Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1879, Page 9

‘YHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, RELIGIOUS. An Earnest Plea for More Fire and Activity in the Fewish Pulpit. To Hope of the Race Becoming Fxtinct Until the Arrival of the Diessiah, Trreconcilability of the Various Docirines of the Atonement with the New Testa- nient. éhndéy—School Teachings---A * Criticism on Last Sun- day’s Critic. How the Moderns Might Have Written the Scriptures in Ancient Times. Qeneral Notes, Personals, Sunday Small Talk, Services To-Day. THE JEWISH RACE. TRE WISSION OF GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. T TRIDUNE, a coup'e of weeks ago, gave a summary of some articles by the Rev. Dr. Fel- sentbal 01 the subject of the Jewish race and the Jewish creed. The matteris one which is just mow exciting general attention among Jews, and there ure left but few of the Rabbis | inthis city who have not touched upon it. Two weeks aco the Rev. Dr. Kohler, of the Sinai Churen, preached on this subject, taking as his starting point Abraham, the prototype of the Jewish race. After referring to the grand pict- ure of Abraham as drawn by the master hand of Isracl’s inepired writers, to his following God’s bidding without swerving, to his leaving Mis country, his birth- place, and his home, commissioned br God to restore the true faith of man and his Creator, to renew the broken covenant between the numan soul andits Maker, and to reunite 1be huwan family around its Divine centre, be went on to state that this mirror of 2 mission- ary of God reflected the image of the Jewish race.” The Jewish people were intrasted by God with the mission of propagating His truth over the globe. For this purpose they were driven away from their native soil and scattered to the four winds. In every land and under every sky they were to build sanctuaries unto God, Jike Abraham, and to make His great pame koown unto the world. Why, it was gsked, did not Judaism to-day, like its two dauchter relizions, Mobammedanism and Curistianity, send out missionaries to conquer e world. if oot by sword and fire, at least by words of persuasion—by the help of pulpit and press? Why did they act like misers, with- holdine their spiritual treasures irom the world 3s a privilege 1o distinguish them as the chosen People of God trom the rest of mankind? The charge was uotrue. Their ancestors, even at the risk of life, did not shrink trom oiering {heir truths to their fellow-men. To-day, how- over, the Jewish pulpit was sadiy neclected by jts own adberents, who ought to imitate the example . of their Christian bretiren in making efforts to bring their doctrines and Yiews .home to cach and evers soul. There ougnt to be and must be a_great revival all alope the Jewish line. But it was one thing to impart the truth to others by teaching, and =n- other 10 jmposo iaith upun them as Cbris- tiapity and Islamism did. Jewsdid not rezard the claims to fature bliss and happiness as de- peodagt upon what men believed, but npon what they did and how they lived. Thus Abra- bam was nor. represented as fulfilling ali the laws and statutes Incumbent upon Ysrael. bie excelled " in human Vir- tues, however: he was_ charitable 10 all men, shunned avar.ce, and dismissed all rezard for self. Abrabam was 3 troe of true mmauhood, but he knew of no other revelation then that of his own brinciples, he had no other commandments than those girven 1o ail men. Yet be was as mnuch entitled to eternal lile as ll those whose catechisms of beiief and rules of practice were much larger than bis own. God did not loois at the creca but at the deed. This was pot 3 new _doctrine revealed by the ethico- culturists of New York, but an old Jewish principle. Why_should the Jews start whole- sale propacandas outside of the pale of Judasm to make proselytes by the thousandés! Truth did "not ~count by numbers. Itwas due to a strict adherence to 1he tenets of their religion alone thut the Jews were a people of thinkers, and that Judaism poseessed its mental vigor and freshness and uo- Qisputed intellectual superiority over other sects. The days of persecution were over, how- cver, and what the Jews lacked to-day was not liebt, but fire: not new cardnal truths, but new generations of men to_conquer, to carry them aloft and represent them by noble lives and deeds. What was wanted was not a reformed religion but reformed people. Yet at sucha time a5 this the local and weckly papers offered 1be suggestions of men oceupying prowinent posiions in the Jewish pulpit for the Jews to renounce their mission as guardians _and teach- ers of the Jewish inspinng faith in God and of man, ard exchanee it for cthbico-cultural socie- ties, whose purpose seemed to be to discharge churches and temples and build poor-houses, and to aim at nothing but the material amelior- stion of socicty. The downright failure of Buddbism and Confacianism was due to their neglect to give the race a living God as the io- spiring ideal of morality. It was to be regret- ted that Rabbis of influence hsve so far forgottc and kpowledge of Je »o longer se¢ the di 2 prayed 10 the all-providing, just and benien God of Abraham and Moses, or beheld in God werely & supremie cause Or & Supreme mol Theonly parpose of the Jewish race, but for which it woald lonz aco have ceased to exist, was the preservation of the true lofty idea of a God bizh and holy, vet condescending to mau in merey and Jove. In anpouncing its impending doom, Felix Adler only followed the lost. conse- quence of his unbelief; it was anything but con- sistency ip a Jewish Rabbito denvunce retormed Judaism for haviug, ior the sake of the glorifica- oo of its faith, adopted a few customs of ap- perent nonJewish character and origin, and in one and the same breath to encourage inter- marriaze, and a _ thorough amalgamation of Jews with Gentiles on the broad gromed of a bottomless, unprincipaled, Unsectarian cosmooolitanism. Judaism would never be made a laughinz-stock by radieal re- formers Jike these. No Goubt, like ali other reesand sects, Judaism would at last march into the grreat oceanof humanity: but only when the preat Messianic dav apiearcd, when man- Lind was united under the bauncr of one God, wonld the Jewish race cease. Amidst the rise sud fali of ideas und civilizations the Jews were 0 zuard the pledze and trust of God’s revela- tion and -salvation for all nations whose lan- giapes they spoke. Not misgling their blood with the Geatiles, but upbolding_for them the light of a universal revelation of God by reason and faith and the promise of a time of common brotherhood - und fetlowship. to be established by their own eradual improvement of socicty, they were 10 be the cosmopolitan missionaries of & religion of bumanity. THE ATONEMENT. TARIOUS THEORIES ANTAGONIZED. To the Editor of The Tribune. Carcaco, Feb. 14.—The atonement, as a doc- trine, has, within a few mouths, attracted un- usual attention. The various theories that have been put forth have claimed a Scriptural sup- vort. 1 venture to sugzest that the New Testa- ment does not furnish any determinable theory beyond the general truth that Cbrist was, in some real and potent sensc, a sacrifice for the sins of the world. The ovinion of the theologians, it ought 0 .be understood, are derived from specuiative Thilosophy, rather then from the interpretation of the record by such princioles as are of uni- versal acceptation. 1 do mot say that their theorics are untrue, but that they have none of that peculiar warrant which the Bible has over the conclusions of reason. One affirms that, as Gud1s a father, there is no need of a mediatar. FEBRUARY 16, 1879—-SIXTEEN PAGES. i 9 Another affirms that. as God is a righteons law- giver, the - sinner must be punished, or some _otl)cr person must be punished in his stead. It is a mistake to suppose that thesc aflirmations have any authority bevond the intelligence of the persos who have made them. And if it turns out that a theory of the atonement is formed onm Scripture interpreted by the principle aflirmed by cither of these parties, it is clear that the theory ought to be acknowledeed to be sentimental, or tradi- tional, or specuiative, rather than Biblical. That is to say, sentiment, or teadition, or phi- losophy are, after all, the foundation-stones of the building. - Let this be advertised and made plain, and then hearer and preacher will be in right rela- tion to one another. Let it be covered up, and the church-zoer is left to suppose that he is listeniny to Scripture, when in fact he is hav- ing a drill, better or worse, in the school of Aristotle, or Abelard, or Thomas Aquinas, or Hobbs, or Cudworth, or Locke, or Hamilton, or some other of the great thinkers of the world. It seems to me that it is high time tbis adver- tisement were put forth by the O1d-School theo- Jogians; hizh time that they made this distinc- tion between revealed and scientific theology, which is largely a distinction between divine autbority and speculation. Orthodoxy is quite inclined to oppose Liveralism on accoust of its 100 frec use of the wisdom of this world. It seems to bave forgotten, or perhaps never to have known, that Old-Scnool theories are open to_precisely the same objection. Whether siu be a finite or an infinite evil; whether the justice of God or His diznity de- mands this or that reparation for a broken law; what grade of being could, if God please, act the part of Savior to mankind, sre pure ques- tions of philosophy, the Bible giving no unswer to them. Whether a view of the atonement is true beeause it fits into an elaborately-con- structed system of divinity is only a question of speculative, theology, which ought to be answered as such; the answer therefore being given to the m-oflr: ou its own merits, and not as the dictum of the Bible. ! B «The old-school view™ of the atonement has a certain clean-cut aspect which is more or less captivating; and because it is framed outside of 1lie record «nd is backed by philosophy of syl- logism. The more modern views of the evan- grelical ‘schools are mainly an aflirmation of a fact, and because the New ‘Iestament hardly goes bevond the fact, and it is understood that, if the doctrine of an atonement is to be believed at all, it is to be believed on a divine warrant. There is oulv one passage in the whole range of the New Testament which, so far as T know, even scems to look towards a theosophical ex- position of the relations of justice and mercy. It is the famous text of Paul (Rom. 2 fil., 25), “That God mizht be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” Now, if it were the intent of the New Testament to teach a the- olozy so precise and definite, so lozical and theosophical ns is sometimes suoposed, it is re- markable that the Book whose burden is the world’s hope by the cross should have only one short sentence to convey the inlying sceret of the divine government. Christ soeass of Him- self as the zood shepherd who gives his life for the sheep: but no evangelist records any saying of His on the judicial sccret ol His death. Peter, Jumes, John, and Luke, all have much to say of redemption, but not a word on the the- osophical reasoas for tne death of Jesus. Paul erapples with the great question of justification by faith,—first against the moralist, then against the ritualist, and then against thoso who hove to be saved without inward purity and gooduess, throwing the truth into many forms, and Wwith his sbarp logic catting the acy of false doctrine tbroush and throush; and yet this Paul, glorying only in the Cross of Carist, bas buv a single word which scems even to o upinto the tery of the diviue pecessities in the forgriveness of sin! But even this one word does not indicate a the- ory beyond a general idea. The text seems plain, and it seems almost an evasion to call its plain- ness a question. Baut, in point of fact, the ex- act meaning becomes exceedingly doubtful so soon as we attempt to define the requirements of justice in the forziveness of sins. At all events, historical theology has.made very bung- ling work in the interpretation. The earlier writings of the Church exhibit hardly anything of theory, the successors of the Apostles for nearly 200 years using almost ex- clusively the phraseoiogy of the sacred writers. And so soon as the others begin to derine we ob- serve how difficult a work they have before them. Tertullian (A. D. 160-23J), a jurist as well as a theologian, who could ‘pronounce an event to be ‘“credible because it was incredi- ble,” did_mot scem to_dream_of _a_judicial theory of the atonement. Tenmus, a contemporary of the former, grapoled with the meaning of ¢ ‘justice,” put he is so obscure that it is uncertain whether he rezards the justice of God to e justice to the nature of man, or justice to Satan, who owned men as slaves. Origen (A.D. 185-254),—(Hagzen- bach, Neander, Oxendam),—that large mind to whom after ages, even to our owa time, owe a vast debt, seemed to teach that the ransom was paid to Satan, while he sets forth alsoa more wmodern view. And the great Augustioe (A. D. 354-430), with much that is justly copied into the theology of our day, does not shake off the idea that the *‘ransom,” the *price,”” was id to Satan, and warmly scouts the supposi- tion that God could npot otherwise ‘“detiver man?” than by the Incarnation and the Cross. And for a long period after bim, a period reach- ing down to the twelfth century, this fizment of * justicc to Satan” mingled itself with all expositions of the justice of God in justifying the believer. Plain as that word in Romaus seems to be, the theologians groped about in its mazes for more than a thousand years. ‘We come upon a new theology in the illus- trious Ansclm (A. D. 1033-1103), Archbishop of Canterbury for the twelve closing years of bis life. With = characteristic boldness he denicd ail bargain with the Devil in the salvation of men. His theory was that the sioner owes to God the penalty, or an atonement. Mau wishes to escape the penalty, and is not able to atone adequately for his traosgression. But Christ is able to wake the atonement for him. After this mild interpretation comes the tangle of the scholastics; the entire mind of Europe, for want of other iotelleztual occupation, exercising jtself on the subtletiesof theolozy. Then came Luther and Calvin, who did not scruple 10 say that Christ received the punishment due to our sins. That is their idea ol justice. Since their time the doctrine of the Cross has been overlaid by all manuner of explanations. Only two vears szol heard 2 most excellent man preach a sermou in which he pictured the auger of God with His Sonin His dying aconies, and all for us!f!! That was his_interorctation of the *“plain words”—*“that God mignt be just.” Many of our modern divines have in- sisted on what they call a “governmental neces- Sity 7 for the death of Christ. That is to say, the order of the upiverse required the pains of ihe Cross. This is still another conception of justice. In view, then, ‘only one of the New-Testzme: anything which ‘looks like a atonement, and he ouly afew . .cds, and that this one writer is profific in discassing other great theological problems, and always dwell- ing on the mystery vf salvation; and in view of of the remarkable fact that Writers 5ays zory of the the fact that for a _ thousand years whoever spounded these words, 50 : as we koow, saw in them 2t : the idea that somehow a debt to Satan was paid on the cross; and that evea after eizateen cen- turies aud a half there is no common conscnt to any theory, while there is a common consent 10, and a common life in, the great fact of sac- nificial redemption, it may_well be doubted ‘whezher the author of the New Testament de- signed to convey any philosophical knowledue of the relation of justice to merey; or if the interior theolozy of the atonement be hid some- \where iu our New Testament, it _may well be doubted whether that theolory is yet discov- ered. If this scems to be sull toostronza statewment, let us just catalogue the theories now, held by those who receive the Gospels and Enpist! ‘their auttiority. i 1. ‘The view that_Christ as Mediator is simply and only * the Medium * between God and wen. 2. The “*moral-influence ” theory, or ke the- ory that the atoneinent has only one side to it— the side towards man. 3. The *governmental theory,” or the theory that Curist did not suffer for ' the sins of indi- viduals, but, in general terms, to maintain a re- spect for law in the universe. 3 4. The theory (Romau Catholic, und in part Auglican) that! incarpstion rather than the death of Christ is the great pivotal doctrine of the New Testament, and therefore that Christ, from the conception to the cross, was aioning Tor us, in large part by making us mystically and spiritually oce with Himself, His suffermgs beine expiatory,—the philosophy of the expia- tion being left uuexpressed. 5. The theory that God punished His son in- stead of punishing the sinner. 6. The theory that Christ bore, not the penaity of Sin; but an equivalent to that penalty. 7. The theory that God unot only laid the penalty of sin on_ the Savior, but, being anery with the sioper, visited His wrath on the Savior for the sinner’s sake. 3. Thetheory that the death of Christ was not a punishment for the sios of men, but was an offering to God, well pleasiog in His sight, and the foundation of all offers and powers of ce,—the remission of sins, regeneration, and discinline " to eternal life; the intricacies of justice and mercy being left without explana- 1 i%’; we may throw the meanings which theo- logians bave put on the word # just” as ap- plies to God in the atonement into another form. ‘Ilie more conspicuous of tucm are as follows: 1. Just to Satan. 2. Just to mau—that is, that he should not be forced away from sin, but drawn and made a true penitent. 4. Just to the law, which had condemned man. 4. Just to God’s veracity, which had fore- warned man. 5. Just to God’s honor, which had been de- spised. 6. Just to holiness, intrinsically considered, whiclt, being wounded, needs reparation. _ 7. Just to the ubiverse, which might be in- jured by the forziveness of sins unatoned. 8. Just to infloite love, which must go all Iengths.to redeem the sinner. Thus it seems that the “plain words,” which get their meaning from philosophy, from theolozy, from despotism, from philan- thropy, from barbarism, from civilization: in other words, from the prevailing and strictly I(I;u?imu way of conceiving of the government of od. ‘There being no revealed theory of the atone- meat, is it lawful to bave a theory¢ Certainly, but not to promuleate it as though it were a “revealed ™ theory; nor to put it into a creed, subscription to which is required. ‘There being no revealed theory, is it com- petent for us to deny any given theory? Cer- tainly, if we have suitable grounds for the denial. e may deny that Christ suffered the wrath of wod excent in the boldest fizure of speech, as we deny anything which isat once unscrip- tural, bratat, and inpossible. We may deny that God punished His sou, in- stead of punishing the transgressor, forseveral reasons. ‘I'he theory, instead of explaiving the justice of God, entangles the question all the more. The view scems to charge on (od an injustice inorder to Le just. It isa wrong intrinsically and cternally—a wronx which no exicencics can mike right—to inflict “penalty ™ in auy literal sense on an inunocent person. “The salvation of the entire universe could not change the moral quality of the transaction. The consent of the suflered could not ehruge it. Innocence and veualty sinivly cannot be-yolked towciher—ex- cept by a figure of speech.” The very words con- tradict eachi othier. lilustrations to the contrary do not touch the matter in hand. They only tura the language over into figurative speech. ‘The reasoninz which is used to supporl this position 1s very singular. [t Is_reasoned: God has said, ** The soul thut_sinneth, it shull die,” and fe 'cannot_unsay His word. The sinner must die, or somebody must die for him. God must maintain His veracity ‘about wielding the sword of justive, but Ue need not maintam Ris veraeity on the person who was o feel the edee of the sword. Amain, it is reasoned: Siuis an infinite evil, and deserves punishment. The desert is intrinsic. ‘The pemalty, therefore, must be infinite, and must fall epon the sinuer, or upon u substitute, just as thoush sin were ity, something to be pussed from man to man, it being just, and the very and sublimest Justice, to punish, not the malefactor, but an- other person. Arain, itis simply impossible for Christ to suffer the penalty of sin, cven though it were just to lay it upon Him. He coulanot suffer re- morse,—that undying worm which, because wrong is wrong, guaws the tenderest nerves of being througi and throush,—that inward sea which tosses ihe soul on its molten waves,— thut self-made furnace of flame which is * more terrible than the bull of Phalaris.”” He could not sutfer the aversion of God, for God, iufinite though He be, could not turn Iiis face from Him, nor contradivt the words, * This is My be- loved Son in_whom I em well pleased.” There is only one thing in the whole range of penal infliction which by any possibility He could suf- fer, and thatis the sinaliest of them all,—nat- ural death, which even man suffers after he has escaped the penalty. ‘The v capavility to endure penalty for sin is in the sinner himself.” Nor is it within the power of the Almignty, should He desire -it, to infict penalty on the innocent, except ina way purcly external, which at_its greatest is only the inci- dent of punishment for sis Again, to say that Christ endured the penaliy for sin. were it not otherwise o solecism_ which could only orizinate in arude age, is to iovulve all New Testament ideas in confusion. What- ever Christ did in Jifc and death He did for man- kind. The Gospel is cvod will to men. The propitiation is, fn set terms, declared to be “ for the sins of the whole worid.” ‘Thereis no other reading of evangelist or apostle. But if Christ waus_ punished in our stead, then, penitent or profligate, pure or vile, there is no man who is pot safe from the curse of the law; 10 man— druukard, thicf, adalterer, or scorner—who las\ not a good title to eternal life. ‘This is so mon- strous that the theologian is ooliged to turn right about and deny that Christ is ** the Savior of all men,’ and timit the atoncment to the elect. He~has~to go-throiic# the whole™ New" Testament and defluwer the rolden say- ings of Christ and His Apostles until God becomes the Great Insincere, and even the wail of Jesus overJerusalem becomes the cry of a fictitious mourner.__ Men are to be pun- ished for not receiving Him who was not sent to them, and will be cast into outer dariucss for rejecting an atonement which was made for brother or sister, but not for them, and will be worthy of everlasting fire for *‘denying the Lord who (pever) bought them.’ The theory that Christ suffered that which takes the place of penaltyis free from the in- herent contradictions which astach to the views of Calvin and Luther aud the rear-guard of extremists who "have not yet shaken off the nightmare of the scholastic a; Aud while it may be so stated as to nccessitate a limited atonement, and all the coufusion of thuat scheme, it may also be so stated as to leave the New Testament to read in its own natural way. The *moral-influence ' theory we may con- sistently with all that I bave said call in ques- tion, and for two stronz reasous: First, that which is peculiar to this theory is a negation. All evangelical Christians bold that Carist’s Iife und death are u great power over the hearts and conscicnces of men. This theory denies that there is anvtbing _different from this in Christ’s work for us.” Now, as the New ment is full of terms indicaling the mediatorial, sacrificial, and priestly character of Christ, we deny any theory whose very peculiarity itis to deny thése things. And, secondly, the ‘moral- influence theory has no logical basis. In the evangelical theory the peculiar ‘moral power of the Gospel proceeds from the sacrificial and priestly oflices of Christ. In the *‘moral-influ- cnce * theory it proceeds from o dramatic exhi- bition which has no reality, from a lifc which has one side toward God, from a crucifiion whick, after all, is only a violent death. The evangelical view malkes Calvary the altar of the world. The moral-in- fluence view has no altar for the world. The former has power because there, on that gltar, something was done for mankind. The latter speaks of the great moral power of that event, nothiag was done there for mankind. of the cross meits the sinner, beeause al tracedy affects him as real, when in fact it is unreal. ‘ing. All these views are but the struzgles of the nan mind 10 ¢rasp the meaning of the great event. of New Testament history,—indeed, ihe great eveut of all time. Coristians may dis- agree as lo theory, and yeb agree as to faci. Auod when the theols us shall become sufli- ciently intellizgent and sufiiziently conscientious to make their disciples acquainted with the dis- tinction betwesn a philosophy or a scholinm and their Bibles, I see not sy we mav not say that the great obstacle to spiritual harmony in diversity is at last put away. P ARTIIUR SWAZEY. SUNDAY-SCHGOLS." A CRITIC CRITICISED. To the Editor af The Tridune. Caicsco, Feb. 9.—Your correspondent, “A Graduate of the Sunday-School,” airs his views in to-day’s TRIBUNE by expressing thoughts riot calculated to raise the Sabbath-school instruc- tion of our land to any great degree of piety or usefulness. Hescems to forget that our Sab- bath-schools are purseries of national rizhteous+ ness. We ought to examice what rich fruitaze this blessed system bas already yielded. It bas supplicd men and women of inteerity for responsible stations in society. It bas, from year to vear, replenished the Church of God with new members. It has provided the minis- try of our land with not a few of its most illus- trious ‘ornaments; and has given the first im- palses of seraphic zeal to many of the most dis- tinzuished missionaries of modern times. How many dormant minds bas it quickened into activity! How many intelligences has it opcoed and expanded? How many memories has it stored with precious truths? How many vices bas it withered, uprooted, and destroved? The peculiar influence of this educational srstem is that it not only develops intellect, but it de- velops it jo . proper maanner. It _simply aids the ncalthy action of nature, not in_forcinz a precocious and sickly arowth, by artificial stim- ulants, but, being wisely directed, proves en- during blessing to thousands. If * Graduate” basa splendid intellect, and prostitutes it to the advocacy of error, it may prove to him, as it has done to millions of our race, a fearfal curse. 5 ‘The Sanbath-schiools ought to receive our warmest eratitude and commendation, if for no other reason than in educating the incipient miods of the chitdren of the working classes in ‘honor and uprightoess. No labor is so hopeful, and at the same time go influential, as Sabbath-school iustruction, and in the present perilous times is emphatical- ir required! Thereis awide undergrowth in youthful minds, and it requires to be carefully watcened and directed in_ the eartier stages; if not attended to then, sabsequent efforts may prove of Jittle avail—when it has at- tained a dwarfed und stubborn maturi- ty. If good impulses arc not miven to the rising intellizence of childhood, we may sadly fear the impressing season is forever lost. Other teachers are iu the fleid; other infinences arc busy all around. ‘The eyes of youth are inexperienced, and skepticism insinuates its doubts; profanity next appruaches, flashing its witty jests and blasphemics, Eaticement to dissoluteness und sensuality ply the unzuarded victim on cvery side, till at” lenath the time not spent in the dutfes of bis calling is wasted in awful wickedness. Minds that with timely raining might have strugeled into lght and usefulness, become blasted by carly nemlect, and frequently they become wretched outeasts from all good men. Cbristians, friends of tins holy cause, we sce many youths pushing their way to destruction. If they will persist in their downward conrse Jet us feuce their path with all possible resistance. The road to ruin is easy and congenial to the heart of man; nevetheless, let us lodze in his mind every oprinciple thut is” calculated toresard his downward progress and dampen his guilty ardour. 'This object is best acbieved, and to a blessed extent, by the Sabbath-schools of vur beloved land. . ‘Ihe present Sabbatl-schuol system and in- struction is but the embryo of a more perfect scheme for intellectual and moral elevation bereafter to be disciosed. ‘I'he virgie soil of *Graduate’s ™ heart may have been often exposed to the warm breath of instruction, but like strong ground it has baf- fled all etforts, and_as _yet no green blade of promise has appeared. - The golden grain seems o have perished In the ungenial bed to which it had been consigned; it may luzve rot entangied ith the fibres of sin that have rooted them- seives in his heart, but a predestined day may come to him and thousands of others when it shall suddenly burst forth with startling energy and brigzaten with rel ing beams the benight- ed iguorance ot their fellow-beings. God bless the Sabbath-schools. L. MouaT. ATTER THE MODERNS. - NOW TOET MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN SURIPTURE IX ANCIENT TIMES. Patlad-ipvis Bultetin. The contrast between the condition of things when Mammon was persecuting the Chureh, and whea Mammon is holding a pew, and help- ing to pay for the choir, would, perbaps, be rather startling. Eveun more interesting would be an attempt to conceive the present condition of things as existing in the Apostolic age. Sup- pose. for example, that such 2 record should contain information like the following: Peter weut to Joppa to carry the Gospel to Cornelius, but upon arriving at his destination he discoy- cred that he bad aceidentally left all his sermons behind him at Jerusalem, and, 4s he did not know how to speak extemporancously, be was oblized to postpone his intended Sunday serv- ice until he coutd send aud feteh his manu- seripts. The brother of Onesimus camg to hear Paul preach, but as he was a person. of very humnble birth, und all the pews upon the ground floor were rented by wealthy people, be was shown to a back seac in the gallery. ‘The church edifice at Antioch cost $370,0005" two-Lhirds of which remained as a morigage upon the build- The brethren strove earnestly to reduce the debt, and with this intent they held a fair at which pin-cusbions and ice-cream were sold, and dunug which there was much excitement over a raflle fora cake. The gold-beaded cane that was offered to whichever clereyman obtained the greatest number of votes was awarded to Paul, who had 81 votes, while only 270 were given to Peter, and 111 seattering. _The aitempt to raise money having, however, failed, the edifice was sold by the SheriF, nud was purchased by a Ro- may, who fitted it up for 2 circ Apollis hav- ing been atiacked withalight form of broi chitis, went to Malta for .the benefit of his health, and the church to which be min'stered was closed all summer, repairs being conducted in_the interval. Philip, having for many years performed pustoral duties faitlifully in a parish of Ethiopia, a number of members in the cos cregation erew tired of him, and they cut down his salary to get rid of him. When he resigned a young man was calied, and as nobody extend- ed a call to Phillp, he was admitted to the Home for Decayed Clergymen, where he ended his days. Paul preached st Corinth with power and fervor, and at the couclusion of his sermon he usked that a hymn should be sung. It was given in an artistic manner by the choir, the solos for the soprano and alto being unusually brilliant, while Paul was especially. pleased with the extraordinary lef-hand play- ing of the organist during the performance of the florid accompaniment. A Gentile from Alexandrg, who_attempigd to sing, was re- ~guested-bythe'éextoonol-conterrupt the music:] When Paul visited Ephesus, he wus entertained by Alexnder, the coppersmith, who, although not 2 believer, held a pew in the middle wsle of the church, belonged to the vestry, and con- tributed so liberally to_church - objecis that he was more highly regarded than any ol the con- verts whose cireumstances were not so good. Paul, while in the pulpit, preached with force . iost sinj but, of course, carcfully avoided saying anything that might hurt Alexander’s feelings. ~ While at Lystra, Paul encountered a cripple who had been robbed of the use of his limbs by rhenmatism. He sdvised the unfor- tunate man to read carefully the patent medi- cine advertisements in the relizgious newspapers in the hope of being directed toward retief. GENERAL NOTES. Boston papers say that the long-standing debs of the American Home Aissiouary Society has been paid. The Enclish Socicty for the Promotion of Christian Knowledze has made a donation of $10,000 to the Western University at London, Ont. At a meeting of St. Louis clerzymen the Rev. Mr. Marsball objected to having a memorial that was to be presented to the Legislature read out of a Sunday pacer; but was silenced by the Rev. Mr. Snyder’s remark that he had scen | Brother Marsaall’s services advertised in that same Sunday paper. From the proof-sheets of the “Yeur Book” of the Coneregational Church it appears that there are now 8,820 churches in this country and 8.405 ministers. The churches have increased by 56 and _the ministers by ninety. There are 662 churches unsupplied, and 1,136 ministers not engaged jn pastoral work. “Gifts to Pastors” i3 the name giventoa new department in onc of the Eastern relizious papers. One of the gifts mentioned in a recent namber is ¢ The Rev. D. 8. libbard, Ellert, TIL.; thirty picces of stiver.”” This is the second time that su¢h an amount has heen mentioned in connection with sucred things, but 1t is to be hoped the gift was not made for a similar rea- son. = Ilenry Varley, the revivalist preacher, who was, in New York a few years axo, now presides at a* new tabernacle in Melbourne. Australia, which cost aboat $100,000. It 15 nearly as larze as that of Mr. Talmage, in Brooklvn, and has con- nected with it a larze coffee-house, where food is furnish+~d 2t a trifle above cost, and rooms for a Workingmen's Club, including a reading- room, a library, an apartment for chess, cheex- ers, and dominoes, aud another for conversa- tion. The Rev. W. F. Crafts, of Trinity Methodist Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-foarth street, has announced for this Sunday cvening in place of the usual sermon a ‘“question serv- jee.” Any questions about the Biolé and relie- ion that may be brought to the church in writ- ing will be garhered up in the early part of the service by the collection-baskets and answered as far as time and other circumstances will per- mit, with any other questions that may be sent by mail. Ea Outwardly, there™s Jittle if any visible im- ‘provement in keeping the Sabhath in Cincinnati. ‘The early hours are disturbed by the shrill and almost unceasing cries of the newsboys, who rush after all who are upon thestreets, dogging their footsteps and clamoring at them to buy some wretched Sunday sheet. Theeveningsare madc hideous.with various forms of debauchery und hilarity at the hilltop resorts, und in the beer-zardens and saloons distributed over the cit; Cincinnati Gazeile. ‘The contribution of Peter’s pence, from which the Vaticaan has realized no small partof its revenues, has fallen off seriously of late, a fact which is attributed by the Bishops of France and oilier. countries to the Antonelli litization and the fear that other scandals may exist among the Vatican functionarics. Another version is that_the people, rebuked by the priests for nig- gardliness, reply that the Pope and the Cardinals must reduce their expenditures, as they them- selves are forced to do in these hard times. Mr. Sankey has been holding crowded meet- ings in Newcastle, Eng., and a correspondent writes that the people who attend find as much power in his singing as they did io Mr. Moody’s | preaching, aud that bis appearance without, his former colleazue is not, as it was feared it mizht be, “like producing the trazedy of ¢ Hamlet ’ with the character of the Prince of Denmark leit out.” - 3ir.Sankey, on his second visit. finds that the movement which he and Mr. Moody started {s **still full of life and vigor,” while smong those who have welcomed nim *are many who owe theirinterestin religious matters to the efforts of himself and his former col- league.” Speaking of the general effects of the first visit, the correspondent savs it has had *‘an almost incaleulable influence on the relicious life of England,” und that *its effects a ¢ visivle everswhere.” One of the most marked of its results has been the popularizing of sevivalism. Untit they came, revivalists were neser popular in Eungland. John Wesley und his follow- ers were treated with scarcely more con- sideration then the Apostles, while John wton's life was ‘“a prolonged martyr- dom,” so thut he was ‘pressed into the army becausc it was thought undesirable to have him pre: i about the streets.”” All peeple who ‘went to hear Moody and Sankey at oneg gained a certain respect for them, and they both had something about them which com- pelled a belief in their sincerity. It not infre- quent hapoened that “those who came tu scoft remained to pray,” while the number of these who were **almost persuaded* was lezion. The scheme of Catholic colonization in the Western und Paclfic States makes steady prog- ress. ‘The Catholic Colonization Bureau of Miu- ished four nesota reports that it has e: colonits in four counties ot that State. colony, founded in 1576, has now, it is ¢laimed, 800 families. [t is distributed-in four towas,une em a connty scat. There are tiwo churches already built Tor the use of the colonists, aud three iore are to be erceted this year. If the wretched Catholie oopulation of our Eastern citfes could to a large extent be carried to the ,West, there would bea vast improvement of their morals, und of the morals of the citics also. ‘The case of youugz Mortara, which some twen- ty-five years azo attracted so large & dewrce of public attention, may not have been forrotten. Moytara, who beloneed to an Israclite family had been seerectly baptized by a maid-servant, and grave difliculties having afterwards arisen between his id his family, the Pope. Pins IX., took him under his immediate protection. The Tondon Post says that he is now canon of the Cathedral of San Giovanni in Laterano, and he Eas been residing for some years past in France, in the Dioces= ot St. Die. e is one of the four regular prebendaries who officiate at the sanctu- ary of Mattincourt, a well-known place of pil- grimage. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazelte draws the followinz doleful picture of the Baptist causein Jowa. He says that in nine- teen assoziations there are 113 churches without pastors, and conscquently in the divect-road to extiuction. In view of these facts it is a ques- tion well worth considering—What is to be the outcome of Baotist principles in this State! The Methodists have abous 75,000 members in the State, the Baptists 25,000—three to one for the Metkodists, The two denominations entered the pioncer work in the State abreast. How shall we account for this ““rush ahead of onr Methodist brethren? fs the soil of Iowa un- favorable to Baptist ideas? A litany recently published for the use of the Loudou Positivists has a prayer addressed to the “Great Power, the Highest Humamty.” The responsive exercises are after this styl The priest reads. ** Holy and glorious Mumanity. as thie Thy high day at the beginning of & now yeur we are met in praise, in praver, in taanks- £ to celebrate Thv coming in the fnilness of time for the visible perfectiny of Thy as yet nn- geen work, we bow before Thee in thankfuinesa.™ TResponse by the eeuphs **As children of Thy past.™ Priest—**We adore Thee in hope.™ People—** As Thy ministers and stewards for the future.” Priest— ** We would commune with Thee humble in prayer.” People—**As Thy servantsin the present”; and tinally, altogether—**May our worship, 1 our lives, grow more and morc worthy of ‘Thy name.” The wore exact statistics of the provision made in England for religious worshio are to the advantage of the Noncomformists. Whit- teker’s Alinanac for 1870 stetes that the State Chureh population of England is about 12,330,- 000, aud that 5,850,000 churc sittinzs are pro- vided. The non-established Cnurcnes of En- land have 27,006 places of worship and 6,700,000 sittings. Ia the following table of sittings most of the fizures are from official documents: No. of sittings. Wesleyan Mecthodists.... 1,723, Congremtionalists n Calvinistic Methouists Few Connection Methodists Total.... . e .6,715,55¢ This is probably 3 more exact statement than bas hitberto been published. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The stated meeting of the Board of Managers was held at_the Bible House, Astor Place, on ‘Thursday, Feb. G, at half-past 3 p. w., William The Rev. James M. King, D.D., read the nineteentn Psaim and offered praye: ‘The death of the Hon. Jaines "Kean, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, was aa- d a committee was appointed to pre- pare a suitable_minute on the subjcct for the records of the Board. il Grants of books were made to the American Seamen’s Friend Society and to several other benevolent orzanizations. Fouriecn volumesin raised letters were given for the blind; 905 vol- umes were granted for the foreign field, making atotal of 2,195 volumes. Also books to the value of $1,025.30 were eranted, including 3500 for colportare work, and $31.50 for raiiroads. Appropriations in money were made amount- ing to 344.585.79, including $44,053 for the year- 1y estimates of the Levant Awency. Among the forcizn letters suvmitted to the Doard for iformation oras the basisof its action were communications from the Rev. Isaac G. Bliss, D. D., givine an account of an interview with the Kiner of Greeee, and_an essimate of necessary expenses for the ensuit ar; from Dr. Gulick at Shanghai, Dee. 25, with a sketeh of :a day’s colportaze on the Yangtze River; from Dr. Gore, at Mexico, Jan, 14; Mr. Milue, at Monte Video, Dec. 125 Mr. Blackford, at Rio de Jaueiro, Jun. 2; also from J. W. Butler, of ivo, and the Rev. M. Phillips, of Yucatan, with reports of sales of Scriptures; the Kev. 8. C. Damon; of Honoluly, with n_remittance in return for books donated; the Rer. J. M. Erik- son and the Rev. V. Witting, with reports of Bible work in Sweaen; the Rev. W. H. Gulick, with an account of sales at the Santander Fair; and the Rev. 8. C. Pixley, of South Afries, in respect to the edition of the Zulu New Testa- ment. ‘The receipts for January were S44,8§74.99; copies of Seriptures issued, 53,266 volumes. PERSONALS. Spurereon’s health is not sufliciently restored to per-::.a his officiating in his Tabernacle. Ti.s Rev. Dr. Palmer has just completed a eourse of lectures on hymnology at Audover Seminary. Dr. Leonard Bacon and his brother, Francis Bacon, M. D., are reported to be seriously ill with erysipelus. The Bishop of Fredericton has becn unani- mously chosen Metropolitan of the Episcopal Church in the Dominion. Bishop Bedell, of Ohio, is engazed in prepar- ing a work oa * Pastoral Theology,” which is to be published by Lippincott & Co. The Rev. C. E. Wishard, a Presbyterian min- ister formerly of this city, hias been holdinz a very successful revival in Alleghany City, Pa. The Rev. S. V. Blakeslee has re: ed the edi- torship of the Pacific, the Congrerational organ on the Slope. 1t will henceforth be mavaged by a Board of Trustees. The vestry of Monumental Episcopal Church, Ricimozd, Va., has decided to put in a memori- al window for Bishoo Moore, who was the scc- ond Bishop of the diocese. Sankey is still in Newcastle, England, where he recewved a warm and cordial welcome. e was recently entestained at a_public breakfast presided over by Canon Martia. The Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs is soon to deliver a series of eight lectures on Bernard of Clairvaux, at the Princeton Semiuary, and has accepted an invitation to repeat the lectures in Brooklyn. Dr. Talmaze divides the world into three parts—First, himself: second, those who think Iis telezrams perfectly honest; and, third, the yillains or fools,” as he calls them, who dare to think him dishonest.—New York Heraid. The Rev. Walter EH. Moore has become Rector. of St. John's Church, Decatur, having resizned the temporary charge of Trinity Church, Auro- ra, in the Diogese of Tilinois. ~ Mr. Moore was some time at Napa City, in California, und will be a valuable acquisition to Bishop Seymonr's list of clergy. Dr. John Tobias Von Beck,. Professor of Evangelical Theology in Tubingen, who was senior member of the Faculty, having been con- nected with the ipstitution since 1843, is dead. He retained an unusual munly visor to his 75th year, und still lectured in the University to the Christmas vacation. Bishop Toeboe, of Covingron, Ky., has con- demned a sceret order koown as the Knizhts of Honor, which had recently sprung up in his dio- cese. ‘The objects of the Order are said to be purely benevoleat. Some of its members ap- pealed to Cardinat McCloskey, who advised obe- dience to the wish of thelr Bishop. The Rev. Noah M. Wells, residing at Vienna, Mich., is said to be the oldest Presbyterian min- ster in thy United States. Heisnow in his 97ta = Allgn, Esg., LL.D.i.]Ztnsidunt._jn.tne, chair..__ | ¥ear, having been born in_1781: was in the min- 15try and somewhat prominens in the year 1812, His mimsterial life was largely spent in West- ern New Yorlk, und later in Michizan. The people in Bostou are trying to raise a fund for the support of the Rev. Calvin Fair- bank, formerlv a resident of Northamptoo, and in early life a notable Abolktionist, who was coufined in a Kentuckv jail four years. He was sentenced for fifteen vears, but was_bailed out for 5650 by Lewis Havden, now of Boston, the colored man for aiding whose escane he had been imprisoned. Mr. Fi is now ulmost wholly dependent on churity, being without bowe or relatives. SABBATH SMILES. ¢ Look,” shouted an inspired but imperfectly posted eshorter, “*at Sodom and ‘To-Morrow.” Can it be said that onc of the old martyrs who hiad been stoned to death was rocked to sleep. The St. Louis Republican asks: * Was Adam black?” Thatfellow was thinking about “ Dusky Eve.""—Keokuk Conslitution. ¢ What are thechurches doing for humanil asked Brother Talmage. Fuuny he does not know; they're getting up fairs.—Z'roy Press. If there is anything more cheering than to bear the barber shount ** Next, it is to hear the preacher say “ Finally” in an extremely long sermon.—Hurdélte. i An English writer says, in hisadvice to young marriea women, that their mother Eve married agardener. It mizhe beadded that the gar- dener, in consequence of his match, losthis sitaa- tion. A divine passing a fashionable church, on which a spire was being erccted, was asked bow much higher it was to be. **Not much; that couz;ugm.lon don’t own very far in that direc- t Moncure D. Conway’s new book on *‘The Devil,” now in press, will -make u very larze volume, and will sulphur five or six dollars. "the work should be’ bound in Satan.—Norris- town Meraid. “Is this a fair?” said-a stranger, stopoing in front of u place where 2 festival was in proeress, and addressing a citizen. *Well.” replied the citizen, they call it a fair, but_ they take every- body in.”” "He probably had invested in a ticket in un oyster-soup lettery, and had drawn a blank. Zoledo Commercial. An old Scorch preacher once announced bis theme in the following language: e breth: I'tak as me text to-nig! divil be zoeth otoot lek u roorin’ leon aw' se whoata he may devoor.” 1 shali divide me subject. Into four beads, namely: Why the divil he goeth aboot: why the aivil he goeth aboot lek aleon; who the divil is e aw seckia’ to devoor, and what the divil is he a roorin’ aboot. % A Ratland lawyer, in referring to some prison- ers, aadressed thie jury as fallows: I teli you their kv es shook as shook the knees of Belti- Beezer. when Paul said unto him: ‘Thouart the wan.’” And g Biddeford advocate, blushing at the conduct of his oppunent’s client, shouted in open court, *Tell it not in Gath, publish iv not in the streets of Jerusalem " Another different church member was_once extiorted by his pastor to work for the Lord. The seed fell into good cround. At the next praver-meeting he was ready with his report, swhich ran this wise: “Brethren, when our pas- tor exhorted us to do sowmething, I resolved that Iwonld talk with some unconverted person abont relizion. I began by inviting a mun to cometo meeting. *\Why should I o to meet- ing? said he; and L told bim he might learn something worth knowinz. -What should I learn?’ he asked; and I told bim he would lcarn that he was a sinner. *But how do you know that I am a sioner? said he; and [ told him thut the Bivle said so. ‘But 1 dont believe the Bible? was his auswer. Then we disputed about it; und, brethren, I zot so mad that could have kicked him " Dr. — was the minister of a church in Con- cord Presbytery for several years on a saiary of $500. He received a call to F—, salary $1,000. This he at first declined, but when it was re- newed the following year he accepted it. After staying a few vears in F- he returned to his old charze. Soun after his venture he was cate- chising in o family, and, as was customary, the servants were calledin. Of an old negro man he asked. “ \WWhat is effectual calling?" «1 dunno, sir,” he revlicd. 0’ yes,” said the minister, * vou have soms idea of it. What do you think iz means?? I duono, sir,” was the answer, * ’cept it is from $300 to 31,000, The good old minister was never tempted to leavethetchurch.-again. ~His .memory .. abides.-| {’xi:sh “Illld green, and many rize up to call him essed. v CHURCII SERVICES. PRESCYTERLAN, The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach at 10:45 thismorning at the Forty-iirst Street Church, cor- ner of Prairic avenue. —The Rev. E. N. Larrets, pastor. will preach at 10:45 2. m. and 780 p. m. at Westminster Church, comner of Jackson 2nd Peoria strects. “~The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, pastor, will preach 2£10:30 2. m. at tho First Chusch, corner of Indi- ana avenne and Twenty-irst. strect. Fvening service at Railroad Chapel, No. 715 State sireet. —Tne Rev. Munro Gibson, D. D., pastor] wil preach morning and cvening at.the Second Churen, corner of Miciuzan avenue and Twentieta street. —The Rev. John Abbott French, pastor, will preach at 10:33 a.m. at the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Superior streets. Evening sermon br the Rev. Georse C. Noyes. —Prof. G. L. Raymond.wiil preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Fiith Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. —The Rev. W. C. Young, pastor, will preach morning and -evening at the Fullerton Avenue Chureh. —The Rev. James Maclaughlan, pastor, will presch morning and evening at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon and West Adams streets. ai ommynion at$a. m. Mornins subjeci: —Prof. Francis L. Pation iwill preach at 10:30 4. m. and 7:30 p. m. atthe Jefferson Park Church, corner of West Adams und Throopstreets. Evening gnoject: **The Philosophy of Faith und Its Reia- tions to the Christian System.™ —The Itev. J. M. Worrall, pastor, will preach at 10330 o, m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Eighth Church, corner of West Washineton and Robey streets. CONGREGATIONAL. The Xev. E. F. Williams will preach this morning and evening at the caurch corner of Drexel and Union avenues. —The Rev. Charles Ifall Everest will preach this morning and evening in Plywountn Church, Michigan avenue, between Twenty-ffth and Twen- ty-sixth streets. Tns Rev. George I Peeke will preach morn- ing and evening at the Leavitt Street Church. i ject. ¥ George F. Pentecost will preachat 10: a.m. apd _7:3 m. uat the First Church, cofner of West Washinzion and Aun streets. “Tae Rev. C. A, Towle, pastor, will preach at 1045 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Bethany Chucch, cor- ner of Paulins and West Ifuron strects. % METHODIST. - The Rev. S. McChesney will preach this morn- ing and_cvening in the Park Avenue Church, corner of Parkavenue and Robey street. The Rev. J. M. Caldwell will preach this morning and cveame in the Western Avenus Chureh. cornerof Monroe street. Mrs. . . Willing will preach this morninz and evenine at Emuwanuel Churca, corner of Harrison and Pavlina gtreets. Morning subject: Terms of Salvation.” Evening subject: ** Personal Respon- sibllity.” —Tae Rev. E. M. Boring will preach at the Stdte Street Chu: 1 the morping. Inthe eveninga tempersnce meeting will be held in tne interests of Home Protection, to be addreseed by Mrs. Barnes. —The Rev. Dr. Wiliismson will preach at the Michizan Avenue Church, curner of “Thirty-second Street, 0£10:30 3. m., and Mrs. Jennie H. Cald~ wwell at 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning, reach at 10:30 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. Avenae Chnrch. “~The Rev. W. C. Willing, Presiding Elder, will preach this murning at Grace Caurch. corner of North Lasalle aud White streets. Evening sermon on ** A Piea for Home Proiection ™ by the pastor, the Rev. It. D. Sheppard. —The Rev. Dr. 'homes will preach in Centenary Churca, West Monroe street, near Morsan. at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. S. Il. Adams, pastor, will presch morning and eveaing at the Ada Street Charch, between Laxe and Fulton streets. —The Rev. W. F. Crafts will preachatl m, and 7:30 p. m. at Trinity Charch, Indiana 2 coue, near Twenty-fourth street. In the evening will be held a ** quiestion service,” when the pas- tor will answer any written questions on the Bible and religion that may be bronght by the audi- eace. [he Rev. A. W. Patten will preach at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ot the \abash Avenme Church, corner of_Fourteenth street. 3 —The Rev. C. B, Eves, pastor, will preach at the Free Church, No. 40 North Morgan street, both morning and evening. ) ‘The Rev. A. Wakeman, pastor, will preach at 10:30a. m. and 7:30 v. m. at the Jackson Street Churcn. corner of Oglesoy strees. ZThe Chicago Praymng Band will conduct the sorvices in Asoury Chapel, Kossuth stroet, near Stewart avenue, 2t 2:30 p. m.. and 7. m. Seats free. . BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. W. T. Stott, D. D.. President of Frank- lin Colleve, Indiana, will preachat 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. AL XEEK'F‘"“ x’I’Jh‘llr::h, ‘wmer of Soath i and Tairty-frst steeet. B ev. Jobn Peddie will oreach 8t 10:30 s, m. and 7:30 r‘l_. m.ult the Secoug Church, corner of zan and West Monroe streets. n-o—r:r';‘; Rev. &, \v. Custis wiil preach at 10:30 8. m, at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twen- ty-third street. '—The Rev. E. B. Hulbert will preach at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. atthe Foorth Chusch, sa: {Wesi Washmgton and Baulina streeta o Sornel —The Kev. A. Owen will preach at 10:30 a. and 7:30 p. m. at the University Piaca Cho: corner Douglas place and Rhodes avenue.. —The Rev. Robert P. Allisonwill preach at 10:45 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the North Star Charck, corner Division and Sedgwickstreets. - —The Rev. C. Derren will preact and 7:50 p. m. at the Western Ave corner of Warren avenue. —Tte Rev. E. K. Cressey will preach at 3y 2. m. and 7:30 p.n. at the Coventry Street Cha. corner of Bloominzdale road. —Tie Rev. R. De Bapuiste will preach at 11 s. m. and 7:45 . m. at Olivet Church, Foarth av- enue, near Taylor street, —The Rev. L. G. Clark will préach at 11 a. m. 2t Soath Church, corner of Locke and Honsparta streets. —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach at 10:20 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Centennial Cnurch, corner of Lincoln and \West Jackson streets. —Tbe Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach at 10:45 2. m. and 7:50 p. m. at Central Church, No. 290 Orchard street, near Soohia street. —There will be services at 7:30 p. m. at the Tavernacle. No. 302 Wabash uvenne. —The Rev, J. Q. A. Henry will_preach a1 10:30 2. w.and 730 p. m. at the Dearborn Streer Charcl, corner Thirty-sixth street. —Tbe Rev. L. G. Clark will preach at 7:30 p. m. at the Twenly-ifcn Street Charch, near Went- worth avenae. he Rev. C. Swift will preach at10:45a. m. 90 p.'m. at Evangel Church, Rock Isiand P, Y city, car-rhops. —The Rev. W. J. Kermott will preachat 11 a. m.and 7:30 p. m. at the Halsted nexg‘finlg‘ou‘y{ufin and Forty-second street: —The Rev. J. B. Jackson will preach at 10:45 m. ut the Hyde Patk Charche o Bt EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Paul, cor- per of West Washington and Peoria strce:s.L ‘Tae Rt. Kev. W. E. McLaren. 5.T. D., Bishop. The Rov. J. H. Knowles, Priest in Charge. Choral merning prayer and celebration of the Holy Com- - munionat 10:30 2. m. Choral evening prayerab 7:30 p.m. ‘The Rev. Samuel §. Harrie. Rector, ficiate 1t 10:45 2. m. and 73 Church, corner of Huron an Communton at8 a. m. - —The Rev. E. Sullivan, Rector, will oficiate at 0:4523. m. and 7:45 p. m. at Trinity Charch, carner of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue. —The Rev. J. Bredberg, Rector, will oficiate 210330 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at St. Ansgarius® Charch, Sedgwick street. near Chicago avente. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, Rector, will ofciater 03. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Grace Church. oash avenne, mnear Sixteenth street. Glloly rum- Street Caurch, will of= atSt. James' ass streets. Holy —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie, Rector, will officiate at1la. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Church of the Ascension, North LaSalle street, near Elm. Holy Communion at 8 2. m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester, Rector, will officiate at 11 n. m. and 7:30 p. m. ut St. Panl’s Church. Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. 5 —~The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood, Rector. will officiats at 1Q:80_a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at St. Mark's Clurch, Cottage Grove avenne, corner of Thirty- sixth’ street. . —The Rev. G. F. Coshman, Rector, will officiata 2t 10:30 2. m. and7:30 p. m. ot St.John’s Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelith streets. —The Rev. Luther Pardee. Rector, will ofiiciate: At 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Calvary Churcb, Warren avenne, between Oakley street and West- ern avenue. Ioly Communion at7:452. m. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Rector, will ofliciate at10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Epiphany Church, Throop streer, betwecn Monrve and Adams streets. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate at1la. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Church of Oar Savior, corner of Lincoln ana Belden avenues. ‘The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate at 1 and 7:30 p. m. at St. Andrew’s Chunreh, cor~ ‘West Washington and Robey streets. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. F. W. Adama wili preach in St. Matthew's Chacch, corner of Clark and Centre streets, at 11 a. m. Subject: *‘Duty and benetic of family worship.™ —The Rev. H. M. Collison will preach in St. Paal's Cherch, corner of Washington and Carpen- ter stree's, at I 2. m. and 7.30 p. m. Subject of morning ourse: ‘*The Mysterious Power of the Atoncment.” Evening eubject: *-Present Yourseives a Living Sacritice.” - —Mr. R. II. Burse will preach at 10:45 a. m. at Grace Church, corner of lioyne and LeMoyna streets. Subject: *-Walking with God.” Young people’s prayer-meating one hour before evening service. —The Rev. J. A. Fisher will preach in the Charch of the Good Saepherd at 3:30 p. m, —Rishop Cheney will preach in Christ Church, Jichigen avenue ahd Twenty-fourth street, at E{ a, m., on *‘How to Get Princely Power,™ and at 7 p. m._on **How Do I Know that Prophecy Has Been Fultilled ! beiog the fifth of 3 courseon ** stizn Evidences for the People.” —The Rev. L. H. Bosworth will preach at Trinity Charch, Englewood, ‘at 10:45 a. m.. in Tillottson's Hall. > —The Rev. M. D. Church will preach at -1 2. m. and 5p. m. at St. Jobn's Church, Ellia avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. UNITARIAN. ‘The Rev. Brooke Tlerford will pfeach at this afternoon in the Third Church, corner of Mon- roe and Latlin streets. —The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach morning and evening at the Church of the Mcasiah, corner of Michizan avenue and Tiwenty-third street. Mornirz snbject The Crity of God". Even~ ing: --On Words; Tneir Study". —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preack morning and evening at Unity Church, corner of Dearsorn avenue and Watton place. 'he Rev. James Kay Applebee will preach in Fousth Chnrch, corner of Pratric avenue and Thirtieth atreet, at 10:45 a. m. Subject: ‘‘Tha Hebrew Conception of Inspiration.™ GSIVERSALIST- The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach this morning, and the Rev. Dr. Ryder this evening, wn the'Churcly of the Redcemer, cornerof West Washington and. Sangamon streets. —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach this morning at §t. Paal’s Church, Michigan avenne. between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Evening ser- ‘mon by the Rev. Sumner Ellis. CHRISTIAN. The Rev. Gcnrfl:! W. Sweeney will preach this ‘morning and evening in the First Chureh, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-fih atreet. —The Rev. J. Bradford Cleaver will preach morn- ing and cvening at the church corner of Sonth - Park avenue and Thirty-third street. —The Rev. A. J. Laughlin will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the church corner of Western_avenue and Congress atreet. —The Rev. W. T. )luuxln will preach moraing and evening at the Second Church, Oskley avenus, between Adams and Jackson streets. NEW JERUSALES. The Rev. L. P. Mercer. of the Union Sweden- borzian Church, will prench this morning and evening at Hersney Hall. Morning subject: ** The Pablic Conscience.” Evening subject: **The Ra- tional Explanation of Miracles, ™ —The Rev. W. F. Pendleton, mastor, will preach at 11 a. m. at the Lincoln Park Chapel, North Clark street, near Menominee. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach this morn- jog and eveniog in Trinity English Lutheran Charch, corner of Dearborn avenue and Erie street. mer of INDEPENDENT. John E. Morris will preach this morning and evening in the church corner of Fulton and May stree! Morning subject The Abiding Com- forte: —Elder Raymond will preachat 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Burr Mission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenue. —Mr. W. De Golyer will preach this moraing at Moody's Church, corner of Chicago avenus and. Northi LaSallc street. _Evening sorvicea conducted. by Messrs. Douglas, of St. Louis, and Weidensall, of. Nebraska. ZN. F. Baviin will preach at No. 381 West Madison street, morning and evemnz. —The Rev. ' Alexander Monroc, - pastor, _will reach at 10:30 3. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Union Tabernacle, corner of Ashland avenae and Twea- tieth street. SPIRITCALISTS. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond. trance speaker, will speak at the corner of Monroo and Laflin streets at 10:458. m. Subject: ** Anthropologys Its Relation to Spiritaal Discovery.” Also at 7: .m. Sudject: *-The Spiritual Principle as the Guide to Life, " = —There will be services at 3:30 p. Spiritnal Conference, Athenzum Hall. Dearborn street. MISCELLANEOUS. a reanion for all who care to at- No. 210 West Madison street, at That Discuswions on ntereats of So- . at the No. 30 There wilt be tend at the hall, 2330 this afternoon. Topil jons Are Not for the Best ue—z\ railway-men's mecting will be held at 3:30 this afternoon in the reading-room, comer of Ca- nal and Kinzie streets, which will be conducted by Mr. D. R. Patterson, of the C. £ E. L R. R. ZThe Rev. R. D. Sheppard will preach at 3 o'clock this afternoan in the chapel of the Wash- ingtonian Home. "> The Oakley Avenue Bible Class meets at rooms in the church. near Jackson street, at 1: . m. for claes cxercises in_ Bible study, Young fucies and eentlemen are cordially invited to at- o , nd. —Disciples of Christ will meet at 4 p. m. at No. 229 West Randolph street, 5 —Dr. Mathewson will preach morning and even- ipg at Green Street Tadernacle, No. 01 South Green Street. to the Advent Cbristians. —Prof. Theodore W. Hopkins, of Chicago Theo- Jozical Seminary. will preach at 10:30 a. m. azd 0 p. m. at Lawndale Hall. ‘ —Thnere will be services at 10:30 3. m. agd 7:39 p.m. at Union Chapel, No. 97 South Desplaines street. CALENDAR FOR THE -‘VEEK. EPISCOPAL. - Feb. 16—Sexagesima. Feb. 21—Fast. CATHOLIC. Feb. 16—Sexagesima Sunday. Feo, 17—Feria. Feb, t. Simeon, B. M. 5 Feb. 19—Feria. 5 A Feb. 20—Votive of the Bleased Sacrament, Feb. 21—Feria. g Fev. 32—Chair of St. Peter at Antioch; Tigf s, St Mathias, 2