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RELIGIOUS. Some Interesting Facts Regard- ing American Missions in Foreign Lands. tagonism Between the Roman Catholic Church and Re- publican Ideas. yal in New York of the Pioneer Band of the English Salva- tion Army. e Leo Maintains that Civil Mar- riage -Has No Binding Force Whatever. The Scriptural Wines the Same as the Alcohclic Wines of To-Day. General Notes, Personals, Pious. Humor, Services To-Day. FOREIGN MISSIONS. ur THE AMERICAN CHURCHES ARE DOING FOR THE HEATHEN. he Missionary Review for January—February contains a very long but equally interesting grieleon missions conducted in foreign coun- tries by the different evangelical bodies of the Tnited States, and their achievements during the year 18°8-"79, ‘Me income of the Foreign Board of the’ Presbyterian. Church North during the fiscal: yarending May 1, 1870, was $427,631, a loss of over £6,000 as compared with the year previous. he debt at tho same time Was $02,532, a gain of There were 2% foreizn missions, with Ye ordained missionaries, 197 assistants, 72 native preachers, 115 native licentiat ‘gy helpers and teachers, and 11,306 native com- municants, distributed as follows: Missionaries. ABS Brak Berd: of missionary papers. ‘The income of the Foreign Board of the south- ero wing of the Church was $16,234, a decrease of {265 a8 compared with the previous year. ‘There were fifteen ordained missionaries, twen- jy-two essistants, eight native preachers, eight native licentiates, and three teachers and colporteurs. ‘The United Presbyterian Church, with head- quarters fe Pinas received for foreign Missions $51.351, an increase of $3,900. There were 13 ordained missionaries, 18 missionary women, 6 ordained natives, 7 licensed natives, 1S native teachers and helpers, 1.218 communi- cants, and 3.702 children in the schools. ‘The contributions to the foreign missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church were $7,556, which were used in maintaining 7 missionaries, 1 native teachers, 87 communicants, and 676 scholars in Sabbath and day schools. The income of the Foreign Board of the Dutch Reformed Presbyterians was $53,208. There are three missions,—India, China, and dapan,—with 2,045 communicants. e Cumberland Presbyterian Church supports tro missionaries in Japan, and last year re- ceived $2,098 for their support. ‘The Presbyterian Church’ in Canada received for foreign work, last year, $35,729. It supporia fourteen ordained missionaries, five workers; four native preachers, and 650 native communicants. The’ Evangelical Lutheran Church received for jigforeign missions in. 18:8-"79 about $20,000, witb which it custained tive foreign stations, tour missionaries, two ordained natives, forty ‘wachers, 100 congregations, 2,08 communicants, ed Aaptized memuert, and twenty-nine schools 1 pupils. i The General Council.of -the Evangelical Jatheran, with headquarters in Reading, Pa. tmfine their missionary efforts to India, and maintain three missionaries, two native preach- ors seven native teachers, 171 communicants, and 116 pupils in the mission schools. The Congregationalists, better known _as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, contributed to the mission cause in 1679 the cum of $518.306, including $166,459 of the Otis , Which, however, in point of collec- tions shows a decrease of $130,277 98 compared with theprevious year. There were 16missions, ‘Sstations, 59S outstations, 150 ordained mis- sionaries, 12 laymen (including 9 doctors), 232 fe~ male assistants, 132 native pastors, §18 native preachers and teachers. 220 native helpers, and 4.0;3 native communicants. ‘The educational ‘work comprises 23 theological schools, 605 pu- Pils; 98 boarding-schools, 887 pupils: 612 common oe 24,012 scholars; and 768 adults under in- ction. The American Missionary Society, with head- quarters in New York, devotes most of its labor tothe spread of the Gospel among the freedmen of the South and the Indians in the West, su: ports missions in Africa, with 2 ordained Sionaries. 2 female assistants, 4 laymen, 2 churobes with & members, and 3 schools with 2Spupils, It also supports 12 schools among the Chinese in this country, with 12 teachers an: an average attendance of 252 pupils. The American Baptist Missionary Union re- ceived last year $252.67;, and reduced its debt from to $2512, ‘The condensed statistics of the work in all the twenty-three different missions of this Church in Asia and Europe may be presented as follows: 3] 21s] .8] 3 Elves] =| FEB) 25 S|281 2) sF] ss 2/8 |: | 3°) 3 2 |e S |e? Fa ca be ease ca $3) 453) 1 20,811 48 ea] L207 2) 11) 10,601) 15,05¢ 43 mi S28 2) 2 2 66 456 409) 2,689) 42,009 Fost] 90a] 24,990] 80,475 The total baptisms for the fiscal year are 1s,- . "The gain in chureli-members in the Asiatic nussions of this Church in_181:~"78 was only 143; in 1818-79 it was 10,886. Of these, 10.03% is the in~ among the Telugu Christians alone,—an Jncrease without a parallel in the previous history of Baptist. missons. ‘The percentage of this tu- crease in all these missions of the union is 2034; fn the Asiatic missions separately, 397-9; in the Telugu mission by itself, more than 233. Of the it) Slsslonaries” designated above there seem Wien gemlslonartes coal in tia work missionaries engaged in the Single ladies and widows. Of the 438 “native preachers” in the Euro- Deen missfons 23 are ordained, and the rest col- Porteurs and subordinate laborers. Of the 518 native preachers” in Asiatic missions the re- rt gives no sufficient data for determining ow many are ordained, but the Rev. C. H. Car- Penter, of the Burmah missions, about a year i classified the 37? native preachers of Burmab Into¥8 ordained native pastors and 274 unor- ined native preachers. So, too, there are no Sata for uscertaining Just how many of the 494 Churches in the Asintic missions are self-sup- potting, ‘but of the 19.915 native Christina ‘one year ago, Mr. Carpenter's test iS that their contributions tor all objects, re- Usious ‘and educational, in 1817-78, were 72,695 Tipees, or $56.317.50; while their whole expense ‘othe Baptist churches of America the same ier, WAS Only 66,084 rupees, or $33,017,—showing em tohave become more than half self-sup- The Baptist Church, South, with headquarters in Richmond, contributed for the support of foreign missions, &7,20 for Europe and $3,175 for fitica. ‘There are- 6 ordained missionaries ant ang geuained. 6 female workers, 11 native pastors, native assistants. piofthe foreign mission cause the Free-Will Baptists contributed $33.02; in 1878. There were 189 6 ordained missionarics, 2 femaie ii native helpers, igommunicants, and “433 Sunday-school The Canadian Baptists gave $6,609 to the sup- Pert of the foreign mission cause, with which it Maintained during 16784 missionaries, 4 native Preachers, 9 native teachers, 8 schools with 138 Pupils, and 498 communicants. THE VERONICAS. OLD AND WONDERFUL PICTURES OF CHRIST. By William H. Ingersoll. {@ehers. 4 native preachers, behol ‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY,:- MARCH 14, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGE criticalexpert been pronounced at least as old as the cloth found in the catacombs, which it resembles in texture and quality. The faco docs not seem to be painted, as it shows none of the brush-marks of ridges which ancient paint- ings show the more the older they are; but it rather seems like.a work of the sun in color, or a stained and blended vision-like coloring, tho Spontaneous work of a master-hand. But it is called the “ achierotypou,”"—the “ picture made without hands,"—and is claimed to be of mirac- Cae orgin, and held as the bollest relic of the Only once a year—on Palm-Sunday, and th after’ ‘absolutlon—does the Pope’ look at it; sometimes alone, and aguin with some soemiber. of the Holy Conclave, and, very rarely, with some distinguished non-ecclesiastic. It has a chapel of its own: the Veronica Chapel, in the upper part of the great dome, and behind the colossai statue of Saint Veronica, which is the most sacred room in the great basilica. « It has a litany of its own, and a rosary of its own, published by the Church in a separate book, and culled the litany of the “holy face.” hile its very great antiquity is ulmost cer- Braet and while a miraculous origin isclaimed for it, 2s having been impressed upon a cloth by contuct with the living face of Christ, there ara 80 many variations of the legend as to leave us aut ne ey, history further than the very ancient and i icture theirace of the Suvior. pclae st cerning its pretonded origin, a familiari with the other ancient Christ-pictures, with & like claim to miraculous origin in somewhat the ar Abgure pce, Uhh ih he Case a ure, Wi in the St. sylvester, at Genoa. marek a picture we can only say, here, that it was claimed to have been impressed upon a cloth or napkin by Christ Himself touching it to His face, and sending it to Abgar, the King of Edessa, by the messenger whom He had sent for itz and that the first glance at it healed tho afilicted King. P The “ Veronica" claims a much more touch- ing origin, and no less than this: that it was the napkin upon which our Redeemer wiped his face as He was urged and hunted to Ais murder on Calvary. The stories vary in details, and in the history of the picture and the miracles wrought by it. he general legend is this: Christ on the “Via Dolorosa,” or the way to Cavalry, fell under the burden of His cross. A woman among His followers, whom they nume Veronica, knelt beside Him, and gaye Him her veil or a napkin, to wipe the perspiration ana blood from His holy face. z. After so doing, He returned it to her, not smeared or soiled, but beautifully impressed with the picture of His fuce and hair. This wescure. she Rept aul after ee. Ascension, when she gave it jomus, who guye it Thaddeus. : oa oa = ie afterwards went to Edessa, and cured the King Abgarus with the mere sight of the sacred image, and wrought by its power many other miracles. This story hus long been maintained by the Roman Catholic Church; and a picture of the scene where the imnge was thus produced, is one of the Stations,” as they call the pauses on the way to the crucifixion. Another version is, that Veronica, being known to. possess a portrait of Christ, was sent forfrom Rome, and requested to bring the holy image to Tiberias, who was fatally ill with lepro- sy. She caine, and the sight of the face healed the Emperor, who forthwith sentenced Pontius Pilate to death for having crucified the Lord. A variation of this story is that the Emperor sent.a message to Pilate to send Jesus to Rome; and Pilnte replied that he bad crucificd Him as a Taalefactor. On the messenger’s return be met. Veronica, who, hearing his story, gave him the “Sudarium,” or the napkin picture; which, be- ing brought to the Emperor, immediately healed in. The healing of Vespasian, another Emperor, is related in a similar legend. Again it: is wished, that the picture came to Rome in the year 37. Still another story is, that Veronica, having endeavored to obtain a portrait of Christ from St. Luke, who wus an urtist, as well as a phy- sician, and he having failed to secure a likeness, Christ visited her house, and, wiping His face after washing before dinner, left the imp. f ‘His features on tho towel. A Latin monkish legend, of the twelfth cen- tury, varies it aguin. Mary, at the foot of the cross, wiped the face of Christ, and gave the napkin to Veronica. ‘here are at least five Veronicas. claimed to be genuine: in Rome, Germany, France, and Spain; and they account for the numberat once, by the assertion that the napkin was in folds, and the picture penetrated them all. That at Rome,.in the Suacristy Chapel of Veronica, shows a life-size face or mask, with the hair. The features are long, dignified, d, and Souching in aspect and expression. ‘he brow and cheek are covered with wounds, and blood-drops, and the semblance of tears. The whole effect is dreadfully powerful, and subdues the beholder with a potent spell. The hair is matted and straggling, and the beard is in three tufts or locks of equal length. The Suderium 1s now inclosed in a silver shrine, which is protected by a plate of crystal. There are some authorities who believe that this is one of the breast-cloths worn under their clothing by the early Christians, and the kind of cloth would give some projability to this theory; but the remarkable tinting rather than painting which appears, in the face is something unique im art work. ‘I'he word Veronica nas been tra through a series of possible corruptions of “ Prounice,” the name given by tradition to the woman healed of the issue of blood; and again, as composed of the Latin “vera,” true, and “ikon,” images and meaning “true robably the true origin of the word, and is a clew to the origin of the several pictures bearing that name, and which were probably the work of the early Roman Chris- tians. Correggio, Van Dyck, and other artists, have painted this style of picture on the nap- iin, with the features pecullar to their con- ceptions. Whatever may be the real truth as tothe origin of this story and its connected holy face, there is the certainty of a yery ancient picture, of a mazvelously powerful character, exhibit- ing that wonderful face in its most sacred us- pect, bearing His awful sufferings for us. And the heart of every sincere person is awakened by the thought, “1 may see that face again!” ¥es, pas and may it be with joy forever- more AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. RESULTS OF THE FEBRUARY BUSINESS. ‘The stated mecting of the Board of Managers of the American Bible Society was held at the Bible House, Astor place, on Thursday, March 4, 1880, at half-past 3 o'clock, Frederick 5. Winston, Esq., in the chair. * Tho Hon. John W. Foster, late United States Minister to Mexico, and now under appointment as United States Minister to Russia, was unani- mously elected Vice-President of the Society Papers were adopted by the Board commem- ornting the late Mr. James Lenox, formerly President of the Society, and Mr. James W Dominick, one of the managers, lately deceased, ‘The ffnancial statement showed the total re- ceipts for February to have been $40,208.19. Of this amount $5,757.97 were donations from auzil- jary societies, individuals, and churches; $4,705.31 from rents; $1,125.20 from legacies; $28,619.58 from sale of books. The disbursements for the month, upon the audit and warrant of the Committee on Finance, were $43,618.46. ‘The Committee on Publication reported that a new edition of 3,000 copies of the New Testa- ment, in the dialect of tho Gilbert Islands, had been put to press. It is worthy of note that this 4s the third edition of the New Testament in this janguage that the Society has been called upon to furnish, gine issues for tho month of Febru- ¥ were 92,876 copies. “Spon ‘ha reconmendation of the Committee on Distribution grints of books were made to the value of $6,700 for distribution by auxiliary societies, pastors in missions in various parts of the country, benevolent institutions, and colpor- teura employed by this Society laboring chiefly in the South and Southwest. ‘Appropriations in funds were made to the Society's agencies iu Mexico and Turkey, to the Bible Society of France, and the Austrian mis- sion of the America ‘Board, amounting in the age! ate to $5) 5. - eee tities ‘on Agencies commissioned five additional colporteurs, and reappointed five others. These colporteurs are to Iubor in Kan- a3, Colontdo, Minnesota, West Virginia, Mis- souri, Georgia, and ‘Toxas. .The results of col- portage work’ for the month of January were Etated as follows: 1,387 days of service rendered, 33,006 families visited, 3,19 found destitute, 2,359 destitute families supplied, and 1,157 destitute jndividuals in uddition. Number of books sold, 8280, of the value of $3,144. Number of books glee ibuted gratuitously, 2,201, of the value of 501. SCRIPTURAL WINE. THAT USED AT CANA CONTAINED ALCOHOL. Interior (Presbyterian Organ), March 22. ‘We must all recognize the fact that there aro types of mina and kinds of experiences which make us differ from eacb other in our opinions and views of eyen pluin subjects. It has come to be understood that this paper is inclined away from extreme views, and naturally takes to what are called common-senso opinions, but that does not mean that we cannot see subjects from the standpoint of, at least, some ex- tremists. For instance, on this wine-question,— a reader writes tous that he stopped the New York Evangelist because sonie contributor to that paper taught that the miraculous wine of Cana was alcoholic, and he proceeds to say that if that statement were proven be would abandon afaith in Christ of forty years’ standing. We cannot look from that particular standpoint. It iso far away from us that we can no more get top, of Popocatantl. toitthan we can to the oP a oP Siesaure radical Among the ancient treasures of the Church of St. Peter at Rome isa remarkable picture of the fee of Our Lord, of very great antiquity and Wonderfully touching power. Stretched upon a Panel, a loose dark cloth, now brown and dim with age, shows the lineaments of ‘at face which was so marred for us, and is 80 wonderfully unique. The cloth, now - @tattered and rotted with age, basb s most man —hates porous, ‘tretoncllable porsistent, aad destruct: ive personal enemy, maim f the dearest objects on earth. ES wpbbed on we ‘come in contact with such an one there is not antagonism, Dut answ eyo pathy, between us. ‘This while we yet firmly Neve that the wines of the Bible times were just what the wines of Palestine have heen ever since, ‘and are to-day, genuine wines, of which alcohol 18 a small constituent, and without which they ‘would not be wines. We believe that the wines of the wedding and of the institutional Supper were just what thoy were prophetically de- ed to be, “wines upon the lees, well re- fined.” And this admission of the truth, as the truth appears to us, does not in the least justify the modern Mauor-teafie ortho use of modern Hquors 28 a beverage. If we were disposed take the of such rabid men as Dr. Fowler, of the New York Advocate, who denounced the Savior, in terms, with a ribaldry and conrseness unseen out of Volney or Paine, on the hypothesis that the aac- ramental wine was wine and not grape-sirup, then we should see our way clear to Seay and defy God, who ordained alcohol as the immedi- ate and inevitable successor of starch or sugar wherever found in solution with water and ex- Pp to the atmosphere. We should see why ‘we mightdeny that the apple, the peach, the nectarine, and ali the cei were from God's hand, because they contain all the elements, and ‘unless restrained by man, pass through ali the conditions of alcoholic fermentation. Now, we say this for the purpose of showing how short- viewed and dangerous such extreme positions ate. There isan almost endiess line of them. Stuart BIill gathered them all into one general- ization, when he said that if there were a God he must be an immoral being. There isno need whatever for such indefensible positions in our warfare upon imtemperance, polygamy, op- ievtse Shatalatnd fat wee r. and the other preci Jesus Christ. ee eeeeere of THE CATHOLIC QUESTION. ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THE ROMAN CHURCH AND REPUBLICAN IDEAS. John Jay, in International Review. To understand the Papal policy on education one must appreciate the difference between our. common schools and those of Rome. It is well to compare them intellectually and morally, in their aims and tendencies, their principles and results; in their influence upon the character and future of the pupils, and their effect upon the respectability, safety, and prosperity of the State. ‘Tnis necessity is forced upon the intel- ligent Roman Catholic fathers and mothers, who know that a Papal decree on mixed educa- tion bas no infallibility, who value American institutions and the rights of their children as American citizens, and who look with parental care to their fitting instruction. . . . Let the Jesuits once become to tho State, as regards éducation, an imperium in imperio,—let them, independently of the civil power, de- ‘termine the character of tho‘studies and the seleotion and approval of the teachers, taking care, as the Syllabus directs, that the schools shall not be in conformity to the will of the rulersor the pre¥alling opinion of the age, but shull be joined to the Roman Catholic faith and power of the Roman Catholic Church,—and on the principle that he who controls the education ofthe country controls its future, they may with reason regard their hoped-for control of. the schools as the capturo of the outworks and bulwarks of the Republic, whose guns shall beturned aguinst all that shall remain of its political and religious treedom. . . . But the antagonism between the Christian teaching given in our public schools in regard to chastity, truth, and justice, ete., and that authorized by the Pope on these points, is, as will presently appear, very striking; and the views of the Roman Court ps to the intellectual education which they approve for their subjects are equally opposed to those ‘of the American people, for what they demand for their children as the future sovereigns of the Republic, Cardinal Cullen, in his evidence before the Ed- ucational Committee, given in their report of 1870, frankly stated his opinion that education should be limited to “ the three R's, the reading of the Scriptures, and the history of the church, ‘Too much education would make the poor dis- contented with their lot, and unsait them for following the plow, using the spade, hammering fron, and building wails.” . . . A view similar to that of Cardinal Cullen was expressed to Mr. Dexter A. Hawkins, of thoNew York Bar, by his Excellency Cardinal Antonelli, who suid “that he thought it better that the children should grow up in ignorance than be educated in such a system of schools as the State of Massachusetts supports. That the essential part of education wus the catechism; and while arithmetic, and geography, and other similar studies might be useful, they were not essen- PS eo 8 Without referring to similar statistics abroad of reformatories and industrial schools, we find at home census and police returns all telling the same story,—that Koman Catholic schools, a3 compared With our own, are propuganda of ‘ig- norance, superstition, vagrancy, pauperism, and crime; that they endanger society by recrulting the dangerous classes; that they burden society with a load of taxution, and that they endanger the stability of our institutions by debasing our civilization. We shall ask presently how far those influences are accounted for_by the char~ acter of their teach! be Mr. Hawkius hasshown from the United States Census of 1870 the comparative number of il- Titerates, paupers, and criminals to every 10,000 inbabitants, produced respectively by the Roman Catholic pxruchial schools, the public-schools in twenty-ouc States, and by the public-schools in Massuchusetts. When they aro arranged for more easy comparison it {s easy to appreciate the objections of Ald. Reardon and his friends, of Cainbridgeport, to transfer their children. from the State schools of Massachusetts to that of Father Scully. ‘TO EVERY 10,000 INHABITANTS. Ilite- Pau- Crim-o| rates. pers. tnals. Roman Catholic schools. 400 410 160 Public schools, 21 States. 30 06 «10 bi rublic schools, Massachusetts. 71 49 nh He also showed that in the State of New York the Homan Catholic parochial school system turned out three and one-half times as many paupors as the public school system. . . To an American who bus not marked the progress of the Roman Catholics in America and their plans as recently developed, the idea of the Jesuits confronting the Republic as it enters ts second century with an intimation that they ‘are aboutto control it willseem strange as he recalls the eventful history of that order, which has won, in turn, the detestation of all nations and the condemnation of tho Church of Home. ‘To-day the revived order appears to be at the head of the Church af, Rome. The dogma of in- fallibility is pronounced the logical result of its existence. Dr. 3anning represents the Jesuits as leading the mission to England to subdue the will of that imperial race. ‘in America we are told that they have capt- ured our great citics; that by their azents they manipulate the press and secure its silence; that they have revised for tho American Ency- clopedia the history of their intrigues and per- secutions; that they have driven the Bible from the public schools, arranged terms with party leaders, secured grauts of Iands and moneys, and ancual subsidies in the shape of charities; that they have begun to ussert the supremney of the Church over the State, and are preparing for greater triumphs... . ‘That there is to be astruggle. and a hard one, for the control in our Republic between the pco- ple constituting the State and the ecclesiastics who represent the Roman Chureh, no rational man who understands the situation can for a moment doubt. In the light of history and rea~ son it seems equally clear, either that the strug- pie is now to be decided by maintaining against the opposition the supremacy of the State in its right of education, intellectual and moral, in 1t8 administration of justice, in the safety of elections from priestly control, and in every other legitimate exercise of ‘sovereignty, or that. if these be yielded through treachery or indifference, the struggle will sooner or later bo transferred’ to the battlefield, and decided in the most terrible of conflicts,—i religious war. THE MARRIAGE RITE. POPE LEO ON MATRIMONY AND DIVORCE. The encyclical letter of Leo XIII. on the nature and sanctity of marriage, and the falla~ cies of those who would reduce’ it from a relig- jous toa merely civil rite, isa very tong docu- ment, occupyingas it docs twelve columns of an Italian newspaper. Some of its points are as follows: “ Be it your principal care that the peo- ple abound in the vrecepts of Christian wisdom, and that they fail not to remember that mar- riage was originally instituted, not by human will, but by the authority and command of God, and under the condition that one man be wedded to one woman: while Jesus Christ, the author of the New Testament, transferred it from a natural function toa sacrament, and attributed to His Church all legislative andjudicial control of itasabinding instrument. Bp it likewise brought home toall that if among the Chris- tian faithful any man or woman be wed- ded without the due sacrament their marriage shall be an unjust one; and, although it may have been contracted in conformity with civil law, yet it can have no more binding virtue than apy custom or rite introduced by civil leg- islation. In. the daily-increasing confusion of opinions this also it is necessary to know, that no man has power to dissolve a marriage rati- fied and consummated between Christians, and that, therefore, those are manifest criminals who, once bound in wedlock, shall from what- ever cause contemplate new marriage before the first one has been dissolved by death, And if matters have reached such a pass that living together shall appear no longer possible, the the Church permits the twain to live the one apart from the other; while, with the use of eich conciliatory measures as they require, she seeks to modify the hardships of separation, nor sresartgt atlanta yeotuge” ass saad wife. Special heed must be taken that marriages be not light cted. with non-Catholics, for it Saraly that minds yarian to ‘be hoped at ce ae subject of religion will agree in other things. Nay, marriages of this kind are clearly to be avoided, if only for the reason that they furnish occasion for a forbidden communication ings sacred, are fraught with peril for the religion af the Catholic spouse, obstruct the proper education of the children, and often lead the mind to hold all religions as equal by the re- moval of the only touchstone of what is true and false. Finally, well aware as we are that no one is beyond the pale of your charity, we commend to your authority, faith, and piety, venerable brethren, all those wretched. ones who, carried away by_lust, and heedless of their own salva- tion, lead a lawless life without the tie of legiti- mate matrimony. In recalling them to their duty put forth your steadfast endeavor, so that, when by your Sulutary interposition they feel they may have acted wrongly, they may in peni- tence for their evil courses be induced to enter by the Catholic rite into marriage that is just.” THE SALVATION ARMY. ARRIVAL OF THE PIONEER BAND IN THIS COUN: ;CULIARITIES, TRY—THEIR PE New York Times. The Australia, which arrived from London ‘Wednesday, landed twenty-seven steerage pas- sengers at Castle Garden, among them seven ‘women and one man, coustituting the advance guard of ‘The Salvation Army,” an organiza- tion of Jay exhorters founded in England four- teen years ago by William Booth, a Dissenting clergyman, and now numbering over 100,000 per- sons. They created quite a sensation in the Garden and subsequently in the streets as they proceeded to the fodging-house that: had been provided forthem. They were all attired in a uniform of dark-blne cloth, edged with bright: yellow binding, and aroun¢,their hata were broad bands of scarlet ribbon, inscribea with the words, “Tne Salvation’ Army,” in larga gilt Jettors. One of* the women, who holds the rank of Captain, the othor six being Lieutenants, carried a flag of blue and red stuff, with a large yellow sun in the centre and bearing the title of the Association. The male member of the band, whose name is George Railton, is known as a Commissioner, and will have charge of the future organization in the United States. He said that the “army” owed its foundation to a_visitmade by Mr.’ Booth to London in 1865. He was struck with the vast umber of persons there who never attend di- vine service and resolved to devote himself to remedying the evil. Gathering around hima band of eernest Christians, he commenced a series of open-air. mvotings, and thus formed the nucleus of what was at first known as the Christian Mission. In 1878 the title of “The Salvation Army" was adopted as being less calcuinted to repel the persons whom it was designed to gather, and who do not like to be spoken of as ncedii mission effort. In September last, acco! ig to a circular fur- nished by Mr. Railton, there were in Eng!und 122 corps, under the command of 105 officers, us for services weckly 148 theatres, music-halls, warehouses, and other buildings, holding at the annual rate of 45,000 «pen-air services and 60,000 indoor services, and preaching to 74,000 persons indoor every Sunday evening and to 2,000,000 in the streets every week. Through its instru- mentality 257 persons have become wholly em- ployed in religious work, and 3,256 others stand ready to speak or. labor in the cause whonever called upon. The “army"..is said to be ap- proved by twenty-three Mayors and mayis- trates, seventeen Superintendents of Po lice, and clergymen... Its funds are raised mainly by. collections . taken at the services. Last year there was raised in this way £12,000, while gencral fund only amounted to. £4,540... Mr. Railton says that he and his colleagues will depend on what they can collect. Their passage. was paid to this try. by. the home association, and this they are expected to refund, They will endeavor to secure hall, so as to begin indoor .services.on Sunday. Mr. Railton said that he had written ahead to Mr. James Gordon Bennett to get out. some posters for him, and be was then about to call upon that gentleman in.regard to thom, He was much put out when informed that Mr. Bennett was in In- .dia. They will also preach in the streets to whoever will listen to them. The band gave a service of song in the Garden yesterday. It was noticeable that some of. their hymns were set to American tunes, such as.‘*Way Down’‘on the Suwanee River” and “Pld Kentucky Home.” ‘They are ull fresh, strong-looking young per- sons of about 30 yearsofage. A gentleman who was formerly a member.of ‘the army in England, and who emigrated to Philadelphin, started an organization on a similar pinerple in that city some time ago, but this is the first genuine dele- gation that has ever come tothis country. They intend to spread themselves throughout the prin- cipal cities of the Union. Mr. Railton explained that the colors of the tag—red and blue—signify the blood and_ purity of Christ, and he was ex- penely. anxious to have the fact Baplished that the yellow had nothing to dowith Orangeism. GENERAL ‘NOTES. It is said that in the Welsh language an infidel ook does notexist. -, : The clergy of Worcester, Nass., have signed a Paper deprecating funcrals on the Sabbath. Religion apparently flousshes: in. Leadville. The Episcopal: parish thers have ‘offered Mrs. Latey, of Omiatia, $1,200 to’ dng for them a year, and her sister, Miss Spoor, $900. °~ An Isle of Jersey lady was lately sent to prison for a month (in default of $59:bail) for persist- ently coughing and blowing her nose close to the pulpit in order to worry the parson. The New York ?itness, the only religious daily paper in the United States, has been obliged to suspend indefinitiy, owing to the advance in pa- per. The Weekly Witness will go on as us ual. ‘The entire Bible has been translated mto the tongue of New Hebrides, and a minister of the Free Church of Scotland has succeeded in in- ducing the natives to pay all the printers’ bill themselves, ~ ‘There appears to be considerable suspicion among the ministers and elders of the Free Church of Scotland that heresy is taught in the colleges of the Church. In two Presbyteries— those of Glasgow and Ediuburg—motions have been made for an investigation. ‘The report of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Maine for the list year shows that there has ‘been un actual loss in membership. The whole number of communicants reported in 1678 was 2,115; in 1879 the whole nuraber is 2.107, In four years the gain has been less than 100, the whole number reported in 1875 baving been 2,014. In_a California church while the pastor was reading the Bible a pistol in the congregation went olf, and in.the confusion the Deacon's hat with thé day’s contribution went off also. ‘Th outraged worshipers were at Inst uccounts in search of that hat. There seems tobe no doubt that the heathen got the money all right for once. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union hold daily 3 o'clock Gospel temperance mect- ings in Lower Farwell Hull, entrance 150 Madi- son street. ‘Tho following are the leaders for this week: Monday, Mrs. M. A. Williams; Tues- duy, Mrs. Milton George; Wednesday, Mrs. Charles Goodman; Thurediy, Mrs. G. Waddell; Friday, Mrs. Isabelia Jones;' Saturday, Mrs. C. R. Van Osdell. ‘The Jewish Trihune thinks it would redound to the honor of St. Louis Judaism if, following the example of a Christian merchant in New York, who has afforded his 193 Jewish cmployés tho opportunity of attending divine service on Sab- ‘bath mornings, the St. Louis congregations would appoint a committee of influential Is- Tnelites, whose duty it would be to ascertain Whether both Christian and Jewish firms could not be induced to grant their Jewish employés leave of absence, say for two hours, every Sab- bath morning. Mr. Spurgeon’s first sermon after his return from Mentone contains & stron reference to the foreign policy of England, Her rulers “have been making bloody wars and oppressin; nations, he suid, and finding encouragement ant consolation in the reflection: “We are a great people; and, by Jingo, do what we like, it will all come right inthe end.” lic added that the: should remember that pride went before 2 fall. “The proudest and the haughtiest of men and nations would yet be brought low, and God's chastisements, when they did come, would be terrible even unto destruction.” ‘The bells of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, were silenced by an_ injunction obtained by an- noyed neighbors, and the Court of Appeals sus- tained the order. The result of that case has led to movements against church-bells else- where. In St. Louis chime in the Congrega- tional Church of the Pilgrims has been attacked by two physicians living close by. These bells are struck every quurter of an hour, the num- ber of strokes numbering 1,116 a day, besides the tune-plaving on Sunday and prayer-meeting vights. The two physicians say, in applying for an injunction, thut the noise is destructive of comfort and dangerous to health. The church officers reply that the chime is a fine one, ant that the complainants would not object if they were not intidels, to whom any Christian sound would be unpleasant. ‘The Congregational papers are discussing the propriety, of adopting a revised creed for the Church. The Advance favors the plan for the following reasons: i @) The same kind of advantages as are ho) for in the now eugerly-anticipated new revision of our English version of the Bible. (@) In the better religious instruction and spiritual training of the people, young and oldy in home, church, and Sunday-school. which might, it is believed, be vastly aided by some generally acceptable and comparatively system- atic and thorough formulation of our beliefs. Always cureful, well-considered indoctrination and training are needed; in times like the pres- ent this is peculiarly wanted. The vagrant, yet vehemently active, ekepticisms of negation must be met by the right affirmation of that which is positively true, 8) The popular use of a fresh Confession of Fatth, suitably Prepared, would be useful in pro- inoting true Chistian fellowship among the Con- gregational churches. ‘Things which are equal to the same thing are quel to each other.” A more men come to_ understand Christian truth as it is, the better do they come to understand each other. The more sure we me of our agreement in holding to the essentials of the faith, the more unsuspiciously and cordially do we learn to bear fratern! with one another in respect to our non-essential variations. (4) Ig we should come into possession of a fresh, well-systematized. and well-enunciated statement of truths and duties derived from God's Word, which should be commonly accept- able, it would, there is reason to believe, tend to awaken in our churches a fresh and widespread enthusiasm in the common work of the true re- gious education. PERSONALS, Leo XU. celebrated his 70th birth ba snet a day on the ‘The Rev. H. 0. Dwight, of Constantinople, is recuperating at Hardwick, Me. Bishop Laughlin, of Brooklyn, has been sum- moned to Rome to pay his ad limina visit to the Pope. Dr. Stephen H. ‘Tyng has entered upon his Sist year. .He ean has been in the ministry for sixty ‘The Rev. Charles Strong, of Randolph, N. ¥.. has purchased an interest’ In the Hoctester Bs? ponent, a religio-temperence paper. The Rev. 7. K. Allen, for many a- yentlst preacher in Ninuesota, ‘has separatod from that sect and joined the Episcopalians. The Hev. Charles R. Treat, of Greenwich, nn., has accepted an invitation to become chaplain of the Seamen's Friend Society at Ant- werp, Belgium. 2 Talmage aska for $1 trom each reader of bis sermons to ald ie rebuilding his tabernacle ‘and Paying of thecyerhanging debt, which amounts Tho Rev. Henry Hopkins, son of President Hoplring, of Willams College, has accepted & call to the Congregational Church, Kansas City, and will be instalicd March 13. The Rev. E. A. Berry, lutea Methodist minister in Toledo, O., has accepted a call from the Con- gregational Church of Pontiac, Mich. Mr. Berry loes not like the Methodist itineracy. The Rev. D. C. Tomlinson has accepted the position of State Agent and missionary in the interest of the Universwlist Church in Illinois. ‘Tue New Covenant gives him a kindly greeting. Miss Emily L. Kellogg, of St. Louis, has con- secrated her life to the foreign missionary work, and will sail for Japan ina few weeks. Miss Mary Brown, of Drury College, Springfield, Mo., has also given her life tothe same work, and will soon go to Turkey. Lord Adelbert Cecil, brother of the Marquis of Exeter, has been preachi: in Edinburg. Ten Years go, when an officer in the Rifle Brigade, je achieved considerable renown as an cxhorter on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, along which he cruised in a boat, with a teat—which he pitched at night—as his Gospel headquarters. ‘The Rey, Robert L. Dashiell, D. D., Corre- sponding Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of the most prominent ministers of that denomination in that vicinity, died on Bonday: evening at his home in Newark, N.J. He had Jong been ill from an internal cancer, and his death had been expected by his friends for months. ae The Rey. A. J. Laughlin last Sunday evening resigned the pastorate of the Christian Church. on Western avenue, on account of ill-health. He has Had several calls lately from other churches, but was compelled to decline them all. He was a good preacher, of unblemished life, and one of the most learned and cultured men in the Christian ministry. He was very much beloved by his congregation. He goes to rusticate in Northern Ohio. The Living Church says that the Rev. T.N. Morrison Jr., of the Church of the Epiphany, in this city; was assaulted a few evenings ago, on Sangamon street, with a view to robbery. Al-- though much injured in the back part of the head by a pair of brass knuckles, our reverend brother developed an amount of “muscular Christianity" which sufficed to “floor” one of his ngsailants and to scare the other; so that tho parson was left master of the field, and tha miscreants got nothing but a pounding. PIOUS HUMOR. It was Hood, we believe, who said that a good clergyman is “ piety parsonified.” A little girl who wrote an essay on the cow managed to state before closing that the “cow isthe most useful animal in the world except religion.” —Rochester Express. “No, parson. I probly never git courage to jine de church. When a poor darky’s spiritual *yiser takes him down in de riber and says, * now capsize thee,’ and den ducks him under, it’ time dat darky looks after hisself. You don’t play none ob dem games on me, old man.” It was a colored preacher who said to his flock: “We have a collection to make this morning, and, for de glory ob heaben, whichever of you stole Mr. Jones’ turkeys, don’t put anything’ on the plate.” One who was there says, “Every ieves niggah in de church came down with the rocks.” “I ghall know better next time,” said Mrs. Keopupwiththestyle. ‘That hateful miliiner told me the hat was something new, and there were four hats just like it in church; but I might have known better. Ieaw the new moon over my left shoulder. Of course I’d be :un- lueky.”"—New Haven Register. A sailor, nearly shipwrecked {n a storm, prayed: “0 Lord, I haven't asked anything of ee for fifteen years, and if you'll get me ashore won'task anything of you for fifteen more.” He was more truthful than many who pray in a storm. Another curious and truthful prayer is reported. A minister was asked to pray forrain. He did s0 thus: “O Lord, the brethren wantmo to pray for rain; but what they first need is top- dressing.” This is the way tho Comstock Christians talk “And so you think your big red rooster. can get. away with my Dick? If you do, lay out your coin and bring him down whenever you like, and I'll fight Dick against anything you've got all through Lent.” “Oh, yes, I know Dick tit weli enough Ash Wednesday, but he hasn't got the wind, sand, and endurance that my red rooster Bee once fats uae ely until ne Friday and $20 says old Dick’ll give your any sort of a racket he’s mind to call for.” There many of our readers who will still re- member the case of Sir John Dean Paul the anker, who, while he was very conspicuous in- deed in_his religious profession, was all the while defrauding his clients; and, having been brought to trial, was sentenced to transporta- tion for life. It scems that he practised in the conversion of other people, as well as of other people's securities; for it is said of him that, having gone on a preaching tour on one occa- sion, into what is known in England as the “Black Country”; that is, the coal and iron district, he was’ mistaken by a collier for the Apostle Paul. The man having run against him on the foot-path, the preacher remonstrated with him, mentioning his name and title, on which the collier asked him whether he had ever received a reply to that long letter which he wrote to the Romans! CHURCH SERVICES. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rey. Dr. Cooper will preach in eyening at the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and Homan streets. —Bishop Cheney will preach this morning and evening in Christ Church, Michigan avenue and ‘Twenty-fourth street. Subjects: “Past Noon” and “A Word to Men Outside the Church About Chicago's Sunday.” —The Rey. J. D. Wilson will preach this morn- ing and evening in St. John’s Church, Ellis ave- nuc, near Thirty-seventh street! —Bishop Fallows will preach in St. Paul's Church, West Washington and Carpenter streets, morning and eyening. Subjects: ‘The Burn- ing of the Magical Books” and “What Is the Church? Who Should Join It?” —The Rev. F. W. Adams will preach morning andevening in St. Matthew's Church, North Clark and Centre streets. METHODIST. ‘The Rev. EB. Sf. Boring will preach morning and evening in State Street Church. —The Rev. J. W, Phelps will preach morning and evening at St. Puul’s Church, Maxwel street. Evening subject: “Self Culture.” —The Rev. Dr. Thomas will preach morning and evening in Centenary Church. = The Rev. Dr. Williamson will preach morn- ing and evening at the First Church, Clark and ‘Washington streets. —The Rev. Erank Mf. Bristol will preach morn- ing and evening in Wabash Avenue Chureb. —The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preach morning and evening at Grace Church, corner of North La Salleand White streets. Morning subject: “Our Father.” Evening subject: “An Evening with Bishop Kent and. Toplady and Their Hymns.”. —Miss Helen Frances May, recently an inmate of tho Indiana State Asylum, will speak at the First Church at 3:30 p. m. on “ The Treatment of the insane, with Some Personal Experience.” —The Rev. T. R. Strobridge will preach morn- ing and evening at the Park Avenue Church. —The Rev. C. G.Truedell will preach morning and evening at the Langley Avenue Methodist Church, corner of Thirty-ninth street. UNITARIAN. ‘The Rev. E. J. Galvin will preach at the Third Church, Monroe and Latin streets, at 3:30 p. m., on“ Many members, but One body.” —The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach morn- ing and evening In the Church of the Messiah. Subjects: “The Work of Dr. Channing” and “St. Patrick and the Christianizing ot Ireland.’ “the Rev. W.R. Alger will preach morning and evening in Unity Church, corner of Dear- born avenue and Walter place. Morning sub- ject: “Things Seen and Temporal, and Tbings Dnseen and Eternal; an argument for spirit and immprtality.” “Evening subject: “Appear. ence and Reality; an argument from analogy in Debalf of optimism.” PRESBYTERIAN. Rey. J. H. Walker will preach at the Re- union Church, West Fourteenth street, near ‘Throop, in the morning and the Kev. Mr. Cort in evening. the the ite, Je H. Walker wil preach in Camp- ‘Park Chapel at 7:30 p. m. dell tie Hev.J. M, Gibson will preach morning and evening at the mud Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. ing subject: —The Rev. Even- » Mission of the Twelve.” HL M.Co! 9 « United Presbyterian Church, corner of Monroe and Paulina streets, morning and evening. athe Forty-dnet Sint Petsne cena Chee ae “=| et i 10:45 a.m." Theme: “Tying. piean eee ‘The Rey. E. B. w Vv. . Hurlbert will preach mot and evening in the Fourth Church, corner of ‘est Wi ‘ton and Paulina streets. Tie Rev. J.T. Burhoe will preach morning and evening at the University Place Church, cor- ner of Dougias place and Rhodes avenue. crete Mah pameecoumreas meg 2 vision andSed wick ee oe DE ~—The Rev C. Perren will preach morning and evening ut the Western-Avenue Church, corner of Western and Warren avenues. ana’ Ber AY gi Barker ‘will preach morning ‘oventry Street Church, Ber of loominguale roads See —The Rey. R. De Baptiste will preach morning and evening at Olivet Church, Boge Taylor street Pourth ‘avenue, —The Rev. A. K. Parker will preach morning and evening at the Centennial Church, of dincol and Jackson streets. one —The Kev. E. O. Taylor will preach morning and evening at the Central Chu at No. gare ere —The Rev, B. F. Jacobs conduct a t meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Baptist Tabernacle, Nos, a and oe Raa aventa —The Hev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach m and evening at Evangel ‘Church, on Dearborn SttGhte Nev. 0B. Vossbureh will preach morn- = v7. J. B. Vossbu: Preach morn- tng and evening at the Millard Avenue Chureb, Lawndale. eee, Revie Never will pretes morning and ning at the First German Church, corner of Botine Her. J. B-Sintt will proach morning —The Rev. J. B. Smith will preach morn! and eveni in the First Norwegian Church, corner af Noble and Ohio streets. : —The Rev. Joba Ongman will preach morning and evening at the Fist Swedish Church, of Oak street, near Sedgwick. —The Rev. J. B. Jackson, D. D., will preach at 10:45 w. mn. at the Hyde Park Church. —The Kev. C. B. Roberts will preach morning and evening ut the Englew Church, near Stewart avenue. 6 Rev. J. F. Howard will preach morning and evening at the Downer’s Grove Church. ~The Rev. George Pierce will preach morn- ing and evening at the First Evanston Church. - ~The Rev. S. Baker, Jr., will preach morning and evening at the Austin Church. —The Rev. Dr. Ives will preach morning and evening at the Temperance Hall, Oak Park. ~-The Rey. H. Happell will preach morning and evening atthe Brighton Park Church, cor- ner of Thirty-cighth street and Blanchard ave- nue. —The Rev. George C. Lorimer will preach morning and evening at the First Chureh, cor- ner of Thirty-first street and South Park aye- nue. Morning subject: “ Santification of the Sabbath.” Evening subjéct: * Divinity and Hu- manity in Providence.” —The Rev. J. J. Keelar, of Morgan Park, will preach at the Mission, No. 431 Ogden avenue,, morning and evening. 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 Communion at8a.m. Choral morning prayer and celebra- Bon ‘of she Holy, Soniaunian, at 10:30 a. m unday-school and children’s service at3 p.m. Choral evening rayer at 7:30 p.m. me ~The fifth of the ses ial_course of Lenten sermons at the Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoria strects, will be given by the Rey. William H. Knowlton, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, this afternoon. The service will commence at balf-past 4o'clock. —The Rt.-Rev. Bishop S. 8. Harris, of Michi- gan, will officiate at St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets. Communion at $a. m. —The Rt.-Rev. Bishop McLaren will adminis- ter the rite of confirmation at the morning serv= ice at Trinity Church, corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue. The Rey. I. A. Holland will preach inthe evening. Subject: “To Skeptics on the Proof of Immortality.” Communion at a. —tThe Rey. W. H. Knowlton will preach morn- ing andevening at St. Andrew's Church, cor- ner of West Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. John Hedman will preach morning and evening at St, Ansgarius’ Cl |, on Sedg= wick street, near Chicago avenue. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, D. D., will preach morning and evening at Grace Church, on Wa- bash avenue, near Sixteenth street. Commun- jon at 8a. m. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will preach morn- ing and eve atthe Church of the Ascen- sion, corner La Salle and Elm streets. Com- munion at 8 a.m. —tThe Rev. Charles Stanicy Lester will preach morning and evening at St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will preach at St. Mark's Church, on Cottage Grove avenue, cor- ner of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 e. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. J. D. Cowan will preach morning and evening at St. Stephen’s Church, on Johnson street. between Taylor and ‘twelfth. —The Rey. Luther Pardee will \orn— ing and evening at Calvary Church, on Warren »avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue. Communion at 7:45 a. m. —The Rev. ‘I. N. Morrison will preach morn- ing and evenin, at the Church of the Epiphany, on Throop strect, between Monroe and Adams. Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rey. W. J. Petrie will preach morning and evening at the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoin and Belden avenues. —The Rev. James E. Thompson will preach morning and evning at St. Thomas’ Church, on Indiana avenue, tween Twenty-ninth and ‘fnirtieth streets. Communion at 8 a.m. ‘Townsend, Superintendent, will con- duct services morning and evening at St. Luke's ‘Mission, 967 and 989 Polis street. —The Rev. Daniel F. Smith will preach in tho morning at Grace Church, Hinsdale. —There will be services morning and evening at Emmanuel Church, La Grange. —There will be services mornin and evening as St. Mark's Church, Evanston. Communion at a. m2. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. C, H, Everest will preach morning and evening in Plymouth Caurch. —The Rev. E. F. Williams will preach morning and eveningin the South Church, Drexel avenue. —The Kev. F. A. Noble will preach mo and evening at Union Park Church. —The Kev. G. H. Peeke will preach morning and evening at the Leavitt Street Church, corner West Adams street. —The Rey. E. P. Goodwin will preach at the First Church, commer of Ann and West Washing- ton streets, morning and evening. —The Rey. Arthur Little will conduct the services at the New England Church, corner of Dearborn avenue and Delaware place, morning and evening. —The Rev. B. F. Leavitt will preach morning and evening at the Lincoln Park Church, corner of Sophia and Mohawk streets. —The Rey. C. A. Towle will preach morning and evening. at Bethany Church, corner of Paulina and West Huron streets. —The Rey. Evarts Kent wil preach morning and evening at the Clinton Street Church, corner of Wilson street. “4 —The Key. John C. Goddard will preach in the evening at the Western Avenue sion, corner of Polk street. —tThe Rev. John H. Parr will preach this even~ ing, at the Centrul Park Mission, corner of West street and Albany avenue. . CHRISTIAN. Barton W. Johnson will preach in the morn- ing in the church corner of Western avenue and Congress street. President Clark will preach in the evening on_“ The Preaching for the Times.” —President Clark Braden and the Rev. G. W. Sweeney, pastor, will conduct the services to-day atthe First Church, corner of Twenty-fifth street and Indiana avenue. —The Rev. Dr. Mathewson will preach at the Advent Church, 91 South Green street, morning and evening. ‘The Rev. Charles H. Caton, pastor of the Second Christian Church, Oakley avenue, corner of Jackson street, will conduct the services. Morning subject:' “Saying and Doing—The False and the True in Religion.” Evening: “Things that Hurt,""—a lecture to the young. —The_ Kev. J. H. wagner will preach in the South Side Church, wood boulevard, in the morning, and the Rev. Irving A, Searles in the evening. Subject: “Christians.” ‘UNIVERSALIST. ‘The Rev. C. E. Tucker, of Aurora, Il.,. will preach morning and evening in the Church of ee Medbemer, corner, of Sangamon and West ‘ashington street '—Tho Rev. W.H. Ryder will preach morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, on Michigan avenue, neur Eighteenth street. Evening sub- ject: “Is Salvation Conditional or Uncondi- tional?” NEW JERUSALEM. —The Rev.L. P. Mercer will preach at Herah Hall at J1 o’clock, on “* The Sucrifice of Christ MISCELLANEOUS. Elder Forscutt will prench on “ The Millen- nium” to the Church of Latter-Day Saints, at 213 West Mudison street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:20 p.m. —A Gospel temperance meeting will be held in the chureh corner of Noble and Onio streets this afternoon. —The Disciples of Christ will meet at 4 p.m. at No. 229 West Randolph street. —Mrs. Richmond will speak tg the First Society of Spiritualists at the church, Monroe and Laflin streets, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. In the fore- noon the: spirit of William Ellery Channing will control. Dr. Alex Duncanson will speak at the Wash- ingtonian Home at 3 p. m. —The Rev. A. Monroe will preach mo and evening at Union Tabernacle (Independent), corner of Ashland avenue and Twentieth stree! Evening subject: “The Baptism of Christ.” —The Liberal Reunion will mect at 2:30 p. m. at No. 213 West Madison street. Subject: “Ye Chinaman Having Been Persuaded to Come, Should He Be Inducéd to Go?” —The Hev. George C. Needham will preach in the morning in the Chic Avenue Independent Church, corner of La Salle strect. —On account of the absence of the pastor, there will be no services in the’Free Religious Church Hall, corner of Vincennes and Cottage Grove avenues. —A Spiritualists’ and Mediums’ m: will bet Held? ‘by Dr. Wiggin at 3 p. m. at Raating ‘West son. street. —The following meetings will be held for rail- road men: Kinzie Sid Canal streets, at3p.m. To be led by. W.J, Midler, Pullman Palace-Car Company, 4645 State streot, at 2:20 p.m. To be led by E. F. Crowen, Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad. @H South Canal street, at 7:45 p.m. To be lea by B Osgood, of the Chicago & Northwestern tailroad. —Deacon Willard will hold Bible meeting at 3p. m, in the lecture-room of the First Baptist Church, corner Thirty-first street and South Park avenue. Subject: “Elements. and Evi- dences of the Christian Hope.” nald Hoss and John M. Carnie, the Scotch evangelists, will lecture in Gospel Hall, %°South Desplaines street, at 3 p. m., on “Protestantism, deethrenisn and Boclesinatical Democracy.” Gospel meeting in the evening. Bol. George R. Clarke wlif conduct, a Gospel meeting at Pacific Garden Mission, corner of Van Buren and Ciark streets, this evening, com- mencing at 7:30. All are welcome. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ~ BPISCOPAL- March 14—Fifth Sunday in Lent. March 15—Twenty-ninth Day of Lent. March 16—Thirtieth Day of Lent. March 4—Thirty-first Day of Lent. March 18—Thirty-second Day of Lent March 19—Thirty-third Day of Lent. _ March 20—Thirty-fourth Day of Len’, CATHOLIC. March 14—Passion Sunday. March 15—Feria, March 16—Feria, March Ii--St. Patrick, B.C. March 18—St. Gabriel, Archangel. March 19—St. Joseph, C., Spouse of the B. V. M., and Patronof the Universal Chureb, Basch Seren iors of the B. V. M. (from LADYE MARY. Thou wert fair, Ladye Mary, As the lily in the sun; And fairer yet thou mightest be— ‘Thy youth was but begun. ‘Thine eye was soft and glancing, Of the pure bright blues And on the heart thy gentle words Feil lighter than the dew. ‘They found thee, Ladye Mary, "With thy palms man thy breast, Even as thou hadst been praying pattnine hour of rest. eee 6 cold, pale moon was s! On thy cold, pale check; And the morn of the Nativity Had just begun to break. They carved thee, Ladye Mary, With thy plans ue mm thy breast, it ims upon thy In the chancel all alone. And I saw thee when the Winter-mosn. Shone on thy marble cheek, ‘When the morn of the Nativity Had just negun to break. But thou kneelest, Ladye Mary, ‘With thy palms upon thy breast Among the perfect spiri In the Land of Rest. ‘Thou urt even as they took thee At thine hour of prayer, Saye the glory that is on thee From the san that shineth there. ‘We shall see thee, Ladye Mary, * On that shore unknown, A pure and happy Angel, in tho presence of the Throne. ‘We shall seo thee when the light divine Plays freshly on thy cheek, When the Resurrection-moi Has just begun to bi —Dean Henry Alford. INDECISION. So many dreams and fancies creep Around the vision sweet and rare, In the long vigils that [keep While framing a fond lover's prayer ‘To that one maid whose radiant glance Seems brighter far than all the rest— ‘The one of whom [ say, “Perchance Her gathered life will make me blest""— ‘That, after all, I seem to thin! ‘Why should her beauty be mine own? Beneath my touch the light might shrink ‘That shines so fair and pure alone. ve thought for weeks—am thinking yet~ I wonder if yon glittering star So high in Heaven’s cther set a Had not much rather gleam afar. I wonder if the glowing rose Is happier on a maiden’s breast ‘Than when it in the garden grows, A lovely blossom ‘mid the rest. ‘You say, perhaps, The wisest. way Is just to give the maid a voice.” Itshe sald “Yes”? Day follows day— In future years would we rejoice? ———— Dangerous Pranks with the Mouth. ‘The mouth is not to be played pranks with, but it often isso. The heedless practice of putting small articles in the mouth, either for the pur~ pose of holding them fors few moments or for playing some trick, has been frequently attended with very serious consequences. Yet the prac- tice is.common, especially among young women, whomay beseen holding pins between theirteeth while dressing. Medical attendants in hospitals have frequent cause to find fault with female patients ofa humble rank for putting pinsin their mouth when they have occasion to remove ane part of their dress. hildren of both sexes seem almost to have an instinctive fancy to put playthings in their mouth, and sometimes therefore give no end of trouble to parontsand nurses. Notwithstanding every precaution, distressing accidents occur. A few years agoaboy swallowed a smull piece of brass chain, with which he had been_amusiny himself by putting it into his mouth. The bit of chain lodged in the stomach, and, though medi- cal aid was resorted to, the poor child lunguisbed. and died. Only afew weeks , a3 Mentioned in the London Lancet, a young boy in Devonshire died from having allowed asmail tin whistie to slipgrom bis muuth into the trachea, where it stuck, and baffled attempts at removal. Death took place from inability to breathe. Remarkable instances are related of needles which had been accidentally swallowed findi their way, point foremost, through the sides ol the stomach, and thence to the exterior surface of the body, where they are drawn out. itis all achance, however, that they make thelr escapo in this harmless manner, und aecurdingly: there is no excuse for women thoughtlesly, it may be perversely, putting ovedies in thelr mouth. ‘hose who do so run a great risk of paris! in considerable agony. Occasionally femule luna= tics in their mad freaks unwittingly kilt them= selves by swallowing needles which they man- age tosecrete. Acase bas been mentioned to us of a most extraordinary degree or mad pers versity. A female Junatic hud such a morbid craving for swallowing small parcels of needles which from time to time she. procured that at length she destroyed herself. At a post-mor= tem examination ns many—if we mistake not— as 390 needles, in a less or more stute of corro= sion, were found lodged in various parts of her body. In another case that has no recorded, the great French surgeon, Baron Dupuytreny extracted 254 needles through the skin, to which they had found their way from the stomach. In the uarrative of memorable cases col nected with Guy's Hospital there is acurious story of a sailor named John Cummings, who, in asplrit of yulgar brag, and mostly when half intoxicated, swallowed clasp-knives. In 1700 he had seen a French juggler perform the trick of assumedly swallowing knives of that kind at a public entertainment. The feat was so cleverly performed that the spectators—or at least somo of them—were under the belief that the knives vanished down the throst of the Jupaler, ine stead of being put by slvight-of-han soma of his dress. The sailor, in bis simplicity, was one of the credulous sort, and to astonish his messmates he began to swallow clasp-knives, He at first only swallowed four, which, fortu- nately for him were expelled, and no inconven- fence ensued. He thought no more af knife- swallowing for six years. In March, 1866, when gt Boston, he was one day tempted, while drink- ing with a party of sailors, to boast of his former exploits, and was ready to repeat hia perform- ance. A small knife was produced, which he in- stantly swallowed. In the course of that even- ing he swallowed tive more. The next morning crowds of visitors came to see him, and in the wallow eight knives more, making {n De fe paid dearly for his frolic; for he was seized with constant vomiting, and pain in the stomach, ‘Taken to a hospital, he was brietieanl ous, medic- al treatment relieved, as he Imagined, of all the knives he had swallowed. But in this he would appear to have been mistaken. Portions of Knives undissolved remained in his stomach. ‘The amount of relicf, whatever it was, did not cure the poor wretch of his folly. When atSpit- head in iber, 1805, and somewhat tipsy, he resumed his beastfutness of being able to swal- low knives, and to amuse the sip’s company swallowed nine clasp-knives, some of them of a rge size. Again he became tll, and was fn the hands of the ship's surgeon for several months, during which portionsof knives were discharged. At length he was admitted us a patient at Guy's Hospital in 1807, and again he came to the hos- ital in 1808. There he remained, sinking under is sufferings, until March, 1800, when he died in a state of extreme emactation. An incident is told of the late Mr. Brunel, the eminent English engiocer, who planned the ‘Thames Tunnel and the Great Western Railway. One day while diverting a child with tricks of sleight-of-hand, By ‘causing a half sovereign to mysteriously disappear and reap, , & stun ning disaster occurred. The trick consisted in adroltly concealing the coin in his mouth, and to bring it out at his ear. All at once, before be was aware, and to bis dismay, the half sovereign stipped down into his gullet. Me tried to cough it up without effect. There it stuck. Every surgical device was tried to get hold of it with- outavall, It became evident thatif the coin could not be dislodged, fatal results would en- sue. It was a matter of life and death. In the dire dilema into which he had needlesly brought himself, Brunel's presence of mind did not desert him. He devised a wooden structure to which he could be strapped head Sera in the hope that the half sovereign would fall out of his throat by the foree of gravity. Itwas a painful experiment, bat life was at stake. Ho was fixed to the machine head downumost, keep- ies his yale one To tie ines pestle relict co! from, lurking-place, rolled to the Heo. —— Permanency an Object. In troubles with the Kidseys or liver a cure iy worth nothing radi Kidney-Wort assails the causes of te disease by gently acting on the stomach and bowels, Foe piles it is better than any Kaown Reis,