Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1879, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 12, 879—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 RELIGIOUS. Did Testament Stories in a . New Light. foother Foray on Eternal Punish- ment—Chureh and State.. neanonite Way of Sclecting a Hin- i ister—Yr. Schroeder’s Clurch, Chenges in the Western Province of the Order of the Jesnit Fathers. Seles aud Tersonals at Tlome and Abroad—Charch Serviees To-Day. BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS. PEOM TRE LIFE OF ADRAIAM. ot by Ralis Ligmar Adler from ihe Jetwish The Jecturer opeoed his remarks with the aatement thaty owing to the strenuous efforts of some theologians to attach importance to evury trifling fact narrated in the Bible, the real meaning and significance thereof is underesti- Faed. 1t Herodotus is considered the father of istor,sbe Bible must be considered the grand- mottes thercof. In the historical partsof the ‘Bivle, thercfore, we must look for history in all jtsehades; trifling as well as momentous fact, poble as well 85 ignuble characters. As a mirror of moral teachings, again, we must expect to ce= buman pature reficcted in the Bible—human atare with ail its attractive and repulsive feat- ares. The truer the reflection, the better is the mirror; the value of the glasscomorises the real worth of the mirror, and not the ornsmentation oftheframe. As an exposition of what the Tivte really contained, three 'illustrations are drawn from the life of Abraham. TRCE NOBILITY AND PRIESTHOOD. 1o Genesis, ch. Xiv-, 2 record is found of a war which four Kings had made azainst five other Lings. The four Kings were the conquerors. They had driven the five Kings to flight, and had csptared their wives, theirchildren, their slaves, ard sl their riches. Among the captives was Lot, the nephew of Abraham. The patriarch, having heard of the misfortune which had be- fsllen bis pephew, armed all the menat bhis ommand, 318 in number, fell upon the vic- torious srmies by pight, routed them, rescued 2l that they bad carried off, and despoiled all their own riches. From this it _becomes appar- ent of what maemitude those Kingsand their armies were. rhrec hundred and eighteen couraceous men could carry oft the spoi! of nine Kies! Now comes an impressive scene. The Kiog of Sodom comes to mect the congueror. He presents a petition which shows that in ine milder seotiments ot the heart human pature Temains always the same. *“ Keep all we treasures,” the King says to Abra- hsm, “but restore the souls to me. We are satisfied tolive in poverty, if we only have our wives and our children around us.” “While he speaks tnere appears the stately figure of Melehizedek, the King of Salem (probably the sity which was calied Jerusalem at a later pe- apriestof the highest god. The “high- ‘fmplies that there were other ods of less importance under him. \vhat does this divine want? Has he come to plead for the captives; 1o sustsin the Kine of Sodom in his petition? Behold. he has brought bread snd wine with him! To refrech the poor wumen and children who haa sustaiued the terrors of war and cap- tivity? Nothing of the kind. He offers the re- freshment to the conqueror, who had, probably, ‘more than enough without that, and In grandit- oquent langusge he biesses him. A priest in e true seuse of the word! Not 2 word in behalf of the suffering and the supolicants: 0t @ morsel for the famishing; but presents #nd blessings for the {‘ros{:rous‘. Abraham koew him at once: he koew the object of his presentation. He gave him his tithes and. did not lose a word with nim. _To the suppliant .. King of Sodum the patriarch says with true nobility: *I shall not take even a thread: or si:ow-litch from all that is thine, lest. thou say that Aprabam beeame rich from spoil.”? Thus be speaks to him empbaueally in the name of tne One God who 15 the Most Hi The theo- logians who make great thines of Melchizedek are welcome 10 have him, if such is their ideal of a_priest. The Talmuaists have said tbat Melchizedek was Shem, the son of Noab. We can hardly conceive.how Shem lived such 2 long time, about 500 years, without improving in his pri calline. Bot that dielchizedek was 2 Jong-lived individual is very probable; . since we meet bim even at the present time, in_the same office and capavity, in mavy a church and on many an errand 10 the mighty and atiuewn:. ‘The second illustration represents the first record of A REAL ESTATE TRANSACTION. The place was not an oflice in LaSalle street, but it was the province of Cheth. Abraham necded & piece of ground, and was willing to pay for it cash down. But it was not ko easy a matter to mske such a transaction jn those times. fnstead of moing to the proprietor di- rectly, Abrabam had first to apoly to the As- sembly of the State. With all sorts of zenu- flections, and_fine-spun phrases hic broached the subject that he nceded a piece of ground, and then them to intercede in his behalf with Epbron, that he should let nim have the Jot which be éesired most. Cowmplimentary re- marks, high-sounding phrases, bows aud ad- dresses were made on either side, ana all that, jnopen State Assembly. The matier was a mere money transaction, but all this play was necessary before it came to the point. - At last 1he price was named, and Abrabam had toceash ouland. and paid out 400 shekels of silver, all in mood coivs, “vot a_single trade-dollar in the Jor."* The Bible mnarrates the atary in all jts simplicity, for it was the castom of those times to inakce somuch adoabout these affairs. In our time we could hardly appreciate such a way of doing business. We are iully alive to the necessity ot cominon politeness on the part of both the purchaser and the sclier. But 10 carry on the politeness to such a degree souid be too much of 2 good thing for us. The third illustration represented COURTING BY PROXY. It was time jor Isaac to get married, and his {ather took charge of the matter in his own fashion. Abrahem called his servant and order- ed him to 20 to Haran to procure a wife for his s0n [saac. He made him swear that he would Dot take a girl of the daughters of the land, With whose virtues and mianners the patriarch Was oot pleased. “To mv native lzod, and to 1y old fawnily and race, shalt thou 50 10 get a wife for my son Isaze from thence ™ thus Abra- Lam charged bis servant. * And if the Wwoman will not consent to come hither with me, shall I Take Isase o her place’” asked the servant. By no means,” answered the patriarch, *“my £on isaac shatl 0ot go to another place. Bat the Lternal will be gracious to canse thee to find 3 sulmh‘le match and to bring the bride to this Place ‘The trusty servant must have laughed dunerly at the' simplicity of his master. Piety aud relisnce on Providence is a zood thing, but :man cea hardiy be called practical 1f ne relies hn that alone for snceees in_matrimony. ~Abra- &m Was what we would call **a greenhorn ™ in - trezard, Eliezer, however, knew the world edmr tua his master. He went out and Joad- o ten camels with the nichest treasures of his & Bster and therewith be repaired oo his jour- e, , Waen he came to Haran and met thé pirl » mcga would mzke a suitable party for lsaac, ue first thing he did was to bestow on her ele- Eant presents, He koew well thai by such fi.’““s 2ocess 5 gained to a woman’s beart. ) OWSN’s Weakuess is always the sawe. A gold chain will fetter tier, wold bracelets will hand- cull her. .When Eliezer came before Rebeeea’s rents to ask for her band in_behalf of Isaac, - \C pursucd the samie policy. He began by tell- iog them how rich Lis- master was, and that sz was his only heir. He probably ;flned that ‘there was no mother-jn-law % toe house. Then he broached th¢ subject of bis mjssion. His tactics succeeded. No Questions were' asked about the bridezroom’s DPerson or merits. With such riches as he dis- Dlased every fault can be covered. lssac might have been biind, or deaf, or crippled, with the Forst possible disposition, but _be was the only mur ©Of 3 rich ‘man and conseguently a good awh. Rebecea’s parents consented at once £ive her away, Did she, perbaps, make any Mquiries concerning the bridegroom? Not at 2ll. When asked whether she would go along Vith Eliezer 1o get married to Isaac, she an- 3"90- 1 ghall go.” OQur young ladies.act most-in the same mauver! Goid, jewelry, racelets, riehes, stand forewmost in their matri- énumal thoughts. In view of this, it is an un- ed reproach which is made to our young men thay they devote all their time and_emer- fl“ 1o the sccumulation of riches, and that fipey devote themselves so little to culture, re- ilemeut, and noble pursuits of life. What Young lady would iend an ear to a suitor whose :‘llhus cousisied of a good farm; whose indus- TY w35 devoted to_the cultivation of the foil, eud who would offer Lertbe guiet life and domestic happiness of a solid farmer, with the | Drozpect, perhaps, of apastime in the shape of milking a cow nud of tending to & garden? She vn:l!d laugh fu his face for making such an CHURCH AND STATE. GEN. GRANT AND TIE CORKONIANS. s To the Editor of The Tribune. * Emicaco, Jan. 8.—When tne Corkonians 1n- su!t_gfl Gen. Grant for sentiments expressed in this. country in favor of the separation of Church and State, they were no more than true to their religious training and the traditions of The Mother Church, and I haverespect for their candor. To bea Roman Catholic one must be in favor of subordinuting the Statc 1o the Church, Its head makes no sceret of his claim to universal supremacy, and, in this age of hy- pocrisy and sham, his frankoess and eaudor are a standing reproof to the hollow mockery of vain pretenses and false names by which men and pations 50 often cover their real objects. ‘The Pope believes he has a Divine commission for governiug the world, and boldly proclaims it. He thinks heis entitled to universal and un- questioning obedience, and he frankly de- mauds it. True, he sometimes seems to compromise, or capitulate; but it is only as a temporary expe- dient,—a cautious retreat to insure a final vie- tory,—and the Corkounians but illustrate the true'poliey aud position of the Chureh. Nor can we imagive that their conduct was a mere ebuliition o1 bigotry on the part of the ienorant masses. They do not read political speeches made in the United States. Few of them read at all; and as their inlormation comes through the priesthood, it must be thag, in Cork, they 1cel strong enough to lay aside that prudence which governs the sons of the Church in places where there is a large element of Protestautism. ‘The occasion is pood for caliiug aticntion to that separation of Churen and State which these forewrners deprecate; and a close look shows that it is all a shaw. In the State of New York millions have been appropriated to the support of Catholic schools. In Minnesota they are supported out of the general tax fund, while they use text-books prepared by priests in Aus- trig, aud directly intended to ‘sap the founda- tions of Republicanism. Our whole common- school system is rapidly passing into the hands of the Roman Church. Protest- amsm is excluded as scctarian, while YPopery is steadily and steatbily taking - possession, -und our peovle fold tbeiw hands and congrarulats tnemsclves on anti-sectarian laws which are as much a dead letter, on our staiute-books, as if they had never been writen. We refer to Graut’s DesMoines speech, as if that settled ibe question, while tensot thou- sands of Roman Catholic school oflicers aund teachers are using our school fund for the propazation of Romauism as against Repub- licanism. But our school taxes are not the only public moneys diverted to sectarian purposes; for all our taxes are levied with 2 yiew to the support of the Church; not ouly of the Roman Churen, but of every other Church. Other countries levy taxes to support some one denomination; but the United States taxes all ner citizens for the benefit of every church, and thus fosters that reckless extravagance which has plunged the whole Protestanism of the country into ruinous debt. That Catholicism is not in the same condif is owing to its unlimited power of taxing wmembers_and -its unexampled sdroituess in spoiling the Philistines; but our system of in- direct tithes and relizious taxation 1s rapidly re- ducing us o the condition of those Cathalic countries whose gorreous cathedrals look down upou upon the mud-pouses of the people. Al- readv our towering church edifices mock at the crowded, squalid dwellings of the poor, aud the man who is struggling to keep a thin, pine cot- tage as a sheiter for himself and cluldren must pay a rainous tsx on his home, that cut-stone towers und stained-glass windows may look down on his strugzies and his poverty. Church and Stare will never be divided while the Church refuscs to bear her share of the commou burden. I know it is areued that the Church repays the State by waking men better citizens, but this is an open question. Dozs the Roman Church make her members better citizens than they would be withous her labors? I think not! We have no evidence that the members of that Church are worse, by pature, than other people; yet they supply a very disproportivned number of.crimioals and paupers. We have no reason to suppose that the Cathalics of .New York would have .ivaugurated- the great riots of the War if they had not been” CatEalics, ‘or that those of Pittsburz would bave burned the railroad property if they bad been memnbers of any- other church or “of no church. That enmity to Repuulicanism shown by the Cork- ouians; in their insult to Gen. Graut, crops out in all our great riots, in our Mollie Maguire murders, and geperal enmity to law and order shown by our foreizn Catlolic population. But the Catholic Church 15 not zlove o its failure to render service to the State for the eubstantial benefits received. Every church which teaches that faith in a creed, and the observance gof formalas is of more impor- tance than that mworality in_which alone the State is conceraed, is guilty of fraud! It takes national aid without giving an equivalent, and every geod citizen should demand that all such churches pay their full share of taxes. s JANE GREY SWISSOELM. HELL OR HOPE? ANT-ETERNAL PONISHMENT. To the Editor of The Tribuns. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.~It would scem to indicate something more than a mere coincidence that the discussion involved in the “burning ques- tion?’ as to tbe limit or eternity of future punishment should be contemporaneous with the wide-spresd and ever-inuieasing antipatby to what is at present gewerally recognized as the extreme penalty of human law—capital punishment. If only a coincidence, it has been continuous, for the more hopeful view of life beyond the grave for all mankind bas grown and kept pace with morc merciful idess of ‘human justice. Time was, and not so Iong azo, when men, aye, and Women, were brutallv stranzled, with all the paraphiernalia of a public execution, for uffeuses that we now punish only with tempo- Tory imprisonment,—for_forgery, for highway robbery, for burgiary. Even so recently as the carly part of the present century, they were in Eogland condemned to a cruel aud ienominious death for the most paltry theft, forced to the offense, perhaps, by the cry of their starving, suffering children. ‘fne man who, in those days, had dared to advocate the abolition of capital punishment for such trivial offenses would have been regarded as 2 mad cnthusiast, a fool,—mavhap indicted for treason to the time-honored institutions of his councry. Such prorress has the world made io this regard, and such greater progress will the world vet muke in moderating this ferocious creed of future punishment; unil the fanatical belief in 2 material and eternal heil will be torgotien, or remembered only as ove among the fonies, the supcrstitiuns, and the priestly bugbears of the past.. The Pilgrim Fatbers, that little band of men who banisued themseives from their country and their homes to escape religious persecuiion and obtain religious trecdom of thought, when left to themselyes <eveloped into the most fapatieal and bigoted of religious enthusiasts. The history of tac early Puritans is sullied and blackened by the comuwission of crimes and _ cruelties that can never be effaced by all their godliness of e and uprightness of character; crimes aud_cruelties that were lent an additional and blasphemous horror from their peing comnitted in the name and for the cause of Christ, wie blessed Redeenier, the ten- der, pityine Savior! Those were the days, the 2ood old _times, when eternal damnation was thundered from the pulpits of tne Protestant world, when the man of God, clothed in funereal arb, ana_bearing on his features the soabre fspress of the spiritual executioner, oreached living flames, scorching fires. aud all the horrors of a material and everlasting bell to theshirl ing, awe-stricken crowd of wretches who cowered beneath bis fierce denunciations. No word of mercy or forgiveness ever fell from bis lips uo- less when uttered in counjunction with 2 threat of direct venreance as zn alternative. Nowon- der a people taueht to believe in a persecuting aud relentless God should learnto persecute one another. A But, thaok God, education and true religion, twin-workers for the common good, are fast dispersing the dark clouas of error and super- stition that fanaticism and priestersfc had spread over the world. Man, madein God’s own im- age, is arousing from hislong torpor; he is slow- 1y learning to use his God-miven intellect, that intellect so’long held in thralldom by priestly threats, by priestly chains and whips, and with its aid he discerns, though as yet but dimiy, “gs through a glass, darkly,” the first faint glimmeriur intimations of God’s_own glorious plan of salvation, 3 plan sweeping, universal, and exceeding fufinitely our highest and most exalted conception of ‘divine merey and com- passion,—a plan that will utterly confound the “arrozant and pretentious assumpiious of all the furious bigots and fanatical zealots that ever cursed the fair earth. Those who have rang® themselves on the side of thedark and pitiless dogma of the eternity of future wo, as opposed tosa more merciful view of divine justice, endeavor to intrench themselves behind the Scriptures, declaring thag its teachings are what they -ound this belief upon. But here is where they fail. It is not uvon the word of God, as it came from Him, tbnc they ground thelr be- lief, but upon man’s biased and fallible transla- tlon of that word, and atterwards upon their own still more blased and yet more fallible Interpretation of that translation. It wonld he pedantic and altogether uscless to enter into a newspaper discussion 25 to the literal meaning of certain words or phrases in the orizinal text, The most arcent of these hell-defenders will not pretend that the men who eaveus our bresent Eugtish version of the Bible were di- Yinely fnspired, and not beiug so they were liable to fall into error,no better prool of which could be adduced: than the fact that our present version 1s even at this moment being subjected to correction and revision. ‘The mafu motive that fnspires the great body of the clersy in clinging to their pet theory of Hell wouldseem to be 4 settled conviction that men will not accept Christianity nor cuter the Church unless the one 1s placed upon them, and they are driven into the otoer by the tareat of cternal punishment. The clergy fear that, with- out the prospect of possible future and eternal wo before their minds, men would give them- selves over entirely to the carmal pleasures of this world, Nor is this fear on their part entire- Iy unselfish, for if men were thus to dritt into worldliness and forsake the Church entircly, the occupation of preachers and ministers of the Gospel'would be gone. But is it right 10 thus assume that man can be converted to God and truth and led to ac- cept Christ and_His atonement with the in- definite peace and bappiness that this implies, only through the influcnce of deadly fear! Or to assume that fear should even bea factor in that couversion ~ud acceptance? Man is given what seems to 1 ., weak and fallen nature a well- nigh impossible task to perform. *The ‘spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak,” and his pas- sions, those pussions that_arc woven into his very being, are overwhelmingly strong. Yet these ascetic teachers would baye him beheve that his Creator, that Creator who knows and is responsible for the weakness of his nature and the strength of his passions, ‘virtually says to bim, § Perform this impossible task, perform it despite all the pitfalls and temptations you are now ignorant of, but that I, in My All-Sce- ing Wisdom, well know will- beset your pathj but perform it to tue letter, or hopeless and everlasting torments will be vour portion.” Suppose an_earthly master were to give his servant a task to perform which master and servant alike knew to be impossible, aud at the time the servant wasinformed that the only alternative to the performance of the task was death. Would that man' be likely to_enter cheerfully and willingly uvon his task? Would he viot rather sfuk ioto the dull apathy of de- sDair, aud would not his tortured soul rise up in dark and perilous rebellion sgainst so cruel and mereiless a task-master? And would not his despair be deey.er, or would. his rebellious heart be soothed, if his tyrant were to.come to him ity his misery, and tell him mockinglv that, il hedid succeed in performing this task, he should bave his freedom, and jovs'and happiness infinitely surpassing all he had ever conceived or dreamed of; and yet, in the same breath, telling him of the utter hopelessness® of the attainment of such bliss, but assuring him of " the aw!ful cer- tainty of his doom? Coivard fear and numbing despair are potent influences for evil, and nothiug eise,. The bright sun of hope aud the * gentle rain’’ of mercy never yet failed in stirring into life the seeds of goodness and of virtue that God has sown in every human breast. That' father who teaches his little child from earliest infancy that to do right because it is right is the only true path to peace and happiness,~that father, should he live, will see his ooy reach a gentler and a no- bler manhood thun' the man who makes his son do his will only because it is his will, aud only with the- fear of punishment. for disobedience before his eves. Ana if sthe at best but - erring wisdom of an earthly father should find thé gentle method the wiser to pursue, how much more gentle, how much more merciful, must ba the character of that Heavenly Father from whose infinite wis- dom all carthly wisdom derives only a tafut, an imperfect mold! The more enlightened, the wiser teachers of religion are discitssiug this. Future punishment rarety if ever furnishes them with a theme for discourse. God’s Word is too full of Dbrizht and glorious promises. Chris- tianity Is too ereat a boon to o world suflering from the effects of its own sinfuluess to require threats to stimulate inquiry into the former as ta induce men to accept the latter. Let us no longer either Kuger in the chilling atmosphere of doubt or beneath the dark clouds of fear and despair, but let us emerge at once into the bright, glorious sunshine of Iuiljllx and OPE. THE MENNONITES. CALLING 4 MINISTEL. The Christtan at Work. ‘The Mennonite ministers arc chosen by Iot, and then formally ordained by laying on of hands and prayer. They conscientiously.abstain from specfal preparation for auy given service, believing that as Goa bas called them into the ministry of His Word, it will be given them whac to speak in his name when the time comes. This is justified by reterence to these word ke mo thought, therefore, what ye shall say,” etc. The method of choosing ministers may be understdod from what recently occurred in Rockinzham - County, Virginia. Two minis- ters having died, it was.believed to be God’s will thejr places should be filled soon as pos- sible, At the call of the Bishop the entire con- gregation met for the purpose of proposing suitable names. ‘The meeting was opened with prayer, and the first of Acts was read and com- mented upon. Then followed a scason of eilence, during which time each person was counselled to heed the promptings of the Spirit, and to announce whatever name any one mght feel constrained to regard as a verson fit to minister in holy things.” Sixteen bretbren werc nowminated, as was believed, by the suzgestion of “the Spirit. A weel was allowed the nominces to reflect upon the question of duty, during which time tnefr minds were to "he setticd as to whether they would allow their names t6 be put into the lot on the following Sabbath. It so happened that all consented to go into the when the congregation met again. At the re- uest of the President, sixteen copics of the New Testament, unitform in size and binding, were counted out and placed in the hands o! two ministers, who retired with them into the vestry. A slip of paper was put into two of the volumes. . The books were laid upon the table promiscuously, aud left there while these two ministers . sliould return to their places in the church. The president directed two other min- isters to go aud bring the books in. ‘These went at onceinto the vestry, and having shuf- fled. so to speals, the copies of the New Te ment, they qarricd them into the church, and St them Up in 2 oW, upon a long table in front of the stand. The sixteen books being duly ar- ranged, aud the candidates placed néar them, prayer was offered that the Head of the Chureh would show which two of thesc sixieen brethren, who had been duly separated by the guidanc of the Spirit, should be valled into the niinistry of His word aud power. Prayer ended, each of the candidates arese in order, and took a book. And when all had taken a book, the next thing was to se¢ who had the lot. While the books arc being examincd, the aterest auvd suspense are ost painful to witness. The brethren who find the lot in their books are somctimes overcome by an overpowering sense of the solemn duties laid upon them. Others azain seem greatly pleased with the call to preach. The chosen ones are ordained on the spot, and from that moment they are regarded as the authorized messcnzers of Christ, to Wit~ ness for Him 1n the preseace of the people. ‘These are esteemed the God-made preachers, and they can draw the largest audicnces that regulariy assemble for woramlv in this part of the_valley. - The most distinguisbed *man- made minister,’ 5o cailed, would be in danger of findine himeelf totally edipsed were he to preach the same day and lour anywhere in reach of one of these preachers, who has had to work under consideration for only two weeis, and bad taken po thought in the imeauwhile what to speak. Such ministers merely profess to give to the people as God may see fit to give to them. ‘Menuonites never criticise their preachers. Tue 1ead of thie Church is held' resposibie for the preaching, and your correspondent feels like saying that in this way Jesus is held responsible for a great deal of very weak preaching. THE JESUIT FATHERS. RECENT CHANGES MADE IN THE WESTERN PROV- INCE OF THE ORDER. 1. Louls Globe-Demacrat, Dac. 10, The Rev. E. Higeins, S. J., who, up to sbout four years azo, was President of the St. Louis University, corner of Ninth street and Washing- ton avenue, and who then was changed to Cincin- Dati to oceupy & similar position in St. Francis Xavier’s College in that city, returned here yes- terday to fill the vacancy oveasioned by the call- ing away of tlie Rev. Thomas O'Neill. . Father Higeins’ new labors consist in seeing to the ¢ spiritual as well as to the temporal welfare of the Jesuits’ Western Province of Missouri. Be- yond this, Father Higgins, who was visited last evening by a Globe-Democrat reporter, said it was unnecessary for the public to know. The change concerns only himself and the. Order of which he is an officer. Several chanees have lately been made smong the Jesuits stationed in the Western country, afl at the direction of the Genmeral of the Order, who is forced to take uoa temporary residence in m&vldnity of Florence, Italy, but -8 whose real headquarters iS Rome, ‘whence the Jesmts, with other religious order, have been banished for some time. Father Higens was patticuiar in emphasizing this latter fact, and it 13 for this reason the information, a matter of common _history, is repeated here:” The new provincial will have his permauent residence in Sr. Louis, the central station 1or the Jesuits of the Western couniry, and has elready assumed the duties of his position. “The order, it 1s well Lnown, is the most powerful ove in the Catholie Church, wicldinga_great deal of iutiuence and growing with steady vace in this country. In Missouri_alone it has numerous missions, be- sides having two large churches heréin this eity, and an extensive novitiate near Florissant, where younz men are traiped =nd educated to ihe profession. Father Higains'jurisdiction cov- ers the cntire Western Province, embracicg the States of Ohio, Illinois, Michizan, Wiscon- stn, Nebraska, sad Missouri,—embracing jn all an entire membership of 33) priests, Professors, and lay brothers, it ch classes the Order is subdivided. In Obio they have oue church and colleze in Cincinnati, With & community of about forty members; in Michiean they have 2 chureh and new colleze in Detrolt, ¢mploy- ing twelve priests and Professors; in Illinois, Chicago has iwo churches uhd ome college, with a membership of about fifty; in Wisc sin there are two chirches, one built recen and a residence in which there are fourt members; in Nebraska rhey haye the Creighton College, just started at Omaba; aud which was cudowed by and named utter Edward Creigo. ton, where live Professors and priests are found suflicient; while inKansas there 18 the cele- brated St. Mary’s Mission, comprising a church and colleze having over 100 boarders and a commuvity of tweoty members, and the Osage Migsion, an academy for bovs, Where the com- munity is about of the same strenzth as that of St. Mary’s. "The Order 1 Missouri numbers some fifty members, most of Whora are at the college, corner of Ninth street and Washinston avenue; some few are av the several missions in the interior of the State, and the remainder at the St. Stanisiaus Seniinery, or Norvitinte, near Florissant. This institution is a remarica- ble one in many respects, and its_duily routine of life is capable ot furnishing food for much astonishment to those who are unacquainted with the modes of life of the Jesuit “Father, The institution now holds iu the beighborhood of forty students, who have devoted their lives to study and religion. They enter the place at an age when other young men arc going out into the world to bitild up reputations and for- tuncs for themsclves, with the stérn and unin- viting fact staving them in the face that it will be years, many long years, before they can attdin the sammit” of their ambition. They must, on entering, have - alreagy nc- quired the knowledge - which a colleae graduate possesses, and . be ready to take hold ‘of higher studies. . The first two years of their stay is devoted to virorous discipline, the severity of which is calculuted to wean them from all hope that the life they are seeking is 10 be a gilded or luxurious oue, and the other two years, while of almost equally un- relenting and untiring discipline and study, are intended to prepars them for still harder aud more undesirable Inbor, for when they have completed the course of study desienated at the St. Stanislaus Seminary they are onfy on the threshold of their real studies. They ‘are then sent to Wooastock Cotiege, near Baftimore, Md., from which justitution the: provinces of the United States receive their reinforcements. Woodstock Colleze is the qeneral supply depot for Jesuit fatbers in this country; here they finish their ante-ordination studies, and it is hence they! are anointed into théir chosen pro- fesston. The number priested each year daes not exceed more than a dozen, but hesides these there are many received from - European seminaries, whither they have beensent by their respective colleges. At Woodstock the course embraces seven years of conlinuous applica- tion, the first three of Which.are devoted to the study of philosophy and the other four to theology. ‘Thus it will be seen that the young man of 16, who starts in at Florissunt to become a Jesuit, has actually eleyen. yeats of a noviate before him, and frequently the novices are much 0n- A3 _older. 'There is a general imprassion existing among the publicthat a man. cannot become o Jesuit priest under the age of 28, but there is no law of the vrder establishing such a coutin- ey; still it is nevertbeless a fact that few ever become priests under 30, aug the majority are maay years in advance of this jige when they are admitted. ‘The average attendance at Wood- stood College is about 120.: The Missouri or Western is only one of the provinces of the Jesuit. The Eastern Province comprises nearly all of the Eastern States, and besides this there are what are known missions, where the Order is in existence, but pot-in _sufficient strength to be selt-supporting: New York is.. embraced in. thc . Caneda . mission, which forms part of the Frenchi.Province. In the South;the New Qrleans Misdlon also belongs, to France, and in the, extibmo West Culifornin Mission is ' uudér the-jurisdiction of the Provincial of Italy. The Eastern Province was formerly an English Mission, but was made independent in the_carly years of the present century, and the Western Proviuce, whicl was one of the Belrian Missions, was clevated to .ita present dignity in 1862, The missions named will also become independent as soon as they show the zbility to support themselves, and even as it is, although they are mainly supplied with priests from the prov- vinces to which they respectively belong, novitiates have already becn established in some places, and it will not take very long tor them to stalke off the supervision of themother colleges. ‘There arc at present about 1,000 Jes- uites io the United Statesand Cauada, of which, a5 bas been stated above, Fatber Higeins has jurisdiction ana direction of 880. Ifanything is meunt in the oresent chanee, either to strength- en the columns of the Order in the West or io ush 2 more vigorous policy in tkis direction, Fatier Higgins ueither intimated it mor. sug- geated any reason for the remotest surmise. THE MILLENNIUM. SCHROEDER GETS UP A CHURCIL New York Sun. Fewer than twenty persons went to Science Hall yesterday morning in responseto a circular containing the following : Beheving that the time has come to establish the Aillennial Church of the Lord, founded upon mu- tual co-operation in brotherly love, and umon in Christ Jexus, peace and good will to all mankind, Jove and wisdom to reiga instead of selfishness, op- pression, and brutality, I call ull men who love God, and such who have a desire to know Him, from Whom cometh all ggod, o join ue. Relizion und science, Church and State, capital and labor must be 50 united as to work barmoniously for the benefit of the whole humun family. We are all brothers and sisters in one common Fatherbood of God. HENRY SCUROEDER. Mr. Schroeder is a German Professor of Music, of very slight figure. Deep-set, bright black eyes lignt up his sallow features.. His lead is bald, and he wears a long beard. A much-worn dress-coat Wwus buttoned closely about him to guard against the freezine tem- perature of the room. He suys that he bas had marvelous experiences. The Protestant faith of his earlier years was shaken by a study of Tom Paine and Voltaire. Pursuing in this con- nection & course of scientific reading, he soon established himself as an advocate of what hie called Natural Religion, recognizinz no God except nature. After ofew yeurs he became dissatisfied with this faith, and, impelled by o Tonging for the belief of his childhood, began to study the Bible. He was able to accet it ali, except the miracles described in the New Testa- ment. These he nclosed in peneil marks, and read agaln and aeain, in the hope of seeing them in a new and clearer light. 11¢ beeame morccon- fused than ever, and, despairing of solviug the ‘provlem himself, prayed 1or solne supernatural munifestation to convince bini. Every evéning, after dismissioe Dis class i music, he sat up until after midpight reading the doubtful pas- sages-and repeating lis_prayer. As the clock struck 12, oue night in June, 1875, he says, he gp'f vondering over these marked verses of his ible. “If a miracle be possible, Wwill God makeit known to me?” he exclaimed, torowing down his book. Three distinet knocks, Le avers, were -made upon tbie cover of the -Bible befure him. He read on until he came to snother account of 8 miracie, when the three knocks were repeated. In this way his Joubts were dispelled convern- ing every passaze; be accepted their truth and joined 2~ Congressional_church. Yet he again became doubtful, thinking that he had yielded 100 esstly to wnat mizht have been only the product of a nervous imaination. Remember- 10g that be had received answers to his prayers only after a liard day’s toil, when be was weary and excited, he praved gain that he might re ceive tations while in fall strength of body and mind. As he arose from bed the nextmora- ing an unseen power scized bis arm and swung it apidly to and fro .with frresistible force. When his arm was partly released he tooka penzil in his fingers and-beld his land over a table. Immediately his band -was moved up and down o that he lost control of it. . Seizing his right wrist with ms left hand, he forced it.to toe table, expecting that the mysierious power would explan itself, Jike Planchet, through writine. He was not disappointed, for the pen- cil mided smootbly over the paper, leaving be- hind it_the word *Hail.” 'On the following Good Friday he went to an_Episcopal church, knowing that there was BO service an his. own. Before the ciose of the exercises he decided to go home, spd reached down to the floor for his hat. As he did so he was thrust forward by an junseen hand ond held i a kneeling posture. | At thesame time a loud volce proriauned threo times the name of ¢ Hen- ry Schroeder.” Nearly paralyzed with terror, he looked around, expecting to £ce, the entire coneregation upon its feet in excitement. Every- thing was quiet, and the folks were worship~ ing us if nothing had happened. Noone seem- «d 10 have heard the utterance, and 1o oue who could have known his name was in siznc. Mr. Schroeder says that be natarally shrank from a public life, but dered not disobey a call of such’ wondrous power. His first work was a course of lectures ou Spiritualism to small au- diences m a room on Forty-sccond street. ‘Then he auswercd Bob Inwérsoll in Cooper Institute. Since that be has devoted his attention to an investization of the religions of to-day, and has decided that no onc of them is calculuted to meet the present needs of mankiod. e prayed long and earnestly for kuowledze sufficient to found the much needed chirch. The Millenmal Chureh is to extend its doe- trines to the working classes, among. whom the Proleszor 1s particularly ansious to labor. His aimn is to convert the Socialists, whose doctrines of common property he regards as sound, ex- ceot that he would have them bascd upou the Bible. By some method, not set fully decided upon, hs ‘would have a gradual distribution of all property, and cites the law of Moses, by which he-saysall debts were canceled and all goods and lands were apportioned once in seven years. ‘This yesult must be brougzht about graduatly and without violence to the peaceful teachings of the Seriptures. Courch and State are to be united, and the Church is to be repre- sented in Congress, so that no law opposed to the spirit of the Bible can be passcd. He would have the country divided into districts, cach one of which would have a church. The heads of the church would represent their districts in Congress. In the progress of time our present political Coneress would be changed to an ec- clesiastical one. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. A new mission has been established by the. Coventry Strect and North Star Churches in Aurora Turner Hall, on Milwaukee avenue. ‘The remarkable religivus movement in Tin- nevelly, Tndia, which has added 22,000 converts to Christianity so long ago as last summer, con- tinues. Messrs. Pentecosty and Stebbins will com- mence their labors in this city on the 1th. They will lead the noonday prayer-meeting in Farwell Hall every day. Two lots have been secured and the prelimi- nary steps taken to erect a house of worship for the new church Brighton Parlk, in the southwestern suburbs of this city. . The Baptists of Scotland number 8,163, wor- shiping in eighty-one churches. They are asso- ciated in a union which has already erected fourteen chapels,with sittings for 10,000 persons, 4t a cost of $207,175. Portsmoutb, N. H.,at & town meeting held Sept. %5, 1662, ““ ordered that a cage be made or some other means be wvented by the sclectmen to punish euch as sleep or take tobacco on the Lord’s day out of the meeting in the time of the public exercises.” ‘Cnere is noted a large falling-off in the num- ber of candidates for admission to_theological a cied with the Presbyzerian Churcd. etary of the Board of Educa- tion finds that tilere is” 2 marked uniformity in this respect among the institutions. Dr. Stuart Robiason proposes a plan for the reorganization of the Presbyterian Church of the United States in several General Synods, in- dependent of each other injurisdiction, but con- federated o a General Synod, which shall have charge of the depurtment ol benevolent work. The clergy of St. Patrick’s (R. C.), Quebee, have been conausting a vigorous crusaic awainst dime novels and sensational literature, and have confiscated and burned a iim“ quantity of the obuoxious stufl found their parishioners’ possession. Some of it having beén borrowed, complications have arisen. ‘The Baptist Church in Paris, France, is now composed of 110 members. At least two-thirds are converts from llomanisw; so says the Bap- tist Weekiy, The Rev. D. C. Potter visited this church last summer and found seventeen Frenchmen in it. Dr. Hovt, of Brobklyn, says the members number seventy-two. ‘The Foreien Comumittee of the Protestant ‘Episcopal Church have before them at this time 1o less than lourteen applications for missionary appointments. Four of the apolicants are cler- ermen, four physicians, two lavmen, three women, und one i$ a candidate for orders. The Committee, however, lack funds toemploy more than one man for Japan. ‘Eneland differ very much on the guestion of di- vorce and remarriagze. Every Bishop is a law ‘unto himself in his diocese on this matter. The Church of England Workingmen’s Society has addressed a memorial tothe Archbishop of Can- terbury asking that the laws on this point be made uniform. The week of prayer at the Park ;Avenue Methodist Church was unusually interesting. An intense religious feelme pervaded the well- attended meetings. A rumor got wings the past week that the pastor. the Rev. Mr. Me- Chesney, was about to resign. It secms there was nothing in it. Indeed, the church conld noz well spare so active and efficient a pastor. The Reformed Episcopalians in England have hada falling out, to the great glee of the Church. Bishop Sugzden, who was ordained by Bishoo Gregg ooly Jast spring, has repudiated his_superior, who, he says, is starting a scheme which has *no saoction from the Reformed Episcopal Church as exisiing in the United States, Cunada, Bermuda, and Great Britain,”” The annual conventfon ot the Diocese of Al- bany will be held in that city on the 14th inst. Bishop Doane, who has recently returned from Europe, will on that accasion dcliver an address on the Lambeth Conference and _his after visit: ou the Continent. Tihe Bistop is very enthu astic over Pere Hyacinthe’s new church work in Paris and the Protestant Episcopal Church mis- sion in Rome. 1t is said that Pope Leo XIIT. ha_tdetermined to create twelve unew Cardinals. In that event another red hat ‘will probably be sent to the United States. ArcLbishop Furcell, of Cincy 1ati, was thought to be a likely person for the honor of the red beretta a few vears axo, but his extreme age and his recent unfortunate finaneial complications will prooably stand between him and auy favors irom Rome. ‘The Boston Catholic Cathedral will compare with that of New ¥ in dimensions, though not in cost ot exterior clezance, the former be- ingr 86+ toes Jong and 170 feet wide at the tran- seut, and its epire 800 fect liwli; the latter 332 feet Tong, 170 wide at the transept, snd the tow- ers destined to be 333 Jeet high. The Cathedral in Boston ovcupics over 46,000 square feet—more thap an acre of land—and takes morespace than those of Strasbours, Posen, Salisbury, Vicoma, Venice, and Dublin: A centleman of standing, employed on a Bos- ton daily paper, had occasion to- take a letter from the Congregutional church of which e Was a member to another ot the same order. it was, however. discovered that he was accustom- ed to do a little newspaper work on Sunday,and his Jetter was declined. Ile was accustomed to ‘an hour or two in bis office, but that of sufficicnt_importance to cause his rejection. One of the churches in Lowell recently excluded @ barber wio, in accordance with the almost universal custom, kept his shop open an hour or two un the Sabbath. —What shont shaving one’s self at bome on Sunday morning; when it can be as well done on. Satur- day? ¢ A pamphlet just issued by the Engiish Wes- Jeyun Conterenice cilice gives the following ap proximate estimite of the provision at present made in Evgland and Wales for the accommoda- tion of worshipers by the various religious bodie: Sittings. 6, 500,000 Chureh of Eneland Wesleyan Methodists Congregationalists. Bapusts Other religions bodie: Totalecesaeen There is also ziven a statement of the number of the clergyimen of these deuowminatiens, g5 fol- lows: % of England—Parochial clergy, cg?!ffms; wnattached clergy. 3,893; church Uiknitatics. Fellows, inspectors, teachers, 1 eic., 1,771 .. Wesleyan Méthodis ‘numeraries) o 24 823 Congregationa withiout charge) ... 2,381 Baptists (355 without charze) 2,084 {35 Othier relizions bodies... .. ‘A report has been submitted to the Glasgow Established Presbytery declaring that, in the aliered condition of modern society, it is expe- dient, for works of necessity and mercy, or 1or persons commng from the suburbs jnto town for Divine worship, that tram cars within rea- sonable limits should be run. It is pointed out .that there shonld not beone law for the rich and another for the puor, so that tie former should use private carriages and cabs while the 1atterare debarred from cheaper conveyances. The Presbytery, by-a_majority of nine votes, adopted uie report. Tu regard -to this decision, a correspondent of tie Christian Signal says: ¢ This is the first time in any “Scoteh ecclesias- tical court that & motion favorable to the use of conveyances on Suodays has been passed. It will mark a new point of departure not only on the question of Sunday observance, but on the relations between the Established and the recently organized at | - The Scrintural, ecclesiastical and civil laws of. | Presbyterian Churches. The former Church has Leen of late yoors becoming increasfnely latitudinarian not “ouly in doctrine but in the practices allowed and éncouraged by its winis- ters and members.” g PERSONAL. ‘The Rev. Joln Lockwood, after a pastorate of five years, resigns the pulpit of the N. E. Con- grezational Church of East Brooklyn. Cause, a Jarge debt and s small cougrezati Dr. W. P. Harrison, of North Georgia Con- ference, now Chaplain in Congress and tilling the pulpit of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C., has been traus- ferred to the BaltimoresConference, in whose bounds the church is Jocated. . A Baptist minister in Kingston, N. Y., the Rev. H. O. Hiscox, has decided to preach hence- forth without a pulpit. He uses only a few notes to aid him in the delivery of his sermons, and a small stand to hold them is all he now has with him on the platform. The Rev. W. C. Young, of the Fullerton Ave- nue Presbyterian Church, has received a call to the Prytania Presbyterizn Church of Ne wOr- leans, which ranks in financial strength next to Dr. B, M. Palmer’s, in that city. It is not prob- able that Mr. Young will accept. The Rev, Joab Clark, of Christian County, Ky., according to the Madisouville Times, when he gets to preaching on universal salvation or speakiuz on the financial question, “mnever knows when to quit, being like the sucking calf whose cars you have to pull off to get him away.” B Messrs. A. D. T. Randolph & Co. bave made overtures to Dr. J. Monro Gibson for the preparation of his leciures on parts of the Pentateuch for a volume. It is probable that the arrengement will be made, and that the lectures on Genesis will constitute a volume. ‘The orizinal views tsken by Dr. Gibson have attracted great attention and iuterest. The Presbyterian Church in San Francisco to which Dr. Scndder, of Brooklyn, ministered gome years ugo, and where Dr. Cuyler spent a couple of months last summer ' preaching, have crlled the Rev. R. E. Field, of the Puritan Con- gregational Church, Brookiyn, to be their pas- tor. _The church in Brooklyn and the church in San Francisco are heavily in debt, and Mr. Field does not care to leave the ills he bas and fly to others that he knows not of. A fifth list of **Rome’s Recruits” has been publishied by the [¥hiteha't Jeview, and amoug. the names are two cousins of: Gladstone; Miss Mallock, o niece of Froude; Miss Kosenthal, a Jewess; Miss Brand, sister of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and Miss Ogle, a sister- in-law of the Jate Richard Briusley Sheridan. ‘There are also on the list four Countessés, one Earl, one Baron, thirteen Captains, eleven So- leitdrs, and six Justices of the Peace. The Rev. Thomas Aitken, pastor of the First and Second Presbyterian- Churches m Sparta, N. Y., though now in his 80th year, is still preaching every Sabbath. Uf late years he has been subject to turns of fainting. "Recently he was taken with one in the pulpit of unusual se- \'eriti. He was carried out of it and ministered to. For some.time it was thought that his la- bors were cnded, but after a while he and said, * Imust goon with what I 5 ing,” which he did, conducting the service to its close. His people have proposed to release him from the atternoon service at the Second Church daring the winter, but he is reluctant to_accept iheir kindness. 1t is neariy forty vears since be began to serve them, and Dis heart is so deeply in his work that he 15 lotn to discontinue it, FACETIZE, Anybody can cateh a cold now. The trouble is to let go again, like the man who caught the bear. Little Laura was tired and elecpy on New- Year's night when she prepared for bed, and forgot to say her “Now I lay me,” and in apology to her mother for the negleet said, as slie turmed away at ber little stockings: 1 touldn’c go to Heaven to-nizht, mamma, any way in the world, tos I'm too tired.” Not long since an old colored river captain was giving some of his experiences, and during the conversation I asked lum if he Dad ever ex- perienced religion,—there is a continual agita- tion of this subject amonz the blacks,—but bLe said: “ No, miss, I hever ’sperienced ’ligion yet. Ligion is a mighty nice thing fur to handle, an’ I don’t believe in *fessin’ lLigion an’ actin’ s I does, kase Ise a sinnab. E EPITAPHS. The followiog epitaphs are cooled from stones. in an old burial ground in New Hampshire: Walle I lie molderingin the grave, No mother will my children have; Tuey'l! go wandertag after me. On whese is marm? - Where can she be? “Under this sod And under these trees Lieth the bod- Y of Samuel Pees. He's not in this bole, But only his pod; Ee sielied out his sonl = Andwent up to God. While living men My tomb do view, Remember weil Tiere's room for you. The following is from a Medfield, Mass., grave- stone: L > In youth he was a scholar bright, In learning he took great delight, He waa the Major's oniy son: 1t was for love he was undone. CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. Tne Rev. John Peddie, D. D., preaches at the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev.W.W. Everts will preach in the First Church, corner of SouthParik uvenue and Thirty- first etreet, at 112, m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. W. Cuetis will preach in the Michi- gan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street, at 10:30a. m. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach in_ Olivet Church, Fourth avenuc, near Taylor street, at1L a. m.and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. A. Owen will preach in Universi- ty Place Clurch, ‘corner of Douglas placs and Rhodes avenue, 0t10:305 m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Church, No. 200 Orcnard street, ot 10:45 5. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~The Rev Q. A. Tenry will preach in the Dearborn Street Church, corner of Thirty-sixth street, 110:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —~The Rev. E. B. Huibert will preactt in the Fourth Church. corner of Washingtcn and Paulina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —fhe Rev. C. Perren will preacn in Western Avenue Churcn, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 & m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. K. Cressy will preach in the Coventry Street Chuich, corner of Bloomingdale r0ad, at 10:40 a. m. ana 7:30 p. m. ~The Rey. C. E. Hewitt will preach in the Cen- tennial Courch, corner of Lincoln and Jacksum strects, at 10:30 2. m. snd 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach in the North_Star Cliurch, corner of Divisi ‘wick strects, 3 10:43 2, w. and 7:40 p. “The Kev. J. Weddell will prescn at 11 2. m. at the South Charch, corner of Luke and Bona- parte strects. 3 —Thke Rev. Meyer will preach in the First German Church, corner of Bickerdike nnd Huron strects, at10:80 0. m. and T30 p. m. - ‘The Jiev. 4. K. Smith will preach in the First Norwegian Church, corner of West Ohio and Noble btreets, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. John Ougmun will preach io the First Swedish Church. O3k sireet, near Sedgwick, at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. : “The Rev. C. Swift will preach at 10:45 a. m. t Evangel Church (Rock Island —There will be gervices st 7:30 _p. m. at the Tavernacle, Nox. 502 and 304 Wabash avenue. Sunday-school at 2:30 p. m. 3r. B. F.-Jacobs, Superintendent. ¥ —The Rev, W. J. Kermott will preach at il a. m, and 7:30 p. m. at the Halsted Street Church, between Forty-first and Forty-second atreets. —The Rev. L.G. Clark will preacnat the Twenty- fifth Street Church, near Wentworth avenue, at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath-school at2:30 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. E. F. Willams will preach at the Forty-fifth street schoot-honse, mormng and even- ing. ' Rev. T, C. Easton will preach morning and evening at the Union Park Charch. —The Rev. E. P. Goodwin preuches at the Firet Church. corner of West Washington and £lizabeth 30 8. w. and 7:30 p. m. Charles H;ll Everest umgg'e:!:: Plymouth Charch; ~Michigan. avenue, e Tuventylfts and Twentv-sisth streets, at10:50 e B Leavitt preaches at Lincoln Part Chiurch, corner of Soohia and Moharwk streets, 2t 10:45 8. m. Sunday-school concert at 7. 0. m. "~ The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach at Bethany Chasch, corie of Pagiinaand West Laron stzects, 45 8. 720D, m. D e Rev Guorga I, Pecke will preach at Loavitt Stredt Church af 7:30 p. m. on **The Flogd. George IL. Doardman will preach morn- ing at Plymonts Church, Micaigan avenue near Twenty-aixth street. EPISCOPAL. The Rey. Samnel §. Harns will officiate at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at 5t. James’ Church, cornes Cass and Haron streets, Holy Communion at € am. —The Rev. E. Sullivan will officiate at 'Crinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michi- gan avenge, at10:454. m. and 7:30 p.m. _Cathedral of SS. Peter and vaui. coruer of Wess Washinzton and Peons strects. The Rt.-Rev. W. E. McLaren, §. T. D., Bishop. TheRev. J. I Knawies. priest In charge. Morning prayer and velebration of the Holy Communion at $a. m. and 30:30a. m. Choral Evening Prayer at 7:30 p. m. I Kev. J. Bredberg preaches at St. Ansga- rius' Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago ave- nue, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Re: nton Locke. D. D., preaches st Grace Chnreh, Wabash avenue. mear Sixteenth street, at 114. m. and 7:30 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at S a. . —The Nev. Arthur Ritchie presches at the Charch of tae Ascension, corner of LaSalie and Elm streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. X —The Kev. B. F. Fleetwood preacnes -at St. Marl’s Church, corner of Cottage Grove oveaus and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 .. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman, D. D., preachesat Stephen's Church, Johnson street, Taylor and Twelfth, at 10:30 3. m. and —The kev. Luther Pardee preaches at Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oukley street and Western avenug, at 107 —The WY an D. Jd. W.' Petric preaches at the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden ave- Dnves, a1 13 . m. and 7:30. .., —The Rev. Charles Staniey Lester preaches at St. Paol's Charch, Hyde Parkavenue, between g%y-nmm and Fiftieth streets, at11a. m. and 7:30 . m. —The Rev. Ethelbert Talbot officiates fa St. Andrew's Church, corner of \West Washincton and ltobey strects, at’10:30 1. m. 1nd 7:30 p. m. CIUISTIAN. Elder M. N. Lord will preach st the Second Chureh, Oakléy nvenue. between Adams and Jack- &un gtreets, this morning. ~—The Rev. W.1.Owen will preach in the charch corner of South Purk avenne and Tnirty-third street, morning and evening. = —THe Rev. J. P. Barnett preaches in the charch, corner of 'Western avenue and Congress street as 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~—The Rev. G. W. Sweeney preaches in the First Church, corper of Indiana avenne and Thirty-Afth street, st 10 2. m. and 7:30 t Madison street. Evening subject: **The Unity of ‘hrist’s Cnurch Under the Simtiitnde of 3 Flock." —~Elder Raymond will preach at Barr Mission Chapel, No. 339 Third avenue, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p- m. LUTAERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour preaches at the Chnrch of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dearnorn avenus and Erie street, this morning. METIODIST. The Rev. John Williamson preaches st the Michizan Avenne Church. 3orning subject: **Work in the Vineyard.” —Mrs. J. F. Willing will preach at Emmanuel Church, corner of Harrison and Paulina streets. Morning sapject:’ ‘‘Much from Little.” Song Eervice in the cvening. —The Rev. M. M. Parkburst will preach at the First_Charch. _ Morning subject: **Success." Evening: ‘*Salome, the Baller-Dancer. ™ —The Rev. S. McChesney preaches at the Park Avenue Charch morning and eveniu:r. —The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Charch morning and evening. —The Rev. Bishop S. M. Merrill will preach in Grace Charc3, corner_of North LaSalle and White streets, ar_10:30a. m. At 7:30 p. m. the Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preacnon **Our Mighty Bavior.™ . —The Rev. S. Il Adams Church, between Lake and Fuiton streets, and evening. Morning snbject: **The Spirit.” Evening: **Christ's Parable of the Rich tan and Lazarus. —The Rer, Caldwell preaches ot the West- ern Avenue Charch morning and evening. - —Tne Rev. A. W, Patten preaches at the Wabash. Avenne Chorch 0t 114, m. and 7:30p. m. . _The Rev. F. E. Cleaveland preaches at Grant- Place Chnrch, corner of Latrabee street, morning and evenin: - —The Rev. . 1L Holmes will preachat 10:30 2. m.2nd 7:30p. m. at the Fulton Stroet Churct, corner Artesian avenue. T. P. Marsh will preach_at 10:30a. reaches at Ada Street —Tne Re street near Halsted street. —The Rey. E. M. Boring will preach at the Stute Street Church worning and eventng. —The Rev. E. M. Bori 1l preach moring and. evening at the State Streel Church. PRESBYTERIAN. TRev. W. T. Meloy will preach at the First Tnpited Church. corser of Monroe and Faulioa streets, morniug and evening. —The Rev. Arthur Swasey will preach at the Forty-rst Streat Church, corner of Prairie ave- nuae, this morning. —Prof. George L. Raymond preaches at the Fifth Church. corner of Indiana avenue and 'Thirtietn street, 8t 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Subject for evening: -“Temperance.” —The Rev. J. H. Walker preaches atthe Re- union Charch. West Fourteenth strecl. nesr “rhroop, morningand eveninz. —Sabject for even- ing:_-*Mystery and Relizions Belief.™ —The Rev. Arthur Mitcgell, D. D., preaches in the_ First Church at10:30 a.'m. Evewng service at 7:30 p. m. at Ratlroad Chapel. 5. J. Mlonro Gihson preaches in the Second Cnnrch, corner or Micligan “avenue and, Twentieth streef, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. M. Wormli, D.D..preaches in the Eiwhth Charch, corner of West Wasninzton and Rodey sireets. at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 . m. —Tpe Rev. John Abbott French preaches in the Fonrth Church, corner of lush and Superior streets, at 10:45 2. m, This church and the New Engiand Congregational will unite in a union mect- ingat 7:45 0. m. —The Rev. Henry T. Miller preaches in the Sixth Choreb. corner of Oak and Vincennes ave- nues, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev, James Maclaughlan will preach in the Scotch Churcn, corner of Adams ana Sanga- mon streets, morcing and evening. —Prof. F. L. Patton. D.D. L.L.D., preaches in the Jefferson Purk Church, corner of Throop sirects, ut 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. Subject for evening: ‘*The Person (not Divinity) of Christ.” Communion afier morning servie —The Hev. E. N. Barrett will preachin the Westminster Church, corner of Jackson and Peora streets, ot 10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Subiect: *+Cast Up the Highway: Gather Ont the Stornes. Gospel meeting at 7:30 p. m., at which Geor 'W. Sharp will preach. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. M. D. Church will preach in St. John's Chureh morning and evening. s —The Rev. F. W. Adams preaches at St. Matthew’s Church, corner of North Clark and Centre treets, this morning. he Rev. FL M. Collisson preaches at St. Paal's Charch. 3lorning subject: *Take ye away the S.one; or, How to Obtaia_# Spiritnal_Dlessinz. ™ Evemng: **Justice and Merey: or, Justly Con- demned und Graciously Pardoned.™ —-Bishop Cheney will breack in_ Christ Church, ichigan avenne and Tywenty-fourth 3 a. m. ood 7:45 p. . Subject for morning; *‘How the Rich Become Foor. Eveni ~How I Know that the Bible is 2 Ne sityto Man.” —Rishop Cheney will preach at Ckrist Charch. corner of Michizan avenue and Twenty-fousth street. Subjects: How the Rich Le~ came Poor™; evening, Tiible 1e o Necessity to Men, “'—the irat of 8 couzse on the *~Evidences of Christianity for the People.™ —There vl be secvices in tue evening at Emanuel Chusch, corner of Twenty-eighth and Hanover streets. SWEDENDORGIAN. TheRev. L. P. Mercer preaches in Hershey Masic Uall at 1L a, m. Subje ~Christ tne Centra] Life of the World's Religion. / SPIRITUALIST. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond, trance lectarer, will Soclety Church corner of La and 52. m.and 7:45p. m. Services close with an impromnta poem. TEMPERANCE. The Woman's Christian Temperance Unfon holds daily Gospe! weetings in Lower Farwell Hall, 150 Madison strect, at ¥ p. m. Consecration meetings i Teaders for the week an ¥, Mra, George Rounds; Tuesday, Mrs. J. W. Barker; Weanesdas Needham; Thurs- doy, Mrs. M. A. Williams; Friday, Mrs. Taaoella Jones, and Satarday, Mrs. Miiton George. UNITA. The Rev. Brooke Herfo: c of tne Mewsiah. Morning subject: Statement of Helizion, us Evening: Bible stories: ** Abraham. ‘Phe Rev. Rtobert Collser will preach at the Thisl Church, corner of Mouroe and Laflin streets, at sharp. R obert Collyer will preach fn Unity Church, corner Dearborn avenae and Walioa aches at the Church. *+A Plain Deacborn, near Forty-seventh strect. . place, mornins and evening. 3ornisg sermoa: *The Cucre of Debt.” . NIVERSALIST, o oot The Rev. Dr. Ryder wiil preach In St. Paal's, Michizan avenne, between Sixteenth and Eight teenth strects, morning and eveninz. —The Rev. James Ray Avplebee will preach in the morning at the Fourih Unurch. corner of Prairic_av and Ninetieth street. Subject: ++ Fundamental Postulate of Keligion, —The ltev. Sumner Eltis will preach in the mom- inz at the Church of the Itedeemer, corner of San- amon and Waslungton streets. Vestry service the eventng. MISCELLANEGUS. 5 Mr. Baker, student, preaches atthe Gireen Street Tabernacic. morning and evening. ‘—A ** Keanioz-for-all " meeting will be held at No. 213 West Madison street at :2:30. Free- W i1l Caurch, No. 13 Soutk Halsted street, as Bo'clock. & Z'Tne Rev. C. G. Trasdell preaches- at “the ‘Wasningtonian Home at 3 o'clock. ==~ —Elder . (. Thomson preaches at the cormer of Ojiio and Carpenter streets on ** Baptism 10 the morning, and ** Acquaintance with Ged ™ in the evening. _ - T —The Discibles of Christ meet nt 220 West Ran- dolph atreetat £ p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Jan. 12—First Sunday after Epiphany. Jan. 17—Fast. : CATHOLIC. s Jan. 12—Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphe ai ny. Jan. 13—Octave of the Epiphany Jun. 13-St. flilavy, B. C. D. ; St. Felix, M. Jan. 15—St. Paal, First Hermit; St, Maur, Abb, Jau, 18-St Marcelins, P. AL Jan. 17-St. Antony, Abb. 7 Jaa. le—chg‘:r (ig St. Peter at Rome; St. Prisca, m. and 7:30 p. m.,az St. Panl's Church, Maxwell Unitarians Hold It." . “The Rev. Mr. Jackson pseaches at the Second --