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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29 wry 1880— XTEEN PAGES. 9 RELIGIOUS. Cen. Booth and His Salva- tion Army—The English Sensation. jis Mode of Work and the Glasses with Whom They Labor. The Palace of the .Inquisition— The Holy Office, Past and Present. ANew York Pastor's Able Argu- ment in Favor of Crema tion. General Notes, Personals, Possible Piety, Services To-Day. ~ THE SIETIN G OF PETER. A FOLE-SONG. “ Satan hath desired to have you, that pent Fou ‘as wheat.”—St. Luke, xrit., 31, Jn St. Luke's Gospel we are told * iow Peter in the days of old Was sifted: . Z And now, though ages intervene, fin is the same, whilo time and scene Are shifted. n desires us, great and small, Pe ehedts to sift Us, and we all Are tempted; ot one, however rich or great, sy Is by his station or estate Exempted. No bouse so safely guarded is But he, by some device of his, Can enter; 5 No heart hath armor so complete But he can pierce with arrows fleet Its centre. a For all at last the cock will crow : Who hear the warning voice, but go / Unheeding, ‘Till thrice and more they have denied ‘the Man of Sorrows, crucifiec ‘And biceding- ne look of that pale, suffering face sat make us feel the deep disgrace Of weakness; . ‘We shall be sifted till the strength Of self-conceit be changed at length . ‘To meckness. ‘Wounds of the soul, though healed, will ache; he reddening sears remain, and make Confession; Jost innocence returns no mores; We are not what we were before ‘Transgression. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Riso from disaster and defeat ‘The stronger, And, conscious sll of the divine" ‘Within them, lie on earth supine No longer. CH. W. Longfdlow, in Harper's Magazine. THE SALVATION ARMY. GEN. BOOTH AND HIS WORK IN ENGLAND. The London correspondent of the New York Herald has been looking at the “ Sal- vation Army” and its now famous com- ymander, Gen. Booth, of whom and his work he gives the following interesting descrip- tion: Imagine a tall, dark man, with a spare and somewhat angular figure; dark, shagey Jocks and beard, tinged with gray; small, piercing eyes, whose color you lose in their glitter; ahigh, narrow head and shrunken ch>"kg; and—Iast but not least—a huge Wel- Tingtonian nose! Surely a more General-like probuscis was never seen on human face. It resemblesthe nose of—let me see—Napoleon ? No. Hannibal? No. Cesar? No. It re- sembles nothing of the kind that Ican think of somuch as the olfactory organ of Don Quixote as depicted by that prince of limners, Gustave Doré. Indeed, the whole man struck you as being of the Quixotic type. Ido not mean to apply the description disparagingly, —quite the contrary. You cannot help feel- ing that the man is of that nervous, enthusi- astic disposition, of that restless, aggressive temperament, and of that unselfish nature of which men who take up desperate and forlorn enterprises are made. - Courage, de- termination, and enthusiasm are written on every lineament of his face. He is, more- over, 2 man to command, lead, and swaymen. His eye seems to read you through. I stated briely my. errand and without the slightest cireumlocution. Mr. Booth launched in medias res. He began this work fourteen years ago, He had a position, friends, comfort—pretty much all, indeed, that makes life tolerable. But “Heathen England” appals him, especially the poor, lowly, neglected, and self-neglecting portion thereof. There was work for him to do, and 40 he started forth to his mission. He began inthe very Whitechapel where he now has his headquarters. His work was blessed; it bore fruit. He was helped by his wife, and subsequently by some of his children. He bas now three laboring in the cause, and sthers growing up to it. Some three years 360, when there was much talk all over the Zontinent about arming, one of the General’s Hat said, “We are a volunteer army.” ‘No,” said the General, “we are a salvation amny,” and so they. adopted the name, and the organization has been the result. “Our sole endeavor,” said the General, “has been toget the attention of the people, andif we can &etitin this way we are justified, and expe- Tience has proved the wisdom of the course. The first thing is to get people to think,” he continued. “If you get people to think of Hell they will want to run. away from it; if you get them to think of Heaven they will Want to go there; and so our first thought is to fix their attention.? Tasked the question as to whether the chief Tecruits were not among the lower orders. Yes,” he replied, it was with them they Were concerned. It was appalling to him to think that in London 99 per cent of the vork- Bs tlasses aster went to a place of worship. ‘hey were lost; they drank, they swore, they Site altogether given, aver io sin, but, the the oe Anny was winning them back to there It was wonderful what power wane them when once won. They Abut five up everything and join the cause. went her the other day had given up £ a Ma ant unlimited prospects to throw his lot was 35 them, and all they could offer him Ta shillings a week, and that not certain. dey could i roti dale Hes ed get this devotion from the “Did they » parti ” Tae they belong to any particular sect, No; ‘they i 0; they preached and practiced the : Gitistianity: of the Bible. They presented neame Gospel. ‘They were in opposition to ‘lo sect. He had_ personally the greatest re- Peet for any truebeliever, no matter whether nop, Moitammedan, or whatsoever. Te did a0 War against them, but only against ig- he pe Pharisecism, and the devil. These hi ad attacked and would attack wherever le found them. wn far they had had wonderful success, rethan he could have expected. Every Ent ‘the movement was extending, They had FN corps and stations and 180 officers, Ragly engaged in the work. Their chie oe of labor had been England and Wales; Seoeey had also got corps in Ireland ant oa land, and were making headway in each 5 unty. They had got an advance guard in ersey with a view to an_early descent on sorte. Lhe Lord, he continued, was in the ik rk, and it was likely that He intended that athena conuauer the whole world. Some inten officers were already in America. They noe nuded to start the cause there, but he di t know whether they would succeed. Any- ow, it would have to be done, and they were lore, thinking of making the attack in Ee, L puta question as to his method -of verts is officers, He chose earnest con- thes and set them to work. If they failed he tim: them again. Some failed three or four Jame, and then succeeded. If they failed entably they did with them as they did 1.15 evidently of With officers who failed during the French Revolution—they cuiltotined them, Ere a e it remembered here, parenthetically, hat I do not vouch for. the General’s history. gny more than Ido for the literal fact of his last statement, Doubtless his decapitation of incompetent officers is a figurative one. an to obedience, I asked, did he find any ificulty. in this respect ? No; of the 180 on icers In the army, he might write to all of pen and say, “I want you to go here, or go there, next Sunday,” and not more than five or six would-demur. They would pack up an , Wife and children and all, for many had ‘amilics, and this even though he should give no reason, although he did genetally giveareason. If he wanted more oflicers he could any day get 500to put themselves under his orders in the same way. By he continued, was the more striking, because sien they went to a new town they did not know who was going to feed and shelter em. » Something being said about female officers, Eesked a momen were sllowedto: hold rank 1. h, ye replie ie Gen- eral, “ they make the best officers. Ifa town were to be ‘taken,’ a woman was better than & man. The mere announcement that a woman was coming was sure to draw atten- tion, and that was half the battle.” ‘The ma- Jority of his 180 officers were women, He di- rected my attention to a clause in the ‘ Or- ders an Regulations for the Salvation Army”—a book, by the way, of some 120 pages—which runs as follows: As the army refuses to make any differe: between men‘and women as to ran, authority, and duties, but opens the highest positions to Women as well as to men, the words ** woman,” she,’ “ her, * are scarcely ever used in orders, ° when it is evidently impossitles pales The half dozen concluding words—*' when it is evidently impossible ee ruck we" as being exceedingly quaint. His ‘Halle- Jujah Lasses,” he went on, were a great pow- er, and he could. hardly do without them. They.drew the people. Ge did not like the term at first; it was given to them by some one connected with the movement, - He ob- jected to itas seeming vulgar, but it took, and sohe letit be. Their business was to draw souls, and so long as they did that the means did not matter, so long as there was nothing wrong. These lasses, when they joined the army, threw away.every vanity,— flowers, jewels, ribbons, finery ¢% all sorts. The movement depended a great deal on singing, and so they could not do without the female element, with their telling voices. Imust not omit to say a few words about the songs sung by Salvationists. Mr. Booth opinion thatthe devil ought ‘not to-have all the stirring tunes, and so he adapts appropriate words to any populartune that is likely to take the commonear. Hear his reasoning on the subject: ‘ Will the angels,” heasks, “ who note the good impression made, and perchance the dewwningsot repentance in the poor wanderer’s heart, be any less pleased if the repetition of those great words was occasioned by the use of the tune of ‘Auld Lang Syne’? Should we be thought irrev- erent if we ventured to doubt whether angels are aot too much occupied with greater thoughts to notice whether the tune be ‘The Old undred,’ ‘Ring the Bell, Watchman,’ or ‘ Wait for the Wagon,’ supposing them to know the difference between: the three? Would it not be avery hazardous thing to attempt to determine the proportion of demi- semiquavers to minims in the songs of the better Jand? (they are always called ‘songs.?) But without troubling the angels, we venture to say that not one of our readers, if they could see and hear the happy people who used to be so dark and wretched not long since, would cayil at their joy because itis expressed in the merriest of melodies.” I quote this from Mr. Booth’s “ Heathen En- land,” a work which tells of his labors in e cause since the commencement. Many of the salvation songs, however, are Moody and Sankey’s, with fresh words. So for “Shall We Gather at the River?” we have: Shall we rally round the banner For our Savior and our God? Asto organization, Mr. Booth said their system was by no means perfect; it was be- ing Gradually, ‘worked out. Each corps had its Captain, and each country would have its General, so that there would have to bea Lietenant-General at the head. All recruits were regularly enrolled and their names and addresses taken down. They were then never lost sight of. If they fell sick they were vis- ited; if they needed assistance it was given them; but very little charity was given. It was 2 great brotherhood—a friendly society, in which all looked after, and took care of one another. They were drilled to forget themselves in the general work. All gave to the support of the cause, and contributions were received from’ those who attended the services at the annual rate of over £12,000. In addition to this large sums were received from persons of means who were interested in the cause. The statement of accounts for the past. year showed many a donation of £100, £50, £25, and lesser sums “for the good of the cause.” Still, the statement says that “were it notfor the offerings of the poor” the movement could not go on. It was won- derful, said the General, how the poor peo- ple, when they Joined the ranks, gave up drinking and smoking along with theirswear- ing and other’bad habits. Becoming teetotal and forswearing tobacco was not compulsory, but they had a temperance pledge in connec- tion with the army, and many took it from choice. - “Not only,”’ said the General, in reply toa question, “had the Lord enabled them to add upward of fifty more districts to those pre- viously occupied, but the overwhelming power with which the occupation of several districts in various paris of the country had Deen accomplished had made an advance something more than the mere addition of so many units to the previous total. Valley after yalley in South Wales had been so flooded with holy influences that the characterof the whole population had been changed; the charge shects of the police courts had been greatly reduced, the liquor traffic greatly sus- pended, and whole counties aroused to spirit- ual concern. In Cornwall a great work had been carried on. Glasgow had been deeply moved. In Lancashire, in spite of the most desperate ruffianism, many of the most vio- Jent_had been subdued by the power of God. In Nottingham, in Cheltenham and Leaming: ton, among the colliers of Dipton and Well- ington, Kingswood and Wednesbury, signs and wonders had been wrought. So in other places. In seventeen places, previously oc- cupied, second and third stations had been opened. Everything, in fact, connected with the history of the year seemed to express in the loudest and most gladsome form the glo- rious declaration, ‘Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”” Thave endeayored to give a faithful de- scription of the singular mc ment as it came from the lips of its originator and head. There was nothing of exaggeration in the man’s words or style. Indeed, his manner was the very opposit of boastful. His state- ments, too, were borne out by collateral tes- timony, by the literature of the movement, by the money collected, by the wide ramifica- tions of the organization. It is a genuine movement and an extensive one; the only question can be as to the permanence of its results, and with reference to them time of course can only, decide. It is possible that the had trade of the last two or three years, and the consequent suffering and distress ‘tha jias fallen on large populations, has had some- thing to do with the rapid spread of the move- ‘The parts where it has been most, act- ive and fruitful of results are Lancashire, where mills have been shut: South Wales, where the iron-works havebeen closed; Corn- wall, where tin has been low; _and, lastly, Glasgow, where thousands have had to walk the streets singing that doleful of human songs, “We've got no work to do.” There are those who say that as soon as the present head of the movement shall be taken away the whole gigantic fabric, with its “more than two million people,” “aroused from un- concern about their souls by means of open-- air demonstrations,” will collapse, As far as human means can, however, Mr. Booth has provided against such a contingency, “ At the War Congressheld in August, 1878,” —Iquote from the “ordersand regulations ”— Mr. Booth, with the unanimous and hearty concurrence of all the: officers and of thoze present representing every corps, executed a decd poll, which was immediately enrolled in Chancery, and which provided, so tar as it could He done by law, for the future security of the army from any such collapse as has been pre- dicted. This deed declares what are the doc- trines and what the work of the army, and for- pids the use of any of the property Stores or forces for any other purposes. The General commanding for the time being is recognized as having absolute control over the army and all it esses; but only for the carrying out of these ses and not for bis own private ends orany Pub Spject.. Zach General is to appoint his own successor, 60 that there shall alwars be one person having power and authority to keep_the Emr to its Sighting and to prevent any of its resources from being employed upon any other en every corps is brought up to the system described in orders, 2 wh neral, secing that future Generalsneed woo nae ‘pushing on upon the lines laid down before them to insure a vast success, and jt cnnnot be too much to hope that this complete militarization will be realized before Mr. Booth ‘and his sons have passed away. ‘There is much about the movement, as Mr. Booth remarked, to rouse opposition and con- tempt, but if itcan yeach the millions whom no other agency can reach, ‘and there can be no doubt {hat it is doing such, it ought tobe hailed with pleasure and not i OUrAROdL Dl not decried and dis- THE. ROMAN INQUISITION. ADESCRIPTION OF THE PALACE OF THE I OFFICE—THE CILARACTER OF THE QUE SITION, PAST AND PRESENT. . Rome Letter to Philadelphia Press, which forms the wonderful portico of St. Peter’s, and to the right as you leave the church, but marked by some common, irreg- ular structures, there arises a gloomy and forbidding pile of massive masonry known to Rome as the ‘Palace of the Holy Office.” This sacred or sacrilegious euphemism con- ceals a celebrated building, which is looked for with much interest by American visitors, and, if found, regarded with intense and just indignation. This accursed building, in which th * ey killed the body, and, perhaps sometimes the soul, isan immense structure of solid stone- work, nearly 400 feet infront. It is almost rectangular in shape, the front being the long side, and is a little over fifty feet in hight. ‘The outer walls are many feet in thickness, and in places buttressed. There are almost no windows in the entire building. The im- mense wall of the north end is one unre- lieved blank, unbroken by an opening of any kind. The entire wing of this end has but three small windows, all of them thirty-six feet above the ground, equal toafourth-story of an average Philadelphia house. In the main building there are a few windows, grated with immenseironbars. In the south wing there are no windows, excepting at the hight of the three in the northern wing, al- though there are imitation windows on a lower floor, so well constructed and painted as to deceive one at first into ‘the belicf'that they were real.. Built into the back is the rear of a large church which effectuall; closes up that side. iis fi ‘or all ingress or exit to this immense and terrible building there is but one visible door, and it gave me a sensation of pleasure to see standing on guard before it, with bayonet drawn, @ -bright-eyed, red-cheeked young soldier of the army of Italy. The people shave confiscated this palace of atrocities, and it ianow used as a military station and bar- racks. : In the revolution of 1848 the gates of this merciless structure, at once court-house and ison, were opened and the prisoners set ree, I marvel greatly that it was not then razed to the ground, for it was a more infa- mous building than the Bastile and more justly the object of wrath and vengeance, inasmuch as it had been blasphemously con- ducted in the name of God. In 1849 the In- quisition, as an institution, was formally abolished by the Roman Assembly during its brief tenure of power, but was reéstablished by Pius LX. the same year, when he regained his authority. Victor Emanuel, when he was made King, again cleared out the building. It may bea matter of some interest to know that military ossession was taken of it by the present ‘ing, then a Lieutenant-General_ in his fath- er’sarmy. The Inquisition still survives, however, as an Inquisition and Court of the Roman Church under Pope Leo XIII., and its secret sessions are now_ held in the Vati- ean. Its power, however, is greatly limited and confined, and itdoes no more arresta Roman citizen. It has full power, however, 1 believe, over the Bishops and priests‘of the Roman_ Catholic Church, and probably. over the entire population of the Vatican inclo- sure,—that curious little ecclesiastical empo- rium ina civil imperio,—which is consider- ‘ble. Isuppose an American priest or Bishop could be imprisoned here if he chose to come over and put his head into the tiger’s mouth. While the lowering Palace of the Holy Office, with its deaf stone ears and voiceless walls, is the representative monument of the Inquisition, designed and specially built for its dreadful uses, it has not been the scene of some of its historic‘:crimes most familiarly known to the civilzed world. Gali- Jeo did not make within its walls his famous recantation of the movement of the earth. That shameful triumph of brutal ignorance took place in the convent of the Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, long used as the tribunal and dungeon of the Inquisition. Bruno, efor teaching the heresy of the Co- pernlcan system, was not burnt.in its court, ut in the Campo de Flori, a kind of Roman Smithfield across the river, where the bar- Darous autos-da-fé of that time ‘were cus- tomarily held. It.is now a dirty’ market- place, wide and open, filled with foul smells and petty ic. Savonarola was burnt at Florence. . But although this palace, only erected about 1600, has been spared some of the dra- matic horrors of the history of the Inquisi- tion, it is the building which must ever be as- sociated in the public mind with this institu- tion and bear its odium,—an odium that will ‘SIO, stronger and deeper as men grow gen- ler and juster, and more Christian. It was the official headquarters of the: Inquisition, the seat of the unjust judge, the chamber of torture and of death,—built deliberately and in cold blood for the worst purposes of the institution when it was at the height of its power and cruelty. Ido not propose in this place to enter*into any argument, as to the nature or charocter of the secret trials of the Inquisition. I am only describing the char- acter and appearance of the building pre- pared for its operations,—a building con- structed so that human eye cannot see or ear hear what is going on within, and which is stronger than a castle. In this building the most appallin; tortures, the most atrocious murders, might be carried on within twenty-feet of a passer bi on the streets of a crowded city. It is a building whose plan and construction is unholy—a building literally conceived in sin and born in iniquity, and which has no right to exist. So much for the outside and the story which it tells. Iwilllet Mr. A.J.C. Ware, a writer whose works on Rome are known the world over, tell in a few brief lines of the story, of the inside: as “Tn the interior of the building is a lofty hall with gloomy frescoes of Dominican saints, and many terrible dungeons and cells in which the visitor is unable to stand up- right, having their. vaulted ceilings lifted with reeds to deaden sound. When the peo- ple rushed into the Inquisition at the revolu- tion a number of human bones were found in these vaults, which so excited the popular fury that an attack on the Dominican Con- yent at the Minerva was anticipated.” ‘While these things add to the dramatic hor- rors of the place, they do not essentially in- crease its wrong. To the Anglo-Saxon mind secret trial is a wrong which cannot be very well made worse. It is unfair; itisa harm to the State as well as to the prisoner. | It is in itself a violation of !aw and a prostitution of justice, and a fitground for violent revo- lution. And yet because this belief is ground- ed in us we have no bastiles and no inquisi- tions. And I think the same good day is coming for the Romans. Itis customary to charge the outrages, moral and physical, of the Inquisition on the alleged cruelty of the Italian nature. As the Italian people have, however, within thirty years three times driven out the institution, it can hardly with fairness be laid to their doors. Tt is also said in its defense that its terrible and inhuman punishments. were medieval, and to be charged to the spirit of the age, and that they could not be repeated now under any circumstances. This is simply not the case. The claws of the ecclesi- astical tiger.-at Rome are cut, and his fangs muzzled, but claws and teeth are both there yet. I suppose it perhaps svould not do to burn an offender in 1880 In the piazza of St. Peter’s for-not thinking as you wanted him to, but I have seen a man, Yet comparatively young, who, a few years ago, when Pope Pius TX—who was claimed to have been a gentle ruler—was in power, yas arrested without warning, hearing, or being allowed bail, confined in the Inquisi- tion, tried secretly and sentenced to 2 punish- ment of diabolic ingenuity, and cruelty. He was chained to the bottom ofa flat-boat inthe river without cover day or night, exposed to the glare of sun and the deadly damps of the nightair, When you understand that the italian never walks in the sun for fear of it, but seeks even the morning shade of the street, never sleeps with an open window for dread of the malarial air from e Campagna, you see the fiendish intent of this unishinent. And most of the squad in this oat did as they were meant to,—burned to death by the sun instead of the fagot, by slow torture instead of quick torture. ——_- CREMATION. A CLERGYMAN’S ARGUMENT IN ITS BEHALF. ‘New York Evening Past. Ata recent pastors’ meeting in this city the following paper was read by a clergyman: “The strongest .argument against crema- tion which has yet fallen under our notice is that of Dr. Richardson in his ‘Ministry of Health.’ Briefly stated it is this: ‘The de- composition of animal remains is an impor- tant source of ammonia; without ammonia, the world of vegetation would suffer or die, therefore we must oppose cremation. Just behind that noble grove of pillars: argument in many minds to suy that bodies buried deep in the earth cannot afford much ammonia to the surface soil, and that, as a’ matter of fact, many of these bodies remain even after fifty years in a state of ‘unpro- gressive putrefaction.’ This is the testimony of, Seymour Haden, whose searching and extensive investigations in English cemeteries have made hin:authority upon this matter. But quite aside from this it must be owned that Dr. Richardson has little reason to fear that the ‘world of vegetation’ can suffer any serious harm from the practice of cremation for many years tocome. The truth ‘is, the sentiments which cluster around the ordinary methods of burial are tender and sacred, al- though they must be, as, Mr. Haden justly ealls them, ‘unreasoning’; and we cannot expect the world to escape from them all at once. 2 “And yet it may not be impossible in time that this new method, not of burning the body, but of reducing itto ashes by the sci- entific application of intense heat, may com- mend itself to the judgment, and then to the preference, of thoughtful men, and so be- ome at last the prevalent method among all elasses of society, We have reason to be- lieve that within the year 1880, a crematory will be erected in New York or its vicinity, and, ifitshould be furnished | with a: sutti- cient number of cinerators forthe public to become familiar with the process, it may be found that much of the opposition which it now encounters is traceable to ignorance of its real nature. « “The fact is, as We are assured by compe- tent witnesses, there is nothing whatever ainful about the process from first to last. No onecan help the instinctive shrinking from anything associated with the thought of burning; but that need not remain if the rocess is found in fact to leave none of the impression of burning upon the memory of the imagination. .And this, we are told, will be the case. There is nothing revolting about it. The most refined tastes and the most delicate sensibilities arg not offended. On the contrary, one who has witnessed it says that, as far‘as the effect upon the senses is concerned, it is in every way preferable to the ordinary methods of sepulture. This‘ Christian gentleman affirms that after wit- nessing the entire operation he would much rather see his dearest friend cremated than buried either, in a grave or tomb. It is not so distressing to the sensibilities. In fact, it is not distressing at all. | ‘It is,’ hesays, ‘like laying your friend robed in white upon a bed of roses. “This may scem a little extravagant to those who are accustomed to connect the thought of flames or coals or smoke with the rocess of incineration. But we must bear in mind that witnesses have repeatedly em-. phasized the fact that there is nothing like these in cremation. To be sure there is a fire Deneath the apartment in which the body lies, but this is never seen and it never comes in contact with the remains. _ “The process, briefly described, is this: A furnace fire is built and kept burning’ for twenty or thirty hours before the cremation is to take place. Immediately above this fire is placed ina horizontal position a cylinder of clay called the incinerator, three fect in diameter by seven feet long. This fire-clay incinerator admits the intense heat of the fire ‘below, but not the flames. The consequence jsthatthe body, when placed in the incinera- stor, is not, in a proper sense of the word, "burned. - If is reduced to ashes by the chem- ical application of intense heat. _ Gases are driven off or absorbed, and, being carried down into the fire from the incinerator and Jed back and forth twenty-five feet_through its flames, are utterly consumed. Even the smoke of the fire is consumed, and nothing can be seen issuing from the chimney but the quiver of the heat. The process might be called without offense the spiritualization of the body, the etherealization or sublimation of its material parts. When the incinerator has been raised toa white heat it is ready for the reception of the remains. the cover is removed from its mouth, the in rushing air cools it from a white fo red heat, and the whole inner sur- face is_filled with a beautiful rosy Hehe which is fascinating to the eye. It ‘ike the blush of dawn upon the sky, or like the exquisit tints which sometimes flicker along the Aurora Borealis. There is nothing re- pulsive about it, and. nothing, as has been said, to suggest the idea of fire except the intense heat. “The body decently clad for burial, and tenderly laid-in the crib provided for the pur- pose, is wholly covered with a clean white sheet, which has been dipped in a solution of alum. The effect of this is entirely to pre- vent smoke or fumes or flame, which. would otherwise arise from: putting anything ‘in- flammable into the midst of such a heat. But ander its protection: even the extraordinary heat of the incinerator does not produce upon the body the appearance, of scorching, or smoking, or anything of the sort. There is no such impression as that of burning made upon the eye, The sheet, saturated with alunn, retains its original position over the crib, and conceals the entire form until noth- ing but the bones are left; and when the eye first rests upon the remains after they are left in the rosy light of thp cylinder it sees noth- ing but these bones gently crumbling aw: into dust under the mystic touch of an in- visible agent whose only appearance to the eye is like the tremor of the Northern Lights in"the sky, or, more exactly, the radiation of heat from the earth beneath the summer’s sun, ““¥on have laid a white-robed form within the rosy cylinder, and have turned ibe to think with gratitude that all is well. You have Jet your imagination dwell lovingly upon the pleasing sentiment that whatever may be left beside the calcined bones, most pure and clean, has gone to mingle with the upper air and dwell with sunshine, birds, and. flowers. The darkness and the dampness of the earth have been escaped, and so have the perils of grave-snatching, the indecencies of a possible dissecting-room, and the name- less horrors of putrefaction. You havepleas- ant memories to cherish of the ‘last sa hour’ which, instead of ‘breathless dark- ness, and the ‘ narrow house,’ and the dread- ful thud of falling earth upon the coffin pre- sents to the mind_a lovely bed of, rosy light, and a peaceful form clad in virgin purity resting within itssoftembrace. Ifa lily had been Iaid upon a bed of pinks or roses in the summer, and you had seen its fragrance and its beauty all’ exhale amid the shimmering beams of radiated heat beneath the mystic touch of some invisible and gentle agency, you would have had a not dissimilar experi- ence. And this is neither painful to the eye, nor distressing to the sensibilities, nor un- ateful to the memory. It may become in ime more popular than any method that has yet been known.” CORRESPONDENCE. MR, APPLEBEE ON HUME. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cuicaco, Feb. 21.—Mr. Applebee is re- ported in THe TRIBUNE of last Monday (Feb. 16) as saying: cy When Dr. Goodwin alleged that Hume held that female infidelity was excusable when un- discovered and that adultery was lawful, Dr. Goodwin uttered one of the most untrue state- ments ever made even in a pulpit. No more disgraceful and unfounded le was ever coined by an orthodox clergyman, and the speaker challenged Dr. Goodwin to substantiate his as- sertion or to bring forth one scintilla of proof in regard to it. ‘ 3 It appears from authorities which are probably not known to Mr. Applebee that Dr. Goodwin was correct in his statements respecting Hume. In his “Essays and Treat- ises on Several Subjects,” Edinburg, 1817, vol. ii., p. 244, Hume says: “The long and helpless infancy of man requires the combi- nation of parents for the subsistence of their young; and that combination requires the Virtue of chastity or fidelity to the marriage- bed. Without such an utility, it will readily be owned, that such a virtue would never have been thought of.” Whether such a view of chastity in a care- fully-prepared essay would leadus to ex- pect the loose opinions which are attributed to him it is not necessary for me to say. Men oftentimes unbosom themselves in their private correspondence in a way which is very disappointing to their adinirers. The following passage taken from Hume’s “Pri- yate Correspondence with Several Dis- tinguished Persons,” 1761-76, London, 1820, may not be relished by Mr. -pplebee, but it is vouched for by Horne and Tregelles, “An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowl- edge of the Holy Scriptures,” twelfth edition, London, 1869, page 23: : Mr. Hume (the immorality of whose principles is displayed in his private correspondence) maintained that self-denial, self-mortification, and humility are not virtues, but are useless and mischicvous;—that they stupefy the under-- standing, sour the temper, and harden. the heart;—that pride, self-valuation, ingenuity, eloquence, quickness of thought, easiness of expression, delicacy of taste, strength of body, and cleanliness are virtues; and consequently, that to want honesty, to want understand- ing, and to want strength of body, are equally the subjects of moral disapprobation;— that adultery must be practiced if men would obtain all the advantages of life; that if gen- erally practiced it would in time cease to be scandalous; and that, if practiced secretly and frequently, it, would 1 by degrees come to be thought no‘erime at I would heartily co! d toMr. Applebee MINED “Jt might appear a sufficient offset to this | the entire chapter in Horne’s introductionon “ The Necessity of a Divine Revelation” and greater care in his public statements. - SAMUEL Ives Curtiss, JR. GENERAL NOTES. _ Dr. Eggleston says that probably one-half the effort put forth in Sunday-school work is wasted, | The American Bible Society will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the printing of Wyckliffe’s bible Dec. 2. Monday meetings in St.Louis are very largely attended. Most of the city pastors, are extending a helping hand, and conver- sions are reported in great abundance. Philadelphia hes a society for Christianiz- ing the Jews ata pearly expense of about $5,000. During the last fiscal year the Secre- tary baptized two infants and two adults. In five years of its existence it did not report a single conversion. The Central Congregational Church of Fall River, the one most heavily smitten by the late defalcations, had a debt of $112,000. A neighboring pastor came into the pulpit one day and asked the people to pay it. They had anold church estate worth $32,000, and wanted $80,000 to meet the blance. Before night it was received. One of the lively points of discussion in the Methodist Episcopal Church is as to the election of « colored brother to be Bishop. It is said to be more difficult to find a suitable candidate among the colored preachers than among the white ones. A Bishop has to carry himself with considerable dignity, and if he stumble into frequent grammatical er- rors in speech, as many of the colored breth- ren areapt to do, it provokes smiles, and causes the ungodly to scoff. There are 1,196 Congregational ministers without pastoral charge. It is estimated that about 250 of these are too old or infirm to.do regular duty. This leaves 886 who are supposed to be able to work. There are 662. churches which have no pastors. Some are too poor to pay salaries, and some are so hard to please that no man can be found who will suit them. Many of the churchless ministers are sq poor that they would be will- ing to work at very low wages, and itis on this account that some of the churches refuse toemploy them. Congregationalism is just now much agitated in trying to find out how to supply’ the ininisters with churches and the churches with ministers, It is reported that the Pope has necepted a compromise with the English Mitualistic clergy by which those who are already mar- ried are to be reordained, ‘but allowed to as- sist in ministering in Catholic churches in mass,. benediction, preaching, and catechism, but will not be admitted to parochial fuinc- tions, especially confessions. The English and Trish Inity would never confess to ‘mar- ried men. For the present the parts of sery- ice outside the canon of the mass are'to be allowed in the vernacular, the Congregation of Rites deciding which portions of the old Salisbury rite are to be incorporated with the liturgy. The younger clergy are to take the usual vows of celibacy when ordained sub- deacons. The converts will be allowed and encouraged, if they prefer, to. adopt the usual mass of Latin. The arrangements for the issue of 2 new and carefully compiled edition of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, which was an- nounced by Cardinal Le ‘Luca some weeks ago, are now inactive progress. Special conimissions ‘have been nominated by the Pope both in Rome and in various other cities charged with, the preliminary prepara- tions for the pontifical issue of the writings of the great master of philosophy. Cardinal Zigliara has been intrusted with the care of directing tho researches in the imperial city itsefl, and when the prelates appointed else- where have sent in the result of their in- quiries, which will include the examination of some of the original manuscripts which are still extant, Cardinal De Luca will fur- nish his Holiness with a detailed report be- fore the authorized publication is com- menced. Yeo. AL The Young Men’s Christian Association will hold their twenty-second anniversary in Farwell Hall this afternoon at 4 o’clock. The annual reports of the President, Treasurer, and General Secretary will be presented, and brief addresses will be delivered by H. Thane Miller, the well-known Christian worker of Cincinnati; R. McBurney; Secretevy of the New York ¥. AL C. A.; R, C. Morse, Gen- eral Secretary of the Y.M- &. A-International Committee; Bishop C. E. Cheney, of Christ Reformed Episcopal Church, the Rey. J. M. Gibson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, and others. ‘This will be a service of spc. al interest, and the music will be a promi t feature of the occasion, led by Prof. B. Williams and the Bliss Choir, assisted by the quartet of the Second Presbyterian Church. A cordial invitation is extended to all. The Young Men’s Christian Association has arranged with Mr. Frank B. Williams to deliver another lecture on.“ What I Saw in Europe” Thursday evening, Feb. 26, in Lower Farwell Hall. All who heard the first lecture will want to come again. Tick- ets free for gentlemen and ladies at the office of the Y. M. C. A., 150 Madison street. DANCING VERSUS ‘CROQUET. , The Methodist Church of Mount Kisco, Westchester County, N._Y., is rent in twain, figuratively speaking. The younger mem- bers, who contribute liberally to all-the church work, are much given to the worldly amusement of masquerade balls and danc- ing parties, which come off in rapid succes- sion at each other’s houses. The deacons and the pastor’are experts in that sinful game known as “ Presbyterian billiards,” alias cro- quet. The other evening at prayer-meetin; some of the croquet-playing deacons ha something to say on the sinfulness of the mazy and giddy waltz, when Brother Dis- prow, the representative of the dancing ele- ment, caromed on the good deacon by inti- mating that people who neglected their re- ligious duties to play groquct with pretty young, women all day had better say less about “ worldly amusements.” If that wasn’t worldly amusement, he would like to know what was.. He knew of a minister (he had him in his mind’s eye at that moment), and he knew of class-leaders as well, who played croquet from morning till night, and would even become so engrossed in it.as to forget their meetings when they were right insight of thechurch. [Sensation.] The fact was, that some ministers were as much intoxi- cated with croquet as others were with danc- ing. He had heard of dominies (sarcastic- ally) who went miles from home, on the morning and evening, trains, carrying spe- cially-made mallets with which they were to hit the croquet balls about. Of course, they didn’t go for the young ladies’ society; O, no! it was strictly scientific interests in fhe me.that brought them out. [Laugh- aT ‘The pastor, who is an expert croquet play- er, preserves a very discreet silence. THE FEAST OF PURIM will be celebrated Thursday, the 26th inst., the 14th day of the Hebrew month Adar beginning on the preceding evenmg. In most all the temples and synagogs _ the Book of Esther is read and expounded. This festival commemorates the rescue of the Is- raelites in the Persian Empire by Esther and Mordecai, from the destruction schemed against them. by the wicked Haman, as nar- rated in the Book of Esther. It is celebrated annually as a day of feasting, and rejoicing, and returning thanks to-our Deliverer, who always displayed His guardianship over His chosen people whenever man rose up against them. The day is also distinguished by sending presents and gifts to friends and the oor. a METHODIST BOOK CONCERNS. { (The annual meeting of the General Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church isan oceasion of vital interest toetens of thousands of its ministers and members. The fourth and last annual meeting of this body, for the quadrennium, has just been held: in Cincinnati, O. nt The Book Committee was regularly organ-. of the quadrennium, which expired with Dr. John L. Smith, of Indiana, President, and Dr. L. C, Matlock, of Delaware, Secretary. They held four ses- sionsin two days, and didagood deal of sub-committee work between the sessions. Immediately on assembling sub-committees were appointed on Episcopal Fund, Salaries, Depositories, Annual Report to Conferences, General Conference Report, and Reports for publication in Advocates. Among the items of business considered and adopted reported by the sub-committees were the recommenda- tions to the General Conference to instract book agents at the beginning of each quad- rennium to classify all notes and accounts as good, doubtful, and worthless; that the worthless be passed to profit and loss; that a record of the worthless and doubtful claims be kept in a book for that purpose, and that the charges be continued throug! out the quadrennium, suggesting that much greater improvement must be made in the near future to justify the continuance of the sys- ized at the beginning tem of depositories by reducing expenses needed, an ex efforts for the collection of outstanding ac- counts, which are v large at some le the gross amount of business in the publishing houses igs not equal to last year the percentage and rofit are better. The printed exhibits of the New York Book Concern and Western Book Concern, at Cincinnati, which included the depositories of each, were read. In the ex- hibit of the former, June 30, 1879, the regular period, the profits of the year were $71,159.93. nillips & Hunt, the book agents, had suc- ceeded in replacing the bonds issued at a lower interest for the payment of the new building, No. 805 Broadway, by- which a handsome sum was saved before the year ex- pired—Dee. 50, 1879; and they had paid and cancelled bonds to the value of $75,000. This financial feat speaks for itself. ‘The book- agents: at Cincinnati, Hitchcock & Walden, have handled their.great responsibility with skill, and the profits-for the year ending Nov. 29, 1879, were $37,807.14. All the reports were encouraging. ° Inorder to allow the Commit- tee on the Report to the General Conference more time to perfect their report, they were authorized, after adjournment, to complete it for presentation to an adjourned meeting of the Book Committee, to be held in Cincin- nati, O., April 29 next, two days before the General Conference convenes in that city. THE FUIST PRAYER IN CONGRESS. In Thatcher's Dfilitury Journal, under date OF December, 1777, is found a note con- taini gress made by the Rev. Jacob Duche, a gentleman of great eloquence. Here it is,— an historical curiosity: “0Q Lord, our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers of the earth, and reignest with ower supreme and uncontrolled over all the <ingdoms, Empires, and. Governments, look down-in mercy, we beseech Thee, on these American States, who have fled to Thee from the rod of the oppressor, and thrown them- selyes.on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee. ‘To Thee they have appealed forthe righteous- ness of their cause: to Thee do they now Jook up for that countenance and support which Thou alone canst give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly Father, unto Thy nurturing care. .Give them wisdom in council and ¥alor in the field. Defeat the malicious designs of our adversaries; con- vince them of the unrighteousness of their cause; and, if theystill persist in sanguinary purposes, Oh! let the eof Thine own unerring justice, sounding in their hearts, constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands in the day of bat- tle. Be thou present, O God of wisdom, an direct the councils of this honorable assem- bly. Enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation, that the scenes of blood may be speedily closed, and order, har- mony, and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion anc piety pre- yail and flourish amongst Thy people. Pre- serve the health of their bodies and the vigor of their minds; shower’ down upon them and the millions they here represent such tempered blessings as Thou seest expedient for them in this world, and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask, in ‘the name‘and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Savior. Amen!’ . ‘THE UNIVERSALISTS. The Illinois State Convention of the Uni- yersalists was begun yesterday afternoon at 83 o’clock in Unity Church,.Oak Park, by a sermon delivered by the Rev. Miss Kalloch, of Blue Island. At the conclusion of her discourse the regular routine business of the Conyention-was taken up. The gathering is more in the nature of a reunion of the Universalists of the State, and but lit- tle business was transacted. A fair congre- gation was in attendance at the services, although the number of delegates from the outside towns was not large... In the eyening the Rev. Brooke Herford, of this city, delivered a sermon, which was listened fo bya good-sized audience. This morning the Rev. Dr. Lang, of Joliet, will preach, and this afternoon will be devoted to a geneaal talo on subjects of interest to the Church. The exercises will be brought toa close in the evening by a sermon and song service. * PERSONALS. ‘The death is announced of the Rev. Jona- than T. Crane, of Port Jervis, N. Y. ‘The Rev. Edward Palmer, of New Orleans, has reached his 92d year, and still attends to his pulpit duties. The Rev: Charles C. Parker, of Parsippany, N.J., died on the 15th inst., of acute pneu- monia, after ten days’ illness. The Rev. S. T. Street, a Presbyterian min- ter at Niles, Mich., is soon to be ordained ‘yo Episcopal clergyman at Gambier, O. 5 _ The Rev. D. R. Frazer, of Buffalo, has re- é-ived a call to succeed the Rev. Dr. Duryea, at the Classon Avenue Church in Brooklyn. The Rev. William M. Taylor, D. D., of New York, has received an urgent call from the Second Presbyterian. Church of Phila- delrhia. . The Rev. Dr. Peddie will close his labors here about the 1st of next month, He has accepted the call to the First Baptist Church of New York. The Rev. W. W. Clark, formerly a Congre- gational minister in Painesville, O., has been called to the Reformed Church, Brighton Bleights, Staten Island. The Rey. Mr. Mackonochie, of St. Albans, London, pays no ‘attention to the orders of civil or ecclesiastical courts, and snaps his fingers at any attempts to punish him. BISHOP COLENSO. ‘A meeting of the Society for the Propaga- tion of the eospel was held the other day to repudiate the kindly words spoken by two Bishops to the Rev. Mr. Colley on _his going to Natal to assist Dr. Colenso. While the clergy - present were pretty unanimously raying at Colenso, Dean_ Stanley rose and said: “As a propagator of the Gospel Bishop Colenso will be remembered long after you areall dead and buried.” This was the signal for a storm; amid the roar of furious clerics the Dean quietly stood, and presently said: “Twill not be restrained by this mockery, these jeers, this ridicule, these jibes ”—more uproar. But the Dean managed to say his say, Which was as follows: “There will be one Bishop who, when his own interests were on one side, and the in- terests of -a poor, savage Chief on the other, did not hesitate to sacrifice, his own, and, with a manly generosity for which this Society has not a word of sympathy, did his best to protect the suppliant; did not hesi- tate to come over from Africa to England to plead the cause of this poor, unfriended say- age; and when he had secured the su port of the ‘Colonial Office,—unlike other Colonial Bishops,—he immediately went back to his diocese. For all these things the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel appears to have no sympathy; but you may depend upon i that outside’ these _walls,—in the world ai large,—whenever Natal is mentioned. they wills win admiration; and posterity will say that among the propagators of the Gospel in the nineteenth century the Bishop of Natal was not the least efficient.” POSSIBLE PIETY. Trusting to chants—Expecting to get to Heaven by singing.—Boston Courier. Achild being asked what were the three great feasts of the Jews, promptly and not unnaturally replied: “Breakfast, dinner, and supper.” “What is Heaven’s best gift to man?” asked ayoung lady on Sunday night, smil- ing sweetly on a pleasant-looking clerk. “ A hoss,” replied the young man, with pru- dence. ‘A woman tised tothe third power of widowhood has the photographs of her three departed lords ina group, with a vignet of herself in the centre, and underneath is the inscription, ‘‘ The Lord will provide.” “Who was Ezekiel?” asked the Sunday- school teacher of an intelligent looking little girl in one of our city churches. Theanswer was: “ Ezekiel was one of the minor proph- ets, and the son of Daniel Webster.” answer was accepted without controversy. ‘The Roman Curia have placed the transla- tion of “Paradise Lost” in the Index Ex- purgatorious. Tf the Curia wants to becoine immensely popular with all denominations it will make a similar disposition of the famil- iar quotations from “ Pinafore.”—Albany Journal. A Pittsburg minister has a very stubborn little 5-year-old boy. The boy’s mother de- termined to conquer him, and, having ad- ministered a severe chastisement, she said: “Will you mind now, Johnny?” ith sobs. and cries he replied: ‘Yes, mamma, I put I hate to, awfully.” ws Little Henry returns from catechism. He wears anair of melancholy. “ What's the matter, dear 2” asks Aunt’ Augusta. ‘tMon- sieur le Curé is always scolding me. To-day he asked me how many gods there. vere.” “Well, you told him one, I suppose?” “O. aunty! Ty told him five; and even that didn’t sal Mr. Moody, the evant St. Louis, as witness tl is labor heading pring, in the local papers: “The Hon, Soin G Lets the identical “first prayer in Con- | Mr. Moody Introduces the Nabob of Sodom to his Audience, Showing that Lot Needed Ilis Uncle Abraham for a Bolster, but Leav- ing Him, Went to Sodom to Get Rich, and Beeame’ Banker, Judge, Railroad Director, and Politician. But, Despite His Riches, He Lackedt¥ffective Piety, and Came.to a Mis- erable Sud—An Example to Modern Chris- tians,?2fore + CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, West Washing- ton and Peoria streets, the Rt-Rev. William E. McLaren, S. T. D., Bishop; the Rey. J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. Holy.Communton at $a. m. Choral morning prayer and Holy Com- munion at 10:30, m. Choral evening prayer at 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. R. A. Holland will officiate at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and’ Michigan avenue. Subjects: Morning, “Why ShoulaI Be Confirmed?” evening, -“ Bo Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out,"—the first of aseries toyoung men, Holy Communion at 8 am. —The Rev. W. H. Knowlton will officiate morning and evening at St. Andrew's Church, corner Wushington and Robey streets. —The Rev. John Hedman. will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedg- wick street, near Chicago avenue. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D., will officiate morning and evening at Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. Holy Commun- jon ats a. m. ~The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morn- ing and evening at the Church of the Ascen- sion, corner La Salle and Elm streets. Com- Tmunion at $a. m. —The Kev. Charles Stanley Lester will officiate morning and evening st St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue, near Forty-ninth strect, ‘he Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Mark's Church, coruer ‘Thirty-sixth street and Cottage Grove avenue. —The Rev. J. D. Cowan will officiate morning and evening at St. Stephen’s Church, Johnson street, near Taylor. —The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate morn- ing and evening ut Calvary Church, Warrer Sygate, near Oakley street, Communion al . m. ‘ai ne hong en A Morr ees Jr., wal officiate in e Church of the Epiphany, Throop si near Monroe. Communion ut $a. m. Pence —The ‘Rev. W. J. Petrie will ofticiate morn- ing and evening atthe Church of Our Savior, corner Lincoln and Belden avenues. —The Rev. James E. ‘thompson will officiate at St. Thomas’ Church, Indiana avenue, near ‘Twenty-ninth street. —There will be serviecs morning and evening at St. Luke’s Mission, No. 987 West Polk street. —The Rev. Daniel F. Smith willo ficiateiu the morning ‘atthe Good Shepherd Mission, Lawn- fale. —There willbe a Litany service every day during Lent ut noon at No. S3South Clark street. ~The second of the special course of Lenten sermons ut the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoria strects, will be given by the Rev. Theodore N. Morrison, Rector of the Church of the Epiphany, Sunday afternoon. Subject: ‘Crucified with Christ.” The service will commence at half-past 4 o'clock. —The Rt.-Rex. Bishop McLaren will officiate morning and eyening at St. James’ Church, cor- ner Cass and Huron streets. Holy Communion at 8:30 a. m. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cheney will officiate at Christ Chureh, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. Subjects: Morning, “Faith and Haste"; evening, * Neither Hot nor Cold," in answer to the question, Does God prefer a cold to a luke- warm Christian? —Bishop Fallows will officiate at St. Paul's Church, corner of Washington and Carpenter streets. Subjects: Morning, “The ed's Prayer’; evening. * Doubting Doubt.” —The Rev. F. W. Adams wil! officiate at St. Matthew's Church, corner of Clurk and Centre : Morning, “Letter to the Church of Smyrna;” evening, “What Is Our Earthly Rest 2” —The Rev. R. H. Bosworth will officiate at 2:33 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church. Englewood. '—The Rev. J. D. Wilson will officiate morning and evening at St. John’s Church, Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. The Rev. R. H. Burke will preach in, the morning—subject, “ The Divinity of Christ," and Mr. Benjamin Needhum, the Evangelist, in the evening—at Grace Church, Clybourn place and Elston road. : : CONGREGATIONAL. . The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, of the First Presby- terian Church, will preach this morning, and the Rev. Charles Hall Everest this evening, at Plymouth Church, Michigan avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, Evening subject: “George Washi mn." = —The Kev. E. F. Williams will preach morn- ‘and evening at the South Church, corner Drexel avenue and Forticth strect. —The Rey. F. A. Noble, D. D.. will ach. morning and evening at the Union Park Church, comes of Ashland avenue and Washington street —The Rev. G. H. Peeke will preach morning and evening at the Leavitt Street Church. —The Rey. George Maller, of Bristol, England, will preach mn tho morning, and the Rey. E. P, Goodwin in the evening, at the First Church. ‘The latter's subject will be: “Truth Known Only Throng the Spirit.” % —The Rev. Arthur Little will preach morning and evening at the New England Chureh, corner of Dearborn avenue and Delaware place. —The Rev. C. A. Towle will preach at Bothany Church, corner of Paulina and Huron streeta Subjects; * Taking the Kingdom of Heaven by Force": evening, * Building for Storms.” —The Rev. J. ‘I. Hyde will preach morning and evening at the Clinton Street Church, corner of ‘Wilson street. —The Rev. F, P. Cleveland will preach this morning, and the Rey. B. F. Leavitt this even- ing, in the Lincoln Park Church, corner of Sophia and Mohawk streets. —The Rev. E.F. Williams will preach at 2:30 this afternoon at the Englewood Church. ‘METHODIST. The Rov. Frank M. Bristol will preach_morn- ing and evening at the Wabash Avenue Church, corner of Fourteenth street. —There will be prenching morning and even- ing by the pastor at St. Puul’s Church, corner of Maxwell street and Newberry avenue. —The Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach morning and evening at the Centenary Church, Monroe strect, near Morgan. —The Rey. Dr. Williamson will preach at the First Church, corner Clark and Washington streets. Subject: “The Christlike Use of the Tongue”; evening, “How to Reason on the Subject of Religion.” —The Rev. E. M. Boring will preach in the morning and the Rev. Mr. Henry, of the Baptist Church, in the evening at the State Sirect Church. —Bishop Merrill will preach in the morning and the Rev. J. M. Caldwell in the evening ut the Western Avenue Church, corner of Monroe street. —The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preach at Grace Church, corner of LaSalle and White streets. Subjects: Bforning, “Barnabas”: evening, “An Evening with Charles Wesley and His Hymns.” —The Rev. T. C. Clendening will preach morn- ing and evening at the Langley Avenue Church. S The Rev. George Chase will preach morning and evening at the Fulton Street Church. —The Rev. R. B. Pope will preach. morning and evening at Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near ‘Twenty-fourth street. Household service in the morning. —The Rev. G. R. Yan Horne will preach at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second street. Subjects: “On usting: God”; evening, ‘A Mother's Prayer.’ —The Rev. B. T. Roberts will preach morning and evening at the Free Church, corner of Bay and Fulton streets. —The Rev. 5. T. Shaw will preach this morn- jing and evening in the Dickson Street Church. Morning subject: _‘.A Sermon to tho Ladies.” —The lev. B. F. Leavitt, of Lincoln Park Congregutional Church, will preach this morn- ing and the Rev. F. P. Cleveland this ovening in the Grant Placo Church. —tThe Rev. T. R. Strobridge will preach in Park “Avenue Church morning and evening. Evening subject: “Time Required to Build Up Script- ure.” d —The Rev. E. P. Eldridge, of Wyoming Con- ference, will preach in Centenary Charch fn the evening. PRESBYTERIAN- ‘The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach at the Re- union Church, Fourteenth street, gear Tardoes in the morning. Gospel meeting, to be ad- dressed by Mr. B. F. Jacobs, in the evening. —There will be services and preaching by the Rev. J. H. Walker at the Campbell Park Chapel in the evening. & —The Rev. ‘Arthur Swazey will preach inthe morning at the Forty-first Street Church. —The Rev. J. Monro Gibson, D. D., will preach atthe Second Church, corner Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. Evening subject: “The Temptation of Christ.” —The Rev. E. N. Barrett will preach in West- minster Church, corner Jackson and Peoria streets. Subjects: Morning, ‘God in Every~ thing, or in Nothing”; evening, the first of a course of expository lectures on the Acts. —The Rev. C. L. Thompson, of Pittsburg, will reach morning and evening at the Fourth ureh, corner Rusk and Superior streets. —The Rev. W. A. McAteo will preach mornirg and evening atthe Fifth Church, Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. . —The Rey. Jumes Maclaughlan will preach morning and evening at the Scotch Church, cor- ner Sangamon and Adams streets. i —The Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D.. will reach morning and evening at the Jefferson ‘ark Church, corner Thrvop and Adams streets. —The Rev. J. M. Wo! |. D.D.. will ach morning and evening at the Eighth Church, cor- ner Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. H. M. Collisson_will this morning and evening in the Fullerton Avenue Chureh. Morning subject: ‘The Higher Chris- Han Life”; evening, “Christ on Fishing for fen.” ‘The Rev. Charles Hall Everest, of Plymouth Congregational Church, will preach this morn- ing, by exchange with the Rev. Arthur Mitchell, in the First Church, cornerof Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street. Dr. Mitchell will Reach jane evening at the Railroad Chapel, No. 715 —tThe Rev. H.T. Miller will in the Sixth Church, corner Vincennes and Oak avenues, at