noah undersiand that there was szoinz to be aflood?” ¢’Cause.” shouted an urchin, “be looked at his almanae!™ «That's a stupid brure of vours, John,” said a Scotch minister to his parishi deler, who drove his merchandise from door to deor in a small cart drawn by a donkey. never see but the creature 1s bravine." “Ab, sir,” said the peat dealer, lien hearts warm when frien’s meet.” A little girl in Philadelpbia, when asked what had been hier lessor at Sunday-school, said, * It was about the ten tigers.” irars! | You “Ten tizers! can ten lepers, don’t you?” ¢ Well, anvhow was about some of the aniuals at- the zooloz- ical.” There was one importaut word in that Tesson whick: had not been explained.—Sunduy- School Limes. A clergvman’s wife had impressed apon ber little boy.the necessity of ejecting the skins of grapes, and a few davs alterward she told him the story of Jonah and the whale. is a very larue monster,” said the mother, *and he swallowed Jonab.” #Did he swallow other men, too?” asked the little boy. **Well, Isup- pose he did,” continued the mother, who was somewhat in doubt; and, while she was hesitat- inir about the continaation of the story, the boy interrupted, **And, mamma, did be spit the skins out, too" A sensatfonal preacher in Newport, R. L., an- nounced for his subject, ** tlow Jonalh Lost His Umbrella,” tl-arcrs supposed that jossibly the prophet had tbis usetal piece of personal belongings in his haud when he was tossed into the Mediterranean, aod they were anxious to know whether the whale “swallowed it or whether Jonah dropped it into the sca. Imagine their disapointment when they found that the sensationalist wanted to discuss ouly what became of -Jonal’s ronrd. Bible students will remember that this climber sudcenly grew upasa shade for Jonahand assuddenly withered: To speak of it asan umbreila is just as correct as to speak of the Newport preacher as a sensa- tionalist. PERSONALS. “The Rev. W. H. Moore nill shortly assnme the Rectorship of Trinity Episcopal Church, Au- rora. s The Rev. J. N. Hill, lately called to the Pres- byterian church of Diwight, IlL, bas entcred upon bis labors. The Rev. J. 11. Amies, of New Haven, has been appointed State azent of the Connecticut Universalist Convention. & It is stated that the Rev. J. N. Freeman kas declined the call to the Union Park Congrega- tional Church of this city. “I'he Rev. J. K. Wheeler, of Austin, avd of the Seminary, has received a call to become pastor of the Baptist Charch at Marengo. The Clarch of 8t. Matthias, Ninetcenth and 7atlace streets, bas extended a call to the B “The whale ' TRobert A. Edwards, of Hols Trinity Memorial Chapel, Twenty-second and Spruce streets, Pbil- agelphia. he Rev. Newton Perkins, of Islip, has be. ssistant to the Rev. Dr. Schenck, of St Aun's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. N. R. Touk, late Rector of Knoss- ington, bas beee consecrated a Bishop of tha Reformed lj}pi copal Churen in Engiaod. __The Rev. Dr. Georgre Thacher, formerly Pres. ident of Iowa Untversity, i3 reported to be dans erously It with dropsy at Hurtford Conn. ‘The Japaunese Minister is reported to be member and constant worshiper at_the Founr dry Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington. Alegacy of some 5300,000 'is announced oF left to the Foreign Board of the Presbyteriad Church, by Miss™ Mary A. Lapsley, of New Al- buny. Ind. The Rey. Edwand C. Bissell, missionary of the American Board at Gratz, Austris, has returned to this country to publisha new work on the Apocrapha. ‘ . Mr. Spurzeon will not perform the cercmony of marriage for uny of his chnfch members if they marry a person who is not also in member- ship with a church. Tke Rev. Frank T. Lee has closed his labors as assoctate editor of the Congreyationalist, and will return to his first fove, the pastoral wWorl, s the way may open. The Rev. Charles Howard Malcom, D. D., for many vears pastorof theSecona Baptist Churci, I. I, Is zbout to cnter the minisiry of the Prot- estant Episcopsl Church. Dean Stanley is the original Arthur, who won the heart of Tom Brown at Rusby by knecling down in the presence of a crowd of rougsh boys and saying his prayers before goiug to bed. A Hindeo sciolar, Raj Babadoor Dadora Pan- durung, has becowme a couvert to the Sweden- borgtan faith, and has publisied a book in ex- planation and detense of Swedenbore’s views. Dr. Peqtecost will _besir: a series of revival meetinesiin Dr. Goodwin's chureh, First Con- srvegatiounl, carly next month. 1t is probable that daily! meetines will be held in Fanwell Hall, A. Robertson, who was exchided by a Preshvtery from the nuioit of thie church_ai Sandwich, does not propose to sico out. Iits parishoners eliu to hi, und decline to obey the Presbyte: Mrs. Robertson has_charge of the- mission wol at Tullahasse, in the Indian Territory. In the midst of her numerons dutics, - strug- aliue with ill-health, she finds time to carry on tie work of tramslativg the Seriptures Into Crec - Dishop Paddaek, of Massachusetts, s de- el of Lis office the Rev. I ill Tor fore- of meroduction. Mr. Neill - had ones beena Baptist, und lefz the denomination b can: tl his fraudulent character was suudenty ex- posed. ‘The Rey. Edmund 8. Ffouikes, wao s beeny aopointed t t Bishop Coxe calls “the tirst smlpitin Christendom.” that of St. ary the Virgin. the Cmversity Clurch of Oxford. Ene., had a somewhat remarkable bistory. Ag s ago, the Vienrawe of St. Mary’s John Henry Newman. [n that move- man and Floulkes went over to ce remained, having Anglicanisu. 1t 1s saud, to arrest the sion of Oxfond students to ovir the el i beew 2 Roman coq CES. CHURCH S IRESBYTERIAN. i. of Willamstown, The Rev. G. L. Raymon Mase. I prezch at10:30 at the Fifth Church, coraer of fudiana avenue and Thictieth strect. | —Tne Rev. Arthar Swazey will nreach at10:43 4. m. atthe Forty-first Street” Churck, cornerot Prairleavenne. Tne Rev. J. . Walker will preach morning and cvening zt the Rempion Cburch, corner Throop and Foarteenth streets. ) —The Rev. Arthor Mitchell will preach at 10:30 4. m. at the First Church, corner ludiana avenue and Tweaty-Grst street. Evening eervice at the Railrcad Chapel, No. 715 State street. —The Rev. . Munro Gibvon will preach morn- e will preach at 10:30 m. at she Thizd Church, corner oS, ceman will preach at 10:45 a. and Su- Ly the vill preach at 10:30 . m. Park Caured, corner a.m. and . at the Fighth O of West- \Washinzton and Robey strevis, T 3 Maciausllan will preach at fae Scotch Churel, corner at10:30 a. mornine and eve prea s will preach at 10:30 2. m. Welsh Church, - corner of mon streets. LGATIONAL Tae Rev. E. hams will preach at Oak- Jand Church rloramg and evenin: he ltev. Charles Hall E ¢ preaches at Piymouth Churcn. 1n the'evening, by request, tio sermon **The Mountain Expericnces of Moses ™ will pe repeated. 5 —The Rev. G. IT. Peeke will preach morniuzr and evening at the Leavitt-Stroet Churca. e Rev. E. P. Goodwin. will preach at 10::10 a. m. and, b. in. at the First Church, cosner of West Washington and Aun streets. —The Rtev. E. D. Eaton, of Newtoa, la.. will preach at 10350, m. £l 7130 p. m. at the Union Park Church. —The Rev. C. A. Towle, Secretary of the Tili- nois Home Misstonary Society, preaches ins thany Chnreh, corner of Weat [lu- a stree cpinz sermon by the James Tompkine. Leavitt will preach at 11 a. m. Chare Mol streets, Sanday-rchool concertat 7 p. m. —The Rer. Edward D. Eaton, of Newton, fa., preaches this morning and evening at the Griva Park Chaurch, . i LRADPTIST. The Rev. Joha Peddic will preach in the First Chusch, comer of South Park zvenne and Thirty- treets at 11a. m. Tempesunce-meeti 0 p. m. :Addresscs by the Lo, E. A. imdall, aud memvers of the W —The Rev. W. W. Evert prea ond Chinrch. cosner of Morzan and West Monrue streets, a1 10:30a. m. The Rev. John Peddre will preactat 7 m. " ZTne Rev. E. Il Huivert will preach n tho er of Waskingtan nnd Paulina m. and 7:30 p. m. . Perren_ will preacis in Western 4, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:10 70D, m. ‘he Rev. 1. K. Cressy will preach in the Coventry. Street Chntch, corner of Gloomingéale road, at 10:30 2. m. and 7319 p. o, ¢, E. Hewitt will preact i the Cen- urch, corner of Lincoln and Jacksun 10:303. m. and T D. m. The Rev. R. P. Allison | preach in the North “Star Church. corner of Divislon and Sedg- 0 p. m. “The Bev. J. W. Cortis will preach 1n the Michi- 2an Avenue Church, near 'Twenty-third street, at 30 0. . and 7350 p. m. 4 K. De Baptisie will preach in_Olivet enne, near Taslor street, at11 n will preach in Gniversi- ty Pl Cl 8 ’sllncu and Ihodes avenne, 30 p. m: —The lev. £. 0. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Ciarch. No. 200 Orepard street, at 10:45 ‘2, it Clark will preach in the ar Weatworth ave- nee, at 7:80 p. m. The Rev. —The Rev. W. F. Craftsd sreached at the Michi- pan Avenue Chureh in the morning, and the Kev. Dr. iatliainson in the cvening. SIETHODIST- Dr. ‘Thomus preaches at Centenary —The Rev. ter + will preach at the Park-Avenne Church in the morning. In the even- ing the Rev. - Joszpn Wolf will speaic concerning Tife in Africa Mre, J. F. Willing wiil preach 1E5a, moa ectively, at Emmaunacl Church, cori rison and_ Paulina strects. —~The Rev. K. D. Sheppard will preach morn- ingand evening at Grace Cl coraer of North LaSzile and White streets, Ay 2 of the charch cord] !, Clendennis will preach morn- Avenue Cnuren, ing aud evens corner Thirty-ninth sireet. 4 —The Rev. 5. M. Parkhurat will preach mor- inz and evening nt the First Church, corner of Clark and Waskington strects. ~ Mornins sabject: hie American Lible Society.” Evening: **En- th - —The Rev.*J. M. Caldwell will preach morning and evening at the Western Avepue Church, corner of Moaroe 't —The Rev. Blahop Merrili will preach at 11 a. m. at the Wapash Avenue Chorch. B mon by the pastor. the Bev. A, W. Patten. —The Rev. W. 1I. Uolmes will preach at 10:50 8. n. and 7340 p. w. at the Fulton Street Church, corner of Artexian avenie. q —The Rev. Wiltiam Craven will preach at 10:30 2. m. and p..m. atthe South Halsted Street Charch, NG. 773 South Halstes street. = - —The Lev. J. 3. Caldwell will vreach morning and eveninzar the Western Avenue Church, cor- ner Monrue street. = ErISCOPAL Cathedral Free Chnrch 33. Peter and raal. cor- ner of West_Washington and Peona strects. Tae Rt.-Hev. W.. E. McLaren, Sisiiop. The Bew. J, 1L Knowles, pricst ia charge. Cndral morniuz T oro-hckmn aud Evening ser-