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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL; 18,- 1880—TWENTY ‘PAGES. RELIGIOUS. Enforced Dissolution of the Society of Jesus-in France. re Interesting Review of the Career of Loyola’s Fol- lowers. ® Fronde’s Recent History of John Bunyan, the ‘‘ Inspired é Tinker.” The First of Allegorists and Story- Tellers in the Light of Mod- ern Research. Bagster’s Bibles—Origin of One of the Best-Known Editions of the Scriptures, General Notes, Personals, Sunda; Reveries. Services To- Day, Ete. THE REFINER. *Tis sweet to know that he who tries ‘The silver takes his seat Beside the fire which purifies, Lest too intense a heat— Raised to consume the base alloy ‘The precious metals, too, destroy. "Tis sweet to think how well he knows The silver’s power to bear ‘The ordeal through which it goes; And that, with skill and care, He'll take it from the fire when fit, ‘With his own hand to polish it. *Jis blessedness to know that ho “#' © The work he has begun ‘Win not forsake till he can see . The work well done: ‘An image by its brightness shown ‘The perfect likeness of his own! . ‘Butoh! how much of earthly mold— Dark relics of the mine, Lost from the ore—must he behold! How long must he refine Ere in the silver be can trace ‘Tho first faint semblance of his face? ‘Thou Great Refiner! sit thou by, ‘Thy purpose to fulfill. Moved by that hand. beneath thine eye, + And melted ba will, O may thy work Torever shine Reflecting beauty pure as thine} BIBLE REVISION. CUARLES H. REED ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cmcaco, April 16.—A short time ago a friend asked me how I could consistently as- sert that the twenty-fourth chapter of Mat- thew referred to the end of the woud, in view of the statement in the thirty-fourth yerse, which reads in the common English yersion thus: “ Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulGilled.” I replied that I thought “gen- eration” did not give the correct meaning of the original Greek, The original Greek word translated “generation” in the common version is “*genea.” The chief and original signification of “ genea” is “race,” “stock,” “fanily.” See the sixth and last edition of Liddell & Scott’s Greek Lexicon, p. 312. it, “genea,”- also signifies generation in cer- tain connections, As in English, so_in Greek the same word has various and differ- ent meanings-or significations to be deter. mined by the phrase or context.in which it isused. In Jeremiah, viii, 5 the Septna-. int has the word “ genea,”.which is trans- lated *\ family” in.the commion version. If there signifies race or tamily of. people. — - ‘The New Testament was written in Hel- lenistic Greek,—that is, in Greek learned and used by Jews. The ‘erudite and celebrated Greek scholar, Henry Alford, D.D., says that “genea” in ‘Hellenistic Greek signifies a race or family of people. -See his ye earned note on Matt., xxiv., 34, in his sixt! and last edition. of the. Greek New Testa- ment. - “rue Jast word in the verse in the original Greek is “ genetai,” which is rendered in the qmmon Version “be fulfilled.” This is in- correct. It slionld be translated “take yloee”? “happen.” ‘come to pass,” or “be doue.” The verse should be rendered thus: “Verily L say to you, This race (or family) of veople. shall not pass away till all these Things shall fake pince,” é 1 hich e race‘ or family of people to which Christ referred was the Jews. The Jews, .as a race of people, liave not passed aw but are scattered throughout the known world. ‘Thus translated, this verse furnishes strik- ing proof that the race of Jews will exist to the end of time, and that Christ referred to the end of the ‘world when He uttered the words of the twenty-fourth chapter of Mat- thew. CHARLES REED. A FAMOUS BREVIARY. THE SCPERB ILLUMINATED PRAYER-BOOK CHERISHED IN THE DOGES’ PALACE. . Harper's Magazine. 5 3 Chief among these treasures of art is the breviary cherished in the old palace of the - Doges at Venice as a veritable pearl of price, Placed under glass, it is open at one page, and every week the leaf is turned, so that if the art student has 110 weeks to spare at Venice he may hope in that time to make himself acquainted with all’ the miniatures. Even this ismueh more than was once per- mitted to the ppblic. The old custodians of San Marco cherished the breviary ds the very apple of the eve, and it was considered aworthy entertainment for Kings and for- eign potentates,to turn the leaves and inspect the pictures of the priceless manuscript. No one of less importance than a King or a foreign guest whom the Republic delighted to honbr was permitted so much as to catch: 8 glimpse of the cover; So that for years it remained a hidden treasure, almost Jost out of the memory of man, or menitioned now and then by some fortunate lover of art % whom a fleeting glimpse had been accord- 4, it acquired a fabulous splendor, and was spoken of as being covered with gold en- Niched with precious gems. all was bequeathed to the Library of San arey by Domenico Grimani, son of an old trician family of Venice, and one well za own in the history of the Republic. His, ¥ ther was Antonio Grimani, some time loge of Venice, who was the son 0! ie Grimani aud Caterina Loredano his eis, however, it was committed to the t ‘arge of Alessando Vittoria for the decora- ion Of its exterior, and was returned. by him sumptuously bound in crimson velvet, with pee ornaments of silver gil having on ie side a medallion bearing the head of ‘pardlual Grimani, and on the other ‘one esd that of his father, the Doze Antonio. short time after, for its greater safety, it JES deposited in the’I'reasury. But in 1797 facopo Morelli, Librarian of San Marco, ob- ined, after three months’ uninterrupted we 3, decree. from the Government, by ifs ich the breviary was transferred to the Hine it belonged, and where it y ns. snoning is certainly known with regard to : ae and conjecture drawn froin inter- rat evidence supplies the place of any accu- quae information on the subject. Dr. Waagen eottiders itan indisputable fact that it was Taned for Mary of Burgurdy, while the poi in Zanofto thinks all inte: evidence pis clearly to Pope Sixtus IV. os the pannel lanier of the wo! However that an be, both the distinguished personages to «fg om the ownership isattributed died before completion, the breviary having certainly been written in or after the year 1454, : Fi That more than one hand was employed in 's adornment is sufficiently evident, for, Bui + some of the miniatures are distin- Suisl hed by a nobleness of design and finish of execution worthy of the pencil of Mem- fae hers ity, Tecble and confused, and 2 Worthya plac ee weakness, seem scarcely Breviary consists of 681 leaves of very - them. of his religious struggles could wake aspecia fine white parchment, on which. are written the Psalms, the lessons of the rubric, the offices of the Virgin and_the saints, the service for the dead, ete. The margin’ of each one of these leaves is enriched by ex- quisit iluminations of every variety,—ara- besanes of gold and silver and various colo amidst which.are placed flowers and fruits of all kinds; every sort of creature that creeps on land, orflies in the air, or swims in the sea; shell- insects, _ birds, and beasts;’ fai 103, genii, and ” fabu- lous . monsters;’ charming little —Iand- scapes; representations of men and costumes of yarious nations; scenes of life in town and country, in palace and cottage,—all_on 2 iningte seale, and all painted in that delicate poilftille style so exquisit and marvelous in Its results. difficult hot to linger over each one, so charming are they, and so well do they repay the closest examination. Here. we are brought suddenly into the interior of a jeweler’s shop, where a woman, seated, is weighing out gold; there a lovely young girl is leaning over a baleony; a ‘gardener is plucking fruit from his tree: a pair of lovers are sailing ona Jake on which swans are swimnning: a hemnit is praying in the wilder- | ness toan image of the Virgin; an old peas- ant womun is hobbling painfully along on crutches; a road winds through a mountain- ous country, with a glimpse of seain the distance; an old peasant woman approach- ing, bearing on Wer head a wicker-cage of chickens, under cne arm a cock, under the other a basket of.egzs; a young girl is wash- ing her hands at a fountain in the middle of a square in a Dutch village. JOHN BUNYAN. THE WONDERFUL LITERARY PERFORMANCES OF THE “ INSPIRED TINKER.” London Atheneum. That John Bunyan is one of the peculiar glories of English literature is a proposition not likely to be disputed by any competent judge. French literature can boast of no one in the remotest degree resembling him, while his analogues.in German, though not so hard to find, are neither so ‘characteristic nor so intrinsically remarkable. Bunyan is, and is likely to remain, at once the type and the most successful example of the vernacular author, with his literary outfit reduced to the simplest terms and his literary performances, exalted to the highest point. After all prej- udices arising from theological and political sympathies, from early associations and traditional estimates, are, as the convenient ‘Americanism has it, discounted, he still re- mains the first of allegorists and one of the first of storytellers, with an almost unrival- ed power of affecting the reader’s sympathy py touches of Nature and influencing his imagination by vivid treatment of local peculiarity. Although some attempts have been made (by Southey especially) to show that Bun- yan’s persecutions have been much exag- _gerated, it was reserved for Mr. Froude to point this out convincingly. Certainly no one can read “Relation of Imprisonment” without seeing that almost all the authorities concerned, from the committing magistrate .to Justice Keeling, about whom very hard words have been used in this matter, were anxious to let the man alone, and would have let him alone if he would have allowed e It was their duty, as Mr. Froude faints out, to administer. the law, and the law was perfectly explicit in the first and probabiy—for it must be remem! red that the harsh enactments of the Clarendon Code were not yet in existence—not wholly unreasonable. In his actual imprisonment, too, Bunyan enjoyed an extraordinary amount of liberty, and was able both totinker and to preach with hardly any hindrance. ‘As to the vexed point of the soldlersiitp, of Bunyan, Mr. Froude has made _a remar! of considerable shrewdness. He’ points out that after the soldiering Bunyan speaks of himself as having the highest reverence for priests, altars, vestinents, and so forth, which would certainly not-be likely to sur- vive, or result. from, a sojourn in the New Model, oreven in the laxer divisions of the Parliainéntary army, while it might very well have been encouraged by a eawpaign under the King’s standard. : cee Ouly once is Mr. Froude crotchety, and that is in hits extraordinary denunciation of the second .part of the “ Pilgrim’s Progress.” "This hé considers “feeble,” “ wanting in simplicity,” almost “mawkish.” . “ Fair ladies and love-matches suit ill with the sternness of the moral. ¢onilict- between the soul and sin.” So we are to give up Mercy and Mr. Greatheart, and: the company at KMlessrs. Gaius’ and Mansgon’s .houses, and the unequaled biography in’ miniature of - Mr. Fearing, and that enigmatical- damsel Much- ‘Afraid, and aj) the other charming touchesof this exquisit second part,—the one second part which, as against Mr, Froude and all comers, we shall maintain is not a failure. Indeed, - the a polit of view of Mr. Froude’s criticisin is altogether wrongly chosen.. Not only. is the second part not out of Keeping with the first, but it isa necessary comple- ment of it. Bunyan—who in. the very thick point of his wife’s phssical welfare, who, when his judges told bim tomind his calling, replied that he could perfectly well mind it and preach as well—was the last person to adopt an. ascetic or unpractical view of re- ligion.“ Ie does not appear to have had the Jeast diffienlty’in making the best of both worlds, or: the least tincture of the delusion that love, and good cheer, and pleasant com- pony: and home affections, and even, sofaras he understood them, intellectual delizhts, are, in themselves, sinful and wrong. When he thought tip-eat and bell-ringing vices it was under certain, altogether special condi- tions, both external and internal, and wemay be quite certain that he knew what he was about when Christiana and her train were set to make an Odyssey to accompany the Iliad of Christian. Again, Mr. Froude is perhaps a ttle se- vere in what he says of the Holy War,which if any other man than Bunyan had written it would have been esteemed a_ masterpiece. But he does, full entice to Mr. Badman. 9 wonderful piece of character sicawing: ase, cuted with the exactness of the most diligent workmen and the vivifying touch of the great masters. If he does not point out quite sufficiently how important Bunyan’s function was from the merely literary side, that is doubtless because the moral and theo- logical aspect of it posseses for him a some- what absorbing interest. It is, however, dif- ficult to overrate this importance. The whole literary bent of the generation among which the latter half of Bunyan’s life was spent was towards an admixture of foreign elc- ment and style in the language and litera- ture. Often, no doubt, this wasa most valu- able admixture, and i resulted in Jiterary work .of almost unsurpassed excellence in more than one branch. But, the presence of such authors as Bunyan, with his origin and model the English Bible and his follower Nefoe, kept alive, side by side with the pure: ly literary developments of the schools of Dryden, Addison, and Pope, a. fashion of writing ‘and speaking not altogether unliter- ary, and yet racily ‘vernacular, and far re- moved from all suspicion of pedantry or affettation. To the immense - popularity of the “Pilgrim’s Progress” must be assigned no small share in the preservation unbroken df the historical continuity of the English langiiage, an advantage ‘which our literature js among European literatures almost, alone in possessing. Of course, nothing could pos- sibly be further from Bunyan’s conscious object than anything of this. kind. But his extraordinary genius, working on its knowl- edge of the ‘Biblical ‘yocabulary and style and the spoken language of his own day, turned out work which was at once literary and popular. No doubt the moral part of the man had a great deal to do with this. Un- like his great contemporary Milton, whose personality obviously repels all commenta- tors, however valiantly they may pretend the contrary, Bun attracts every one who reads him. His vt id drawing, his sar- eastic side-hits, his inexhaustible nomen” clature, his occasional touches of “poetry and grandeur, are hardly wore remarkable than the ever-present milk of human kind- ness which wells up in his pages. Ile is the most amiable of theologians 2s well as one of the most original of theological writers. —————— JESUITS IN FRANCE. A REVIEW OF THE SOCTETY’S RE: EXPERIENCE, London News, March 31. The Journal Oficiel published yesterday two decrees—the first dissolving the Society of Jesus in France, , the second requiring other unauthorized congregations to submit their statutes to the Government with a view to obtaining lega! authorization. ‘The Jesuit establishments are to be closed and vacated within three months, except in the case of educational institutions, which may remain open until Aug. 31, 1880. «Failing to obtain. the consent of the Senate to M. Jules Ferry’s Clause 7, the Government, at the instance of the Chamber, have fallen back upon the in- tolerant legislation of a ptevious period. The dispute is hardly intelligible to the outside lace, ° “one.” public in some of its most serious bearings. For, although it isone of the commonplaces of politics to say that history repests itself, one , generation is seldom willing to profit by the “experience of those that went before it. Thus, now there is an agitation in France for the expulsion of the Jesuits just as there ‘was 110 years ago. In 1773 the three Courts of France, Spain, and Naples, having previ- ously expelled the Jesuits from their terri- tories, obtained from Clement X1V. a brief dissolving the Order of Jesuits altogether. This measure had become necessary owing to the popular outcry which had arisen against an Order which professed to expound the canons of true Christianity independent of, and indeed contrary to, the decisions of ecclesiastical councils and the decrees of the Vatican. As everybody knows, the founder of the Order of Jesus hadoriginally intended the Jesuits to be simply lay missionaries. Ignacio Y. Loyola wasan officerin Ferdinand Vs army, who, having been wounded in both legs ut the slege of Pampeluna in 1521, and thereby incapacitated from military service, devoted himself in a pious ecstacy to the concerns of the Church. Paul LiL., how- ever, who was Pope at the time, did not much faney the new Order, and would only license it when Ignacio had amended Its original statutes so that its members might be required to take the vows of poverty, ghastlty, und obedience. Ignacio, of his own free will, added a proviso that the members of the Order should never exceed sixty; and that in their corporate capacity they should submit themselves entirely to the injunctions of the Holy See. The Jesuits were thus merely uncloistered monks, who wore no particular costume, but mixed with other ™men on equal terms, and strove to set an ex- ample of godly living, Qne miglit describe them as Roman Catholic Quakers, remember- ing that the garb wor by the first disciples of George Fox differed only in the sobriety of its colors from that used by most men in the seyenteenth century. So far as is known, the early Jesuits were very good men indeed, who by their principles and general style of living offered an edifying contrast to the demoralized nobility of an extravagant Court. It was their important mission to show that men may practice all the Christian virtues without shutting themselves up in monasteries or putting on priestly attire; and it was because their conduct was so exem- plary that they soon waxed powerful. Suc cessive Popes granted them privileges and immunities, till gradually, as the Order got enlarged, people who had no religious avoca- tion discovered that it was a pleasant thing to be a Jesuit, as it gave admission into an in- fluential set held in. general reverence. The Quakers might, perhaps, have become power- ful too in England if they had made celibacy their rule, and devoted themselves to the dis- interested work of supporting the Established Chureh; but in this case they would probably have come in time to commit just the same mistakes as the Jesnits did, and they would have been made to pay just the same pen- alties. The Jesuits began, to go wrenk when they entertained the idea that they owed a fuller obedience to. the authority of their General than to the lawsof thecountries where they had established themselves, or even to the Church as represented by the Pope and the Sacred College. ‘The reasons by which their policy was guided were by no means without weight; for they alleged that the Pope, holding temporal power, might be tempted occasionally for dip! lomatic reasons to waive points of doctrine; whereas they,— the Jesuits,—having individually surrendered alltheir worldly goods, had nothing to con- tend for but the enforcement of abstract truth and perfect’ morality. In proportion, how- ever, as their aims were lofty, so. was their teaching impracticable. They wished for an ideal Pope who should be sinless, for Kings who should rule in accordance with the dictates of this high Pontiff, and for nations who shou!d be governed wholly by Divin Jaw, yielding thé obedience of zealots to it. In fact, they ‘dreamed of converting all kingdoms into theocracies. Monarchs grew tired of these objects before their subjects did, and there is no more vulgar error than to suppose the Third French Republic is the first Govern- ment that ever revolted against this phase of priestly guidance. We find Kings battling with the Jesuits long before it had occurred to the masses that these bigoted defenders of the faith were enemies of pro By and by, therefore, the Jesuits- had to stretch a point or two, and the purity of their tenets got besmirched. The uncomproinising.spirit which-had at first made them strong ceased to maintain them in the oder of sancity; and they laid themselves open’ to the damaging. charge of acting on the theory that “the end justifies the means,” It was especially. sus- pected that they were tolerant towards the sins of great people who were in a position to.) help them, and under these’ circumstances they sank into the placeaf ordinary intrigners who were merely plotting for power, without. much caring, how they obtained it, There can be no doubt that the popular view as to the ends of Jesuitry in the last century wasin the main a true‘one; and, with some modifica tions, itis tenable now. ‘Their most formid- -able assailant was Pascal, who attacked them in the immortal . Provincial Letters,” writ- - ten to defend his Jansenist friends. ‘The war ‘was resumed by. the Encyclopedists, They found that anumber of men claiming to be enthusiasts in religion were promulgating & shameful code of indulgence as regards social viees in order to marshal forces against the advocates of scientific research and: political freedom. A man might be the worst of prof- ligates; a woman might be abandoned to im- morality, but, provided the pair acted in reso- lute hostility. towards the “new ideas” of the day, they were sure of their salvation, Such was the maxim imputed by Voltaire and others to the Jesuits, and which, after render- ing the latter odious, turned them into ridi- cule and was the cause of their downfall. Nowadays it ts not contended that the easuistry of the Jesults finds an easy place of repentance for all private sins; in the matter of absolving offenders they are, indeed, per- haps severer than ordinary priests, for in self-defense they have individually reverted to the highly moral canons of behavior which originally made them respected. MODERN JESUITRY does not recruit its adherents from among evil-doers, but from men of tried principles and assured physical fortitude. ‘The novitiate for admittance into the Order is prolonged and severe. At the same time it Is an uncon- tested fact that the Society is collectively sworn to resist progress and reform by every means of stratagem or fair fighting which zealotry ean suggest. An ordinary Roman Catholic might meet a Liberal half-way and agree upon some modus vivendi, but in their schools, pulpits, and newspapers the Jesuits preach a war to the death against all institu- tions which have not their origin in the Roman Catholic Chureh, and which are not fostered by it. Just like the Socialists, they want to recast society in a new mold,—or, rather, in an old one which has been mended, ~and the name of “Black Revolutionists,” which Proudhon applied to them, is one to which they are fairly entitled, and which they would possibly not much care to dis- claim, Still, they are not to be fought by their own weapons. Neither M. Ferry’s re- jected seventh clause, nor the prohibitor; legislation of an earlier period now invoked agniust them, could be so fatal to them as the cultivation of an enlightened and tolerant gpicit which makes no exception even against en 5 BAGSTER’S BIBLES. ORIGIN OF ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN EDI- TIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES. London Bookseller. Some fifty-five or sixty years ago, Samuel Bagster, then a thriving bookseller and pub- lisher in the Strand, discovered the want of a small pocket reference Bible, and set about supplying the want. At that time the Bible trade was a-close monopoly, not only in En- gland, but also in Scotland and Ireland. In England, the King’s printer and the two uni- versities alone were permitted to print Bibles. Sir David Hunter Blair had a Similar right, for Scotland and Mr. Grierson for Ireland. Butit had been settled that the patent did not extend to Bibles printed with notes. Mr. Bagster, having decided upon the plan of his pook, set to work by engaging some compos- itors and turning one of his top rooms into a printing-office. He was himself a good Biblical scholar, but he also had the as- sistance, we believe, of Mr. Greenfield, and being ‘intimate with Dr, Lee, of Cam- bridge, bad the benefit of his advice when needed. FromDr. Lee he got the well-known notto, “ Multe-terricolis Ungue calestibus una,?. which may be rendered, “On earth there areemany languages; in. Heaven only ‘The references were wally sélected verified by himself; the work went on and all vere, on doubt, printed sheet b sheet, as composed, id the type distributed. Those were not days when large editions were printed by machinery. Hand-presses only were in use, and 1,000 was considered 2 good edition, 2,000 a very large one. ‘The paper, thin, opaque, and tough, was probably made by John Dick! who, having given great attention to chemis- try and to the manufaeture of paper by ma- chinery, was pushing his way toward tho fanie which Bible came out, and was an immediate suc- cess, It was different from any other. ‘There were diamond, pearl, ru aninion 24mo, Bibles in the market already; but they. were all thick, dumpy volummés, they: hed -no references. ‘The smallest; reference Bible was Cambridge: medipm octavo, and royal octavos of the other two preas- eae bub no pocket referente Bible, “Bagstera was a thin, compact voluiue just suited for pocket use. Another. favorable circuuistance oveurred about this time. | A violent contro- versy about the wse of: the apoatypha in Bibles aud the ble Bortety decided: not to circulate any contnini 8 apocryphe. It was then discovered ;thaq! in the Bibles in egminon use there were naumerous references to the apocryphal hooks, fn the Cambridge medium ‘Bible contained’ ref- erences to the prayer-book also. This finished matters. A standing order was made that the. Bible Society would not only not. cireu- late the apocrypha, but would not circulate any references thereto. Jt wasat this time that Bagster’s Bible made its appearance, and for a minister to be seen with one in his ocket was suflicient to mark him as a Protestant and an evangelical; both he and his congregation were convineed that the quotations inade were genuine,—that they were the poe Gospel, and, unlike those from the Oxford and’ Cambridge Bibles, could not be tainted with heterodoxy. An- other matter greatly conduced to the success: of these - Bibles,—the binding,- Hitherto all the Bibles had been bound with open backs; stiff, unyielding, easily broken, and, not adapted to He 0} Mr. Bagsterintroduced a flexible tight back; and by sewing the sheets with a very thin thread, or with silk, secured strength while preserving flexibility. The modern Turkey morocco, now so common, was then but little known. We have been informed that he not only used the Turkey grain, but for some years prepared seal-skins, and that most of the covers so much admired for the “ pin-head ” grain were really seni- skin and not ‘morocco. Many of the books were most daintily “ blind-tooled ” by hand. He did not approve of ellt Bibles, and it was not until some years after his death that gilt Bibles were seut out from his establishinent. Singularly enough, the authorized presses did not for some years make any attempt to supply the want pointed ont by Bagster. It was not till 1886 that the Oxford Pearl refor- ence Bible appeared, and about eighteen months later a similar edition from the ueen’s printers, Since then there has been P lenty of competition both in England and 0 ter atiainin 4 old After attaining a good old age, Samuel Bagster was gathered S his fathers, and his sons reigned in his stead. Theyin turn have given place to his grandson, Robert Bagster, Who now carries on the bustness, GENERAL NOTES, A debt of $60,000 was removed from the Mt. Vernon Church, in Baltimore, Md., by the Easter offerings of the members and their friends. The ground ‘and buildings cost $400,000, In the opinion of the Alianceevery “min- ister ought to be able to write his sermon away from his study with nothing but liis Bible, his Webster’s Unabridged, and his of Soulé’s Synonyms at hand? ; : sae Goldwin Smith says that popular prosper- ity in the United States begat eOmtnatars, which begat philanthropte.sentiment, which begat. Universalism, which begat a mitiga- tion'of the doctrine of eternal punishment in the orthonos churches,’ This is a new gen- ealogy. Last Sunday the Rev. J. D. Cowan, Rector of St. Stephen’s Churth in this city, pre- sented for confirmation to.the Rt. Rev. Bishop McLaren a class of twenty-three candidates. This: makes thirty-four persons In all who have reecived the sacred tite in this parish within the. past six months. Prof. Swing says: “When aman of ma- ture years reads the Bible in the cars you may quote him-as yery much of an igno; ramus, or else as having:bad taste. 1t looks as though he had never.reed the book at home, or as though he liad nothing to Jearn from the scenes along the road.” Prof. Smith, whose Biblical article in the “Encyclopedia Britannica” excited so much hostility in certain thealogical circles in Scot- Jand, will have three lengthy articles in the eleventh volume” of ‘the -“ Encyclopedia.” These will treat of the'Prophet [lageai, the Hebrew. ‘langnage, andthe epistls to-the Ho- brews. The theologians of Edinburg will now have to mount. their greatest guns and batter away at the Professor again. : ' Tt’ does not. appear.‘likely that the coming Methodist General Conference will take any action concerning moulification of the system ofitineracy. ‘Thus faronly one annnal con- ference, the New York East, has recom- mended any change, -and, although the con- yiction is rapidly gaining ground that a change spenuttttn longer pustorates is de- sirabfe, the ‘friends of the movement do not believe. that a very.large minority of General Conference would vote for it. Among the advertisements tn a well-knewn Scotch newspaper this was recently found: “Ohi degenerate church! isthere within you no Nehemiah—no Zerubbabel, son of Sheal- teel? Are we given ‘over bound to Tatnai and the Apharsachites?” The point of this fervent Bppeal is said_to be that the Estab- lished Church should rouse itself up for a more earnest and -determined struggle against disestablishment, the tide of which at present it resists feebly and incffectually. In France, military chaplains are to be dis- ensed with at the end of this year, The Roman Catholics have: not yet decided what todo, but in all the garrison towns where there-is achurch the Protestant ministers will go personally to the barracks to invite the suldiers to attend service on Sunday. There are_ sixty-four garrison towns which have no Protestant place of worship, In these, ministers on special mission will ask permission of the Mayors to receive the sol- diers in one of the hails of the mairle. The General Conference of the Latter-Day Saints just closed at Plano has reassigned Elder Mark H. Forseutt to Chicago, and_has lensed Castle's Hall, 619 to 625 West, Lake street, first block west of Union Park, for their future services, to commence on Bun- day at 10:30 a.m, and 7:30 p.m., on which ‘occasions (D. V.) Elder Forseutt will preach. Itis designed to convert this hall froma theatre to a hall for worship, lectures, and church sociables. ‘The Randolph street cars pass the door. During the 173 years of its existence, the Congregational Church of Madison, Conn, has had only six pastors, none of whom ever left the church after being settled over it until death took them away. In the Village of Over, England, the Congregational minis- ter who recently died had been sixty years in the service of the same church, This chureh was his first as well as his only charge. He was buried under the shadows of some tall poplar trees which he planted fifty years ago. John Marshall was this faithful and contented pastor’s name. Mr. El. Kery, 2 native of Sainaria, edu- eated in England, and a returned missionary- physician, iseovered & Synagogue Record, kept at ancient Sychar, that, reaches back hundreds of years before Christ. He learned that the priest in Christ’s time was named Shaffeer. On searching the Record for some possible note of Jesus’ visit, he found in- stead the following important testimony to his crucifixion: “In. the nineteenth year of my priesthood, and the 4,28ist year of the world, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, was crucified at Jerusalem.” The fortieth anniversary of the Chicago Bible Society will be held on Sunday even- ing, the 16th inst., in the Second Presbyte- rian Chureh, corner of Michigan avenue and ‘Twentieth street. Sermon by Prof. Francis L. Patton, D. D. The report of the Execu- tive Committee will be made and officers elected for the ensuing year, This Society has sold and distributed ‘over 400,000 copies of the Scriptures, and has by its colporteurs visited over 175,000 families, and offered_and supplied such ‘as were in need the Bible without money or price during the past forty years. The meeting should be largely at- tended by our Bible friends. PERSONAL. ‘The Rev: Dr. Sage, of Sycamore, IIl., bas received a call to the Universalist Church at Oak Park. The Rev. Dr. Humpatone, of Albany, de- clines his call to thé Second Baptist Church of this city. The boy -prescher, Thomas Harrison, is said to be insane, caused by an excess of re- ligious zeal. ‘The Rev. J. E.: Bissell, of Highland Park, has received 3 eat the Congregational Chureh of Newton, It is reported’ that the Cardinal's hat which Pope Leo had reserved for Dr. Russell, late President of Maynooth Coilege, will be given e eventually. obtained. ‘The | |, Still worse, that. { rather sharp reproof. iv: that intimation of the Pope’s intention has already been received by Dr. Macl{ale. The Rev. S. Parmlee, D. D., of Oswego, who ig now In his 99th year, is said to be the oldest Congregational! minister now living. John, Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, has just.outered upon his 90th year. | Iie is be- e the oldest living in the Roman Catholic Church. pute Brelate Messts. Moody and_Sanki i thelr mestines Ir SE Louie ae tag ee for cee and Feeracett They go by boat to Femitore Sy visit Texas and the Indian Mr. James Thomas, Jr., of Ri has subscribed 95,000 toward a mo ot a library building for Richmond College, as s anemprial tg the late Revs, Jeremiah B. the United States was, hore ewidel Ween and esteemed thar ve or his deathe n Rev Dr: Jeter at the time When a clergyman withdraws from the Protestant Episcopal Church ‘and enters an- other communion, if he returns he must spend three years as a lay communicant be- fore he can resume ‘his ministry. An effort 45 16 be made fo have oul ganen amended, leved it work: justice to many and injury to the Church. _— i The Rev. G. H. Ford, born in S and a graduate of the New York Union Theslosieal eminary, expects to return to_ Syria May 1. He-has recently had charge of the. Presby- terlan Church of Ramapo. N.J., which has grown under his labors from twenty to 100 Bendbers: Ae four years, besides having a je e mount for the co. fee tere ; 6 colored people One of the oldest native Indian mission- aries. of.the Northwest, the Rev. J. J. En- megabaugh, an ordained minister of_ the Protestant Episcopal Chureh, is now in Balti- more, accompanied by Minogeshig, a con- verted Chippewa Chief. The present small building at White Earth, Minn., holds only 130 persons, and is inadequate to meet. ths growing feeds of the. church. Ald ito larger one is solici y nmega- baugh fand.his companion. a A London correspondent of the New York Evangelist writes that Lord Cairns, the Lord High. Chancellor .of . England, and Lady Cairns are constant attendants at the meet- ings atthe “headquarters” of the “Salva- tion Army” in White Chapel street, London. Lord Cairns believes in_ evangelizing the masses, and last summer, during the recess, when in Scotland taking his vacation, he preached oceasionally, and was taken to task yy certain High Churchmen and newspapers for “assuming asa layman the functions of aclergyman.” WORLDLY WISDOM. There are a great many persons of both sexes who are like the Catholic young ludy who said that she had been introduced to every clergyman in the city but one, and he was “Pater, peccavi.” Here isa small triumph for Mr. Darwin: “Why, my dear,” said a lady to her friend, “where did you get-that beautiful monkey 2” “Oh!” was the reply, “thy husband travels a great deal, you know, and he gave me the monkey that mightnot forget him in his ab- sence,” The Dundee Free Presbytery, Scotland, have, by a vote 15 to 18, adopted an, overture to the General Assembly recognizing the hand of God in the Tay Bridge disaster, and asking the Assembly to devise means for re- moving temptations to Sunday traveling and traflic. One speaker said that he regarded. the disaster as a judgment of God upon mer- cantile trickery-in building a bad bridge. Alittle girl was drawing froma card a pattern too difficult for her, consequently was making sad work of it, getting. very tired, Her mother told her she had “better lay that aside and take a more’ simple.one. She turned with great, earnestness and said. “Maina, didn’t. God. when Ie created the world, finish one thing before He commenced on another?” She was told. that He did. “Well,” she said, “then I’m going to.” ASWELL POSTED AS HIS PASTOR. An Attica correspondent sends the follow- ing to the Lapeer Clarion: Ince—Baptist chapel, Saturday covenant meeting. Persons present, the church mem- ‘bers and one belonging’ to the society,—pre- sided over by the pastor. An_ interesting meeting: followed. as this was the Jast cov- enant-with the elder. < Pastor—* And now, brethren: and sisters ag this Is the last covenant meeting I expect to be with you, you will allow me to talk with great plainness.” | Here followed some “Brethren, will you deen, upthe Sunday morning services and Wednesday evening rayer-meeting ? I will take a vote on it” Vote almost unan- imous: - “ Now then, who wil! you appoint for leader?” Deacon F. chosen, ~ Presently, with great deliberation, rose the stately old’deacon. “Taccept’ with reluct- ance the: place assigned me;'my health, as you-know, is not good. Idon’t like to be out nights: but I will try to do my duty, and T hope the brethren and sisters will do theirs. But, brethren, be assured of one.thing, if when Ido come and find only two or three of you here [shall cease coming Yegularly.”” “Pastor, with reproof in histone, and a self- satisfied twinkle in his eye, “Have yon, dea- con, forgotten the promise of our Divine faster, where two or three are gathered to- gether.in my name, there I ain in: the: midst to own and to bless.” 1 thought as I looked at the glowing and egotistical countenance of the zealous pastor, and then at the dis- comfited deacon, He has got you now, sure; but not so.. The deacon came to his feet be- fore the minister.sat down, and, eyeing him sharply, sald: “Elder, those two or. three spoken of by the ‘Master Iesan find in my house, and thus the blessing may De secured. svithout traveling through the inire.”, The minister kept his fect some time, but not one ‘word could he reply. CHURCH SERVICES. / BAPTIST. ‘The Rov. J. T. Burhoe will preach this morning and the Rev. George C. Lorimer this evening at the Firat Chureb, corner of Thirty-first street and South Park avenue. Evening: subject: * Bi- ble Difficulties.” Zone Kev. N. F. Ravlin preaches at No. 431 Ogden avenue morning and evening. —There will be preaching morning and even- ing at the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets. —There will be morning and evening services atthe Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty~ third street. —The Kev. E. B. Hulbert will preach morning andevengng in the Fourth Chureb, Washington and Paulina streets. '—The Rev. J.'T. Burhoe will preach this even- ing in University Place Church, corner of Doug- | gtrect, near Chica fas place and Rhodes avenue. —The Rev. J. Rowley will evening in the North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick aipeets —The Rev. C. Perren will preach morning and evening in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue. ~The Rey. W. H. Parker will reach morn- ing and evening in the Coventry Street Church, corner of Bloomingdale road. —The tev. R. De Buptiste will and Sven Oe in ine Church, near Taylor street 3 enero will be proaching thls morning at the South Church, corner of © and Bonaparte streets. _ —The Rev. A. K. Parker will preach mornin and evening in the Centennial Church, corner 0! Linoaln and Jackson streets. inne Hov. E. 0. ‘aylor will preach morning and evening at the Central Church, No. 20 hard strect. Ortnere will be services at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. in the Tabernacle, northeast corner of Wabash av- gnue and Van Buren street. ent ne Rev. W. A. Broadhurst will preach morn- Hing and eavening in the Dearborn Street Church, corner of Thirty-sixth strect. —The Rev. J. reach morning on, then a youn man,.| tothe Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, and | ing and evening in the First Church, corner of Ann and Washington streets. 3 Ann and Washit forning subject: 9 Wheat.” Eve a and the siemens Evening: “Jonah —There will be services, with’ s o> pial of Borde Young, this: morning at the Lin- cou eark Church, corner of Mohawk and Sophia —The Rev. Arthur Little will preach mé and evening in the New England Guureh, Dest. betnoito, GA. Towlo wil —The Rev. .. Towle preach morning and evening in Bethany Churel ee ing in Bet y ‘h, corner Paulina —Tho Rev. E. F. Williams will preach mornin; and evening in the South Church, corner Drexel avenue and Fortleth streot. —The Rev. Evarts Kent will preach morning and evening in the Clinton Street Church, cor- “Ber Prof. Hopicins will preach —Prof. Hopkins reach morn! \deven- ing at the Lawndale Church. ing sol eet METHODIST. The Rev. H. W. Thomas will preach in th Contenary Church, West Dfontoc' street, Thoar Morwan, at Ii a. m. and 7:30 p. m, —The Rev. G. R. Van Horne will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second strect, at 10:30 a. m. Subject: “The Faultiess Christ.” The Rev. W. C. Willing will preach at Rey. Dr. Williamson will preach in the First Cbhureh, corner Clark and Washington streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30p. m. Morning sub- ject: “The Plan of Sulvation as the Methodist Church Understands It” Evening subject: “How and Where Was San Created?” —The Rev. F. P. Cleveland ‘will preach this Mmorniag and the Rev. Robert D. Sheppard this evening in Grace Church, corner of North La Salle and White streets. Evening subject: “ Till the The Weev. J. W. Phetps will —The Rev. J. W. Phetps will preach mornin: and evening in St. Paul's ‘Chureb. comer of Maxe wel: street and Newberry avenue. Morning sub- ject: “The Resurrection.” Evening, *Prison- ers of the Bible." —The Rev. Frank M. Bristol will preach this morning in the Wabash Avenue Church, corner of Fourteenth street. —The Rey. W. C. Willing will preach this morning and the Rev. R. B. Pope this evening in Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, nearTwenty- fourth street. * —The Key. R. D. Shepard will preach at Grant Place Church, corner Larrabee street. —The Rev. W. X. Nind will preach morning and evening at the Ada Street Church. —The Rey. T. C. Clendenning will preach morning and evening in the Langley Avenue Church, nearEgan avenue. —The Rev. E. M. Boring will preach morning and evening in the State Street Church, corner of Forty-seventh street. —The Rev. F. P. Cleveland will preach this evening in Grant Place Church, corner of Lar- rabee street, A —The Rev. 8. H. Adams will preach morning and evening in the Ada Street Church. —The Kev. T. R. Strobridge will preach morn- ing and evening in the Park Avenue Church, edrner of Robey street. —The Rey. J. M. Caldwell will preach morn- ing und evening in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Wilcox. —The Rev. Adam Miller will preach this morn- ing and the Rev. George Chase this evening in the Fulton Street Church, corner of Artesian avenue. —The Rev. F. A. Hardin will preach morn- ing and evening in the Halsted Street Churchgy near Twenticth strect. —The Rev. J. H. Alling will preach morning and ovening in Simpson Church, corner of Hick- ory and Bonfield strects. —The Kev. William Craven will preach morn- ing and evening in the Winter Street Church, |. Forty-second street, near the Stock-Yards. —The Hev. S. T. Shaw will preach morning and evening in the Dixon Street Church, Dixon street, near North avenue. “The Rev. F. Porter will preach morning and evening in the Lincoln Street Church, corner of Ambrose street. —The Kev. J. W. Richards will preach morning and evening in Emmanuel Church, corner of Harrison and Paulina streets. —There will be morning and evening servicesin ae Jpckaon, Street Church, corner of Oglesby street. z —The Rev. I. H. Kellogg will preach morning and evening in Asbury Chapel, Kossuth street. —The Rev. J. Sf. Wheaton will preach morning and evening in the Northwest Church, Western avenue, neur Milwaukee. —The Rev. W. T. Hobart will preach morning and evening in the church No. #6 Milwaukee avenue. —The Rev. Robert Proctor will preach morn- ing and evening in the church at Englewood. ‘—The Rev. O. H. Cessna will preach morning and evening in the church at No. 663 West Indi- ana street. PRESBYTERIAN. Tho Rev. W..A. McAtee preaches at the Engle- wood Church at the usuul hours. —The Rev. H. M. Collisson preaches at the Fullerton Avenue Church. —The Rev. Henry:'T. Miller will preach In the Sixth Church, corner of Oak and Vincennes ave- nues, at 10:30 2.1m. and 7:30 p. mi. —The Rey. Arthur, Swazey will preach in tho Forty-tirst Street Church at 10:45 a, m. —The Rev. J. Monro Gibson will preach this morning and Prof, F. L. Patton this evening In the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenuo and Twentieth street. Prof. Patton will deliver the ‘annual,.sermon in behalf of the Chicago Bile Society. ie) .. —The Hev, Arthur Mitchell will preach this morning ix the-First_ Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street, and this evening at-the Railrond Chapel, No. 715 Stute street. “There will _be-preaching this morning and evening in the Third Church, corner of Ashland ‘and Ogden avenues. —The itev. F. L. Patton will preach this morn- ing in the Jefferson Park Church, corner Throop and Adams stree! ts. ‘Cfho Rev. E. N. Barrett will preach morning ‘and evening in the Westminster Church, corner .of Jackson und Peoria streets. —The Rev. James Maclaugnian will preach morving and evening in the Scotch Church, corner of Sungamon and Adams strects. —The Rev. J. M. Worrall will preach tnornin; and evening in the Elghth Church, corner o' Washington and Laid strects. —Tho Rev. J. H. Wulker will preach this morn- ing and the Rev. W.C. Miller this evening in the Reunion Church, West Fourteenth, near Throop street. —The Rey. J. H. Walker will preach this evening in the Campbell Park Chapel. ie Rev. W..T. Meloy will preach morning in the United Church, corner of. Communion in the and evenin: Monroe and Paulina streets. morning. : —The Rev. J. Monro Gibson will preach at the Old People’s Home, corner Indiana avenue and Thirty-ninth street, 103 p.m. —The Rev. Mr. Forsyth, of Englewood, will preach in the morning at the Fifth ‘Church, cor- ner Indiana avenue and ‘hirtieth street. No evening service. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral SS. Petor and Puul, corner of West" ‘Wausbington and Peoria streets, the Rt.-Rev. W- E. MeLuren, S. 'T. D., Bishop; the Rev. J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. Choral morning rayer and celebration of the Holy Communion Tou fm. Sunday-school and children’s serv- ieo3 p.m, Choral evening prayer 7:30 p. m. —tho Rey. Frederick Courtney will officiate morning and evening at St. James’ Churc, cor- corner of | morning and evening ut St, —The preach morning and | and evening at ourth avenue, } nue. ner Cass and Huron streets. —The Rev. Willlam Fisber Lewis, of Pecks- kill, N. ¥., will proach morning and evening in Emmanuel Church, La Grange. '—The Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate morning and evening at Grice Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. —The Rev. R. A. Holland will officiate morn- ing and evening at Trinity Church, Michigan avenueand Twenty-sixth street. —The Rey. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morn- ing and evening atthe Church of the Ascen- sion, North La Salle and Elm streets. —The Rev. William H. Knowlton will officiate Andrew's Church, corner of Washington and obey strects. —The Rev. John Herdinan will officiate morn ing and evening at St Ansgarius’, Sedgwick igo avenue, ester will officiate mor ning Paul's, Hyde Park. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate morn ing and evening in St. ‘Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and ‘Thirty-sixth street. —The Rev. J. D. Cowan will officiate morn- ing and evening at St. Stepnen's, Johnson street, between Taylor and ‘twelfth. The Rev. Luthor Pardee will officiate_morn- ing and evening at Calvary Church, Warren av- enue, between Oakley street and Western ave- Rov. C.S. —The Rev. T.N. Morrison, Jr, will officiate morning and evening at the Church of the Yptpbuny, Throop street, between Monroe and dams. Adams. Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate morning and afternoon at the Church of Our Savior, cor- ner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. °F The Kev. James E. Thompson will officiate morning and evening at St. ‘Thomas’, Indiana Byenue, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. There will be morning and eventn} services at St. Luke's Mission, No. 937 West oli street. The Re’ F. Smith will officiate this morn- ing at the Good Shepherd ‘Mission. Lawndale. “The Rev. F.L. Luther, of Racine, College, A. Henry will preach morning { i; officiate morning and evening at St. Mark's and evening ‘in Evangel Church, Rock Island | Church, Evanston. SI , Dearborn strect, neur Forty-seventh. Car snore, J.B. Vosbureh will preack morn- ing and evening in the Millard Avenue Church, awndale. * Lavine Kev. Mr. Meyer will preach morning and evening in the First German Oburch, corner of Bickerdike and Huron’streets. The Rev. 3. B. Sunth_ will preach morning ‘and evening in the First Norwegian Church, cor- ner of Noble and West Ohio streets. ‘The Rev. John Ongman will preach morning and evening in the First Swedish Church, street, near Sedgwick. = il be moraing and: evening services che Hals between Forty- in the petted ptroes: 1c safes --second streets. fest ane to 'B. Jackson will.preach morning and evening in the Hyde Park Chureh. —The Rev. C. B. Roberts will preach morning and evening in the Englewood Church. CONGREGATIONAL. Charles Hall Everest will preach Plymouth Church, ‘Pwonty-Afth ant The Rev. this morning and evening in Michigan avenue, between Twonty-sixth streets. “The Kev. F. A. Noble will ing and evening inthe Union ner of Ashland avenue and -The ov: G. ater will preach 4 morning and even! in. the Lea tree! Saurese corner of Leavitt and West Adams streets. vB, P, Goodwin will preach mora: | “V+ id ra achthis morn- | and Ta ark Church, cor st Washington street | aod evening in the First REFORMED EPISCOPAL. juts! Rev. Dr. Cooper preaches at the Churcl oftie Good Shepherd this evening. Subject: 5 { Bronze.” 2 . Ree iey oD. ‘Wilson preaches at St. John’s Church, Ellis Bvende, fee ‘Thirty-seventh , morning and evening. stremhe Mev. , W, Adams will preack morning and evening at St. Matthew's Church, corner of North Clark and Centro strects. Morning sub- Jeet: “Our Heavenly Father's Sfen.oriols” ‘evening subject: “ Jebolakim. King of Judah.’ Fallows rwill, preach moreing, and SI le ineges eines K West Wi on ani rpenter sireets, Morning Washington vy Power of te Future”; evening: ““The Power of Things Invisible.” Tithe Kev. Charles 3.- Gilbert will preach morning and evening in Christ Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. CHRISTIAN. ‘The Rev. Irving A. Searles will preach in the South Side Church, Oakwood boulevard, at 10:30 m.and 7:30 p.m. 3forning subject: “ Wheat Evening subject: “The Two Books.” —The Rev. B. W. Johnson will preach morning Church, corner Indi- gna avenue and bay Rertird street, Morning subject: “The Great Partnership.” “Evening: “Saving Faith.” F, Barnett will preach this morning and Mrs. Thomas and others will conduct a Gospel temperance meeting this evening in the chtrch. corner of Western avenue and Congress street. —The Kev. Charles H. Caton will Ioan quorn- | ing and evening atthe Second C! Oakley avenue and Jackson street. seiisries TEMPERANCE. i @_ Woman's Christian Temperance Union holds daily Gospel meetings at 3 p.‘m. in Lower Farwell 150 Mudigon_ street, at 3 p. m. Lenders for this week are: Monday, Sirs. ae Williams; Tuesday, Mrs. L. S, Rounds; Wednes- Ss. st 7, Mrs. DELhs a Miss H. S, Hood. ee f —The Key. L. P. Mercer will preach in the Washingtonian Home Chapel at 3 p.m. —Mrs. J. A..Kanouse will conduct a Gospel temperance meeting, corner Noble and Obie streets, at 4:30 p.m. urck, corner | The Rev. Brooke Herford preaghes nt the - Chureh of the Messi ‘Morning su! Do- ing and Boing.” Evening: “Thomas Paine: One of America’s Neglected Heroes.” . —The Rev. W. C. Gannett, of St. Paul. will reach this morning and evening in Unity b ureb, corner of Deurborn avenue and Waltor place. 3 .—The Rev. E. I. Galvin will preach at 3:38 . m. in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and lin.strects. UNIVERSALIST. ‘The Rey. W. H. Ryder will officiate mornipa and evening in St. Paul's Church, Michigan ave- nue, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Morning subject: “The Proplitfatory rfumansic- ritice in" Burmah.” Evening: “The Parable of the Wheat and Tures."" 2 INDEPENDENT. ‘The Rev. George C. Needham will preach in the Chiengo Avenue Church, corner La Salle streot, morning and evening. Morning subjecty “Believers’ Baptism.” Evening: ‘Past, Pres ent, and Future Fools.” Prof. T. S. Boston, wits bis Jubilee Quartet, will sing in the evening. —The Rev. G. C. Truesdell will preach this evening at the Burr Mission services, beld ip the Germun Lutheran Church, corner of Bushnell streot and Wentworth avenue. LUTHERAN. The Rev. H. Reck will preach in Trinity Church, corner Dearborn avenue and Eris street, at 11 a. in. W JERUSALEM. ‘The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach this morn: ing before the Union Swedenborgian Church, Hershey Hall. Subject: The Resurrection 0! the Lord.” SPIRITUALIST. ‘The First Society meets at the church corner Monroe and Latin streets at, 10:45 a. m..and 743 p.m. Morning subject: “The Eye of the Soul,” by Spirit Emanuel Swedenborg. In the evening the subjects will be chosen by the audience. Services close with an impromptu poem. + MISCELLANEOUS. Dr. Matthewson will preach in the Advent Christian Church, 91 South Green street, morn- ing and evening. Seats free. — Liberal Reunion,” 213 West Madison street at 2:30 p.m. Seats free. —The Disciples of Christ wil! meet at No. 29 West Ranuolph street, nt + P. m : —The Chicago Free Religious Church meets at Applebee Hail, corner of: Thirty-fifth street and Vincennes avenue, Cottage Grove. Service at Ila. m., by James say a pelecees Subject: “On Some Supposed Evil Providences.” Ey lecture at 5:30 p.m. Subject: “King Lear.” —Ruilroad men’s mectings will be held as fol- lows: Canul and Kinzie, led by Jon Morzison, at3p.m.; No. 4645 State street, led by J. A. Buker. of the Chicago & Northwestern, ut 3:30 Rat No. 6} South Canal street, led by Joho. forrigon, at 7:45 p.m. All railroad men and their friends are invited. —Col. George R. Clarke will lead the Gospel meeting at the Pacitic Garden Mission in the evening. —Donald Ross and John Curnie, the Scotch evangelists, will conduct’ mectings at Guspel Hall, No. 9% South Desplaines street. | Afternoon gubject: “ Precious Blood of Christ"; evenlog: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Thow Shalt Be Saved.” x —Deacon Willard will hold a Bible meeting Ae 3 p.m. in the lecure-room of the First Baptist Chureh, corner Thirty-firststreot and South Park avenue. 2 CALENDAL FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. April 18—Third Sunday after Easter. April 23—Fast. CATHOLIC. ‘April 18~Tbird Sunduy after Easter; Patronag of St. Juseph. April 19—Feria. April 20—Ferla. April 21—St. Anselm, B.C. D. April 2- Soter.and Caius, PP. MM. April 3—St. George, M. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, M. * THE LEPERS’ HOME. Fearful Scencs in a Hospital in Has vana. Correspondence Philadelphia Times. Tlavana, April2.—A matter which, from - its pecullar horror, I am not likely teadily te forget, was a visit matte to the Hospital de San Lazaro, at Havana, the home, of tht lepers. This ancient and terridle disease finds many victims among the low-caste Cubans and the poverty-stricken Chinese, though it reaches its gaunt fingers inte better society sometimes. Leprosy ia either inherited or induced by poor food, and especially by the eating o! stale fish. It seems to be fish-eaters’ disease, in fact, seldom prevailing at any great dist ance from the sea. Leprosy, as seen in the West Indies, is simply a dry-rot. The sou) of a man is imprisoned in his body Iong after he is, to all intents and purposes, dead, and, with all his mental faculties intact, ht must endure the gradual falling apart of hit earthly tenement, awaiting with what’ phi} osophy he may the hour when the cancerous agentsshall touch a vital point. This may not oceur for many years; it may happen oL the morrow. ‘The traditions of the hospita do not point to any individual case of cure whereby the patient may gain ever so faint a hove. It might well be inseribed -ver the portals “Let those who enter here Tetve all hove behind.” ‘There were five of us In the party which drove out through the hot streets toward forbidding suburb facing the sea,—Dr. Bur. ges: ‘an ‘American resident physician and United States Sanitary Olicer; an invalid doctor from Iartford; and three journalists. San Lazaro is located, just where, ina more modern city, we might look for a dig an¢ prosperous hotel. It’looks out across a few low Ponses upon the fair prospect of the har- bor’s mouth, and the sen sends its unfettered waves straight in from the northward, dash- yup the spray almost to its walls. The psse ‘was founded by a_ philanthropic Span- ard within a trifle of two hundred yearsa! jiberal and was restored in 1878. A quest of neighboring property has always: afforaed an aiuple revenue for its support, but within a short time the Government has converted a portion of its property, and, as one of the officials of the institution re- marked, matters. were “not so good.” In form the hospital is a large quadrangle, cen tering nponachapel. A high wall divides the walls of the men and the women. We entered the male department first. The lead ing peculiarity of the first patients ‘met loit- ering in the corridors was a clay-like appear- ance of the skirand a depression or, cavipg- in of the nasal portion of the face. The nos- trils and lobes of the ears were globular, and boles were formed over the eyebrows. The yoices of the men were nearly all changed, sounding indistinct and painful. Patients were bidden to approach, who hobbled to us upon the stumps of Jimbs long since robbed, by the process of disease, of feet and ankles, and they held out for our inspection miserable remnants of arms, shriveled, warped, and decayed, and yet these arms found cunning enough to grasp and remove hats from matted heads of hair when we tendered a few bits of Spanish currency. ‘We saw in these lower corridors perhaps forty men. Some were newcomers, upon whom the disease had put but. few inarks as vet. Others were almost ready to go to the hopeless ward above, where we presently climbed. Here, upon beds in a double row, were the vestiges of what had once been mien,—corpses Which breathed in speechless agony through the long week, and which yet cling to life as though even under conditions it was sweet to exist. ‘Tattered drapings hung from the breathing skele- tons, Whose every pose was the at- titude of despair. No_ picture’ of Dore’s illustrative. of the Inferno could overdraw a scene like this. It was with great relief that we walked ucross a plesaane garden, planted with bananas and figs, and entered’ the women’s ward, under the guid- ance of a fat but devout Mother Superior. ‘All respect to her and her staff of nuns, who Jabor here ainong the hopeless, pointing thelr fainting steps upward. and slaving through the heat of years to alleviate the sufferings of those with whom they are appointed to live. The scenes among the women were put a repetition of those across the rectangle. _A few were telling their beads, some sewed, znd all were neat in person and surrounding to the last degree. A bright Httle boy ran toward us with an orange in either hand. 1 was the pet of the hospital. His mother was an inmate far gone with thedisease., He was not yet old enough to know the fate that awaits hin. What a pity this bright little chap is not taken asa subject for scientific experiment. Can it not be that there exists some means of driving out the venom and building up the system of the unhappy prog~ eny of Jepers with healthy tissues? : a t