Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1879, Page 9

9 How BELIGIGUS. the Catholic Prelates Regard the Ceneral Sub- scription Scheme Which Has Been Proposed to Extricate Archbishop Pur- cell, of Cincinnati, y of the Dioceses Not Able to Afford Any Help on Account of Their Quwn Bebts. Biographical Sketeh of John Henry “Newman, Just Baised to the Cardinalate, old Trinity Church of New York-«- The Great Religious Land- Mark in the Empire City. @eneral Notes, Personals, §nb- path Small-Talk---Services To-Day. ARCHBISHOP PURCELL. T TOE VARIOUS PRCLATES TRINK OF THE SUBSCRIPTION PLAN TO SAVE LIM. The dispatebes to THE TRIGUNE have already ounced that, in conscquence of suits en- against him, Archbishop Purecll conveyed 1okis brother all the property vested in him to i brotber, Father Edward Purcell, and the Jaster immediately afterward made an assign- ent to John B. Mannix for the benefit of the Archbisbop's creditors. Tatber Quinn, 8 prominent attache of the Aratishop's houschold, informed a correspond- ‘ovol the New York Hera'd that a clrcalar lot- terbad been preparcd presenting our case to {be Church ot large in the United States, aud askine that they do what they can to release us Jomourload of debt. This will be sent to erery priest and Bishop in the United States. e have besides this addressed all the Arch- ishops, and bave alrcady bezun to receive re- plsot the most gratitying chara e e GarSinsl MeClothesia reply " uHe addresscd the Archbishop a feeling lot- ger, full of kind wishes, and told him that as orm 85 Easter had passed New York would be ten to bim, and he would find a hearty re- sponse o his request. This was the substance of his note. ‘Its laoguage I am not able to e “Then you expect a general response from alt over the conntry 27 “Yes, we fecl to-day as though a heavy load was taken from us. ~The responses from our friends are very eratifyinz.” The Hera'd correspondents in varions parts of the country were instructed to interview the most prominent ecclesiastics on the feasibility of wiping out the debt by diocesan subserip- tions,~free-will offerings on the part of the saibiul Arghb in each diocese. ishop Wood, of Philadelphia, said he Soew nothing about the affair save what be had read fn the nowspapers. He sympathized decply with his_co-laborer in Cincinnati. On being 580 for an expression on the general sub- ;rml‘ininn plan, he declined tospeak from motives of delicacy. ) Father Quigley, Vicar-General of Charleston, 8. C.; regards the scheme a5 hichly impractica- Ele and not at atl necessary. He was quite sure that the his obiigations, an uncalled for. would be able to meet all that the panicwasaltogether "The Catholicsof Charleston were Archbisno quite willing to come to his assistance if it was secessary, but the Archbishop bad repeatedly ferated bis liabil that his assets were far in advance: of itfes. Besides this, not morc than a fortnight ago the Diocesan Synod of Cincinnati Tud taken upon themselves the task of reliev- the Archbishop by means of a Diocesan ~That Syhofhas decreed t0 hold a Die- cesFair, aud to_establish a Diocesan Debt Socety for the purpose of relieving the Arch- bishop, and, in his opinion, no help from other Diogeses would be needed. The V¢ of ery Rev. Vicar General Rousul, now in { ihe Archbishopric of Louisiana in the absence of Archvishop Perehe, while commend- inrthismoble work as b every wav worthy 2 i af the earnest efforts of all the good Catholics ol the country, regrets 1t will be impossible for the Archbisnopric of Louisiaus to assist in it. %Qur entirc Catholic community,” the Very Rererend Father said, *‘ not only iu the city but ibroughout the State, is sorely siraitened and struggllug amid financal difficulties that every- ¥here embarrass it, and nearly our entire church property s pow under mortgage, and_some of 1t Terche rith the sole object of soliciting sssistance antary under actual scizure. - Archbishop is at present on a visit to France some for our present pe- The last cable from his there afflictions. Grace, received last Sunday, was not encourag- e Under the present condition of affairs the Viear-General does not think he would be justified in calling upon his people to join in the smbscrintion. - Bishop Corrigan; of the Newark Diocese, has Dot yet communicazed with any of the members of his diocese in relation 10 a “collection for the reliel of Archbishop Purcell. The Rey. Father Krans, pastor of St. Boniface’s Catholic Church (German), ov First etrect, Jersey City, when ‘visited by & reporter, said that, althongh he felt sreat sympathy for the Archbishop in his trou- ble, he did not think that any organized collec- tion wonld be ordered in this city. The Rev. Father McQuade, of St. Peter’s Church, ex- pressed the same opinion. Archbishop Gibbons stated that “if such a Droject was started 1 would not be behind others in farthering it in my diocese. While I heartily sympathize with Archbishop Purcell, and wounld doall Teould to help him, I would not like to ‘€xpress an opinion on the subject, whatever my Tecling may be, as others might feel it necessary forthem o -follow my lead. 1. have no doubt that if such a subscription is started it would meet with the - bearty sympathy of the varjons oceses m {or th;j dioceges throughout the country, and that jority of them would do all they could Archbishop. I do not think that the would consent to become responsible for the debt in any way, but nearly all of them ¥ould contribute what they could.” The Arch- bishop added that be bad not. given the subject very tareful consideration, but thougnt that its gms depended upon the financial condition the various dioceses. As to what his action ¥ould be, it ay, he declined to state, though 352 refterating his deep sympathy with Arch- 4hop Purcell in bis troubles. 2 Biskop Keane, of Richmond, Va., declared o fand nis diocese in the strongest bonds fympathy with Archbishop Purcell in his Present unfortunate financial troubles, which he lesred would break the beart of that dear old . He was anxious to sec some plan sinilar thut suzpested by the New York Mera'd put operation for the relief of the Cincinnati Dio- fese, but Lie regretted that he had to decline 1o ltfi' d“c‘:i under th; pr:semhcircumsmuces. g such a proceeding micht not be agree- Mleto Archbishon Parcll. & R eaid Bishop Keane, * Archbishop Pur- Xl were 16 155u¢ 2 cireular making suck an ap- ek, L am satisfied ihat all the Catholics in the United States would prompily respond, and £ tuow th De backward. at the Diocese of Kicnmond swould not Or,” continued the Bishop, ‘il Lerdinal McCloshey were to sanction such o Worene 0t by a note to the head of each dio- ¢, it would meet with the most cordial ap- Tement and unanimous support. 1t would 2 nople und - Appears #hich may grand charity.” Bishoo Kesne 10 be actuated by u sensc of delicacy, be eastly removea if he finds the Provosal adoptea by the other prelates. Arclin b eiihnp Wiilliams, of Boston, on being in- 11¥ oplnion on the question. 1n the first place, - £8id be was not preparcd 1o express ¢3S 00t ina position 1o judire of the extent of the jj certained he would ds xpression to any view ndebtedness, and until that had been d m it premature to give hich he might have. enrhave uo doubr,” seid his Grace, after some eral that 1 Properly fust whay 2omplished, couversation ou the unfortunate affair, 3 movenient such as is suagested were organized, and the people understood Wwas neeaed, much good could be ac- But, until 1t bad raken definite De and hag the sanction of the Cardinal, I '%uld prefer not to mive any hasty judgment.” ishoy press iy MeXeiraey, of Albany, declined to ex- ouinion whatever, neither could the oespoudent clci any fro the Fathers at bis Bishop Laughlin, of Brooklyn, on being ap- sy on emphatically observed, ‘I've notning at subject. It's too delicate.” Prominent Catholic publisher of New York, Herald e, ly one of the Sadliers, informed the porter as follows: n:fl,““ are several ressons why Cardinal Me- Will not. be disposed to take the initiz: tive insuch & movement. In the first place, fi'mrel ishardlya church without debt, and the nmeo_ne bave 2ll they can do now to support Ziclr own churches. ‘There is not, in fact, & sin- Rle parochial church in New York which is Eut in debt. Then it would be a very d:xd Drecedent to establish, for if this debt were now paid off by the Catho- s of the country every bad financier of o Km“ would fecl fn the fature he could plunge i3 diocese into heavy indebtedness, for he would have this precedent to fall back upou_in asking the other dioceses to help bim out. The popular sentiment amonz Catholics is opposed to auy view which does not hold men responsi- ble for their own acts. - The church in Orange, N, J., some years ago became in- debted to the extent of $230,000, and an effort was made to enlist_the aid of the entire diocese in paving it off. Bishop Corrigan saab- tioned the movement, but it was generally felt that it was a dangerous precedent to sct, and fn a good many churches collections were taken up under protest. Saveral Western dioceses became floancially embarrassed and - ap- pealed to New York for aid, and. it was refused. on the ground that each dioccee should " look out™ for its own monetary welfare. ‘There are still other reasons why the Cardinal would not feel inclined to make such gn appeal. It took him all the influ- ence which he could excrcise o all the churches of his diocese to enlist their aid in the recent fair for paying off the debt on his Cathedral, and, after sixmontbs of the most arduous prep- aration and the bardest work, only $250,000 was raised. Nor, is it likely that under these cir- cumstances he would now undertake to raise §6,000,0004 : "! How many Catholics are thers in this coun- ry “There are no absolitely trustworthy figurcs, B&xob '!hs,mqsy, careful estimate is about §,000,- “Then, a contribution of 75 cents per head would wipe off the whole debt % * Yes; but remember- that of these §,000,000 there are probably not over 1,500,000 heads of familics, which wounld make their individual tax $3. Remember also that nine-tenths of the Catholics belong to the poorer classes, and, even as it is, they are fairly ground down under the weighe of their church contributions.* *¢Is there perfect sympathy and brotherhood between Archbishop Purcell’s diocese and that ct‘.\}f\r ‘x'olxik?" “No, and that is another important point. ‘The Diocese of Cincinnati is moszf_v l:ompng:a of Germans, and never has been in very good odor bhere. Archbishop Parcell has given all the best vlaces of preferment to’ Germans, and vet they were the first ones to turn round and sue him. Howerer, all these parties bave really only themselves to blame, for they know—everybody knew—that he Wwas a notoriously-bad financier.” OLD TRINITY. WISTORY OF THE FAMOUS BROADWAY CHURCH. ~New York Sun. This is the prelude to the story of the great property of Trinity Church: In 1636, Roclof Jansen, who had been assistant superintendent of farms at Renusclaerwick, obtained from the Datch Director-General and Governor, Wouter Van Twiller, a grant of thirty-one morgend, or sixty-two acres, of land on Manbattan Island, a little to'the north of Fort Amsterdam. On the city map to-day the grant would cover a section beginning south of Warren street, extending on Broadway to Duane, and thence northwesterly a mileand a halt to Christopher street, forming an unequal triangle with its base on North River. Soon after the grant, Janscu, or Jans, died, leaving a wife and four children. In 1638, the widow, Anetje Jans, marricd Dominie Everardus. Bogardus, and her farm became the. “Dominie’s Bouwerie.” Possibly, - if Van Twiller could have foreseen this trans- fer, he would not have made the grant to Japs. The new Governor and the new domi- nie “were fellow-passengers to Aanbattan in 1633 in the ship Soutberg, but after their arrival they did not- harmonize. The Governor re- sented” the dominie’s interference in public affairs. - Bogardus- i his pulpit called” Van Twiller “a - child of Satan,” which so incenscd him that he never azain darkened the dominie’s door. In 1647, Bogardus sailea for home with William Kieft, who had been Governor since 1638, and mow was superseded by Peter Stuy- vesant. ' The ship was wrecked on the coast of “Wales, and Bogardus, Kieft, and seventy-eight other passengers were Iost. [n 1664, by the En- glish occupation, New Amsterdam becamre New York, avd- Col. Richard- Nicotls was Govergor. The Jans grant had been confirmed to his heirs soon after the. .death of Bogardus; but in 1671 the heirs sold the property to Col. Francis Love- lace, who succceded Nicolls as Governor in 1668, At this sale ane of the heirs failed to be present, but Lovelace considered his title good enough, and be bought thé Bouwerie for bis private prop- erty, not for the Urown. On July 29, 1673, while Lovelace was away on a pleasure tour, five Dutch ships sailed up the bay, anchored off the Battery, and cannonaded the city. Capt. Colve, with 600 men landed, and the fort soan surren- dered. When Lovelace returned he was per- mitted to sail for England, where he was severe- 1y reprimanded for cowardice and treachery. he peace between England aud the States Gen- eral, 1674, restored New York, and_one of- the first acts’ of the new Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, was to confiscate the estate of Lavelace to the Duke of York. .The Jans-Bogardus Bouwerie was thus incorporated into what was called the Duke’s farm, the King’s farm (when the Duke of York became James II., and also under William and Mary), and the Queen’s farm under Anne, in whose reien it was transferred to Trinity Church. The prelude explains and dizposes of the Anetje Jans claims in connection with the prop- erty of the corporation; and now proverly be- gins the bistory of Trinity Cburch, especially in respect of its wealth, how its means were ac- quired, aud how _iley have been and are dis- pensed. Immediately after the Dutch surren- der of the colony, the English Church service was first cclebrated in this city, Sept. 14, 1664, by the Chaplain of the English forces, the Dutch permitting the use of their church after their. own morning service; and for some years the two congregations used the same chapel, which was in the fort near the Battery. In 1678-80 the Hev. Charles Wooley, a graduste of ‘Emanuel College, Cambridge, in 1677, was Chap- lain of the English garrison, and a journal of the time says: ** We went at noon to bear the English minister, whose services took place after the Dutch church was out. There were not above twenty-five or thirty people in the church,” whish was a good congregation, for the entire pr\a}auhflon of the city was then only" 5 1695 2,500. In 7. a church was built where Trinity now stands, and in 1697, the fifth year of the reign of William and Mary, by an act of the‘Assembly, approved and ratiicd by the Gov- ernor of the Province, a Royal grant was made of *a certain church and steeple lately built in the City of New York, together with 2 piece or pareel of ground adjoining thereunto, being in or near to a street without the worth gate of the city, commonly called and known by the name of the Broad " The name given to the chureh in the original charter was same it bears to-day, *'The Parish of Trinity Church.” | The warderis and _vestrymen appointed under this charter included Col. Caleb Heathcote, an ancestor of the late Bishop Delancey, and such pames as Morris, Clarke, Read, Burroughs, Wil- son, and Ludlow, familiar in this city now. The edifice was built by assessments and subser g tions, mostly smell, from £1 to £5; Fletcher gave £25; Chidlay Brook, Esq., and Col. Peter Schuyler subscribed £5, “ to be Daid in boards.”” Iu a subscquent cparate sub- scrintion to build the steeple, in a total sum of £318, £5 1s. 3d. was a * contribation from the Jews.” In 1704, Sarsh Knight, of Boston, kept a journal of her visit bere, and she says of New York people: * They are generally of the Charch of England, and have 2 New England gentle- man for their minister, and a very fine church, set out with all customary requisites.”” This New England gentleman was the Rev. William Vesey, for whom Vesey street was named. He was educated 4t Harvard, and was a Dissentitg preacher, but was appointed Rector * provided e should be admitted to - holy orders,” und he weut to England and was ordained. His first service in ‘Trinity was March 13,1698, and be was Rector nearly fifty years till his death on July 11, 17 At first bis salary was £100, with £26 allowance for house rcot, and afterward the ‘Easter Communion offerings and 24s. from the weekly collections were allowed him. 7The clerk and-séxton were paid from fees for christenings, ‘marriages, funerals, and betl-ringings. In 1705, 1 the reizn of Quecn Anne, & grant wwas made 1o the corporation of Trinity Church, by deed patent signed by Lord Cornbury, then Governor of the Province, of ** the tract called the Queen’s farm, lying on the west side of Mannzhata Island,” extending from what now is Vesey street nortbwardly along the river to Skinner road, now Christopher street. ‘This tract iucluded the confiscated Lovelace land bought from the Jans-Bogardus heirs. It was literally a farm then and ot no sreat vaiue,—the city, with less than 5.500 population, was wholly below Wall strect,—and in its first year’s owner- ship the church let the entire farm to George Ryerse for £35. In 1737, the church, criginally a small, square building, was enlarged to 143 Teet lenwth by seventy-two feet breadth, with a steerle 175 fect bizh. ~ *‘It stands,” says & his- torian of the time, *very pleasantly upon the banks of the Hudson’s River, and has a large cemetery on_each side, inclosed. in the front bya painted paled. fence. Before it & .long [ walk is railed off from the Broadway, the pleasantest strect of any in the town.” It was asplendid church for its day. The tops of the pillars supporting the gallerics were decked with the gilt busts of angels winged; two great glass branches were suspended from the ceil- i on_the wall bung the arms of some of the principal benefactors, conspicuous amons them (Gor. Fleteher's. During the_reizns of William and Mary, Queen Anne, und George I. wers bestowed, by the bounty of the Crown, three full sets of communion . plate, inscribed with the initials of the donors and the Royal arms. All tlie furniture of the altar, desk, dnd pulpft was of the richest and costliest ' ind. In 1774 New York was ‘a prosperous place of some 23,000 population. In - ihat ycfr John Adams, on his way to the Congress in Philadel- phia, stopped here, and the simplesminded Bos- Lonian, never before beyond the limits of New Eogland, was much impressed, as his aiary records, by * the opulence and splendor of the city.” But troublous times soon came, and first to the Church of England _clerrymen, who were loyalists. Ou April 14, 1876, Washington arrived in the city, and took command of the American army, ihich, with his reinforcements, num bered 10,235 men. Dr. Auchmyty was in New dersey, and his assistant, the Rev.- Charles loglis, was notifled that Washington would be at Trinity on Sunday, and_*‘would be glad if the prayers for the King and Royat family were omitted,” but tnglis paid no regard to it. Not lone after, while he was officlating, a company of 150 men entered the church, drums beating, fifes “playing, and with loaded guns and fixed bayonets. 'Chc congregation was terrified, and several women faiuted. 1t was faared thut when Mr. Inglis read the collects for the King and Royal family he would be fired at, but he went on with the service as usual, aud was nn- distarbed. By the unanimous reguest of the members of the church he consented to preach on May 17, appointed by Congress as 2 day of fasting and prayer, but tie made peace and re- pentance his subject, and disclaimed baving any- thing todo with * politics.” At length it was thouzht cxpedient, by such of the vestry as re- mained in town, 'to shut up the churches. On Sept. 15 the King’s troops _returned. Six days afterward a fire de- stroyed about one-fourth of the city, including Trinity Cbureh, its rectory, its two charity school-houses, the whole costing £22,200, besides the loss 10' the corporation of £536 an- nual rent of 246 lots, on_which the terants' buildings were burnt. Poor wr. Auchmuty forced his way back on foot and at night, through the lines, and raked the rubbish of the ruins, but found nothing valuable except the church plate and bis own. . The registers of bap- tisms, marriages, aud burisls {rom the founda- tion of the’ parish “were destroyed, and much family history was thus lost. -Dr. Auchmuty preached his last sermon in St. Paul’s, and two days after fell sick and died March 4, 1777. IIe was buried in the chaocel of St.,Paul’s, und was succceded as Rector of Trinity parish, March 20, by the Rev. Charles Inalis, who resizned Nov. 1, 1783, just before the evacuation of the city by the British troops, and afterwards beeame Bish- op of Nova Scotis. e was a loyalist to the last, and one of the last loyalists in Lrinity parish. In 1839 Trinity Church was pulled down, and the preseut splendid structure was begun by the architeet, Mr. Richard Upjobn, " It was com- pleted in seven vears, at a cost, all told, foclud- ing clock, ebfmes, and organ, of $338,629.94,— probably less than one-half the sum that would be required to build such a church now. It was covsecrated on Ascension Day, May 21, 1846, by Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan, aud the proces- sion, which included more than 150 Doctors of Duvinity in surplices, started from Bunker’s, which was then (it sounds queerly enough now) a fasbionable hotel at No. 3) Broadway. Among the many old citizens present was John P. Gro- sbon, who attended the opening of St. Paul’s in 1766, and, strauwer still, in the sudience was Mrs. Ann Livingston, who was at the consecration of the second edifice, and was_baptized in the first. ‘The reredos, erected in_1377 by Mr. John Jacab Astor and Iis brother, William, as a memoriat to their father, cost them about $50,000, and at the same time the corporation expended some $40,000 in redecorating the chancel and building new robing-rooms in the rcar. Trinity Chapel, in Twenuy-fifth street, built in1851-'56, cost $230, 000. St. Chrysostom’s Chapel, in Thirty-ninth street, built in 1869, “cost for land $33,000 aud buildings $60,000. St. Augustine's, in Houston street, consecrated Nov. 30, 1877, cost $260,000; and to build this fine church the corporation borrowed £200,000—its only debt fo-day. St. Cornelius, on Governor’s Island, which Trinity has supported since 1863, and supplied with a clergyman, who also acts as post chaplain, is in- cluded in the chapels of the corporation. In the early history of the parsh it was itself in need of assistauce, but almost as 5oon as its property became productive . it bezan to give it away. Since 1745 its giits to other churches, in money, lots, communion 'Ela.‘.e, fonts, pulpits, carpets, bells, and everything that can cater into the construction and decoraiion of churches, are innumerable, At one time it gave £200 toward ground for ‘a negro cemetery. In 1786-it eranted three lots in Robinson street (now Park place) ;for the use of the senior pas- tors of the Presbyterlan congregations in the city. Besides the grants already mnoted to Co- lumbia Colleze aryl St. George’s Church, it grapted in 179593 to St. Mark’s, built on land given by the Stuyvesants, besides some $20,000 i money, lots estimated thirty years ago to bo worth_$131,000; to Grace Cliureh, in 1804211, $120,000; Christ Cburch, $75,000; St. Thomas’, $32,800; St. Luke’s, $56,800; Al Saints’, $31,- 5005 Ascension, $15,500; St. Phillip’s, $18,0005 and fo churches, colleges, and what not, all over the Statc und _elsewhere, loans, gifts, and grauts, which, in1847, were estimated at §2,- 00,000, The corporation was then cumbered with a debt of §440,000, aud as most of its lots bad been leased out at an early period et mere mominil rests, the annual revenue from ground-rents, pew-rents, and o)l other sources bad never in any one vear up to that time reached $58,000. The building of Trinlty Chapel carried the debt of the corporation up co $658,- 000. In 1857 the deficits in revenue for ten years amounted to $273,597.35, and in the same time the corporation had contributed and given away outside of the parish 3283,141.05. The def- icits were met by the sale of real estate and the consequent consumption of the principal. Gen. John A. Dix, a vestryman sioce 184), aud a Warden and the Comptroller of the corpora- tion siuce 1876, was the first to sugzest measures to pur a stop to the gemeral giving away of cverything to everybody. In 1568 the sale of 8t. John’s Park to the Hudson River Railway Company, and at about the same time the falling in' of the Astor and Lispevard leases, enabled Trinity to wipe out its debt. The property of the corporation, which com- mon rumor makes cover pretty much the whole of lower New York, west of Broagway, and to be worth from seveoty to one hundred millivos, consists actually of 750 lots, which, in 1877, ielded an income of $456,756.45, less than the egal interest on $7,099,000, und the whole orop- erty, except the ground occupied by seven chirches, four schoolhouses, four cemeterics, & rectory, an infirmary, and & few Vacant lots, was productive. In 1878 the income wasa little luss, "I'he corporation is abont to pull down a larve Dbuilding on the corner of King and Greenwich strects, and ercet tenement houses on the site. For this purpose it will borrow money, as it now sells no lots, except in very rare iostances, to accommodate adjacent owners: wio wisi to enlarge their premises. Occasionally tenants have oid_houses which they tegiect aud let 2o to ruin, and these sometimes the corpora- tion buys and puts in order to b¢ rented. T Out of its revenue, say, $450,000, the corpora- tion pays city taxes, which in 1§77 were more than $100,000, besides considerable assessments. It wholly supports its seven churcbes, of which three are entirely frec, two_nearly free, and of the few pews rented 1 Trinity the highest brings but $85 a ycar. Besides its own church= es, schools, infirdiary, and sandry charities and societies, it supports wholly or in* part eighteen tuore churches iu the city, the principal ot which are St. Luke's, in Hudson street, which is al- lowed- 310,000 a year, and All Saints’, at the corner_of Henry and Scammel streets, which draws 36,000 a year. The total of such allow- ances outside of the parish amouuted in 1877 to $47,660.19, und in 1878 to $44,971.23. Itsin- firmary costs S7,200, and beds at St. Luke's Hospiial $2,000 a year. The corporation pends its entire revenue in purposes for wi he trust for its foundation was designed, and does not hoard one doltar. JOEN HENRY NEWMAN, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE NEWLY-CREATED GARDINAL. 5 New York [erala. The official list of the Cardinals to be created at the next Consistory includes, as we are in- formed by a teleeram from Rome dated March 3, the name of Dr. Newman. The elevation of Father Newman to the rank of a Prince of the Roman Catholic Church is an event which has long been expected. - It is a deserved tribute to rare personal merit and exquisite. literary at- tainments. By this step Pooe -Leo XIIL has proved himself superior to the trammels which the Ultramontanes have sought to impose upon bim, and England has gained a secona resident Cardipal, who, like his colleague, Cardinul Man- niag, belongs to the highest type of the aristoc- racy of worth and intellect. Father Newman is the elder brother of the distingulshed Prof. Francis. William Newman, late of University Colleze, Who, after along se- cession from Christianity in any form, has late- 1y become a devout member of the- Unitarfan Church, They ere the son3 of John Newman. a member. of the banking firm of Ramsbottom, Newman & Co., of Lombard street, their mother being of -French Huguenot descent. They were born in London, the elder on Feb. 21, 1801, the Younger in 1805. They were educated together at, Ealing school, and . were both graduates of Oxford University, though not at the same time nor at the same college. - Jobn Henry Newman graduated with classical honors at Trinity in 1820, having gained a competitive. scholar- ship in 1818. He was elected a fel- low of Oriél in 1822, and, havinz taken orders in the Church of Eogland in 18%, was chosen the- following year Vice-Principal of St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford, the Principal being Dr. Richard Whately, afterward Archbishop of Dub- lin. Mr. Newman was much influenced by Dr. Whately. whom he aided in prevaring for the press his * Dialogues on Logic.”” From 1826 to. 1831 Newman was an active and efficient tutor of Trinity College, and in 1528 he became in- cumbent of St. Mary’s Church, Oxford, where his preaching soon exerted a powerful influence | upon the younger members of the University, and is still remembered as the principel factor in the risc of the *Tractarian™ or “ English Catholic” movement, which is usually dated from the year 1833, though the same influcnces had been at work for several years before. It wasin December, 1832, that Mr. Newman, being at Rome with his friena Hurrell Froude, was forcibly impressed with the idea that the great mission of his life was to. combat skepticism in religion, 2nd it was on’ liis journey homeward that be Wrote (Jan. 16,-1533) his beautitul hymn, Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling-,icom, ‘which is so'highly prized by Christixns of every denomination. On his return'to Oxford Alr. Newman became: actively engaged with Hugh Rose, Keble E. B. Pusey, and the late Hurrell Froude (clder brother of the bistorian) in a well concerted * Anglo-Catholic” movenent, -of which he was,the real head. The celebrated *Tracts for the Timnes,” commenced in 1533, were due to his sugestion, and the most effectiye of the series, including the last and most famous, *Tract No. 90,” were written by him. At the requost of Hugh Rose, Mr. New- man undertook to write a history of the Cath- olic Church Councils, as the first volumes of a projected theological library, aud the first part part of this work appearcd in 18313, with the title_“The Arians of the Fourth Century.” In 1834 his theological opinions led to a rupture of his long friendship and association with Dr. Whately. In the succceding years Dr. New- man’s pon was very active. ~He published, among other works, ‘*Lectores on Romanism and Popular Protestantism? (1837), *The Church of the Fathers” (1540), eight” volumes of ‘Parochial Sermons” (1833-'44), an “Es- say on_ the Miracles of the Middle Ages” (I843), an_‘*Annotated Translation of St. Athapasins” (1542-44), and “ Sermons on the Theory of Religious Belief” (1844). In 1842 his divergences from Lis ‘associates in the Anclo-Catholic movement became so marked that he quit Oxford and cstablished at Little- more an ascetic community on a medieval model, and thenceforth he tended rapidly toward Ca- tholicism. - This is not the place to give the history of Dr. Newman’s conversion to the Roman Catholic communion, which was consummated in Octo- ber, 1845, when he was ordaned a priest and ap- ointed the head of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, at Birmingham. In 185% he was appoint- cd Rector of the newly-founded Catholic uni- versity at Dublin, but resigned that post in 1858. ~ Subscquently be established a school for the children of the Catholic gentry at Edgbas- ton, near Birmingham, where! be has since re- sided. In December, 1877, father Newman was made an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Ox- ford. Among his many works of later years are the celebrated * Development of Christian Doctrine ™ (1846); two mnovels—*“Loss and Gsin” and * Callista”’; * Lectures and Es- says on University Subjects ” (1859); “ Apologia Probita Sua ”’ (1504), being an sutobizraphical history of his religious opinions; a volume of poems (1863); a ** Grammar of Assent ™ (1870), and a * Letter to the Duke of Norfolk on Mr. Gladstone’s Expostulation” (1875), a work which produced a profound effect. 1t is under- stood that Dr. Newman more than once declined gromntion in the Church of Rome when offered y, the late Pontiff. The first intimation of Dr. Newman’s prob- able elevation to the Cardinalate svas warmly welcomed by the leading English jour- pals a few weeks ago. The Saturday Remew said, commenting on Dr. Newman’s refusal to accept the honmor cenferred upon bim: It has been lefy for the suc- cessor of Plus IX. to show at once his just appreciation of merit by meking tardy repara- tion for long neslect and offering Dr. Newman the purple. “That at his age and with his retir- ing disposition he should base declined it is raatter rathor ToF Fegrat thail JOr surprise;-but it is distinctly matter for regret. It is a pity that the é.:rc\\tcst Englishman since the Refor- mation who las sharcd the faith of Woisey, Fistier, and_Pole should not inkerit their man- tle. No doubt the Sacred College would bave gained far more homor than it could give by receiving him among its members; and " this circumstance, of course, must make bis decision doubly regrettable to those who are jealous for the credit of & _body which found room for the intelfect of a Culfen and the piety of an Antonelli, while Rosmini, Dupanloup, and Darboy were studiously ex- cluded from the charmed circle. There would have been something congruous in_ seeing the man whose old college at Oxford has unani- mously enrolled his name, thongh an alien from his former creed, among her houorary fellows, also enrolled in that Sacred College which for many centuries held the highest rank in the communion to which he hastransferred his brill- jant services. And wben we think of ot names inscribed where his is omitted, it is di cult to refiect without a smile or a sigh on the capricious distribution of human titles and diz- nities. Dr. Newman’s fame, indecd, needs uo tinsel ilding, and to himselt personally such external adjuncts will be a matter of less than indifference. Butitis weil at lcast that he should mnot have been suffered to pass away without an offer of the highest distinction his Church had to bestow, and well that Leo XTI sl;ioulq l};ue had the wisdom and the courage to offer it.] THE CATHOLIC CLERGY." SORDID AMBITION AND PETTY JEALOUST. «Catholicus,” a correspondent of the New York Herald, contributcs the following on the internal troubles of the Church in this country: . . . . “First let me say wat the self-de- nial and suffering of the early missionaries have few imitators in the present generation, and too often nowadays the youne gncu may be openly heard exulting in the wealth and numbers of the parish to which he has succeeded. Never will you hear these young clergymen speak of the number of souls they bave a chance of saving. To this degrading worldliness is addid a sordid- ness of ambition and a petty jealousy difficult to conceive without intimate knowledge. No Licu- tenant in the army is more abxious fér his *step? than many of the youog assistants, and if by any chance a talented clersyman is adopt- ed to the diocese from another diocese or another country, the stir among these young priests is the revorse of edifsing. Indirmation- ‘meetings are held by them, and the authorities arc petitioned against thie new comer being allowed to take precedence of them. # A grreat source of mauy of the troubles in the Catholic Church in America s the tact that there is no canon law in this country. The Ordinary of the diocese is the law to his priests. An effort was made—a fecble onme, it fis true—to remedy _this at the last Council of Baltimore. ~Very little was dooe in the way of pranting Tights or priri- lezes 1o pastors or assistanis. The reason is very plain. ‘I'he Council consisted of the Epis- copate and their theologians (who all expect to become Bishops)-as well as the beads of the reg- ular orders. Why the first two divisions of the Council did next to nothing may be surmised, and, as theregular Orders have no need of canoa law; their constitutions bein their canons, they did not interest themselves in what did not im- mediately concern them. *¢ \What the Councit actually did in the matter of discipline, well intentioned as it may have been, has almost absolutely failed of effect, and the _ ‘precepts,” ‘recommendations,’ or - ‘mandaments,’ are duily violated by the sccular priesthood. Among these. violations I may ~emphasize the wearing of the Roman collar, the abstention from visiting places where liquor is sold, the use of picnics und water excarsions for the pur- pose of raising funds, the charging for admis- sion to the church at mass, and so on to the end of the chapter. It needs but_little éxercise of the memory on the part of tens of thousands of Catholics to recall instances where these ‘pre- icsepts’ have been treated as if they never ex- ted. “In conscquence of the numerous cases of troudle between Bishoos and priests, which were appealed to Rome, the Sacred Conerege- tion for the l‘ragnfiumn of the Faith, which has dominion over all’ missionary countries, has created & law that each Bishop'in the United States shall appoint three or four of the most learned and holy pastors of his diocese before whom all cases of disnzreement may be brought. This law takes away from Bishops the power they have hitherto held and frequently abusea of changing about their priests at their whim or pleasure. It is satisfactory to many of. the Bishops who do not like the odium of €ven hay- ing to remove passive or ineffective pricsts. Not 8013 it regarded by nnother class_of Bishops, who look upon it with alarm, a5 an entering wedge for o system of canon Iaw as it obtains in other countries. They are.bitterly opposed to it, and Bishop McQuade is now tn Rome trying to have it modificd on their bebalf. ““These constant disagreementslead paturally to the question, What canses them! Why 12 there more trouble in this country between Bishops and priests, between onc priest and his brethren? They are produced by the same cause that creates troubles in_everyday life— namely, money; the greed of it, und the want of it. - in no other country in the world are the grlesbnoad as well off financiaily as they are ere. When the Church is poor or oporessed it 15 pure; when \ealthy it presents maoy excep- tions to purity. "\When riches are readily ac- quired by almost. every priest and the field of peeuniary profit is full” of golden prizes what wonder that the scramble for Iat_ livings should present repulsive features? Incompe- tenance and jznorance hold grimly on to every veoal advantage gained, and the new comers clamor aud_cabal for the places of the old. Decency is shocked by the diatribes with which Iurther food of Mammon is exacted from the poorest congregations. Amid all this grecd, these everlasting squabbles among the priests, and.appeals for more money and still more to the laymen, what is the chbance for the souls of the neglected thousands in almost every parish? T am not, writing from hearsay, but from pain- ful observation, and there are too many Bu nful incidents in the modern history of the Churci Amcrica to permit of my statements being seriously disputed.” GENERAL NOTES. There are now fifteen graduates of the Bangor Theological Seminary doing missionary worl in foreign countries. “Congregational Methodism ” i3 one of the important sects in Georgia. The organization supports its own newspaper. % The Baptist Theological School just founded in Paris has for its board of officers distingnish- ed members of the faith both in England and" the United States. Inaspeech recently o Philadelphls lawyer: cited St. Paul’s remark off the coast of Melita as the first admiralty ruling in regard to the dutics of saflors in time of peril: “Exccpt these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved.” The Rev. . H. Knowlton will assume the Rectorship of St. Andrews! P. E. Church, and will officiate morning and evening to-day. It is con- templated after Easter to make this a free church. The new Rector is confident of its future success under such auspices. % Tnity, the organ of the Unitarians and Liber- als in this city, has started on its second year greatly lmproved. It has been doubled in size, anew editor has been appoiated, and to the Rev. Robert Coliyer has been intrusted the sole charge of the * Table-Talk” Department. Unity, in commenting on the Anti-Chinese bill and the *Sand-Lot ' reformer, says: “We have no disposition to compare the Chinese re- ligion with the Catholic. But we should re- member that Confucianism and Buddhism united there have not yet been able to produce a Dennis Kearnev.” The proof-sheets of the Year-Book of the - Congeregational Church show that there are now 3,620 churches in this country and 3,496 min- isters. ‘e churches have increased by fifty-six, and the ministers by fifty. There are 662 churches unsupplied, and 1,136 ministers not engaged in pastoral work. The Fulton Street M. E- Church, of whicn the Rev. W. H. Holmes is pastor, has been enlarged to give increased accommedation to tbe Nab- bath-school, which now numbers about 320 scholars, having in the pust few months erown {rom a membership of 260. Mr. John Freeman is Superintendent of the school. At 2 Sunday-school in the Methodist Church Block, in Chicago, twenty-six heathen Chinese are_taught a more respectable theologzy. It is to be hoped that they are so grounded in the Confucian. morality that it will do them no barm when they learn that richteousness is only a secondary consideration.— Unity. There are about 100,000 Jewish refugees in Turkey. There misery is perhaps not soglaring as it was Jast year, when they ether in mosques in masses of 4,000 and 5,000, but it is feared, in point of fact, that sufferings from cold and hunger are, if possible, more 1n- tense amongst the 100,000 dispersed over Con- stantinople and the Bosphorus than last year. The Porte can do nothing to help them. The choir orranized by Mr. Stebbins for the Narth Stde Union Gospel meetings already rives promise of 8 larze and excellent chorns. Mr. Stebbins is gratified, not oplv with the large pumber, but also with the quality of voices. “There are to be three more rehearsals, thiseven- ing and Monday ovening. The date of the last, which will probably be 1 public one, has not yet been decided upen, but will be announced next week. The Freedmen’s Aid Soclety of the AL E. Church has issucd its eleventh report. The Church ranks third in church membership in the South and second in cotored membership. ‘There are now five chartered universitics and colleges under itscare, three theologrical schools, two medical colleaes, and ten institutions not chartered, in which Jast year 2,040 pupils werein- structed. The progress .they have made is re- ported as decidedly encouraging. St. Agnes Society of Christ Church Parish, Madison, Ind., recently gave a masked ball, snd thereby excited publiceriticism. This the Rector, the Rev. E. Bradley, undertook to answer ina defense of dancing and wine drinking * when duly restrained by religious training and home culture.” He maintains that social dancing is not forbiaden by the Episcopal Church, and that if relizious service was not newlected in conse- quence it might properly be indulged io. He denounced theatres, but commended parlor theatricals. % A gentleman who has recently visited London tells of the remarkable influence on the Chris- tian life in that country from the popular sing- ing of the Moody and Sankey hymos. The same story comes from other countries in Europe and elsewhere. This modern American Sunday- school music, so much criticized and soeered at, Das already taken hold on the popular heart in America, * Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, India, and the Islands of the Sea, such as no other music has had since the days of Jubal. Bishop Whittle, of the Episcopal Church of Virginia, has issoed a pastoral, in which be says: The services of the Church should be conducted as prescribed by the rubrics in the Book of Com- mon Prayer, without adding thereto or sabtracting therefrom. The decoration of the church building at Christmas, being a custom as old as the Church iteclf in Virginia, may lawfully and properly be continued. The introdnction into the church of evergreens or flowers at Easter, ar of flowers, fruits, or vegetsble on Thanksgiving Day, or any other occasion, is a novelty and an imnovation in Virginin, and ought not to be done or allowed. ecorstion of -*the Lord's table,” pulpit,and desk with cloths, of one color for some occasious, and of another color for other occasions, the differ- ent colored cloths being changea according to times and seasons, i8 & new and strange thing in the Church in Virginia, and ought not to be done or allowed. The Pope has far outatripped the President in the matter of civil-service reform. He hus sub- stituted ordinary Latin for the ancient Teutonic characters in apostolic letters, bulls, ete., and thercby done away ‘With copying those docu- ments; which was a greac.source of revenue to the small politicians of the Vatican. He has also abolished the use ot the lead seal in such documents, and thereby saved a large item in postage, und, worst of sl for the sinecurists, W¥ho forinerly drew large salaries for looking in at their oflicés cvery day, be has insisted that every man who drats money from his treasury shall render an equivalent n work from 9 2. . ill 1 p. m. each dag. The tardy wiil be flned for each offense, and, if-incorrigible, will be punished Ly suspension from office and from pay. Hence the small politicians privately de- nounce Pope Leo and sigh for the halcyon days of Pius IX. The first'of the three solemn masses for the fepose of the soul of Pius IX. was celcbrated Feb. 7 in the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal di Pietro, Dean of the Sacred College, sang the mass, tnd. the Pope assisted, giving the benediction and absolutions. Few torcigners, except those con- Dected with the various Embassies to the Fope, were able to get admission to°the Sistine on this oceasion. NO tickets were issued. The Pope lookea remarkably well, and his voice was heard distinctly, every word he said being clearly spoken in topes not unmusical. On cither side of the Pope’s throne sat a Cardinal Deacon, und on his right hand, with a Curdinzl. between, sat Prince Orsini, Prince assistant at the throne. ‘The mass gid not begin until 11 a. m., and was over at a_quarter past 12. Cardinal Howard, the Right Rev. Dr. Clifford, Bishop of Clitton, and the Right Rev. Mer. Edmund Stoner, were among the Knglish ecclesiastics present. The Freeman’s Journal is in terrible distress, andits editor,ina daleful article nearly two columus long, tells the reason why. Itfs be- causc Bishop Baltes, of Alton, I, has inter- dicted the reading of the Journal by the pricsts or people of his diocese after the expiration of two months. And the Blshop, being & German, speeks sneéringly in hispastoral of the'editor as “Jjames McMasters, a Scotchman by birth or descent, and a convert to our faith.” " This riles the journalist, who rejoices thathe has not in his ‘veins one drop of German blood. He promises_to see that the Bishop shall withdraw his interdict within the two months, and mean- timeadyise hisreaders in Alton Diocese to follow ey were huddled to-+. thelr Bishop's advice. Ina second briot atticle e editor denies that the approval of the late Archbishop Huzhes was ever withdrawn from it, or that his Journal- has been placed mder 'fintfl&\; by Cardinal McCloskey. He a8t ! i c 2dmonish him - amed prelate did once CARDINAL MANSING AND THOR JESUITS. Cardinal Manning’s hasty departure for Rom is due to a dispute ewrecz I.hg Enelish Romn: Catholic Bishops and the relizious Orders, es- pecially the Jesuits, who have carried theirquar- rel to headquarters, where it is under the con- asideration of the Conereeation of Bishoos and Regulars, the ecclesiastical department charzed with the arrangements of 2 modus vivendi be- wween: the cleries of religious Orders and the Bishops. The highest episcopate claim full con- trol over the Jesuits, and per consequence over the Benedictines, Passionists, Oratorians, and all others in matters which the ** Orders® declare should only be subject to the coostitu- tion of their societics and their duly ap- pointed Generals. The Jesuits arc fighting the battle of all the Orders; and that able Benedictine, Bishop Ullathorne, of Birmingham, but for whom there would be probably no hierarcny in Eorland, is with them in their contention. The Cardinal, wito is not the author of the imbroglio. is gone as 2 forlarn hope. It is singular tiat the last days in Rome of the late Cardinal Cullen were spent in press- ing a claim for almost uncontrolled jurisdiction over another_cducational Order, the Christian Brothers, in Ircland. Cardinal Manning is him- self o member of the tribunal before which he. has to plead the claim of his Episcopal col~ leagues. PERSONAL., Robert Laird Collier is preaching in Bradford, England. The Rev. J. H. Phillips, of Shelbyville,. Mo., has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church in that place. = A dispatch from Rome announces the recov- ery of Bishop McQuald, of Rochester, N. ¥, who was seriously ill in Italy. The Rev. Arthur Sweatman, the Bishop-elect of Toronto, was formerly head-master of the Huron College, at London, Ont. The Rev. A. 'I'. Hobart, recently of Morris, N. Y., has settled down in Cincinnati as pastor of the Mouat Auburn Baptist Church. Mrs. Charles Brook, who died recently in Lcicestershire, zave to the Church of England during her life not less than $700,000. The Rev. Dr. Ide, of West Medwav, Mass., is “the oldest Congregational preacher living. He is almost 94. His wife is in ler 80th year. Kimball, the **debt-raiscr,” has, it is stated, extracted rejuctant nickels to the amount of 2,500,000 towards paying off church indebted- ness. Spurgeon is a Baptist, but belteves that all Christians should be weleomed to the Lord's table, whether baptized by immersion or othér- wise. The Rev. William Arnent, a missfonary in Chioa, lately wrote to his friends in Owosso, Mich., that he had achieved his first sermon in the languaee of the Flowery Kingdom. Mr. H. R. Clissold, a well-known Baptist lay- man of this city, has accepted the positfon of Sunday-school * Missionary for the State, under the appointment of the Publication Society. Only last fall Mr. Talmage thaoked God that his salary had been raised, for now he could stay at home'and not lecture. Therefore he is now out on a two weeks’ lectaring tour.—Allignce. Adam and Eve have been baptized by the Rev. Father Monague, of St. Mary’s Catholic Chbureh, in Virginia City, Nev. They arc the parents of the late Capt. Bob, Chief of the Piutes. . Bishop Gregg has let the Reformed Episcopal Church, and_intends to form a separate organi- zation with the title * The Reformed Episcopal Chureh in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.” The Rev. William Tmpey, the Weslesan tmis- sionary of South Africa who was compelled to resign on acconnt of his views on future pan- ishment, hag been reccived into the Cnurch of Eogland by Bishop Merriman. ‘The Rev. Marshall B. Sinith has_resigned the Secretaryship of the Gicneral Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Rev. Edward Wilson, D.D., of Metuchen, N. J., has been ap- pointed Mr. Stith's suceessor. A Congregational Council, called to consider 'M. L. Screrance, of the resignation of - the Rev. Orwell, Vt:, has decided that his reasons were #wholly insufficicnt and did not warrant the | 'severing of bis pastoral relations.” The Eliot Congregational Church of Newton, Mass., by & unanimous_vote, have called the Hona ML \Valker, D. D.. of Brattleboro, Vt. to be their pastor, it beinir understooa that he dectined a call which he had received to go to Springficld, Mass. The straight-laced Baptists of St. Louis are very much displeased with Dr. Bovd, of the Second Church, for having communed with the . Rev. Dr. Eliot, a Unitarisn minister of that city. Dr. Bogd’s congregation is at present worship- ing in a Jewish synagogue. Dr. Fulton, in his letter of apology for the use of certain words affecting a brother minis- ter, was Tather severe upon the members of the New York Baptist Confercnce. He was- asked to recall the offensive words and on his_declin- ing to doso was expelled by a vote of 23 to 11. The Rev. Arthur Mursell, of England, is vio- lently opposed to close communion, and says he “will not affect to sympathize with a system which cbains a sectarian Cerberus to the leg of the Lord’s table to bark at every comer who does.not. phrase our shibboleth ‘exactiy in our perfect accent.” . ) The Rev. George Thompson, who preaches at Lelang, in the forests of Michigan, cleven miies Trom any other minister, snd who oes seven and 2 half miles one way and elghtcen miles another to_his appointmeats, reccives never over$30 and sometimes less than $25 & year from his poor and scattered people. SUNDAY SMALL TALK. It Noah was a consisteat Jew what induced him to take Ham into the ark?—Boston Tran- seript. A Sunday-school boy, on. being asked what made the Tower of Pisalcan, replies, ¢ Because of the famine in the land.” Providence minister—* I wish to state that T bave procured an alarm-clock that will wake up the congregation as soon as the services are over.” The young man who took up the collection {n church the other Sunday, when nothing but fire- cént picces were forthcoming, remarked that it was a neat bit of nickel-plating. ‘The fall of the first womaa in the Garden of Eden sod the act of sceretly listening to the conversation of others are similar in that each constitutes eavesdropping.—Rome Sentine!. Abigrevival in ‘Williamstown, Ky., added seventy members to a colored church, and a big aance took sixty-five of them away. One of the five remaining says: *Church prospecs {s d—d blue in dis town.” ] never thought but once,” sald old Deacon ‘Webbing, * that it was a sin to steal an umbrel- 1a.” *“And when was that?” asked a friend. #Jt was when some pesky thief stole my new sili one,” answered the Deacon. A litule girl was asked by her mother, on her return from church, how she liked the preacher. “Didw'y like bim' at all,” was the Yoply. + Why? asked her mother. *Cause he preach- ed il he made me slcepy, and _then hotlered so loud he wouldn't et me %o 10 sleeo.” A worthy Baptist minister in the West, gent- 1v rebuking bis flock for their extravagance in dress, used theword “garbae,” supposiog it to be a more elez:?l (fl‘ll'r{ll O{bl“ gurb.” ‘:lfld hilarity in the choir, and horrible consternation amungy the devout portion of the flock.—Phila- delphia Bulletin. A minister went to dipe at the house of one of his hearers whom he was in the habit of visit- ing, and the master of the house requested the minister to aska blessing. It was po sooner done than a prattling boy abont 7 years old asked *Papa, what is the reason we aliways have a blessing asked when Mr. —— difles With us, and never at any other time?” A gentleman makes a note of 3 visit he made to a Sunday-school, where he was much jm- pressed by the quiet wzfiin which the Superin- tendent did his work. He rang a bell for order, wrote the hymns on a bisck-board, and said not aword; and when the visitor said, * How u’n that your Superintendent i3 so very quiet?’a teachier answercd, ““He's dumb, sir, and we elected him for that reason.” About twenty years azo a somewhat abusive opponent of tb{: ’énpzflsu wasg publishing & book awainst them at the office of the printer of the Mississippi Legislatare. By some inadvertence the sheets got mixed, and before the vonfusion was detected seyeral coples of the acts were so bound as'to exhibit the following astonishing piece of legisiation: ¢ Be it enacted by the Ben- ate and Honse of Representatives of the Stata of Mississippi that bap means to put under the water and tizo meaus to pull out.” - CHURCE SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. G.W. Northrup will preach in the First Chuzch, corner of South Park avenueand Thirty-firat street, at 11 8. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. John Peddie will preach in the Sec-’ ond Chuich, corner of Morgan and West Monroe streets, at 10:30 & m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. B. Halbert will preach fn the Fourth Church, corner of West Washington and Panlina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. A. Owen will preach in the Tni- versity Place Church, corner of Douglas place and. Rhodes avenue, 5t 10:30 5. m. 30d 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach in the North Star Church, cormer of Division and Sedgwick strees, at 10:43 3. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. C. Perrin will preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. B. K. Cressey will preack in the Coventry Street Church, corger of Bloomingdals road, at10:30 3. m. and 7:110 p. m. —The flev. K. De Baptiste will preacli 1 the Olivet Charch. Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, atlla. n and7:45p. m. 5 —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach in the Sonth Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, atll s m. y —The Rey. C. E. Hewltt will preach in tho’ Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Wess Jackson streets, at 10:10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., —The Rev. E. 0. Tavlor wiil preach in the Cen- tral Churca, No. 400 Orchard street, near Sophia, at10:45 3. m. ai p. m. Ienry will preach in the —The Rev. J. Q. A, Dearborn Street Churen, corner of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:20 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach in the Twen- lya%llh Street Church, near Wentworth avenue, af 7:30p. m, The' Rev. C. Swift will preazh In the Evangel Chazch, Rock Isiand car-shops, Dearborn street, near Forty-seventh, at 10:45 o. m. apd 7:30 p. m CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach mora- ing and evening at Plymouth Church. in Michizan avenue, between Twenty-ffth and Twenty-sixth streets. ; “The Rev.E. F. Williams preach in the morning at_the South Cnurch, corner of Drexel and Univa avenucs. Sunday-school concert in the evemng. —The Rev. G. . Peeke will preach in the Leav- itt Street Church morning and _evening. Morning subject: **The Realm of Mystery.® Evening: “VThe Rise and Force of Ordinances.” METHODIST- The Rev. J. M. Caldwell will preach moming and evening at the Western Avenue Churcn, corner of Moncoe street. ¢ . T'he Rev. hr. Thomas will preach in the morn-~ fng and Prof. O. L. Barber'in the eveniry at the Centenary Church. The Jatter’s subject’ will be *~Heaven, "™ : —Tnc Rey. D. Willixmson will preach at the Michgan, Atende Church, meac Jirer-sccond strect. Evening subject: **Why We Believe the Bible to be the Word of God." —Tae Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will proach in Grace Chareh, corner of White and North Lasalle srects, morning and evening. Morning subjec **Hindrances to Divine Co-operation.” ~ Evening; +*The Shores of Galilee.” —The Ker. T. C. Clendenning will preach in the Langley Avenue Cburch, corner of Thirty-ninth strect, at 10:30 3. m. aad 7:30 p. m. Morning J *The Prcsent Detter thantae Former Dass.” Evening:_**The Geoeral Judement. " —The Rev. 5. McChesnev will preaca In_the lark Avenue Church at 10:30 2. m., and the Rev. . B. Caldwell, of Cleveland, at 7:30 p. m. _The sttef will asslat In revival”services during tas weel. —The Rev. C.G.Trusdell whl preach in the State Street Church in the morning and lecture on the sabject of Temperance in the evening. —urs. J. F. Willing will_preach in the morning at Emmanuel Charch, corner of Harrison and Paulinastrects. A song service inthe evemng. EPISCOPAL. The Rt.-Rey. Bishop McLaren, assisted by the Rev. J. H. Enowles, will officfate this morning and evening in_the 'Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoria streets. % g —The Rey. SamuelS, Harms will officiate this morning and evening in St. James’ Church, carner of Casy ana Huron atrects. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 8 8. m. —The Rev. E. Sullivan, S. T. D, will officiate this morning and evening in Trinity 'Chaech, cor- ner of Michigan avenne and Twenty-sixth street. Communion seryices at 9:40 3. m. —The Rev. William L. Klowlion will ofiiciate ‘morning and eveninz at 5t. Andrew’s Church, cor- ner of West Washington and Rooey strests. —The Rev. J. Bredberg will offictate this morn- ing and eveAiing in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Scdg- wick street,- near Chicago avenne. —fhe Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate this morping and evening in Grace Church, Wabash avenne, mear Sixteenth strect. Communion ser- vices at 8 a. m. —The - Rev. Arthur Ritchie will' officiate thts morning and evening in the Cnurch of the Ascen- sion, comer of Norta LaSalle and Eim streets. —The Rer. C. S, Lester will oficiate morning. and evening in St. Panl's Charch, Hyde Patk.: - —The Rev. B. F. Floetwooa will officiate mora ine and evening in St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottaze Grove avenue and I nirty-sixth strcet. —The Rev. G. F. Cushman will officiate morning and eveninz in St. Stepben's Church, Johuson street, between Taylor and Tiwelfth. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate morning and evening in Calvary Charch, Warren avenac, between Oakley street and Westérnavenge. Com- munion services at 5 3. M. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison will officiate morn- inzand evening in the Church of the Epiphiny, Throop street, between Monroe and Adame streets. . —The Rev. . J, Petrie will officiatc morning and eveningin the Church of Qur Savior, coraer of Lincoln and Belden avenues. T. B. Townsend will conduct the services at 4 o'clock this afternoon at St. Luke’s Missiun, No. 437 Western avenue. —There will be regular_evening services at the Hove 3ussion, No. 1141 Milwaukee avenue, con- ducted by Mr. A. Carry. —The Rev. D. F. Smith will officiate this morn- ing in Grace Church, Hinsdale. ZThe Rev. F. N. Lucon will officiate moraing and evening in Emanuel Church, LaGrange. —The Rev. J. Stewart Smith will officiate morn- ing and evening in St. Mark's Church, Evanston. Communion services at 8a. m. # —The Rev. A. W. Mann, of Cleveland, will con- duct services in the_sim lanenage for deaf mues in the chapel of St. James® Church, corner of Caas and Huron streets, ac10:30 8. m. and 3 v. m. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cheney will officiate at Christ Charch, corper of Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street, Subjec Morpmz, **A Sample of Con- version ”’; evening, **71he Word s a Judwe. " —The Rev. F. W. Adams will offictate in_ths morning at St. Matthew’s Churen, corner of Clark and Centre streets. Subject: **An Accusing Cou- science.” —The Rev. M. D. Charch will officiate morniog and evening at St. John's Church, on Ellis avenue, near Thirty-scventh street. A i —The Kev. H. M. Collisson will officiate at St. Paul's Church, corner of Carpenter and Washlag- ton streets. Sabjects: Morning, ** The Tempta- tion of Adam and Eve™—the first of a scries of Lenten sermons; evening, **Ye Are Not:Your Own." PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev, Arthur Swazey will preach n the morn- ing at the Forty-tirst Street Charcl, corner of Prai- rie avenue, —The Rev. Arthor Mitchell will preach thig morning in the First Church, Indiana avenne and Tyventy-firat street, and this eveninz o Railrond Chapel, N tate street. —gehe Rev. W. T. Meloy will preach in the First Talted Charch, corner of Monroe and Paulina streets, morning and evening. i —The Rev. J. 3unro Gibson will preach morning and evening in the Second Churcn, Michiganavenus and Twentieth atreet. 2 —The Rev. Prof. F. L. Patton will preach morn- ing and evening in Jefferson Park Church, comer of Throop und Adams strects. Evening subject: “iThe Two Adams,”—the temth of the series of discourses on the doctrinal and other religions tions of the times. . A e Rev. Jonn Abbott French will presch morning and evening in the Foarth Charch, corner of Rush and Superior streets. e “Beorss L., Kaymond will presch morning and evening in the Fifth Church, Indiana avenus and Thirueth street. Evening subject: **Tho Training of Children.” g “The Rev. E. N. Barrett will preach this morn- ing and the Hon, D. S. Wood will address the Gos- pel meeting this cvening in Westminster Charch, Zorner of Jackson and Peoria streets. —The Rev. James Maclsughlan will preach morn- jog and evening In the Scotch Church, Comer of Sapzamon and Adams streets. 3 —The Kev. J. M. Worrall will preack morning and evening in the Eighth Church, corner of West Washington and mobey streets. —The Rev. J. H. Walker wilt preach at the Re- union Cnurch on West Fourteenth .street, nesr Throop, at 10:30 . m. and 7:30 p. m. . NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P, Mercer will preach at Unfon Church, Hersbey Hall, Subjects: Morning, **Idol- atry in_Christian Lands”; cveming, **The Un- known God.™ LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmuud Belfour will preach morning and evening at Trinity Church, corner of Dearoorn and Eric streeta. r ey UNITARIAN. i The Rev. Brooke Herford, pastor, will preach at the Chorch of the Messiah. corner of Michigam avenue and Trenty-third street. Subjects: Morn- ing, **Sel-Cultnre and Selisn Caltare”; evening, *‘Mactin Luther. ~The Rev. Ira C. Biliman will preacn at 3:30 . m. at the Third Church, corner of Monroe and aflin streets. Subject: **The Divinity of Man.” —The Rov. Robert Coliyer will preach in Unity Church, commer of Dearborn avenue and Walion place, moraing_and evening. . Morningz subject: **The Mount of Vision.” Evening: **The Thorn in the Flesh.™ g —The Rev. James Kay Applebee mll nreach in the Fourth Church, corner of rie avent d Thirtieth street, at 10:45 o. m. Subject: Province of Hope n the Religious Life.” CHRISTIAN. The Rev. J. L. Parsons will preach morning and evening at the church corner of South Park aveans and Thirty-third street. - - * —The Bev, George W. Sweensy-will presch