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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 2, (879—SIXTEEN PAGES e SACRED SUBJECTS. Felix Adler’s Explanation of | “The Rising Re- ligion.” " Less Theological Hair-Splitting and More Practical Charity. The Two Pentecosts; or, A Plea for Women's Ministrations in the Pulpit. James Parton on the Religion of the Coming Man---1t Will — Have No Theology. .@eperal Notes, Personals, Sabbath Smiles—Serviees To- Day. THE RISING RELIGION. 43 EXPOUNDED BY PROF. FELIX ADLER. Wednesdsy evening last Prof. Felix Adler, of New York, lectured to a brilliant audicnce in Cincinnati, taking for bis thcme * The Rising Religion,” the motif of which be declared to be more practical charity and less theological hair- splitting. . Following is an abstract of the lecture: There {s no principle more firmly rooted in the Americau people than the principle of fair plav; fair play Detween the strong and the weak, fair play Letween the’ high and the low, fair play between the old and the new. Week after week, vear in and year out, from ten thousand pulpits the old religion speaks to you, and serx tions, and at times its denunciations. 1am one of asmall band thatis strugelinz for a new jdea. 1bave come to, you to-night, notas an crator to please you, not as an advocate to plead before you, but simply as oue who has certain downright thinzs to say to you, h certain ideas greatly at beart, and he wishes to ask you in the name of the Americau principle - of fair play to give him an imvartial hearing. There is vo doubt that the Liberal movement s advancing in this country. The fact thut one snciety aiter the other in theinterest of free religion is springing up is proof of it; the fact 1hut 1 am here before you to-night, and thatyou ‘re bere to-night, is evidence of it. -I wish to epeak 1O YOU LOW. at we are bound to de- stroy, and_bow we jntend to destroy, and of what we wish to construet, and of how we wish to construct it. There are certain doctrines which, whether we share them or not, demand our reverential respect, guch as- the doctrize of 1he existence of a God und the immortality of the soul. Whether we helieve them or not, they body forth in concrete shape hopes and yearnings which I believe to beineradical in the human oul. But there are certain other doe- trines which we do not respect, which are so baneful in their influence that we hold ali efforts commendable that will bring them to their fali: 50 poisonous in their influcnee thatin their ven- o they are like suakes, corrupting the source ' of public morals. I'will mentivn a few of the coarser suversti- tious that prevail among the multitude. Among 1he false ews of relizion tht bring amony to mankind 1 mention the awful doctrive or liell. You koow that the history of all religious bas ‘been the history of wars. There has beenno peace between religions from the beginning, and these wars have been the most desulatinge that bave sfilicted maokind. There is no bate £0 bitter as relirious hate; no war o fearful as religious war; nu eruelty so cruel as religious cruelty. It is stranwe they should hate each other when the religions thev profess teach that ‘this hate sorings trom God Himself, wnom they adore,—a pure and_ all-wise Being, who, having the power 1o give intelligence to all His cres: Tures; T the wisdom™to Toresie OUr tem ptas * tions and to fortify us amaiiisl™ them, shonld have left all this undone and prepared a Hell for them in which they shall sufler endless agonies. What human ingeuuity has rivaled such cruelty? What Nero hias ever_equaled it? ‘What fiend bas ever been imacgined so fiendish ss such a God? If rchgion could do naught else than drive from the human mind this dis- mal nightmare, aud give it freedom from these fictitious: dangers, it were & glorious work. Mark me'well. Id are necessarily debasing. 1t is possible to draw gweet boney from the poison flower of Chrisziun doctrine, but 1dohold that to those who are * morally Weak these doctrives area peril in so far as’ they contribute to weaken them still more. & 1 do not speak of the Christian only. I speak ot all systems which cling to wnat is old merely because it is old, which foster in the hearts aud minds of men the poison of insincerity. Friends, do you wish to know my definition of religion? 1 will try to give it to you. luscems to mein a country like ours, in a Republic, the entire wel- fare of the State depends upon sincerity and honestv. Do you cowplain of corruption in Rirh places; do you complain of the embezzle- ment of the public funds aud of the corruption - of private morality¢ T'he root and core of the discase is jnsincerity. De Tocqueville, u wise obeerver of Awerican institutions and manuvers, .lays stress upon the influence which religion shiould exercise in a Republic. Relizion should De the guardiar of public morality, and prevens men 1roin going astray into the paths of aishon- esty; religion should stand by our side and call out to man, * Your salvation is intruthfulness, in perfect honesty and sincerity.” 1f you wish my definition of religion, I will say relimion, if it 1s apything, is ibe very science of sincerity. . lsaid, inwmy introduction, that whether or not we believe in the doctrine of the existence of God, the _doctrine deserves reverential respeet, and yet we bola that it would be weil that men should speak less of God. For more than 3,000 veurs meun have been discussiog and arguing and contending ‘concerning God, the Author of the law, aud the consequence bas been that the Jaw itsell has fallen 1ato neglect. Now, I say in the name of the Liveral religion, we do not deny the ex- istence of God, we do not aflirm it; We simply a8k you for the time to leave aside the Author of ke Jaw, and begin to act out the law; not to believe in Divine mysteries, but to do divine things, That is our watchword. 8o as regards “ ke form of prayer. Persous have labored to show me that prayer is 2 zood thinz. To any « reflective mind it must be evigent that if prayer coule be answerea it would be a precious boon in certain circumstavces of lize. Let us Jook at factsas they are. There comes no auswer to the prayer until Judgment-Day. Everlasting lawrules the universe, and all is ordered fron the berinning untl the end. Be wise, there- fore; be men: study the laws that prevent dis- ease; be your own Providence, {or there is no Providence thet will interfere on your behalf. We should not seck our paradise in the clouds, nor stand gazing idly upon dreamliands but we Ehould work out a paradise here on earth, and 183ke 1his 25 near a heaven 2s we can make it }Al'nmuiv.] “I'he lesson 15 not that we should 00k to tiie Hell beyond, but that we should - OPeD our eyes und see the present kell around Us: & hell of poverty and disease, where thou- 82uds of mothers are anpually racked, where baupcrism pever ceases to torment. We skould R0 with our word of salvation there; there the work of redeemers is needed. ere I come 1o the second and_more jmpor- 1ant part of what I bave to say. I will ask you 10 pass briefly in reyiew the great staces of the Tadial movement that bave preceded us. L will : lention to you four great stages through which the radical movement has passed up toibe Present day, —The stage of Radicalism. We find it at a fl_xc ¢0d of the last cenzury. Then every religion Was revolutionary, it wus an insurrection of_the . foul against restraints no longer bearable. Free religion carried the laming toreh; its head was hat: it rushed its battering ram acaipst the ¥allsof surerstition, and thoucht to Jevel it Jrith one fell swoop. ' As representatives of that first stage of free relizion 1 mention the names of Rymanses in Germany, aud Thomas FPaine in Buglaud and America. At the present day Yedo not fully share the views of these men. They were s enrazed, these angry radicals, as I Jould call them, that they often became unjust. l“xe: caught the monster of superstition merci essly with thorns taken from its own soft hide. 4 the Bible were indeed written by God. and ulyn ifit could be proven that a single word in : 45 false, tie value of we entire bouk would be ‘_hEStm,Ted. But_they mistook the character of ¥ e Biole. The Bible 1s not at all a book, but a fiterature. Now, how absurd and unjust would ;r'fi:;’ say of a literature that it is either good Take the English literature—can you say that it1s 2000 or that it is bad? No, but therc are _tuate purts of it which are bad, some which are Rood. 1f some oze Were to Lell us the Exglish s forthits utterances, its exalta- . notsuy that these doctrines’ literature is bad because he found certain gross ginl(nccts in.certain authors, we would laugh at But Paine and Rymanses had no listeners to heir plans. They were forced to keep silence. Itisno wonder their thoughts became bitter and Eour with long standivg. And if these anery radicals dared to enunciate their views a3 Taine did, what were the consequences? Paine’s name is reviled in this American land, and amoug the children of those for whomn he fousht with pen and sword. All because he strove to acquire for America spirizual inde- pendence as he helped to break its political ains. The motto of the angry radicals then may be briefly exoressed in three words, *“Bible bate, Ppriest hate, church hate.” ~ . ‘Then came the second stage, called Rational- ism. If the apgry radicals bad declared rcason azainst the Bible, thesc rationalists meaut to compromise reason and the Bible. They said, “Wewill reconcile the two.” Bat, of course, their efforts proved aboruive. No scientist believes when he has explained 1he hypothesis of matter and force as raling the entire world of mechanism that hehas found the key to uniock the secrct of nature. But the popilar materialist believes this. He helieves that when be bas explained matter and force he Das explained everythine. ‘This is the result, I takelt, of that zyear democratic movement which.is goiug through the age: that move- ment which leads the common peorle to claim that all things shall now be reduced to their level; that there shall be no aristocracy in thought as there shall be nope in poiitics; who claim that the mystery of the noiverse shall be reduced to the level of their understanding; who will not acknowledge that there is anghs in the world greater than themselv Whether they are right or wrong, it is not my busivess bere to fuvestigate. Sutlice to say that it bas been, and is still at the present day, one of the prominent tyoes of Radicalism. 1t has no reliwion; it de- clares there is none. % ‘The fourth class is Eclecticism. Eclecticists are an inoffensive, mild class of men, that do 1o injury to any one, least of all to themselves. It you will listen to their sermons you will find them delightful to the ear, gleamini with pleas- ant things, that remind you of the wentle sum- mer brook which bubbles murmuring along, full of sunshinc; a gentle, pleasant brook, but not deep. They use some words that are com- -moh-in the theological vocabulary. They say +4*God:” but they do'not mean your God. They **soul,” but they do not mean your soul. ‘Theév * morality,” but; th o not-mean morality, They even pray, but Jo_every legiti- mate sense of the word they do not pray. They cven cail themselves Christians, but they are willing, not anxious, to £o beyona the limits of therr faith. In fact this is what character- izes them—their willingness to go heyond the limits of their faith: hence we call them Ecle tics. They hare 1o massive corner-stone of any convictions whereon to build. They have no ome great, vital, regenerative principle around whicll_to group. They always wait. They are the reliwrious Micawbers of to-day, not the Eli- ana. . Nor, in contradistinction to this; what does the Lil nmovement of to-day mecan? What are the positive constructive objects of free re- ligion as we understund it? The Rationalists bad the dogma of reason: the Materialists the dogma of nexation; the Eclectics_ retained at least the skeleton of the Christian dogyma. Right here we ris¢ und hold up our standari, on which is written, No dogma, 1o creed at all, but decds. If you ure a Jew, zooa; if You uré u Chris- tian, ‘guod. Helieve what you like, disbelieve what you must; that is a matter of choice. But unite with us on that platform; uuvite with us in the religion of Going £0d, for tiatis Lhe pith of our protest agaiust the existing religions, that the good which they accomplish is not ood enongh. Yon may say Do they mnot strive to benetit suffering bumanity #? They do good, but not rood enough, nud thev do not do Jtin the right way. 1bave lately read a report that the London Jewish Society expends annu- ally $I56,000 upon the conversion of the Jews in London. Now what ‘rood does that do! The American missionary socie- ties expend anoually more than = §G,000,- 000 upon their ~ work. What good does it do? I have been told thatywithin the Jast seventy-five years more than 103,000,000 Bibles nave been issued by the Bible societies. Now, it you will just consider how much real good might bave been accomplished, how much misery averted, how much sickness nealed, if the money that went into these 108,000,000 Bitles had been expended in that direction, vou will sce what I mean by saying that the rehirions of the day detract from the humanity ol the times. They withdraw this mouey which would be better applied eisewhere. Weprotestagainst it as being not only in any respect uscless, but ingireetly injuring the morality of the’ times. ‘Yhiey say people need relizion; we nust suop-rt it for the common people; that the common veople will not be moral unfess they have re- of the common people does not depend upon the religion' of the common people. On the contrary, I will undertake to say thut the morsl- ity of the common people is injured by the re- lizions of the day, iu so far as they are absorb- iug for their own uses whiat would cleyate the morality of mankind if tbus applied. I will tell you what is_injuring the morality of the people. It is bad houees, bad food, overcrowd- ing. I have here au extract from the report of Mr. Harris, our Sanitary Superiutendent in New York, which shows ‘that more than SO per cent of all criminals in our penitentiary come from teucment-ouscs—{rom louses in ‘which the popuiation1s densely packed together. “In {hese crowded pluces thieving springs al- most out of the atmosphere,” he says, Overcrowding produces three differcnt effects ~want of cleanliness, 10ss of privacy, and the rapid spread of cvil examples. Now, cleanli- ness is the beginving of sell-respect. Unless a man can be cican nhe loses the alpha of morality, and bezins to losc his humau persouality. When we die the dust grows overus. When the dust is allowed to grow over us while we are afive, we are beginuiug to feel as if we are losing our humanil Privacy of the home is essential. The mys- teries of the home must be veiled as the oursery of every virtue, the seed wherefrom springs all ooduess. In overcrowded houses evil examples spread rapidly. We have in some houses in New York twenty families. 1 there is one bad child in the family, don’t you fear for the othur children? And how much more 5o where so many familics are gathered together? It is a statistical fact thatmore than 80 per cent of our criminals come from such homes. 1 say it you tell me the morality of the peo- ple depends upon their religion, it is the religion of the people that injures their morality. Itis that religion which spends its millions upou our magnificent churches in our great cities tiat in- jures the morality of the people.” [Applause.] Give me the nnllion dollars which' one preacner in Broollyn has amassed during tweuty years of his ministry, and 1 will cure half the distresses of an entire district. Give_we the millions which Trinity Church isspending upon ber mag- nificent churches, upon the vomp of religion, and I will build clean houses for tue people. You ussociate now in_churches and spend thousunds of dellars on them, because churehes are the means of makivg men moral. Ihave n better means of making men moral, namely, deeds. Ir men wili do what is good they will he the means of training 1hem to goodness, and the way to do it is to do it. You waste your money on churches, mere externals. Let” our associations be not tor celestial, but terrestrial purposes. Let us enaeavor to do the things we ought to do. Soit was in Hindoostan. Buddha, the great Oricntal Christ; how did he obtain a hearing among the masses? Was it not because he broke the chaius of the siaves? Wy do you not associate with twelve others like you, and §0 operate among vourseives? If the world at large is not ready for charity in_its true sense, why do you not ociate together aud assume this sacrifice and lay the corner-stone of a pew church! Twelve men founded the Christian Church, and never was Paganism stronger in the nistory of the world than at the very time when its death-warraut had been souaded. What liberal man deswres_to-day to construet and build up an order, likze the orders of the Middie Ares, if you wish; an order for right- eousness; an order whose tbreefold members shall Le Liberty, Justice, and Love? Suchan order will go forth and be to the world what the stazue is upon the market-place. As the etatue upon the market-place is an ideal of beauty, such an order will be to the worid an igeal of righteousnes: Let the Jewishand Christian_preacher join us in this work; fet thewm sink aud forget the isms and schisms; let them join in the work of prac- tical regeneration; - let them follow the lead of their ancient praufmls, und abandou tne tradi- tion of the priests. Let them declare in deeds is the scienee of religions Jet them throw away the crusts ‘of theology, which the people ure tired of: ict them throw aside the pow abandon their costly edifices, of which would have said: **They are the gbominat your God; my soul hateth them, 1 am weary to bear them.” "Let them proclaim, as the ancient prophets did, ~ ** liberty throughout the land,” and liberty will be their salvation. THE TWO PENTECOSTS, A PLEA FOR WOMEN THE PULFIT. - To the Editor of The Tribune. Cricaco, Jan. 29.—The only authority which any one can have for preaching the Gospel is hat durived from * The Great Commission,” or command given by Christ Himself, just upon His nscension. Of this commmission there are thbree accounts; aud of these each one differs frown the other two, but contradicts mneither. 1f they are all authentic, as all Bible believers ! -higion— That isaseriousmistake. ~“Thé morality | claim, we must. rezard themas supplementary to and corrobarative of each otber. So, to un- derstand this commission, we must take them all iuto conside: The first aceount fs miven in Matt., TXviii., 19 and 20, “Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Fatther, amd of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have cumclxanded you: undlo, I am with you alway, unto the ena of the world.” Weare told that these words were addressed to m.u eleven Apostles, and it is assumed that it applied to them alone, and to those whom they should elect as their successors; but this rule of interpretation not only revokes the ordination of the seventy who had been sent forth to preach, but confines all the blessings und precepts of the Sermon ou the Mount to those who were pres- ent aud heard them preached. Before accept- ing such rule, we turn to Mark’s history of this all-important commission, which we find in his Gosule, chap. xvi, verse 15 to the cnd: * And he said unto them, go ye into all the worla aud preach the Gospel to every ereature; . . . and these’signs shall follow them that belfeve. In my name shall they cast outdevils; they sball speak with new tongues; thev shall take up serpents, and if they dnnk any deadly thing it shall not hurt them,” ete. - This throws no new light on the question of who was commanded to preach; but, from the signs following, we are forced to believe that very little effective preaching has been done in the last seventeen centuries; and so, to learn the truth as to who it was that was commanded Lo preach, we turn to the account given by Luke in the twenty-fourth chapter of his Gospel, trom the forty-sixth verse to the end: * And He said unto them, thus it is written and thus it be- hooved Christ to- suffer aud to rise from the dead on the third day; uud that repentance and remission of sins should be prenched in His name among all nations, begiuning at Jerusalem, and ve are witnesses of these things, and behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from ou bigh, 4 ‘This recognizes the self-evident truth that cleven men could not preach to all the world, still the preaching wus 1o be doune, and, ad- dressing the preachers, He commands them Lo wait for “ power from on high.” As this power was the seal of the commissivn, we have only to learn whoreceived it in order to know who were commissioned to use it in preachung to all nations, and this we find in the first and second chapters of Acts, where we have a coucise his- tory of events closelv following the ascension, First, the resurrection is verified by accounts of Christ’s forty days’ intercourse with His Apos- tles, His promise that they should be baprized i with the Holy Ghost is given, and we are told 1hat they waited for this baptism before begin- ning the ministerial work; aiso, that they *““con- tinued in prayer with the wowen”; that the number of the disciples was * about an hundred and twenty,” and that “when the day ot Pen- tecost was fully come™ they were all with one aceord in one place; and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled all the house where thev were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, und it sat upon eact of them; and they were all filled with the tloly Ghost, and bezan 1o speak with other tonirues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Now, this must have been * the power from on high ” for which Christ commanded Ilis appointed preach- ers to tarry at Jerusalem.” This “ power ”” was Lhe seai of the Great Com- mission, and is it probable that the Ifoly Ghost affixed it to L0S counterfcits, or bits of bl parchment, and only to twelve bons fide di wents? 1f the command given to the eleven on the Mount of Ascension was addressed to them “personally,” aud not as the representatives of all the discioles in Jerusalem, then this 15 just what the Holy Ghost did. Now, I cannot be- lieve that Christ, the third person in the Trivity, acted at cross purposes, or without a perfect accord and mutual understanding. So Iassame and affirm that, in the scene on the Mount of Ascension, the Apostles occupicd the same relation to Christandall other believers that they did ou the Mount of Beatitudes; and that the command “Go thou and teach all nations, bapiizing them,” ete., is just as broad as the assertion, “Blessed are ye whenmen shali revile you.” So, the commission being given to all the disciples on the Mount of Ascension, und sealed on the day of Pentecost, the promise must hold good that Christ will be with the successors 0f all “until the end of the world.” Well, to o - back, and see who were the “all” whose .commissions were sealed by *‘cloven tongues tike as of fire” on the day of that first Pentecost, we find that the occurrence called to- - gother 'a large asscmblage of people, who ex- Peter, the orator of the Apostles, arosc and ex- plained! He poiated to the events passing be- fore them, events which so excited their aston- ishment, and said, * This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel,” and quoted the propheey thus: ** And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith Joel, I will pour out my spirit upc b ail flesh, and’ your sons and your doughters shall prophesy; and . . . on my servants and onmy handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, of my epirit, and they shall prophesy. Now, if the women, already spoken of as con- tinuing with the Apostles, had not been part of the all present, there must have been some other women who hiad_joinced the assembly and received the Divine seal of consecration fo the ministry. If there had not been women prophe- sying then and there, in sigbt and hearing of ihie muititude, Peter could not have pointed to thew as bis own authority for proclaiming * the last days™ of the Jewish dislmnsmou and the incoming of the reign of the Mesaia. Peter’s address would- have been verfectly pointless if the women in the assembly, thie daughters and handmaidens, had_been sitiing, silent spectators of the scene. That women did, on the day of Pentecost, receive the gift of the - Holy Ghost, is bevond question; that that gift wus * the power from on high,” the baptisin for which the commissioned preachers were com- manded’ to wait, is,also as pl i in as any fact in the early history of the Church: and it is nat- ural to conclude that the women whom Christ had before commissioned to teach the Aposties the tundamental truths of the Gospel were among those then aud there appointed to Jabor with them for: the conversion of “the world. During the three years that Christ walked and- talked with the Twelve, not onc of them came to understand His wission. They thought Ho w3s to be atemporal King, and when He was crucified they were in despair, uutil He com- missioned some women to o and teach them the fact of the resurrection. Havine choscn women for this, the moust important mission cver, given to mortal, He no doubt chose the same women among them whowm he formally comnissioned to “teach all nations, baptizini them in My name”’! and they were then teach- ing when Peter pointed 1o them, on the day of Pentecost, as the evidence of his own authority and that of the other Apostles, to proclaim the new Gospel. Well, this was the dayof Pentecost No. 1, inthe vear 33, and now, in the year of 1879, we have here in Chicago another day of Pente- cost, or a Pentecost No. 2, in whicl women are commanded to be silent in -the work of evange- lizing the world, and confine their contribu- tions to cash or something which can be con- verted into cash, to making the mectings ai- traclive by their presence, und sweiling the list of converts which shall reflect honor on and bring profit to the second Pentecost. Ifitis not too wicked to permita woman to ask questions in the press, after we have all been authoritatively sileoced in the prayer- meeting, I sbould like if you, or some of your readers, would tell weif this second Pénte- costian era is the beginning of the new dispen- sation, of whose coming we have heard so much, —the “new religion ™ which is to **supersede an effete Clristianity”: or is it only another ex- hibition of our Samson, captured and blind 1,400 years -ago by Philistines, who have eve since held. him prisoner and compelled hit to griod, in the mills of desvotism, grist atter grist. of masculine rule, and kingly rule, and eccle: tical rule, and to make the world a tleld of bluod that he migat bring bonor and profit to his captors. . hat cannot be Christ’s Gospel which silences the successors of the preachers He ordamed,— the laborers with whom e promised to be uatil wihe end of the world”; amd Mr. Pentecost might as well preach Mobamuedanisimn by way of Christianizing the world, s a8 Christianity which contradicts Chrst and sets aside lifs authority. JANE GREY SWISSHELAL PARTON’S RELIGION. 1T HAS NEITHER THEOLOGY NOR DOGMA. Last Wednesday evening Mr. James Parton delivered a lecture in New York on “The Com- ing Man’s Religion.”” Mr. Parton said rehieion was a difficult and distracting subject, and that 1ts history: can only be told in shrieks. There were to-day in this country 5,000,000 people to whom religion is the same as to Bridget in the kitehen, the compensation of taking the trouble tolive. “Itisachapter in natural listory,” said be, “and can'be studied only by Darwin, The prototype of all priests is found in the med- icine man on the Western plains, and the mass is seen in the performances of the Indians when they are about to go on a buffalo hunt. In Jo- seph Cook the old blood-red Cardinal lives again. On Besion Commoa be would calmly pressed various opinions on the subject; when - sit and sec the editor of a Liberal paper roast by aslow fire. If the peoble of New England had not been possessed by tercor they would nave laughedat Jonathan Ldwards, und he would augbed, und they would have bad a night And so there would bave been po West- of it. ley in England, no Whiteficld in this country, no Moody and Sankey in this city. It is not cer- tain who fnvented hell, but purizatory and the Madonuva were the inventions of the priests. To religion we owe the immeasurable blessing of Sunday. It is the best thing 4 man las pot, ten years in a lifetime of seventy years snatched from the grind of daily toil; und the religion of the future must preserve it. Ralph Waldo £m- erson came trom ancestors who were clergy- men, and there must be gomething good in a thing that could produce such a result. And the Sisters of Charity carry the Pope and the Church. Whatever there has been of good in the Catholic and Protestant Churches will sur- vive. Christinas and Easter are human wants. “Thic only question is, Who shall supply human wants? The Church supplics them after a fash- ion, but it bears the load of a number of obso- lete beliefs. The clergy themsclves are tn bondage. They cannot sy to their pupils, The Bible shackles und limits vou s it shackled and limited the people of the Middle Apes. [n evan- gelical schools or families you will find two thinos,—a lack of understanding between the old and the youug, #nd a certain morbid tend- ency to pernicious pleasures. Still it is terri- ble Tor children to ridicule the things their pa- rents hold in reverence.”” Ar. Parton then gave a graphic descriotion of & children’s meeting held by the Rev, Mr. Ham- mond, the revivalist, whom be deseribed as a “* Western auctioneer wanting to make $150 a night.” ‘The whole exhibition, he said, was hideous and horrible. Then Le described his at- teudance at a colléee meeting where twenty-one verses of Scripture were read to students, who hud the good sense not to listen to them; and he said there are only twoor three colleves in the country that can afford not to have a Doctor 6t Divinity in the Presidential chair. *'Ihe coming religion,” be continued, “ must induce a higher morality than the Christian re- ligion has iuculcated. Auy man who leads a clean lile at bome and abroadis a better man and a more intellizent man than any mere Christian. The gzreat trinmph is to produce val- uable wmen, to breed great men. ‘The coming man’s religion will have no theolozy in jt. Al questions as to the origin of things the coming man will pass over to Cornell or Harvard, where a clergyman 18 not a chief. 1t is not necessary either to assert or deny a deity. 1t is 2 matter not importaut. The coming man’s re- lgion will have nothing but _that which makes the forty-seventh article of Euctid binding unon the human race. ‘The coming man will be a democrat, stayinr at the bottom of the sovial scale with all the ereat; will be an aristo- crat, lord of himself and the servant of others. ‘The coming man will have religion, otherwise he need not come. So longr as life is life the virtuous portion of the race will need to act in concert, to cherish and warn each other. Man is u limited creature, excepting in_his capacity to suffer. Heuce the religion of the future will ‘have in it many hells. - We are now every hour expiating sins committed by our ancestors, und we are committing sios that in turn will be _ex- piated by our children. This is the only Hell. ‘The comiug religion will have its Heaven also,— to improve mankind in this life and in no other. ‘The coming man must form an organization of rational preachers, not those who devote their lives to a stody of the politics, geology, und theofory of uan {nsignificant province in Asia called Palestive. There must bea glorious re- vival of man’s love for man. Pope Leo XIIL is justified in tauntine the ivdustrial centres and saying, * 1f thut is all science und industry can do for wau, it it a sorry ‘triumph indeed.”” Re- Jigion is now disunited. The rich man goes to his big cathedral, the poor man to another place of worship. Butlet us help ourselves and oune another. -That is the whole of the coming man’s religion. It is said that women are ob- stacles in the way of the new relirion. They must have something positive—a congenial place of worship. Then let them see men rising above their low propensities, not aiscontented wita their lot but with themseives. Then they wiil Join you, and not till then, when the secular and 1inal religion is established. GENERAL NOTES. Boston ‘ culchah? has calminated in the establishment of & home’ for intemperate women. . Leo XIUT. has ‘seat ten Jesuit missionaries into the countriesydiscovered by Stanley. and Livingstone. The rum and missionary shipments from Bos- ton have a rival in an Amsterdam Sunday- school which is bicld in a brewery. The appointment of Cardinal Ferrieri to be Secretary of Briefs, to succeed Cardinal Asquini, has given great dissatisfaction to the Jesuits. The First Presbyterian Church of Soringfield, Mass., whose ulpit is now vacaut, is 242 years old, and has bad only eight pastors during its entire existence. E The Roman Catholics have been steadily losing ground in Holland us to numbers, though they have been gaining in political, mercantile. and scientific influence. The French Jesuits, fearfol that they may be expelled from the Gallic Republic, have written to thefr Capadian brethren asking for an asy- luw. The latter own property valued at over one million. The Edinburg Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland has passed 2 Tesolution recommending the Synod to declarc .that marriage with a deceased wife's sisier shall no jouger be a bar to membership in the Church. * ‘The Church Work of Cavada mives a list of 72 clerzymen wWho have come into the Episcopal Church from other denominations. The Cath- olics contributed 11, Methodists 22, Presbyte- rians 9, Congrecationalists 11, Baptists 9, Jews 2. The remainder came from the minor seets. The North Side Hebrew congrezation of this holds its services regmlarly under the roof of a Christian _church. Now a similar case has oc- curred in St. Louis; 2 Baptist conzreation hus Tost its church by fire, and . the Jewish Shaure Emeth congregation has offered it the use of the synagogue. The Unjon Swedenborgian Church opened Hershey Hall for evening service last Sunday with encouraging results. ~ The Rev. Mr. Mercer has announc.d a series of discourses on present issues in religions thought, waich called outa very fine audience. ‘T'he subiect for this even- iug will be *The Platform of the Fathers,” ‘The sunual meeting of the North Side Sun- day-School Association will be held at the Lin- coln Park Congregational Church, corner Sophia and Mohawk streets, Tuesday evening, Feb. 4. Addresses will be delivered by the Rev. C, N. Pond on “*Normal Class Work”; the R D. Shepard, pastor of Grace M. E. Churen, and E, Tayson Porter, on * Importance and Progress of Associated Sunday-School Work.” The oflicers Tor 1879 will ulso oe elected. 'he Episcopal Church has taken its work of civilizing and Christianizing the Indians out of the hands of its Foreign Missionary Committee, and pluced it in charze of the Committee on Domestic Worls. is recornizes the Indians as citizens und brethren, rather than reiarding them in the old wav as foreizners and heathen. By this change the machinery of collection and distribution is simplified aud the expeunses re- duced several thousund dollars. In the suit of William H. Gelsten, formerly Treasurer of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, io re- cover $1,342 loaned by him to the Church, the Jjury disugreed, standiog evenly divided. I the courseof the trial it came out that Arbuckle, the coruet-player, subscribed $500 to liquidating the church debt, with _the understamding th “frustees were to grive bim a beneti fuir, or something of the Kind in the Taberncl And this is the sensational way of joining mam- wou, musle, aud religion. : ‘e Buptist * Year Book” for 1879 reports the total membership of Baptist churches’ in the United States st 2,102,034, an increase of 77,810. The number of associations is 1,075,— increase, 27; of churches. 24,499, —increase, 5913 ol ordained ministers, 14,054, —~increase, 358, ‘The additions by baptism were 102,736; by letter, )y expericnce, 5,039; and by restoration, 13, The diminutions were 18,335 by death, 41,465 by letter, 30,266 by exclusion, and 6,823 by erasure. Georgia 1s still the banner State of the denomination, reporting 216,962 members. That Rev. Mr. McCune whose non-denomina- tional church at Cincionati created such a dis- turbance of Presbyterian peace, is now destined to make some of the Kansas ears burn, und some of the home-missionary ears arow red all along the full length of them. Tois bold bad man addressed postal cards to every Con- Zregatioval pastor in Kansas, to learn what was the population of = cach town and _ what the number of churches of the Evangelical order in each city, town, or vil- Jage. The replies have come in to such an ex- tent that be now feels ready to state that the averace attendance at ezch house of worsbip is fifty-six persons, and, iu_the opwion of bis bretbren, tuere are now 132 churches in a dis- trict which needs ooly fifty. That is to say, that the poor and struggling Christians of Kansas have built eighty churches more than was de- manded by the Gospel. Eighty churches. th: were asked for not by public nced, but by see- tarianism.—Alliance. The new lectionary has come into use in the Episcopal churches in England. Ten years azo & Rovai Comumission was appointed to revise the rubrics. ‘The Commission did the work, which was legalized by Parliament, und the usc of the new lectionary is now obligatory. Dean Stanley says it omits ‘disugrecable and norrible detail, bistorical accounts, long genealogies, and di tails of ceremonial and social law, wore interest- ing to the student than suitable for the ears of a_mixed congregation, and, on the other hand, gives portions of Scripture which bad been ommitted from the old Lessons. - § Vicar-General Bessoines, of Indianapolis, last week said, speakine of his little log church: ‘¢ t'ather Neirinck was a noted man in the Cath- Helived at Bards- olic Church in 1ts early day townin 1 y and told parishioners that when bitten by rattlesnakes they shoula come to him to be cured. He gave no medicine; merely blessed them, and they departed cured. After'he had left there and gone to the Far West, it is said the bells chimed one midnight without the help of inortal hunds, und it was found that he had died at that very hour fn his uew location. Ah, he was a smnt.” _There were some men who would sooner be- lieve that the Devil was a saint than that a Catholic was a good man. All the virtues of a Koman Catholic went for nothing, 1f an angel were to come and trumpet their excellencies, so long as they had the name of Catholic on them the” apgel might trumpet for nothing. So it was with some men toward a Unitarian or a Universalist. ‘T'hese men had o the armor of doctrine, and they would wot be persuaded. Meu justificd doing fora party ora seet that which they would b ashamed to do personally. There were multitudes of men who would scorn to tell a personal lie, but would tell a party lie. * Beecher. The Bisbops of Caithness and Edinburg have consented to act as the spiritual heads of Pere Hyacinthe’s new Gallican Church, which has just been sanctioned by the French Govern- ment. ‘Che movemcat has excited the greatest {uterest in Buglund, where subscriptions have been and are being made for the support of Pere Hyacinthe und Lis Church. Its pumerous fricnds are waiting auxiously for the opening of thie public services which will_probably begin toward the end of the month. Priests apolyiniz to assist are not wanting in numbers, but the quality often leaves much to disire, and Pere Hyacinthe will accept only those who are sound in faith and morals. Some of the hizher clergy and it is said even Bishops in the Roman Com- munion are said to sympatbize secretly with the movenent. A couple of weeks ago the Baptist ministers of New York neld a meeting at which was read an essay on the Revelation of St. John, by the Rev. G.W. Samson, of Harlem, who held that the “heast” meant temporal nower, and that the Romaun Church in arrogating to herself temporal power had taken upo berself the curses men- tioned by St. John. The Rev.Dr. Fulton, of the Centennial Church in Brooklyn, took issue, and said that the beast was not a principle but a person. Ile then launched into a side issue, attacking Dr. Samsoo’s political attitude durini the War, and sayiog that * he had never opened his moutn to say onc word in favor of iberty.” ‘The meeting called him to order and demanded @ retraction, which he aeclived 1o make, He was accordingly suspended from the privileges of the Conference by a vote of 50 to 12 until he recants. And the brethren are very unhappy over the scandal which has been created. The American Israclite of this week says the popular story recently repeated, that the Jews are engaged in purchasing Palestine, is not true. Jhe Jews themselves have uever heard of it. Nothing has been published iv any Jewish jour- nal warranting the story. The Zsraelite says it is “not very likely that oue would purchase all the Druises, Arabs, Bedouins, thieves, and rob- bers of Palestine on a speculation.” The Jew- ish millionaires of Europe, the Jsraeite says, “oceasionally spend a few thousand dollars in charity or in religious institutions, which is well reported in the newspapers,” uand “we never mg much use for our manifold millionaires,” and— All the manifold millionaires of Europe do not spend a million of dollars per annum on charity. You may count every penny they spend in Jewish _affairs, it will neveramount to that. Al the Jew- ish scholastic institutions in the world, from the Iichrew Union College of Cincinnati, or the Buda- Pesth Rabbinical Seminary, up to the oldest Insti- tution of that description, none has a legacy from the very rich to show. Lasy Monday evening the bouse of Dr. L. S. Major, No. 160 Forest_avenue, was the scene of a pleasant yet somewhat sad reception and sep- aration.between the pastor and people of the South Park Avenue Christian Charch. Early in September of last year the Society was orzanized by the Rev. W, D. Owen, who has until now oc- cipied the pastorate, which position he was ou account of ill-health foreed to resigu. ‘The con- grepation was not. onc to allow their sincere Iriend and his vstimable wife to go from their midst without taking with them some token of their love znd esteem. Consequently, when the clock on Dr. Major’s mantel announced the nour,of 10, there was a good deal of pleasant expectancy expressed on the faces of the com- pauy. Tl revercnd gentleman and his wife were apparently undesignedly brought together in the front parlor, facing Melvin McKee, Esq., who thercupon presented Mr. Owen with a beautiful gold-headed came, and Mrs. Owen witn ~ an elezant gold waten and chain, both appropriately . inscribed. “I'he surprise was complete, but the pastor soon coutrolled his feelings suflicicutly to express his appreciation in woras so kind and affectionate, it is safe to say there were few dry eyes present except those of a cast-iron reporter and un ir- religious lawyer. Mr. Owen retires from the pulpit to practice law at Crawfordsville, 1nd., where he takes with bim the kind wishes of hosts of friends, both iu and out of the delight- ful congregation of wbich he was the worthy teacher and leader. PERSONALS. Queen Victoria celebrates the feast of the Epiphany by proxy. Henry Ward Beecher’s advice to those about to send up pulpit notices: “Don’t.” The Rev. J. A. Wilson, of St. Louis, was re- cently fined $300 for umiting in marriage a couple under age. The Rev. A. West, Presbyterian, of Puth Valley, has been cliosen as Chaplain of the Penusylvania State Senate. ‘The Rey. Lucien H. Adams, who has been a8 Syrian missionary for twelve years, hasreturned to this country for a vacation. ‘The Rev. Francis Mansfield, late Rector of St. Andrew’s Chureh, in this city, has received a catl from Trinity Church, Philadelphia. The rumor that Dr. Tait, the Archbishop of . Canterbury, is about to resizn proves to be un- true, as he declares he has uo such inteution. Max Moscs, a young Iebrew of Cincinnati, was received into the Baptist Communion Sun- doy night, by immersion, in the Ninth Street Church. The Rev. W. J. O'Brien, of Geneva, will be ordained priest in the Cathedral of S8. Peter and Paul by Bishop McLaren ‘this morning at 10:30 o’clock. Bishop Seymour, of Springfeld, (L. recently tendered the precentorship of the Cathedral to Canon Knowles, of this diocese. The latter feit oblized to declino the call. The Boston Gazelte fears that the Rev. W. H. JL. Murray, who is now sojourning in this city, will abandon “the staid. stately, und slow Bos- ton™ for the “flavor of life in Chicago.” ‘fhe Rev. Aaron Willinms, D.D., s well- known Presbyterian pastor and teacher. died recently at Economy, Pa., aged 72 He was guthor of a book on the women of the Bible. 'he Rev. W. T. Wylie, having for some time suceessfutly administered the affairs of Wilson College, Chambersburs, Pa., now goes to But~ ler, Pa., ‘to be pastor of the Presbyteran Church of that place. ‘The Rev. C. T. Haley, who has been pastor of the ltoseville (N. J.) Presbyterian Church for the past ciznteen years, resienced bis charge iast Sabbath marping.” Faiting health and need of rest imperatvely demunded this action. “Frimity Ketormed Episcopal Church, Indianapo- lis, to become their pastor, has accepted and en- tered upon hus work. i It is uoderstood that the Bishop of Peter- ‘borough is to be transferred to the vacant Bish- opric of Durham, and that ibe Rev. Teign- mouth Shore will succeed him as Bishop of Peterborough. The latter Bisiopric_bas an incoe of $22,000, and that of Durbam, S10,000. K ‘The ultra pious members of Dr. Hepworth's chureh accuse ‘him of keeping a circus m bis study, the *‘circus” consisting of dumb-bells, trapeze, and Indian clubs, with which ve devel- ops bis muscular Christianity. According to their ideas, there would be no bope for salva- tion if Le were to indulze in a grarae of cricken, :an :z;!le almost habitual practice of the English The Rev. Eugene A. Frueauff, of Betblehem, Pa., a prominent Moravian minister, is dead, ab the age of 72 He was elected last fall as oue of the delegates to the General Synod at Herrn- hut, Germany, naviog been also o member of the last Gencral Synod, which met in 1867, He bad charge many years of Linden Hall, a do. nomnational school. % SACRED SMILES. Adam was the 15t man to enter the garden, although he went 4th from it.— Whitehall Tirmes, A correspondent asks: “Does Darwin’s de- scent of man throw any light on Adam’s fall?™ Some wicked wretch suggests that Deacons he ' compelled to use a bell-punch when they take up coliectiona in the church. Distinguished divine (to recent convert): “We propose to baptize you by the Turkish bath method. It is really the only means to scrub your years of sin out of you." “\What a poor man, brethren,” said a South- ern preacher, “was the Apostle Matthew! We read that ne was & gatherer of tacks,—aman who picked up waste tacks fora living " A New Haven pastor wrote, in an abstracted *moment, for the newspapers an announcement of his Sunday sermon on the Third Person of the Trimty, und it was published as he had written it—** On the Holyoke Ghost.” An anecdote is told of a Judge, profane .and irritable, who never let a meal pass without a sonorous invocation upon the repast. Once be rebuked a deal ruest who inuocently iuter- rupted him while thus engaged, as follows: “1)Znit,don’t you sec that I am saying graced” When the Philistine goes to the charch fair and sees the mimster draw the Shakspeare, the minister’s wife the set of furs, his daughter the piano, the senior deacon the norse und carriage, aud he sexton a barrel of flour, he cowes away sadly contident that he knows why the beathen so furiously rage together. Great erief certainly does produce confusion ofideas, and the worst thing a mancan do under such circumstances s to attempt to write po- etry. Let us illustrate: She was auch . Jittle scraph that her father, who 13 Sherifl, Really docun't seem to care if he never smiles again. She bas gone, we hope, to Heaven, at the early age of seven (Funeral starts off at11), where she'll never more have pain, One of Dr. Acland’s sovs, when alittle boy, used to zet divinity teaching from Dean Burgon, then simply Mr. Burzon. ‘Ihe good clergyman one Sunday went turough the story of John the Baotist to the child. He parratcd with great desterity aud at length the details of the prophet’s dress, aud his habits in eating avd drinking. Having tried to depict a living _por- trait of the strangely-clad ascetic, he said, cheer- fully, “ And now, it you met Jobn the Baptist in the ¢ High,? would you know bim?” The child thought a moment, and answered: “No, I shouldn’t know him; 1 should cut him.” CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach at 10:45 3. m. at the Forty-firat Streat Church, corner of Praitic avenae. —The Rev. Dr. Halsey will presch at 10:30 a. m. in the Fullerton Avenue Charch; the Rev. Mr. Currens at 7:30 p. m. —Prof. G, L. Raymond will lectare at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. atthe Fitfh Presbyterian Church, corner of Indians avenue and Thirtieth street. Subject for evening: **The Formative Elementa of Prescnt Society. —The Rev, Artnur Mitchell will preach at 10:30 a. m. at the First Church, corner of Indiana ave- wue and Twenty-first street, and at 5 p. m. &t the Railroad Chapel, No. 715 State street. —The Rev. J. Munro Gibson, pastor, will preach ‘moruing and evening at the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenne and Twentieth strect. —The Rev. A. E. Kitiredge, pastor, will adm ister the Sacrament at 10:30 this morning at the Third Churca, corner Ashiand and Ogden avenaes. Evening sermon at 7:30. —fhe Rev. John Abbort French, pastor, will preachat 10:45 4. . and 7:45 p. m. st the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Superior atreets. —Prof. Francia L. Pation, pastor, will preach at 10:30 0. m. and 7:30 p. m. 2t the Jefferson Purk Church, corner of West Adams und Throop streets. Evening suoject: **The Objecuve Side or Salva- lon. " 'he Rev. J. M. Worrall, pastor, will preach at 10:30 & m. and 7:30 p..m. at the Eighth Church, carner of West Washinzton and Robey streets. —The Rev. E. N._Barrett, pastor. and admimster the Sacrament at 10:: e Westminster Charch, corner of Jackson and Peoria streets. Memorial services of 3rs. E. N. Barrett at7:30 p. m. —The R James Maclanghlan, pastor. will ‘preach morning and evening at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon and Adsms streets. CONGREGATIONAL. The Kev. E. F. Williams will preach at the ‘Forty-ifth street school-house morning and even- g, he Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Plymouth Church, ichigan avenue, between Twenty-ifth and Twenty- sixth strcets. —The Rev. E. P. Goodwin, pastor, will preach £10:30 a. m. at the Firet Church, corer of Ann and West Washington streets. Evening service Conducted by the revivalists Pentecost and Steb- ins. —The Rev. C. A. Towle, pastor, will preachat 10:45 0. m. at Bethany Church, corner of Paulina and West Huron strcets. Evening sermon by K. A. Burnell, the evangelist, receatly recarned from 2 trip around the world. —The Rev. George 11, Peeke will preach morning and evening at the Leavitt Street Church. METIIODIST. The Rev. Mr. Pentecost will preach at-10:30 this morning, at Centenary Church, West Monror, near Morzan street. Evening sermon by the Rev. Dr. Thomas. - 3 —The Res. E. M. Boring will preach morning and cvening at the State Street Church, near For- ty-seventh strect, —Mrs. F. Willing preaches to-day at Em- manuel Church, corner of West Harrisun and Paulina strects. Morning subject: **Frecd Peo- ple.” Song service 1n the eyening, —The Rev. Itobert D. Shepoard will preach morning tud_evening in Grace Charch., corner of “Norta LaSalle .and White streets, Morhing sub- «“Suffering ond Strength.” Evening sup- Are These Things S ject I ne ‘Tev. o M., Caldwell preaches moruing and eventng at the Western Avenue Church, cor- ner Monroe street. —Mrs. Jennic H. Caldwell preaches at the Michi- gan Avenne Church morning and evening, aud every cventug uring the week, F. Crafis will preach at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Trinity Charch, Indiana ave- nue, near Twenty-fourth strect. The Tennessee- ans will assist in'the evening scrvice. ‘The Rev. S. I Adams, pastor, will preach morning and evening ot the Ada Street Church, between Lake and Fulton etreets. Wakeman wili preach at 10:30 s. m. and 7:30 p. m. &t the Jackson Street Churcn. sby strect. v. T. C. Clendenning will preach at 10:530 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at tne Langley Avenue Church, corner of ‘Tlurty-ninth strect. —r3. Bumnell, 2 lay evangelist, will speak at 10:30 a. m. ‘at Park Avenue Church. The chicugo Praying Bund will conduct the evening services. —The Rev. BAPTIST. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson, D.D., will presch at1la. m. sud 7:30 p.m. at the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-Grst strect. All the members and friends of the church are regnested to be present, the occasion being one of special interest to the church. —Thne Rev. John Peddie will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Second Church, corner MMorean and West Monroce streets, —The Rev. J. W. Custiswill preach at 10:30 a. m. at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twen- 1y-third street. ‘he Rev. E. B. Hulbert will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. atthe Fourth Church, corner West Washington and Paulina streets. [be Rev. A. Owen will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the University Place Church, corner Donglas place and Rhodes avenue. -~The itev. Robert P. Allison will preachat10:45 . m. and 7:30p. m. at tne North Star Charch, corner Division and Sedgwick strecty. —The Rev. C. Perren will preach at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. st the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue. * —The Rev. E. K. Cressey will preach at 10:30 8. m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Coventry Street Church, corner of Bloomingdale road. _ | —~The Re: De Daptiste will preach at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. at Olivet Church, Fourth av- enue, near Taylor street. © ~The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach at 11 a.m. &t South Cburch, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets. ! —The Rey. C. E. Hewitt will preach at 10:30 . and b, m. at Centenuial Cnurch, corner of Lincoln and West Jacksun streets. - —1The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will oreach at 1 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Central Churca, No. 200 Orchard street, near Soohia street. fhere will be services at 7:30 p. m. st the The Rev. Underwood, D. D., M. D., of R Fairfux, Ve, a0 o clergvindn of the Methodist | Taveracle, No. S0z \Wabteharcune. | o 50 Episcoral Church, baving received a call srom | , ~abe Reve &5 QA Mepm mll B gy e Cl , corner ‘Thirty-dixth street. O Coeve L. G, Ciark. will presch at 7:10 at the Twenty-ifth Street Church, near Wentworth avenue. ~ I ev. C. Swift will preach at10:45 o. m. and r—"?mnp. m. at Evangel Church, Rock Island OO ov. W. 3. Kermott will preachat1l a. m. and 7:30 p. m. 8L the Halsted Screet unarch, petween Forty-frst and Forty-second streets, EPISCOPAL. Rt. Rev. Bishop McLaren will offictate this morsagat the Cathedral, corner of West Wash- ington and Peoria streets. _ [loly Communion at d4u.m. At 7:0p. m. the Kt. Rev. Dr. Welles, Bishop of \Wisconsin, will Jecture "upon ** Re: miniscences of England, and the recent Lambeth Jonference. 7. e ev. Samael §. Harns, Rector, willof- 9 ficiate 3t 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘at St. James® Charch, corner_of Haron and Cass strects, = Holy Communion at12m. —The Kev. E. Sullivan, Rector, will oflciate at 10:45a.m. and 7:30 p. w. at Trinity Church, corner of ‘Twenty-sixth street and Miclugan avenge. Holy Commanion at 12m. '—The Rev. leary G. Perry will ofiiciate at 10:30 2. m. and.7:20 p. m. at St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washiozton and Robev streets, ~—The Rev. J. Bredberg, Rector, will eficiats at10:30a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at St. Ansgarivs’ Church, Sedgwick strect. near Chicazo avenue. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, Rector, will officiate” 2t10:10 0. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Grace Charch, Wabash avenue, mear Sixteenth street. Holy Commuaion at 12 m. . j —The Ktev. Arthur Ritchic, Rector, will officiata at1la. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Church of the Ascension, North LaSslle near Elm streeta. Hoty Communion at¥a. m. ° —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester, Rector, will oficiate at 11a. m. and 73350 p. m. atSt. Paut's Church. Hyde Pack avenne, between Forty-niuta snd Fiftieth streets. —The Rev. E. F. Fleetwood, Itector, wil! officiate 2w, and 7:30 p. m. at St Murk's Church, Cottage Grove avenue, corner uf Thirty- sixth aireet. —The Rev. G. F. Cashman, Rector, will ofliciate at10:30 a. m. and7:30 p. m. 'at StJohn'’s Choreh, Johneon sireet, between Taylor and Twelth he Rev. Luther Pardee, Rector, will ofticiate 8t10:80 5. m. #nd 7:0 p. m. a Calvary Charch, Warren avenue, between Oakley strest and West~ etn avenne. loly Communion at 11:60a. m. Ree. T. N. Morrison, Rector, will 0 p. m.'at Epiphany Church, Throop street, between Monmrve and Adam3 Streets. The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate at11s. . and 7310 p. m. at the Church of Our Savior, ncoln and Belden avenaes. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. shoo Cheney will preach at10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. at Christ Church, corner of JMichigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Morninz sito- ject: **A Well in Drought.’ Evening topic: -* Low Do I Know that Christianity Is Not_ the Work of Impostorsor Fanntics>" being the third of » course of lectures on tae evidencen of Christianity. —The Rev. J. A. Fisher will preach at 3:13 p. m. at the Charch of the Good Shepherd, corner of Joresand Homan streets. —The lev. F. W. Adams will preach at 11 a. . 2t St. Mathew’s Charch (Masonic Hall) corner of North Cjark and Centre streets. ev. R. 1. Bosworth will preach at 10:: m.at Tripity Church (Tillotson's Hall) Englewo 1. M. Collison will presch ac 10:30 p- m. at St. Paul's Church, corner ziou and Carpenter streets.’ Even- subject: ** Socrutes and Chri the Rela- tion'of Morals to Christiunity. " —The Rev. M. D. Church will preach at 1 a.m.ana7:43 p. m. atSt. John's Church, Eilis avenae, near Thirty-seventh street. Evening 100~ * The Murriaze of the King's Son.™ ir. . H. Burke will couduct the services at 10:45 3. m. and 7:3(} p. m. inGrace Churck, cor- er of Hoyne and LeMoyne streeta. UNITARIAN. The Rev. T. B. Forbush will preach momningzand evening at the Church of the Messiah, corner Michi- gan avene and Twenty-third street. —The Kev. Robert Collyer will preach at 3:30 this afternoon at the Third Churen, corner West Monroe and Latlin streets. —The Rev. James Kay Applebee will preach at 11 a. m. at the Foorth Church, corner Prairie avenue and Thirtiet street. Subject: ** Positivus, TRespousibilities, and Dufies of Free Keligious Teachera, " UNIVERSALIST. - The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach this morning at the Churchof the Redecmer, commerof West Washington and ¥angamon streets, Vestry scrvice in the evening. —Tbe Rev. Dr. Ryder preaches morning and eveningin St. Paal's Courch, Michizan avenue, be tween Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. CHRISTUN. Elder M, N. Lord will preach at 10:45a. m., and Elder [I. V. Keed at 7:45 p. m., at the Second Church, Oakley avenue, between Adams and Juck- £on streets. —The Rev. W. P. Manpin will preach mornisg and eveniog at the First Church, corner of lndisna avenue and Twenty-fifth strect. —The Rev. A..J. Laozhlin will preach at 10:45 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the church corner of West- ern avenue and Congress street. Evening subject: **Sin and Salvation.™ y —The Rev. G. F. Adams will preach morning and evenicg in the Church corner of Sonth Park avenue and Thirty-third streets. . LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmnnd Belfoor will preack at 11 a. m. at the Evangelical Charch, corner of Dear- born avenne and Erie street. NEW JERUSALEM. ‘The Rev. W. F. Pendicton will preachat1la. m. ' at the Lincoln Park Chapel, North Clark near Me- nominee street. —The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preachat 11 a. m. and 8 p.m. at Union Charch (Hershey Music-Tail). Evening subject: ** The Platform of the Future.™ INDEPENDEST. ‘The Rev. 3r. Pond will conduct the celebration of the Lord's Supper this moroiug at the Chicago Avenue (Moody's) Church. Evening sermon by Mr. W. De Goiyer. 3% —Tae Rev. N. F. Raviin will preach in the Gospel Taberpacle, 381 West Mldphnn =treet, at 10:45a. m. Judge Layton preaches at 7:45 p. m. SPIRITUALISTIC. Mrs. Cors L. V. Ricamond, trance-spesier, will condnzt the services at J0:45a. m. and 7:45 D.m. at the church corner West Monroe and Laflin streets. —C. Fannie Allyn will jectore at 3 p, m. to- day to the Spiritoal Conference at Athenzum Hall, No. 50 Dearborn street. JUSCELLANEOUS. The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst will preach at 3 p. m. at the chapel of the Washi ‘ashingtonian H ~'—+'Reunion and_Liberty 2t the hall : No. West Madiaon street, at2:30 p. m. Topic. Atractive Civil Government the An Best.™ —The Children's Progressive Lyceam meets at 10:30 p. m. at the lecture-room af the church corner Moaroe snd Laflin streets. —Eider Raymond will preach atla. m.and 7:30 p. m. at Burr Mission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenue. —The Rev. Alexander Munroe, pastor, will 0 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Unlon ‘Tabernacle, corner of Ashland avenue ana Twea- tieth street. —The Rev. A. Youoker, pastor, will preach morning and evening at the West Side Tabernucle, corner of Morzan and Indisna streets, - -—Calvin Pritchacd, of Indiznapolis, will officiata in the Fricnd's Mecting-House, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-sixth strect, at 10:30 2. m. % —Dr. Mathewson preaches in Green Street Taber~ Dacle morning and evenics. —L. 0.Wilson will investigate **Col. Ingcrsoll's Religious Views" at 3 p. m. in hall 381 West Madison street. —The Rev: A. J. Loughlin, of Indiana, will Tiold a series of Gospel mectine® in the Christiaa Chuech, corner of Western avenue and Congress etrects, during ench evening of the present week. TEMPERANCE. 3 The Women's Christian Temperance Tnion holds daily Gospel mectings at Lower Farwel: Hall, en- tranicea No. 150 Madison street and No. 10 Arcads court. The leaders for the week are: Monday, Mrs. L. A. Haguns; Tuesday, Mre. ‘L. B. Care Wednesday, Mru, 1i. S. Furbuabi: Thursduy, Mrs. C. IL. Case; Fridsy, Miss L. E. F. Kimoall; Sator- day, Mrs. W. Y. Miller. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Feb. 2- Fourth Sunday after Epipbany; Parifca ; cation of tte B. V. AL Feb. 7—Fast. CATHOLIC. Feb. 2—Fourth Sunday after Epipbany; Purifica- cution of the B. V. M.—Candlemas- ay. Feb. 3-8t Afinise, B. M, Feb. $—St. Andrew Corsini, B, C. Feb. 5—5t Johu of Matha, C. DON'T LABOR WI'TSH YOUR HANDS, MY Don't Iabor with your hands, my boy— No **Gentleman ™ will do ic; Of plows, and planes, and spades, be coy, And you will never rue it. No **Lady” smiles upon & man Whose hands are hard and dirtys ‘With idle men soc’li play and plag, And pe a little flirty. 8o, if you find you are inclived To things 1n 8ilks and satin, Then 1 your books employ your mird, And stady Greex and Latin. * The workingman can’t make it pay, Can't make tne dollars jingle, Lize one whose name o'er the doorway “ " 1a branded on a shinzle. From labor rested, yoa will fecl .~ Your keeping. and be spunky, Have **cheek,” play **fast,” and tum a resl As graceful as a monkey. Ome *‘case™ a week, an hour or two, Will pay all your expenses; ‘While he who woriks the #ix daya thrqogh iz less, with worried senses. Go be apriest, and feed the fold, Beneath a tow'ring steeple, On truth once mesw, now stale and cold, To pleae unthinkinz people. The workineman s uncouth and **green,™ No time for mental training, In *+good society”* ne'er seen, The butt of wits' profaning. Don't be a fool, and moralize On things that can't be mended; Be wise t0-day, and seize the prize While pride and grace are slended, Take my advice, my boy, and tarn ‘Away from manual labor, And witn your mind a liviog earn - From sweat-rops of your neighbor. WesT Gnovz, la. Wisest and . Uscotzn BTazic, e R g b st