Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1879, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 30, 1879-SIXTEEN PAGES. POLITICAL. “TRDORSEMENT OF A.MLWRIGHT - FOR MAYOR: — We, the undersigned ‘Merchants and Mem- bers of the Chicago ‘Board of Trade, desire to express our confi- dence in the integrity and capacity of Mr. A. M. Wright for the of fice of Mayor of our city, and we believe that he will administer the duties of said office for the best interests of good government ‘and economy. George NM. Taw, NK Fairbank, Jahan S. Humeey, Henry A. Towner, ©. M. Culbertson, - 1B. Stevens, S$: HL McCrea, Hi. A. Blair, C.J. Blair, Caaries Hitchcock, “A. @. Ducat, ¥. B. Baldwin, Nu = ©. A. Mair, Manger. Wheeler & Co., J. H. Dole, Wiley M. Egan, A. H. Pickering, Cc. E. Culver, Cc. L. Kaymond, Georee N. Culver, =F. W. Densmore, A. C. Knopf, William E. Rollo, Fred S. dames, Oscar Barrett, Thomas N. Bond, Edward Buckingham, W. J. Pope, H. c. Nutt, John Williams, William Dickinson, Isaac N. Ash, A. X. oueks Henry Towne, Nathan Corwith, J, THurlbet, Pp. W. Dater, J.P. Rumsey, M. Rosenbaum, Xrarse, Ward £ Co., Jehan Kune. ‘Sohn H. Clough, Cc. F. Gates, Harmon Spraance, yp. L. Underwood, W. Underwood, S. Critchell, Jno. R. Beneley, Jonn B. Dr-ke, ©, H. Blackman, W. L. Blackman, C. STB Ben: }. F. Bimendort, ‘Danici Katz, D. W. Irwin, F. D. Oertel, | Jobn sicLandburg, Sonn Lester, Albert Dickinson, Geo. Brockman, J. J. MeDermid, ‘A. N. Lee. L. G. Holley, D. F. Baxter, S. TH. Larminie, J. B. Reeme, Win. H. Murra; ¥, P. Erskine, Alson E. Clark, W. S. Crosby, M. ichotis, Walter F. Cobb, Joln W. Ruinzey, Eaward Hempstead, Edward Stoue, John Wade, James Mi. Batt, G. P. Comstock, Charles T. ‘frego, 0. Kkoche. ¥F. BR. Spear, dail, E. . Spent. George G. Bailey. 3. G. Smythe, Gitar 1. Walker, Joseph W., Preston, Thomas Parker, Henry C. Rew, Ww. H. Noyes, B. Fowler, EaviesRelteneider, -M. H. Carr, A. H. Bliss, G. G. Moore, Henry D. Warner,” A. A. Pickering, Ww. G Lyon, P. Pickering, ‘Wilnam Gregg, . M. Henderson, J. H. Sibley, H. Butler, Sisde, a we, J. Wickham, J. M. Wanzer, George W. Miley, _ Eddy, Jr., c. T. Nash, George Webster, George F. Stone, Nathan Smith, C. H. Weaver, Frank S. Hanson, Gilbert Montague, W. Reifenider, duhn H. Marshall, Geo. H. Barry, Charies A. Rogers, Moses Jones, A. B. Hewitt, George Field, Jolin N. Leet, Ge W. F. Johnson, Im Tomblin, Hiaroid Sprague, Joseph Pratt. Jobn Baumgarten, Sosbus §. Stevens, Chas. E. Deane, Bair & Biair, ‘F. A. Hibbard, F, B. Carter, #. Buck, Geo, Smith. Wm. Hogan, Seymour Williams, Thos. J. Leahey, H. 0. Chambers, WH. Gordon, A.F, Borcherat, A. W. Green, 3, ¢, Williams, W. HL Burnett, J. Sears, James Morton, Wn. B. Andrews, E,W. Banes, a er, . oyden, iS Bans, Thos. Powell, A. Q. Qunckenboss, E. Tufts, T, P. Smith, D. T. Pieronnett, W. 0. Lyon, D: B, Linstead, David Powers, A reen, Geo. O. Rall. C. W. O'Donnell, Geo. G. Parker, W. RB. Lane, Thos. Thompeon. R.A. Peters, Wilham Kreitzberger, Uiric King, E. L, Negley, Thomas E. Bennett, . W. Smit TW. Hatlan, © A. Burr, Joun Walker, W._B. Willams, T. P. Sears. B. J. Morris, T. S. Francis, James H, Milne, George Fritwe, MS. H. A. Towner, ¥. J. Schuyler, C. B, Eggleston, G.W. Smith, ©. P. Emerson, x Benjamin C. Jones, ii. Bansher, "T. S. Nickefson, M. C, Baker, FM. Lamb, it. W. Hixon, D. HL Burk, ‘A: Mo Baker, RS, Parker, J. B. Peabouy, G.H. Gale,” X. A. Smuth, Warren Reifeneider, C.L. Caswell, X. A. Shaw. 5. B, Mead, e J, W. Brown, George II. Maztin, “Thomas Thomsen, Frank A. Lane, T, G, Hodgson, W. Ii. Laue, B. Sow George T. Bedford, W._D. Gregory, : vE. Van Feit 3. D. Bickford, If. L. Acame, B. varkins, D. Wayne, 0. D. Allen, 8. X_ Blood, D, W. Carhart. W. B. Williams, W. W. Boynton, A. G. Lows D. Leonard, W.h. Anderson, George A. McClellan, G. M. Barber, A. D. Price, M.A. Armstrong, W. S$. Meek, J. M. Voorhees, IL E. Seelye, A, Blaikie. J. Snowetl, Ernst Heew, Albert Bayor, C. W. O'Donnell, } Cc. W. Andrews, TL Grinnell, i M. Orang, a, 2. Frost. E. W. Nason, E. C. MeCloud, F.C. Mecloud, ‘Alfred Skinner, Fred S. Day. R. G. Stevens, Jobn P. Reynolds, J. E. Cales, James Warde, ©. 4. Chapman, F Fall, Eaw. Hempstead, Orden Lovell, E, W. Fisuer, W. P. Freeman, . Hellman, Fernold, . Blakeslee, R. Carter, John W. Geist, Louis Dunde, John Wilhams, L. K. Bensley, E.W. Morley, 3. S. Barker, GW. Smita, Hugh MacMellen, G. UH, Dean, < E.E. Ladd, G. W. Alexander, Anson Buvis, W. AC Lucas, John Crerar, HM. G. Good, C.F. Gates, Jeane Hoffert, 0. H. Butts, ¥. M. stall, Geo. P. Brown. Cherles Obeit, and 637 otherr 4 BOOTS, SHOES, Etc. ] “Wil OFFER FROM 60,000 yds. Hamburg Embroideries at 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7, 8, 10.12%, 15,18, 20, 25,30, and 35c, from auction, all new pat- terns, very cheap. 1,000 pieces Real Torchon Laces at 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 7,8, 10, and 12i:c. Special Bar- ghins. 5,000 Nottingham Lace Tidies at 5, 6, 8,10, 12!4, 15,18, #0, 25, 30, 35, and 40c. Importer’s'stocx, Half’ price. 1,000 pieces NOTTINGHAM LACE for CURTAINS at 8, 10, 12%, 15,18, 20, and 25c, worth 1214, 15,18, 25, 30, 35, and 40c. 1,000 pieces Wash Poplins at 4c. worth 10c. 500 pieces Colored. Alpacas, BROCADES, Ss ES, DEBEGES, aud MBE- LANGES at 12!4,15, and 16c, worth 20, 45, and 30c. Jobber’s Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES AT 50c ON THE DOLLAR. 1,000 pair Children’s Shoes at 25, 35, 50, 60, and 75c, worth 40, 50,875, 90c, and Sl. 500 pa EEO. worth’ S18, Sib0, SL7S, ‘ani .50. wor! 31.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2, and $2.25. = 500 pair Men’s Boots at $1, worth $2. 300.pair Boys’and Youths’ Shocs ab 35c, .. cheap for 75c. 2 500 pair Women’s Kid Slippers at 50c, worth 90c. ‘rench Kid een 500 pair Ladies? of the well-known makers J. 4.. Byrces, at $2.25, worth $3.50—avery pair warranted. MANUFACTURER'S STOCK OF 2.000 PAIR PANTS. 300 pair Boys’ Pants at 40 and 50ce, worth Se and Sl. 500 pair Men’s Pants at $1. $1,25, $1.50, ‘worth £1.50, S3, and $2.25. 500 pair Men’s All-Woc!t Pants at $2, $2.50, and $3, worth $3.50, $4, and $5. 200 pair Men’s Fine Cassimere. raade of best Domestic and Im mere, at $3, $3.50, and$: $5, end $6. SPHCTIAL! BOO Pieces Damaged Cloth, SLIGHELY WHET, At15, 35, 35, 40, and 50c, worth 40, 50, 60, 75c, and $1. BOSTON STORE, 11S & 120 State-st. MaLLINoeY. MILLINERY OPENING: On: Tuesday, Wednes- day, and Thursday, April 1, 2 and 3, GAGE BROS. & C0, WILL DISPLAY THE RARE, RICH FABRICS, and COR- RECT STYLES, in HLUINERY, Pattern Bonneisand Hats Wabash-av. & Madison-st., CHICAGO. THE TRADE ARE INVITED, Shoes & PB. sportod, Cassi- Worth $4.50, CARPETS, Etc. CE, bicaro Carnet Co, ARE NOW OFFERING CARPRTINGS AT THE LOWEST PRICES reached in twenty years. “We have all the Newest Patterns {a Axminsters, Moquettes, Wiltons, and Brussels, Besides the cheaper grades. Also, a fine collection of Oriental Rugs & Mats, Khorasan, Daghistan, Tiran, Yordes, and Smyrna. Prices much lower than formerly. Families contemplating purchasing will find our Assortinent and Prices of special interest. Our departments devoted to Furniture, Wall Paper, 2 eee Goods complete ta Fine articles at Bop ular Prices, Wabash-ay, and Monroe-st. FRED EORN 303 WABASHL-AV. ‘We have reduced the prices for our custom-made LADIES’ SHOES For this Spring as follows: Side-T.ace Gost. Straizht Goat. Entton Shoes, $1.1 Prices for Men's Shoes reduced in proportion. CARPET CLEANIAG. ebb ibd teens Fmuire Carpet Cleaning, Go, 59 South Canai-si., -XPOSI- BOSTON Steam Carpet Cleaning Works, 44 & 46 West Adamsest. S._ROTHSCHILD & CO., Agents. ue 0: & - = ALLEN ACADEMY, The spring term opens April 7._ Anexcellent tlmefor ttle bays and zirls fo enier the Primary Department, where they Will receive the most careful traming. New pupils clso received fato any of the bicher depertments pele school. Able and accumpilshed teachers aud ss 4 Ra W. ALLE. » LL.D, Frofessors. py actdeat. Got Michteun-av.. Chicazo. «THE FAIR.” Extra, Extra, Extra neucements MARRIED PEOPLE FOR THEIR Lovely Babies E. LEHMANN, “THR FATR,” Cor. State & 5 Adams-sts ‘We will offer this week the larg- est and finest assortment of Chil- dren’s Carriages in the city, and'a great many Novelties in Baby Car- riages, Velocipedes, Toy Perambu- Aators, Express Wagons, &c., &c., not attainable elsewhore, Our $4.38 Carriage, Our $5.68 Carriage, Our $8.68 Carriage, NOTHING LIKE THEM: ANYWHERE, We are receiving daily now, di- rect from Europe, the newest de- signs in novelties, in Toys and Fan- cy Goods, and at prices from 25 to 50 per cent lower than they can be had elsewhere. Come and get posted and compare our low prices with others. E. J. LEHMANN, “THE FAIR,” Nos. 196, 198 and 200 STATE-ST.,, Nes. 61, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71 & 73 Adams-st, Send for our. New Wustrated Catalogue. fa Bae MONDAY CREEK COAL. 64.50 PER TON, Delivered to any part of the city. The especial attention of consumors and the trade is solicited to the above superior Bitummous Domestic Coal. For sale in car or ton lots at our Railroad Yards. The Susquehanna Coak Co.'s ANTHRACITE COAL Received .diily in box cars, fresh from mines, Ai LOWEST PRICES. A.C. BRACKEBUSH & CO. No. 1 West Randolph-st. B. R. Yards gonthweet corner Morgan anc Carroll-sts., ee WALL PAPER. gL ACHAT The Only Exclusively Wall Paper House. ‘Tho Only Establishment engaging ARTISTS AND DECORATORS. ‘The Only Importing House of English Art Hangings. The Only Professional Designers, Combining Frescoing and Paper Hangings, 1N THE NORTHWEST. 1A7V4 & 176 Stute-si. IATCHES! Accuracy! Durability! “Watches in all styles and grades, for La- dies, Men, and Boys, at the lowest possible cost of production. Visit us for prices be- fore buying. N. MATSON & CO. JEWELERS AND IMPORTERS. STATE AND MONROE-STS. ~~ BABY CARRIAG VISIT THE FAIR FOR OUR $4.38 CARRIAGE, OUR $5.68 CARRIAGE, OUR $8.63 CARRIAGE, f NOTHING LIKE THEM ANYWHERE, ‘The finest aad best in this market, at from 25 to 50 per cent less tan any other house, > EJ. LEHMANN, 200 STATE-ST., ST, ROBERT 6. INGERSOLD'S Haverly’s Theatre r sale, by: all book- at Effort, as delivered at ‘Vertatlm report. BI Me Ny Republic Life Building. ED WALES CHEAP COUNTERS! Great inducements offered this week to the Trade in Hardware. A. W. WHEELER, ' 141 Lake-st. -RELIGIOUS. Pere Hyacinthe’s Revival of the Old Catholic Faith in. Its Original Simplicity. Some Interesting Details of the Bible Revision Now Going on in England and America, a The New Testament. Nearly Com- plete---The Old Will Take Fully Three Years Longer. Bishop Gilmour’s Defense of - His Bull Against the Public Schools Criticised. ~ General Notes, Personals, Pious Small Talk, Services To-Day. PERE HYACINTHE. REVIVAL OF THE OLD CATHOLIC FAITH. The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald recently interviewed Father Hyacinthe at great length as to his plans and ideas. The Father agrees in the main with the venerable and learned Dr. Dollinger, who has just entered his SIst year, and has been for many years the foremost champion of the “Old Catholics.” Like Dr. Dollinger, Father Hyacinthe rejects the dogma that the Pope is infallible. But previous to the Vatican Council in 1869 every Catholic was at liberty to dissent from that doc- trine. The Catholic Churen always rejected it up toavery recent period. The famous Bos- suct, the most eloquent man of modern times and the greatest ornament of the Catholic Church in France, strenuously opposed it, and Catholic France unanimously supported bim; or, rather (to state the thing with exactness), Bossuct devoted all his great powers of arzu- ment and eloquence to sustain the position of the Gallican Church on ‘this subject. The necessary inference is that Father Hyacinthe would have been deemed a good French Catho- lic at any former period, notwithstanding his dissent from the dogma of Papal infallibility. On other points what he said in the interview proves him to be a pretty orthodox Catholic. He accepts without question that great stumblinz- block of recent Protestants, the real presence. We say recent Protestants, because Luther, the father of Protestantism, accepted the doctrine that Christ was present in the bread and wine which are the emblems of His budy and blood. Sather Hyacinthe fully belicyes in the mass; he defends the offering of invense; he thinks the use of pictures not only justiflable, but a beau- tiful aid to piety. ‘1 do not believe,” he says, “any intelligent being is in danger of worship- ing a picture or a statue of Christ, or any saint, any more than a picture of asaintly father or mother. -And we all know how precious those faces are when'separated from them by long distances or death.” Father Hvacinthe “thinks auricular confession beneficial when voluatary, and we suppose no Catholic contends that it should be compulsory. On the celibacy of the clergy we suppose he will be deemed heretical, but he indulges in no scoffs.. ‘I am not op- posed,” he says, ‘to the cclibacy of the -pricst when it is voluntary and real, when it is a vir- tuous state, a holy sacrifice made for God, for the zood of one’s own soul, and for the ood of others. Such a sacrifice can only be made by great and pure natures for a boly cause.”” At will be seen from thgse citations that Father Hyacinthe remains essentially Catbolic,— that is to say, he holas no opinions which in carlier ages of the Church would have been decmed inconsistent with orthodoxy. “The celibacy of the clergy certainly was not a re- quirement of the primitive Church, tor we: read of St. Peter’s “wife's mother,” and St. Paul declared that a Bishop should be blameless and “the husband of one wife.” Father Hya- cinthe states that the celibacy of the clergy is not required by ‘tthe Catholics of the Orient.” On the point of Papal infallibility he is in per- fect accord with the Gallican Church of tio centuries ago. His implicit Catholicity on so many leading points fits kim to make a great impression ‘and win many disciples in Frauce py appeals to the former position of the Gallican Church as if ex- isted before Ultramontanism gained ascend- ency among the French Catholics.- ‘The very word Ultramontanism marks 2 difference be- tveen the Catholicism of France and that of Italy. The Gallican Church rested on national feeling, and, if the surpassing eloquence of Father Hyacinthe shall prove 2 powerful iustru- ment in reviving that national feeling, the new movement may have a wonderful success. THE BIBLE REVISION. INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT WORK. Boston Advertiser. The fact that a revision of the authorized version of the Bible has been undertaken is well known, and the public has from time to time been informed of the gencral character and progressof thework. Butamore particular statement may be of interest to many readers. "The fact that the version in common use is not regarded by scholars as a perfect translation of the original Hebrew and Greek Scriptures has been made familiar to the masses, not only by the frequent corrections made by preachers in their pulpits, but by many independent trans- lations which have been put out during the last twenty-five years. These translations have, indeed, met with no general favor, and have sometimes, by their imperfections and their ill-advised deviations irom the old yersion,. seemed to endear the fatter more than ever to the popular heart; but they have, nevertheless, had the effect of dis- turbing. the almost superstitious confidence which men have begun to put in the authorized version. There are certain errors in it which almost every one has learned about. There are obsolete words which have to be explained afresh toeyery child. There are inaccuracies which uanecessarily obscure what might easily be made clear. The progress of Biblical and philological Knowledge, aud the discovery of manuscripts of the New Testament far older and more accurate thao those from which the authorized version was made, have rendered it impossible to satisfy the reasonable desire, on the one hand, more perfectly to reproduce for common use the meaning of the Scriptures, and on the other to issue such a version as by the yery method of its production would inspire confidence in its accuracy, and would forestall other one-sided attempts to improve the common version. “Accordingly, in the springtof 1870, the Gonvo- cation of Canterbury, representing the larger portion.of the Anglican Church, resolved to in- augurate a revision of the authorized version. Certain members of the Convocation were desig- nated to serve in the work, and other scholars, members both of the Established Church and of the non-conformist bodies, were aducd to the number, there being about fifty in all, of which one-half constitute the Old Testament company, und the other half the New Testament company. ‘The most noteworthy, facts resovcting the work are as follows: 1. The new version is to be a dsion of the old one, not a new translation. ‘Tie purpose is “to introduce as few alterations as possible in the text of the authorized version: cousistently with faithtulness.” 2. The chauzes are, further, to be so limited as not to affect the general sty’ of the old version. Archaic ex- pressions are not to be changed when they" no obscurity. When changes are cause made the principle adopted is “to limit, ag far as possible, the expression of such <alterations to the language of the authorized and earlier English versions.” ‘That is, if words not now found iv the Bible must ve introduced for the sake of faithful;; nees, they shall, if possible, net be such as have’ a modern sound out of keeping with the cen- eral style of the Bible. (8) Every part ot each of the Testaments is to be revised oy. the whole company charged with its revision, (4) Every book of the Bible must be gone over twice, and at the second revision a vote of two-thirds is necessary in order to change any reading of the- authorized version. Iu the autumn of 1872, at the request of the British Committee, a revision committee was orgamized in the United States, consisting of about twenty-five members, divided into two companies, hke the British Committee. It con- sists of representative scholars of all the lead- ing Protestant denominations. ‘They are sub- ject to the same rules as the British revisers, and labor in conjunction with them in the fol- lowing manne ne result of the firat revis- ion of some. portion of the Bible is transmitted in a printed form to the American Com- mittee, and this is carefully examined and compared with the authorized version and with the original text by each member for himself. Then in monthly meetings of two days’ dura- tion each, each company meets in New York to deliberate upon the proposed changes. ‘They resolve to retain the reading of the autnorized version, or to make new changes not proposed by the British company, or to modify the changes proposed by the British. When this work has been done tivice, it is sent to Enzland, where it is made use ot by the British company in their second revisign. ‘This second revision is then transmitted to the American companies, who then again compare the differences, and decide Whether they will adhere to their former proposals or acquiesce in the British revision. In this way, by successive comparisons, .and sometimes by special discussions of the more important passages, the number of the diverg- ences is reduced as much as possible. The re- lations between the two Committees are per- fectty friendly, and the co-operation of dilfer- ent denominations has on neither side of the ocean Jed to any friction. ‘The revision of the New Testament is now nearly complete. That of the Old Testament will uot be ready for publication for about three years. In England the University presses have eugagéd to. publisti the revised Bible, and, as they will bave a copyright an it, they bear the expenses incurred by the British revisers in their work. In the United States there will be no copyright, and the American .revisers not only devote their time and study to the work of the revision, but also assume the pecuniary expense of it, except in so far us interested friends vol- untarily contribute money for this purpose. Up to the present time such coutributions bave been sufficient to meet the usual expenses in- curred by the Committee! It is to be hoped that this aid will be continued. Less than $2,000 a year will be‘needed for the short period dur- ing which the work isto continue. A Finance Committee has been organized, which receives and disburses funds for this purpose... i ‘As an indication of the probable style--and amount of change which mav be expected in the new revision, the followin cunjectura! emendation of a few verses in the. prose and poetic parts of the book of Job is given. This book is selected because it has not yet been re- vised at atl, and therefore the version given can not be regarded as the one which will actually be adopted. But being presented by one of the Committee, 1t may serve as a specimen of the general style of the work. The actual revision will be likely to exnibit Jess rather than more changes than are here suggested. Job, i. 1,4—"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and_ upright, and one that feared God and departed from evil. And there were born unto nim seven sons and three daughters. And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, und three thousand camels, and five bu! dred yoke of oxen, and tive hundred she asse: and @ very great household, and that man was the greatest of all the children of the East. And bis sons weut and feasted in their houses, every one bis day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.”? Job, iti: 3. 6—* Let the day perish in which I was born, and the tight which said: A man child is conceived. As for that day, let it be darkness; let not Goa above seek for it, neither let light shine upon it. Let darkness and the spadow of death reclaim it; let clouds dwell upon it: let the obscurations of the day terrify it. 4s for that night, let darkoess seize upon it; Jet it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into thenumber of the montis.” BISHOP GILMOUR. HIS DEFENSE OF HIS PASTORAL CRITICISED. %o the Editor of The Tribune. Sr. Joseru, Mch., March 25.—Bishop Gil-" mour’s letter in defense of his pastoral has been read with interest by all haying the future wel- tare of their children at heart, and none have .taken more pains to digest its contenis than has the writer, whose interest may be attributed to the fact of his professing to be a sincere Catholic, notwithstanding an inclination to tavor-adyancement rather than retrogradation. ‘The reverend gentleman is, or affects to be, Hoeral, when assuming that his premises may be wrong, but in all clse his views savor slichtly of cgotism, as the most liberal mind would infer from the assertion made in his opening. that “the position assailed is exceedingly strong, and that areuments of accusers are unworthy of consideration,” and this before any arguments or charges have been answered or refuted. For the purpose of simplification he assumes there are but three principal charges preferred, viz: illfberality, opposition to progress of the age, aud a desire to destroy the insticutions of our country, and proceeds to show that said charges are ill-founded and incongruous. Has he main- tained his position,—shown conclusively that his opponents’ arguments are “ exceedingly weak??? No. The reverend Father admits that he is ill-bred,—glories in so being; savs he is. decidedly opposed to the progress of the age, and that the management of our institutions should undergo a change, which virtually amounts to destruction, We also hold that Catholics have or ought to have the same rights and adyantages~| accorded them in our public institations as are enjoyed by Protestants, und that they have, —it not, it is a burning shame and should be. immediately rectified, We of Michigan have no cause to complain of indifferent treatment, and I can assure Bishop Gilmour that members our de- nomination are not denied access to any of our public institutions on account of belief, and it seems incredible that a State evenly divided. upon the political question should prove Jess liberal than Carey’s ** Black Michigan.” As the sons of Ohio are rather a favored class just now, would it not be well to send in a memorial be- tween now and March 4, 18S1?_I cannot but be- lieve that ours is the true Church, and was founded by our Savior, and this is the belicf of all Catholics. All we ask for isto be allowed the privilege of sending our children to the best school the community supports, be it public or private, end it religion is not taught at school, we have full faith in the competency of our noble mothers und sisters to instill a sense of duty and religion that will enable ‘our children 10 understand and appreciate the teachings of our pastors with reference to the existence of a God and the duties devolving upon them in re- lation thercto. ' Iwould say: ‘Father, let us look at this question fairly, impartially! Let us look at both sides and see whether our skirts are really as clear as you presume them to be!” You claim that the age is ilhberal. Quite sure, are you? If illiberal in many things, have not the Protestants of this country refrained from speaking harshly of that poor old man of Cin- cinuati, who is now staggcring under a heavy burden, and that, too, when be belongs to a Church whose ministers denounce as heretics all not believin as we do?’ Was the same coa- sideration shown to Winslow or Beecher’s nephew—men of their own cloth. Have they not been extremely liberal in this instance when we consider the how] raised by our pavers when a Protestant mivister falls from grace? You say that ever since the days of Pagan Rome has the age been so illiberat. Eyen so. But can it not be accounted for? WnhenI think ef the age—the liberal age—that sanctioned the persecution of Cathoiics’ jn England, Ireland, and Scotland, of non-believers jn Calvinism sin France and Switzerland, of others than Puritans in New England, and their “Blue, Laws,” of the massacre uf Jews through- out Christendom, aud the Inquisitions of Spain and Portugal, Lior one thank God that the age is illiberal. . When you glance at the history of the Middle Ages, behold a man entcring the Eternal City who cries that he has come from Germany inthe dead of winter, and crossed mountaius of snow and rivers of ice, barehead- ed and bootless,—that he isthe Emperor of Germany and craves an audience of the. Pope; when vou remember of his remaining ina cok ‘room for three days and three nights without food awaiting the pleasure of that most atfable and gracious Pontiff: when the recollection of St. Bartholomew’s day comes to mind; when you imagine yon hear the neart-rending cries of 2 victim of that institution which if not founded was certainly countenanced by the clergy of Spain and Portugul,—when these come to mind it is bigh time for you to account, for the liberali- ty of that and the illiberality of this, The age was, hberal owing to compulsion, not throuzh any desireto maiotaic things as they were. And in the face of this you ciaim that the Church cannot, will not, change from timeto time ‘to suit the whims ot the age. Does Pope Leo assume to dictate os to’ the right of succession of our reigning houses to-day? No; and it isasit should be. “No man has the right to reject just Jaws.” Can the minority enact Jaws, and, even though the Church does not err, 1s it uot possible for one of her _minis- ters toerr? Yuu udmit that the opicion’ of an indiyidual amounts to naught. ‘fhe Church is also a witness in her own cause, su no benefit bas accrued from the advancement of that urgu- ment. When you claim that’a doctrine is to be accepted simply because it is deemed and term- ed truth by leaders, you forget that the Tories of 1773 and the Rebels of 18jLin this country, -and the Roundheads of the Commonwealth en- cased in the Cestruction of the poor Irishman’s property, believed that they were in the right, and would you have us believe that their course was justifiable? When you look at the preva- lence of crime in England, Germany, Mexico, South America, Italy, and the brutal murders ot Southern France; when you consider the fact of our havingas many virt.ous women as any country under the san,—you cannot but say our institutions are of ‘a superior order. You assert that all other countries are more liberal, and that all are treated with the same consider- ation in European schools. Yes, but what has been the result? A few, a favored few, have been fortunate enough to acquire an education, and others have become possessed of a smatter- ing sufficient to warrant their taking a promi- nent part in the doiugs of a Commune or the assassination of a Prince. Once more, Father, I assert that Iam asincere Catholic, and that I am not departing from the faith of my bonored father and more than adored mother when I ad- yocate the education of the masses, ‘and trust. that by so doing peace and harmony may reigo supreme in our land, and, owing to education, that sectional feeling now existing may be crad- icated and eliminated. Tuomas F. O'Hara. THEOLOGICAL ENIGMAS. PAGAN IGNORANCE VERSUS CHRISTIAN LIGHT. To the Editor of The Tribune. Rocuetrz, Iil., March 23.—" Now, they say that the persons who never heard of the scheme of salvation—the heathen—will go to Heaven. Why, oh God! if there is one, did you not keco us all in ignorance of the scheme, that we might all be saved!""—Zngersoll. How can our theologians answer this ques- tion, and maintain the most vital doctrine of their Church? z God created man pure and without sin; but, exvosed- to temptation, he “fell.” In couse- quence, we are born in iniquity, and are “toral- ly depraved.” Our punishment for our sin is “eternal torment.” But God, to redeem the world, sent “His only begotten Son”; and ‘the that believeth shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.” ‘This, in brief, is the history of the “fall,” and God's plan of saivati The vicarious atone- ment and the necessity of u belief in Christ are the fundamental principles which underlie Christianity. and from this source emanate all minor dovtrines and creeds. Yetof late Cannon Farrar, Beecher, Swing, Thomas, und most of the leaders in the Church, have expressed sentiments, prompted by their noble sense of justice and brotherly love, ex- empting the Heathcu and all pon-Caristian -na- tions from this terrible eternal perdition, Said the Rev. Heary Wara Beecher: “The doctrine that God has been. for thousands of years peopline unis carth with human beings, during a period three-fourths of which was uot illuminated. by an altar or a church, und in places where a vast population of these people are yet without that light, is to transform the ‘Alinighty into a tnonster more’ hideous than Satan himself, and I swear by all that is sacred. that I will never worship Satan, though he should appear dressed in Royal rob ud seated onthe throne of Jehovah . . . ‘The doctrine is too horrible, 1 cannot believe it, and I won't.” And Swing and Thomas echo, “I won't!” Now, if the doctrine that all those who do not “profess Christ” are lost, is tov barbarous tor goud men to entertain in this age of reason, the question arises, How will these reverend gentiemen reconcile their belief with the imperative requirements and professions of faith of the Church which they stil profess to uphold? Can they convince a minority that Christ is essential to their salvation, when they concede that a vast majority are saved without Cirist? ‘The question, then, is simply this: ‘Is Christ necessary for salvation, or is He not? If the heathen is saved without Christ, did not God sacrifice “ His only begotten Son” in vain? And what remains for the churches to build their faith uvon? O that we were all born heathens! If Christ’s coming brought “salvation” for faith, and. ‘eternal punishment ” for doubt, whenall would be heathens without Christ, aud, consequently, saved, then is not Christ the cause of millions being lost and none being saved? Jf without Christ we would all be heathens aud amoral life alone would secure to us immor- tal joys, what advantage has the Christian over the Pagan world? If we can be saved in China or Lapland with- out Christ, why can we not be saved anywhere without Christ¢ If atlcan go to Heaven as well without as with a faith in Christ, then how can Cnrist be justly considered our ‘Savior? at all? ~ ‘Alas for the sacrifice of the Son by an Om- uipotent Father! ° C2 But if the heathen ‘is saved without Christ, and doubt in Christ would send him to perdi- tion, why “give of our meags for the spread und triumph of the Gospel"? and why invest millions upon millions 1or taissionary purposes to bring to the “ poor, ignorant heathen "the Arsbrand that may burn his soul fn an cternal ell? Woy beg “the little offerings of the poor,” the “widow's mite,” and the hard earnings of the poor working-girland strugeling laborer to be used for such & questionable if not a base and terrible purpose? Why deny ourselves the necessaries’ of life to sustain an army ‘of missionaries to introduce upon those happy shores that most’ hideous of all human inventions, that terrible phantasima- oria which now haunts millions of poor de- faded. Christians during life and upon their deathbed, an incarnarion of ali that is hortiole,” a living fiend reigning supreme in regions of eternal torment, where 2 yast majority are sure to got” Goon, noble and braye nan! Utter the true convictions of your better cature, even if the temple witain which you preach topple over you. E Orro WxTTSTELN. MINOR TOPICS. SERMONS ON THEIR MERIT. The Rev. J. L. Jones, of Janesville, Wis., has made a new departure among the clerzy. De- termined to‘bave his church rest on sound busi- ness principles, be has, with his usual boldness, issued o circular announcing that “I have this day released the officers of All Souls’ Church from all further responsibility as to my salary. Hereafter I will have no stated or assured in- come, but will trust to such support as my pul- pit ministrations und general usefulness . in Janesville will command. There will be no pew- renting or reserved seats in this church, no col- lection taken up, and no church Legging. Annual tickets, good for a seat in any partoftne church, will be sold for $5 per year. Those not holding annual Uckets will have an opportunity of leav- ing upon the table at the door ten cents ou enter- ing and retiring, if they so desire. Friends will be requested to make _ their own change. Mr. Jones proceeds to give, among his reasons for this change, “ that the present management of churca finances is a reproach to religion and an offense to decent business morals. Debts are loosely contracted, und the revenue collected often by undignified means.” His “salary shall not rest with un- due weight upon the shoulders of a few over- willing supporters. Some such plan as this must be adopted in order to save the democracy of theCburch. I much desire that the church in which L preach shall be as congenial a home to the mechanic as to the capitalist. This I believe can be done by putting its privileges at a uni- form rate and within reach of the poorest. I have no desire or need to remain in Janesville longer than wy work is of suflicient value in the community to command a decent support on its own merits.” At Jast accounts the plan was working well, and Mr. Jones bad a fair prospect of being soon ready to lend money to his salaried brethren. — A MODEL MINISTER. ‘The London Week, in an article headed Our Model Minister,” prints the following bit of sharp satire: He is certainly not a Ritualist. . We all know the Ritualist; be is, like the conies, a feeble folk, and in bis worst type seems to care novhing for law or his Bisnop, und to hanker after Rome, or a eham martyrdom inflicted by Lord Penzance. Further, he thinks a good deal (of his clerical appearance, and is given to wearing a piece of haberdashery known as a Romau coller, which causes the Irish crossing-sweepers near the Ora- tory at- Brompton und the Pro-Catnedral at Kensington te touch their caps to him,—a fact which causes him the liveliest gratification. He delights in the musical masses settoa burlesque of the English Communion servite, aud in vest- ments of gorgeous hues. We onte had a friend, acurate, or, 3 he liked tolbe called, an assist ant priest, at a.well-known church at Brighton, and were taken by him to see the vestments, all of which he procceaed to ‘trv on for our ediifica- tion, walking away with his head over oneshoul- der, exactly in the way in which the young lady with the good figure shows off a mantle in the show-room. {t was a warning to us never to Zo behind the scenes again. “Still less is our model parson an evangel- feal, that is, an evangelical of the objectionable type of which there are uwo species, the first the clammy anc seedy being who is not many de- grees removed from theshepherd in * Pickwick.’ ‘This is a very unpleasant person. He has moist Jarge bands, and roars in the pulpit like a very bull of Bashan, and fire. and brimstone play a large part in his discourses. He is piz-headed, and {s fond of comparing himself to St. Paul, like Sir Samuel Baker’s missionary. The second tyyeis the ‘dapper.’ This gentleman wears rather neat clothes, javender kid gloves, parts his hair in the middle, and has lox and ambrosial whiskers. He cries a good deal in the pulpit, is usually not a public-school or university man, and his general demeanor is such as to impart to every well-constituted mind an intense desire to smotner him. He is, further, a great favorite with the female sex; and here we wish to correct an error under which many people seem to labor,—namely, that it is the High-Church par- son who is, par excellence, the croquet or laia- tennis playing curate and ladies’ man. ‘Lhe Ritualist, if he does silly things, has, to render ‘him justice. too mucb to de to be much of a ladies’ man. When a man has some six services on Sunday, be- ginning at 5 o'clock in the morning, aud two or three on week-days, with an oveasionat midnight service and some mysterious cere- mouies like compline and tierce thrown in, be has not. much time to deyote to lawa tennis and flirtation. Now our dapper evangelical does not bother himself with more than two services on Sunday, and, as a rule. disregards Sain’ Days as savoring of the Scarlet Lady, and, in- stead of services at 5 o'clock in the morning, he favors prayer-meetiugs in the druwing-rooms of parishioners at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, with Occasionat pauses for refresument. At these he ism bis element, ard when the more serious business is over he is the life of the party. Here any young lady admirer is certain to meet hin. We ‘have known a case in which a charming memoer of a High-Church congregation, who, being ueacquainted with the clerzy, but ‘emu- lous o: good works, and not unwilling to com- bine them with a little flirtation, jomed with that intent the band of ladies who worked for the chureb, und was not a little disgusted to find herself stitching coarse shecting fn com- pany With several others of her own sex, Under the superintendence of a erim-looking Sister of Charity,—the quarry beiug too much engaged to look in upon the devoted band at ull.” CANDOR VS. WIT. REMARKS ON MR. INGERSOLL'S LECTURE. To the Huttor of ‘The Tribune. CricaGo, March 29.—The prevailing feeling among intelligent readers of the Bible in refer- ence to the profane and coarse assaults made on it by Mr. Robert Ingersoll, is that few people are soignorant as to be imposed upon by bis vulgar witticisms. But, inasmuch as there are not afew wko accept. without inquiry his ac- count of what isin the Bible, it may be well to srive a few illustrations of his unscrapulousness in putting “mistakes” into the Bible which ho either knows, or ought to know, are not there. Tle ‘asserts positively that Moses must have understood by firmament something solid, though every one who has studied the subject knows, and the fact has been published again and again, that the Hebrew, word means sume- thing excecdingly attenuated, being the very best word in the language to designate the at- mosphere} while the mistake found in the En- glish worg ‘‘firmament”? is due to the science Of Alexumliria, where, in the third century be- fore Christ, the “expanse " of Moses was trans- jated “stereoma” (irmament) to suit the ad- vanced astronomy of the time. ‘Wier, in speaking of the vegetation of the third day, be'says, “Not a blade of srass had ‘even been touched by a single gleam of licht,” fs he dealing fairly With a narrative that makes fight its first creation? When he accuses Moses of compressing the astronomy of the universe into five words, is he dealing tairly with a narrative that does not pro- fess to give any astronomy at all, but, after a general reference to the heavens and the earth a3 created in the beginning, restricts itself to the carth and its “environment ”? Any intelli- gent person can sce that this is the reason why sun, moon, and stars are referred to only in their relations to the earth. . ‘When he represents the tiret and second chap- tersof Genesis asa varying repetition of the same atory, :3 it fair to witnbold all reference to the different purport and object of the two nar- ratives, which fully and satisfactorily explains the variation? ds it fair in speaking of the deluge to repre- eeut it as ascribed to nothing but rain, when the Bible expressly says, ** All the fountains of the great deep were broken up,” evidently pointing: to such u subsiaence of the Jand ay is familiar to any one acquainted with eeoiogy? As it fair to make the Bible responsible for the Armenian tradition that the ark rested on the top of Mount Ararut, 17,000 feet hign. when the Bible nowhere, trom Genesis to Revelation, makes any such statement! The district uf Ararat on the mountains or highlands of which the ark rested is nut the *Agri-Dagh ? to which the name Ararat hasin niodere times becu given;, and Mr. ingersoll’s ignorant mistake about it is of the same kind as that of the bump- kin who should ‘inquire for the Coliseum in Rome, N.Y., or’seek the'tomo of Leoudus in Sparta, Wis? ee ‘It will be at‘once seen that with this childlike “Ignorance is connected’ the Ingersoll nonsense that the water Was five anda half miles deep. So says the iguoraut critic, while the simple and reasonable statement of tue Bidle is: ‘ Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail.” As for the submersion ot cyen the bills to the utmost. verge of the horizon, ihe cubsidence of the laud was quite suificient to accomplish it without re- sortiny to tte supposition of any unreasousdle quantity of water. Is it iair, wuen Mr. Ingersoll wishes to render ridiculous the rate of increase among the 1s- raelites in Egypt, to represent the Jength of their stay there a3 215 years, when Moses says (Exodus, xii., 40): “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt wus 430 years.” ‘The only other place in the Pentateuch where the length of their stay is referred tu is in the prediction concerning it in Genesis, Xv., where it is putin round numbers at 400 years. To do Mr. Ingersoll justice, itis admitted that certain theologians, on the ‘strength of one or two passages in the New Testament and some genealogical difficulties, have favored shorteo- ing the period, but the subject was not the uris- takes of thevlogians, but of Moses; und again we ask, Was it fair, without a word of apology or explanation, todeduct more thay two ceu- turies from the time Moses gives, and then make ail his coarse, not to say indecent, ri cule turo‘on the shortness of the timef ‘Ihe difficuities connected with this subject, and, in- deed, all the objections raised by Bishop Colenso, will be found abiy deals with uud most satisiuc- torily auswered in Prof. W. H. Green's answer to Colenso. One bardly knows bow to characterize the in- famy of sucha passage as that abou: the bird- eating priests during the time of rapid increase, in view of the fact that there were no priesis at all, and no such rute as he refers to during the entire 430 years! The consecration of Asron, the first priest, did not take place till after the Law was yiven at Sinai, and the ordinance re- lating, to the offering of the pigeons wus still jater. ‘These sre mere specimens of the mistakes and misrepresentations which form the warp und woot of this lecture, which, however, will vo doubt be repeated, without material alteration, sv lovg as there are thousands to applaud it and tomakeit pay. When people yet so tired or disgusted that it will po longer pay to repeat it, we shall probably have something new. Canpor. t- GENERAL NOTES, ‘The Baptists of Dover, Del., have given their pastor a spring overcoat. A Chinese translation of the Pentateuch is about to appear at Yeddo. The Holy See has erected Afghanistan into an apostolic prefecture, and has intrusted it to the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Aconvention of clerzyinen is to be held in Springtleld, Mass.,on the 6th and 7th of May next, for the consideration of the due observance * of the Sabbath. The Rev. J. L. Wyatt, who has lately re- turned from Tinnevelly, India,- reports that 18,000 Hindoos have joined the Christian Courch within the last year. ‘The door of the Wittenburg church, on which Luther wailed his famous thesis, is now re- moved to Berlin, where it is in .ase at St. Bartholomew's Church. The annual meeting of the Northwestern Branch of the Woman’s Foreign Missionur: Society will be’ held in Summerfield M. ro Church, Milwaukee, April 9, 10, and 11. é ‘The College of Bishopz, the Book Committee, and the Board of Missions of the. Southern Methodist Church, will bold their annual meet- ings in Nashville, Tenu., in the secoud week fn May. E oi Alarge class will be confirmed by Bishop MeLaren at St. ”“Mary’s Church. this evening. ‘This church has been repainted and recarpeted, and is now one of the most attractive places, of worship in the city. Welsh Nonconformists are very indignant at the action cf tue Rector of Perryfordd In selling property of the Primitive Methodist Chapel by auction to obtain tithes of 5 shillings aud costs which the Methodists had refused to pay. ‘The first church.in Chicago to introduce the elephone and microphone to send the songs and sermons home to the favalids is Trivity Methodist Cnurch, the Rey. W. F. Crafts, pastor, in which a telephone was put up yester- ; day. + ‘The Catholic Faculty of Theology of the Uni- versity of Bonn consists of four Professors, three of whom are Old Catholics, the fourth tie- ing Ultramontane. ‘The former condact two courses of lectures each, with an average at tendance of twu students, aud all hold them