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BRADFORD, : PHOTOGRAPHY. - PHOTOGRAPHER, 77-79-81 State-st., Chicago. SUILMER COOK STOVE. THE TENS OPEN FIRE PLAGE IS THE BEST! oOzt SUMME! K+ urns WOOD or OAL base ER Cook Stove that bi HESS STOVE CO., 115 Lake-st. EEMOVALS. DRL REEVES JACKSON Pear, near Peck-court, Oflce hours, 8 0 9 and2 to ‘Telephous. a RELIGIOUS. Ernest Renan’s Recent Lect- ure on Saints Peter and Paul, In Which He Considers the Legend of the Founding of the Ro- man Church. Religious Persecution in Russia— Fifteen Millions of People Cruelly Plagued. Some Reflections on the Danger of Being Too Good—Presbyterian Church Dry-Rot. General Notes, Personals, Sunday Humor— Services To-Day. UNBELIEF, ‘There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, ‘Trusts he in God. Whoever says, when clouds are in the sky, “Be patient, heart! light breaketh by and by,” ‘Trusts the Most High. ‘Whoever sees, ‘neath winter's field of snow, ‘The silent harvest of the future grow, God's power must know. ‘Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep, Content to lock each sense in slumber dee! Knows God wili keep. ‘Whoever says, * To-morrow,” “The Unknown,” “The Future.” trusts that power alone i He dares disown. ‘The heart that looks on when the eyelids close, And dares to live when life has only woes. God's comfort knows, ‘There is no unbelief; And day by day, and night unconsciously, "The heart lives by that fuith the lips deny; knoweth why. —Watchman. PETER AND PAUL. M. ERNEST RENAN'S LECTURES ON THE LEGEND OF ‘THE ROMAN CHURCH—A BRILLIANT DISCOURSE. On April 8M. Renan delivered in St. George's Hall, Langham place, London, the second Hib- bert lecture on “The Legend of the Roman Chureh—Peter and Paul.” In the first he cn- deavored to show the inextricable difficulty in which the Roman Empire found itself in the first century in dealing with religion. In the inevitable death-grapple with Paganism, it was already becoming clearer and clearer that Juda- ism, under the Christian form, must carry the day. The future belonged to the Jew. The Jewish colony at Rome dated from about B.C. 60, The israelites multiplied rapidly. Cicero plumed himself on his courage in having resist- edthem, Cmsar favored them, and found them trustworthy. The mob hated them, found them spiteful, and charged them with forming a secret society whose members pushed them- selves forward without scruple at the cost of others. But all did not judge thus hastil; the Jews had as many friends as libel- ers. Juvenal’s sneers at the Judaizing ladies of his time proved the literal fulfillment of Zachariah’s prophecy, that people would lay hold of the skirts of a Jew und would beg to be led to Zion. The Ghetto of that early ago was across the Tiber; hence in the poorest and dirti- est slums of the city, most lixely near the mod- ern Porta Portese. The first nucleus of Rome's Jewish population had been freedmen, mostly sprung from prisoners of war brought by Pompey from Jerusalem. They had clung to their religion in spite of their cruel bondage, and their synagogs at Rome had never broken off their relations with Jerusalem. The original colony had been reinforced ‘by many emigrants, who were started in life by their brethren as peddlers, or became adepts in the trade of beg- zing. NoRoman who respected himself ever set foot in the quarter, which wasa sink of tho most despised classes and the most disgusting industries. The police never penetrated into the district’ save when its squabbles grew too ploody or too frequent. Few quarters of Rome were sofree. There were no politics there, and in ordinary times no hindrance to religious rites or proselytism. A world of ideas was hatching in this ‘long- shore population, but was lost in the roar of the great city, and the proud patricians who prome- naded the Aventine did not dream, when they deigned to look across the Tiber, what u future ‘was prepal in those bovels at the footof the Janiculum. Near the rt was the Taberna Meritoria, a kind of low lodging-house used by soldiers and the like, where the Roman cock- neys were shown an oil spring reputed to have gushed froma rock. Afterwards the tuberna became a church, and under Ajexander Severus there was a lawsuit about the go between the Christians and the guild of innkeepers, and the Emperor adjudged the house to the Chris- tians. We were here plainly on the native soil of an old popular Christianity, which must have been among the number of those “foreign su- rstitions” against whose encroachments “audius and his Senate took politic precautions in the former half of the first century. It was guite natural, Mf Henan argued, that the Capital should hear of the name of Jesus long before the evangeli- zation of the intermediate provinces, as that a towering mountain peak should be gilded by the dawn much sooncr than the valleys. Home was the Mediterranean port with which the Syrians bad most business. It must be admit- ted, then, that towards A. D. 50 some Jews from Syria, already Christians, entered the Im- erial Capital, and communicated to their fel- lows the faith which hed already made them- selves happy. Nobody then thought that the founder of anew Empire,a second Romulus, was then lodging at the Poe on the straw. Others followed soon, and letters from Syria broaht by the new comers told of a movement which was incessantly spreading. A small group flocked together, everybody smelling of garlic, ‘poor and dirty prolotarians,—these ancestors of the Roman prelacy.—unknown, unmannered men, clad in malodorous stable slops, with tuinted breath like that of ill-fed people. We know the names of 2 pious Jewish couple who were mixed up with these movements,—At lla originally of Pontus, a tent-maker like Paul, ane Priscilla, his wife. ; ‘But we ought to see, not in St. Peter’s, but in the old Ghetto at the Porta Portese, the birth- place of Western Christendom. Some small Chapel ought to have been reared to the two guod Jews from Pontus who first syllabled upon the quaysat Rome the name of Jesus. One main point to be noted was that the Church of tome was not, like the churches of Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece, planted by Paul. It was a Jewish Christian foundation directly sprung from the Church of Je lem. Here Paul would never be on his own ground; he ywould see in thf great Church many weaknesses, which he would treat indulgently, but which could not fail to wound his exalted idealism. At- tached to the cireumcision and to externalism, Ebionite in its taste for abstinences, and in its doctrine more Jewish than Christian as to the person and death of Jesus, us well as by its strong attachment to Millenarianism, the Church of Rome presented from its earlicat days the escontial characteristics which mark it throughout its long | and marvelous history. A daughter of Jerusalem in the direct line, the Church of Rome would al- ways Dear an ascetic and sacerdotal stamp op- posed to the Protestant tendency of Paul. Peter was always destined to be her real chief, and in the next place, inspired by the political and hie cal gonius of old Rome, she was to. be- come a veritable New Jerusalem, the city of the Pontificate, of hierarchical and rubrical religion, of material sacraments justifying of them- selves, the city of ascetics. She would be the Church of authority. For her the only proof of apostolic mission would be a. letter signed by tho Aposties. Al the and all the evil which tho Church of Jerusalem did to pascent Chris- tianity the Church of Rome woulddo to the Universal Church. In.vain did Paul write to her his fine epistle to expound to her the mystery of the cross of Jesus, and of salvation by faith alone. She understood next to notiing of it. Sgut Luther, fourteen and a half centuries after- wards, was to understand it and to open a new . erain the seoulur sarion of the alternate tri- umphs of Peter and Pau! . Renan spoke of St, Paul's arrival at Rome in A. D. 61, for the purpose of rosecuting the ap- pealhe had made -to the Bmperor, as a great évent fn the world’s history. In.his chains the apostle of the Gentiles believed that in this event this apostolic career had culminated. It had been pretuded by a second apparition of Christ, who had bidden him be of good cheer, assuring him that as he had borne witness of him at Jerusalem, so shouid he also at Rome. ‘The learned lecturer then gave an elaborate 2c- count of what he ealied the profound divisions ‘of which already, in the first century from the foundation of Christianity, sundered the disciples of Jesus,—so profound, he aid, that all the dif- ferences which divided orthodox folks, heretics, echismatics in our own days were as nothing compared with the dissensions between Peter and Paul. The views presented were those arrived at by the so-called Tubingen school of. ecclesiastical _ history and theology. The Church of Jerusalem refused communion to all uncircumcised Christians, however pious. Paul, on contrary, preach- ed — that’ to fo Mnsatt Jose, is merits for the.bel iustith ti salem with {ts Bisho} samc with wiigh-clnieh Peter was in close: alliance?sent outo} position missions to counterwork thae of Paul Deven whose role in the Judaizing purty wé'that of akind of timid trimmer between the, Ebionite and Pauline extremes, came to Home with sume such intent, and, seeming: oh jot. Very-lony after Puul’s arrival there. At “ile Rokermartion the Protestants made a kind ofddoginn of the denial that ho had over been thogg, thus dethroning the Pope at once, ‘who cldfmnd the headship of Christendom as the lineal guecessor of St. Peter. For the Roman Catholic inption of St. Peter's arrival at Rome in A. Diszand bis Pontificate there of twenty-three or twenty-four years, M. Htennn proved in detail that thore was no tangi- bie evidence; while, to meution nothing vise, tho silence of St. Paul's Eptstle to tho Itomans (writteri A. D. 58) and of the closing verses of the Acts were gilito conclusive agaipst it. On the other hand, ho marshaled a Toaeeeul array of arguments for answering in the affirmative the guestion as to Peter’s huving visited Rome after Paul. Peter's martyrdom is attested by ex- tremoly ancient evidence, and the somewhat Jater tradition which connects it with the Nero- nian persecution at Romo has all antecedent probability in its favor. The mystical Babylon. whence he dates his epistle can only be Rome. It was quite admissiple that Peter came to Rome, as he came to Antioch, following on the heels‘of Paul, and with a view to neutralize his influence. About the year 60 the Christian community was in a state of spiritual excite- eel ae pret ule a contrast to the -twenty years o! Im waiting for the end which followed the death of Tosus., M. Renan, after deploring the mystery which overhangs 80 many of the facts of primitive Christianity, addressed himself to penetrate, as iar as was possible, the vell which bides from us the circumstances of the death of Peter and Paul. It would never, he said, be wholly pierced. The likelicst view was that both perished in the great massacre of the Christians orduined by Nero. As to the fact of such @ massucre there was no room for doubt, since we had it on the authority of Tacitus. It was an episode in the history of the great fire of Rome, which broke out on July 19, A. D. 64, and not only destroyed entirely three.outof the fourtcen regions of which the ‘city consisted, but reduced seven more to blackened walls. Of this frightful dis- aster, the suspicion which Nero fell undor of having caused it, and the heartlesness with which the tyrant abandoned the Christians to the rising waves of tho public wrath, Renan gave a most graphic recital. It was but too easy for Nero to carry out his infernal idea of ‘making the new religionists the scape- goats of his own crime, Thoy were still worse hated than himself. The horror thoy felt for the temples made it very conceivable to the bigoted mob that they had at least fed, if they had not lighted the flames. Some strict Jews would not carry money because it bore Cresar’s image, while others would not pass through any city gate surmounted by a statuc. The song over burning Rome in the Apocalypse, written four years and a half afterwards, most likely borrowed some traits from the great fire of A.D. 64. Tho exultation there expressed was too congenial to the pious sectaries, who were not unlikely to have been in spirit the saints and angels applauding from on high what was regarded asa just expiation. Nero offered his uphold walt the: old dens across the Tiber for the shows, in which the victims were to be the Christinns clad in tho skins of wild beasts, whilo others dressed in gar- ments saturated with oil and pitch served as living torches to illuminate the horrid scene. M. Renan described this féte of Nero's gurdens on the lst of August, a day which he could only compare with that of Golgotha, of sufli- ciently realistic detail. The event was one of the most solemn in tho history of Christian!~ ty. After remarking that the solidity of a build- ing is in proportion to the virtue, the sacrifices, the devotion deposited on the foundation-stone, he added, that fanatics alone can found any- thing. Judaism lives on atill because of the intense fronzy of its prophets and annalists; Christianity by moans of its witnesses. Nero's orgy was the great baptism of blood which marked out Rome, now the city of martyrs, a destined to play a signal part in the history of Christianity, and to be its second Holy City. It was the tal possession of the Vatican Hill by a kind of Siam phat procession unknown till then. The hateful ond brainless Emperor did netsee that he was founding a new order of things, and was Siyuing for the future a charter whose provisions would be matter of claim at the end of 1,800 years. M. Henan proceeded to argue that Péter and Paul were both martyred at this epoch, and not improbably in the manner attested by tradition—namely: Peter boing crucified with his head downward and Paul by | beheading. CHURCH DRY-ROT. A CORRESPONDENT CRITICISED. ‘The Interior. A [Presbyterian] writor in Tae TRrBone offers to explain why we have not so many Presbyte- rian churches in Chicago: as ‘we had ten years ago. H{g answer is, “ Intolerance and dogmatism —cast-iron theology.” There fs room for differ- ence of opinion here. We do not think thero is any pot-metal theology about the Interior. If we know oursolves, we aro a great deal more. desirous for the truth than for any special forms of statement, We have not shown any disposi- tion to scare over the deyclopments arid denion- strations of science where thoy bear upon tradi- tional religious beliefs. We do not reverence opinions because they are old. It is true, how- ever, that wo give to such opinions the prima facie credence to which tho fact that they have time and again borne the test of reiuvestigation entitles them. In'short, we think that we ure to: be held responsible for the use of the reasoning faculties bestowed upon us, and, therefore, we try toemploy them upon ail subjeots in a rea- sonable and common-sense mannor. And so we allsay—both pastors and people. Is there any pot-metul about that position? But, then, we want something spiked down somewhere in this world, so that it shall not be suid that everything tilts when you step on it, and falls looso when you grasp it. We have hed, historically, 5,000 or 6,000 years of human reasoning, and it is about time we should know to a certainty whether thore bea God. We have had 2,000 years to consider the claims of Jesus Christ, and if reason is not utterly imbecile, we ought to know by this time what we think of Him. We are satisfied to know but very little, but we want to know that precious little to a certainty. We Presbyterians, at least, wish to have it undorstood among ourselves that we shall proceed upon the busis of x few ascer- tained truths, the which, if they be not ascer- tained truths, we have no business to exist usa church. You may call that “intolerance” and “enst-iron,” if you choose, but we defy any man to make any fundamental statement of Christian or poles) bic or scientific doctrine that shall not be so. We can point our * Presby- terian” critic toa church which is dead because the Uniturian3 will not stand the ‘cast-iron theology” of their Universalist coparceners. The dogmatic demand of the “liborals” ig that we ull shall say to all who have gone before in religious and philosophic thinking, “Go up, thou baldbeads!” Does he not seo that the prevailing destructive criticism is a ridiculous pitching overboard of the compass, quadrant, Charts, and cbronometers, and proposing to sail a boundless sea, to nowhere, with no objective harbor in view? If all the navigators who have gone before havo ieft us no knowledge of the true course, by what token shall we know that our new independent pilot will not steer us upon: the reef ? THE OLD BELIEVERS. YUFTEEN MILLIONS OF THE OZAR'S SUBJECTS WHO HAVE BEEN CRUELLY PERSECUTED. Now York ‘Times. ; ‘The Czar’s Ministers have been discussing an vache reform, which, if carried out, will fmprove the miserable condition of fifteen mill- fons of Russian dissenters, known under the general name of Old Believers. The Russian schism (Raskol) originally ap- peared as an uncompromising protest, on the _one side, against the autocracy that was grad- ually absorbing all the liberties of the people, both political and religious; on thé other, against the State Church, which, being herself subjugated to the Czar, had in her turn under- taken to subjugate the people's conscience. This unequal struggle.has been going on for about three centuries, and is far from being ended. The Czardom was apparently victo- rious at first; but the dissenters, though de- feated by main force, have never been really subdued. Thoy have been bitterly persecute ‘transported tw Siberia, solemnly anathematized, and outlawed throughout the Empipe; ye, in. spite of this, thoy have ever goue on mui tine ing, prospering, and gaining proselytes from tho orthodox population, while hardly an; of them has ever turned to the orthodox Church, The vengeauce Visited upon the dissenters by the centralized and combined power of Stato and Church in the past was dreadful. Many of their churches and chapels were either destroyed or closed; those lert Open, they were forbidden to reconstruct or repair. Thoy havy been forbidden also hitherto to publish their religious books; have been excluded from Government em- loyment and from the local public service; Bove been prohibited from providing any schools for their children, and from‘ sendiug them to the public schools; have beer for- pbidden to employ any orthodox workingmen, or to ndopt the children of orthodox parents. Many of them have been forbiddento leuve their place for any purpose, even for ashort period of.aime; some of them baré not been allowed even to donate money and property for charituble pirr- ose8. * = a ‘Such has been the condition of 15,000,000 of tie Czar’s subjects, who are generally recogni co the most industrious, reliable, and peaceable of all the population of Russia, They have been treated as criminals. Hero is one example of iS Gn ‘July 17, 1878," says the Golos, “a party of dissenters (Molokani), nineteen families in all, came on foor to Titiis, Caucasus, from Kazm, accompanied by armed guards. For six years thoy had been persecuted for propagating ‘tipir doctrines; at t they were condemned tabe transported to Caucusus. The men were in chains. Among these dissenters wero several babies.” =. ‘Among the dissenters theré are those who re- ject all the rites of the orthodox religion (Situn- ‘disti); those who do not pray.at all, ‘and who de- stroy the holy images (Nemoliaki); don't pay taxes, and who reject pass] guni); those who all ‘the authorities, from the Czar down, as gerversof anti-Christ; and lawi: ‘sfas\| who z mpiying the Ingufilelenoy of | anathematize all who pray for the authori- ties (Bezopopovzi); those living acco: communistie principles (Obsuchie): welt eeciee ae eco) ta Spiritual Soupel, & sort of Shak- ers; self-torturers sti); Jum a ister ae t the a ae is repot at the concessions to Belleyers will include the” reopening oe ete closed churches, the repairing of the open ones, and the building of new ones; the right to em- plog orthodox priests for thelr services; the es- tablishment of several industrial svhools for the ghildren, and tho right to take an active partin Jocal public affairs. These reforins will not fatisfy the persistent, though silent, demands of the “dissenters. ‘The’ Golos well says: “Only completo religious tolerance and equality of political and civil rights can put an. end to the ‘sufferings of the 15,000,000 of Old Believers, who are generally recognized a8 the best and ‘most enlightened part of our peopl ; TOO GOOD. ., ON THE DANGER OF BEING g0, - To the Edttor of The Chicago Tribune, . Cntcaqo, May 7.—If I shall assert that there is @ possibility of one’s being too good, of overdo- ing one’s duty by exercising 1n excess of virtue, Ishall expect to be fet ‘down in the catalog of lunatics; but Lam, neverthéless, about to make the venture. That the object of the parent in the education of his offspring is to wake them virtuous and good, ns well as intelligent, thereby fitting them for the duties of ‘aftor life, none will dispute; and who has ever asked tho question whether there was a possibility of imparting to the youn, too great a hatred of vioo and too great a rover: ence for virtue? But I have seen peoplo so given to the practice of virtue and so rigid in the observance of astern morel and religious dog- matism that In theirattempts to make their chil. dren a they have dwarfed thoir mirthful- ness, discouraged their buoyancy, and brought them up to be grave and sedate at'an age when “all the months, and days, and hours should dance away with down upon their feet." Iam no defender of vice. I only wish to show that virtue and goodness,’ like nearly all the means devised tor the happiness of the race, may be curried too far. Asan exainple, I might instance my friend Nimrod Lofty. He is a model of candor und sincerity. He bas lived to three- score in the rigid practice of virtue, and, I dare gay, nover hud a suspicion that he was, elthor by precept or example, guing too] far in bis efforts todo cL hegie But being so himself he sur- yeys the passing multitude from his own elova- tion, and often fails to muke allowance for hu- man frailties to which all ara subject. This state of excecding goodness causes him to for- get tho brightest gem iu tho clyster of Christian virtues—charity, if he hears one’s habits crit!- cised or churacter traduced, in place of secking for mitigating circumstances upon which to base his judgment, he is so good that he falls to seo any reason to be urged why one should err at all, This exccss of virtuc begets strong preju- dices in favor of hisown opinion, and seams to boget a habit of judging severely. He is constantly, on tho hunt for what he looks upon’ as faults or frailties in others, and scems to take pleasure in disturbing onc's good opinion of one’s self. The other duy he began a conversation with Jack Wilby in this manner: * Now you will par- Yon me, Mr. Wilby,—you know what I say or do is out of pure friendship, and when I doem it my duty to put you on your guard against those hidden enemfes to your peace and happiness, which are not only watching their call to pea your prospects in life, but have hitherto even ovaded your suspicion of thelr existence, I trust you will understand my motive. ‘The early age at which you were joft an orphan precluded the ibility of your knowing anything concern- ing your parents. Now it is phystologically true that heredity has much to with the lives of men, and it is outof a sincere régard for your wel- fare that I wish to’ put you on your guard against: the appetite for drink, which, I am pained to inform you, sent your father to his grave. It is no fault of ‘yours that he fell in the midst of bis days, but I trust you will sec the point and not misinterpret my frankness, for there is nothing I hate more than duplicity. ” You may imagine the astonishment of Jack at this disclosure. Having had no warnings of aliy such danger, or knowledge of tho cause of hid father's death, ho was both grieved and alarmeéd,—in tine, he was made miscrable by an impertinent disclosure of a fact which it-were better shbuld remain a se- Feret, and by a warning for which there was no necessity. ‘This was one of the resuits of being too good, too frank, too siucere, There are others -quite as conspicuoud which not only cause disturbances in society, but tend to create low estimutes of human character In the pos- sessor of such excessive Burigy. It begets so in- tense a hatred of hypocrisy that it relegates to tho limbo of the evil one many things not only ornamental but useful and innocent. It treats with contempt the old saying that ‘the truth is not to be spoken at ail times,” and evory species of biding the real behind the false is set down as rank hypocrisy. Wigs, imitation jowelry, arti- ficial teeth, and suniry a planes in use to remedy the shortcomings of Dame Nature in the formation of the human vertebrate are set down in the list of the Devil's machinations to deceive. It svems”: paradoxical that one cau be-.so good as to be __un- happy but how can go ,much goodness work its way: through a world of-sharp conflicts, ingratitude, solfishness, andywgong-doing With OuLcncounterug a vast dept of disgust at the arts of dissimulation evers#n@re to be seon. The millennium is a long way in the future, if one bas to judge: from-the present state of the world; and we have to take society as we find it, not setting it down as altogether bad because it is not just as we would have it. AGRICOLA. GENERAL NOTES, The British Wesleyan thanksgiving fund has |. rouched a total of $1,380,000. There are two branches of the Reformed Epis- copal Church in Canada. One has twelve con- gregations, and the other but one. The Benediotine order of monks has given to the Church forty Popes, 200 Cardinals, fifty patri- archs, 1,630 Archbishops, 5,000 Bishops, and nu- merous canonized saints. The annuat report of the Church of the Latter- Day Saints, presented to the recent Centerence at Plano, shows the Church numbers 12,827 com- municants,—an increase of 651 over the previous year. The Bible has been translated into 2% differ- ent languages, and the copies circulated amount to 148,000,000. More than seventy barburous lan- Frases. buve been endowed with a grammar and jiterature, The State Sunday-School Convention will be held at Galesburg May 11to 13. An admirable program of exercises has been prepured by the vommittee of Arrangemonts. ‘no railroad, companies will gell round-trip tickets ut reduced’ ie to all desirous of attending the Conven- tion. : The Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church is the most costly ofits denomination in Baltimore, and it has the most fushlonable Methodist worshipers. - It cost $400,000, and has been for some time carey a debt of $60,000. The Euster collection realized this amount, and the stately building is now paid for. In_o recent letter from Garibaldi to Baron Swift, the President of the Soci ty of Atheists at Venice, ocours this paragraph: “TI wish that Italians would understand that the atheism we profess iy synonymous with treedom, reason, and scicnoe, and that its aim is to destroy the worst of human plugues—ciericalism.” ‘The Christian church on Western avenue in this olty has invited Elder J..H. Wright, State Evangelist for Illinois, to become its pastor, and he bus accepted the appointment. The Evangel- dat, published in this city, says of him: “ Brother ‘Wright will be a splendid addition to our minis- terial corps in Chicago, and we feol confident that he will do a good work in the city.” The college book of Harvard gives statistics showing that out of 913 students who graduated between 189 and 1875, inclusive, 360 were Unita- rians or liberals, 217 Episcopalians, 128 Orthodox Congregationalists, 46 Baptists, 25 Presbyterians, 16 Methodists, 12 Swedenborgians, 8 other trini- tarians, 2 Quakers, 15 Catholics, 2 Jews, 1 Mor- mon, and 113 undecided. Seats are furnished tho students at the expense of the college at any church of their own selection. One of the most essential parts in the connec- tional system of American Methodism is its great . Book Concern.” It is of itself a vast institu- tion, 8 singular], werful home-missionar' force. The sules fast yearfrom the New Yorl house were: Books, $578,577; Periodicals, $246,- 000. Cincinnati house: Books, $323,681; periodi- cals, $336,203. Total sales from both houses, $1,165,522. "The weekly circulation of its six Christfan Advocates amounted to 135,806. The circulation of its Sundsy-school periodicals was much larger. The total net profit for the year was a little more than $ ‘ Aqueer person named Fita bas died in Mc laix, Brittany. He earned his living by per- forming vicurious Pilgrimages. If any one was oppressed by sin and wished to purge his breast he bargained with Fita;who undertook for a valuable consideration t make pilgrimages and repeat prayers. Covered with dirty rags he would set forth, and, ashe had many clients, he was continually on the road. re Was not a church, or 2 chapel, or & shrine, or a hallowed spring that he did not visit. He was the bell- Inger at every P! ion; he attended every pardon, When out of -work he would strut about the streets of Morlaix intoning at the top of his voice psalms and hymns. Some people thought him crazy, others said he did it to ad- vertise himself. Large prints of the new Roman Catholic Cathedral at South Kensington, which is to be raised on tho alte of thd Brompton Oratory, are exhibited in all the print-shop windows in Lon- don. If the edifice corresponds with the pre- sentment, it will be the most imposing religious building in the metropolis, next, of course, to St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey. The style is ornamented Gothic, most florid, but most effect- ive; and, a3 the structure will be very large in size and detail, the character of its architecture. will give it all the nobleraspect. Operutioi actively proceeding on the building, whic! said, has been very prudently taken in band, not asod having been turned or a stone cut until the full amount of the-estimated cost was in hand. The treasurer basin band £200,000. _A Methodist church in Massachusetts resolved to get along on the C:0. D. plan in all depart- ments of itsinance. A few Sundaysago the pas— tor reported: the church was 420 ‘short, and ns aro itis asked for immediate cash to make this amount good. There being’ no response, ue announced there would be no service In the evening. ‘Thereupon some of the brethren put their ence together and collected what was needed. As a result of this the pastor gave notice that the services would proceed in the evening as usual. pus was ‘thought by some people to be a need- lesly severe trunsuction.. But the pastor and the leuding financiers say'it is better to do thus than to pursue a reckless course of fueurring jodebtedness whieh wall sooner or later bring rch: under the hamm " auctioneer. ae oe ae Eee ‘The Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Paul has ed the following pastor st cities! 18 pastoral aguinst secret so- “We cannot too strongly caution Catholics against connecting themselves with certain societies which through agents sent here for the purpose are seeking to enroll members’ and establish themselves. in Minnesoti. These s0- cietics “are in budodor in inany of the dioceses in which thoy. exist. The * Ancient Order of Hibernian: , not without reason, of alllances with associa- tions under other names, and in this way aro not altogether free of complicity in the deeds of violence perpetrated in Pennsylvania a few yeurs since. The mere fact of these societies striving by meuns of agencies to propagate themselves in Minnesota is anything but favora- bie to their claim of good intentions, as we huve societics already estublished and in good stand- ing, and competent to uccomplish all legitimate purposes for which associations are useful or needful. We urge it as a matter of conscience that Cutholics keep aloof from all societies of doubtful character; from societies: especially which, under the plea of mutuul protection or seemingly patriotic motives, find it nocessary to work under cover of durkness and to bind mem- bers by oblignaons of sccresy. No society can be held lawful which for the attainment of its ends contains enictinents which involve the in- fringement of the liberty or the violation of the rights of others. "When there is ground for doubt as to whether any society is included in the condem- natory decrees of the Church, ns there is good ground for doubt in regurd to the societtes we have referred to, there can be no excuse for Catholics exposing themselves to danger in so serious x matter. Such socicties are- snares in which many become entangled beyond the pos- sibility of extrication and tothe final loss of their souls.” PERSONALS, The Rev. L. V. Hilton, of Boston, has ac- cepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Denver, Col. . The Rev. Fred Swentzell, for many years a Methodist minister at Belair, Ind., has become n candidate for tho priesthood in tho Episcopal Church. Ill-health has compelled the Rev. Robert Pat- terson to resign the pastorate of tho Central Prosbyterian Church, Cincinnati. He js now in San Francisco. ‘Tho Rev. Nonh 3. Wells, the oldest Presbyte- vlan minister in this country, died on the 4th inst. at Erie, Monroe County. Mich. He was 98 years old. The First Presbyterian Church of De- troit was organized by him. The Rev. Arthur Foster, of the Methodist Episvopal Church, for many’ years a resident of Baltimore, hns been called to tho pulpit of the Reformed Episcopal Cauren of tho ftedeemer, in that city, and will enter upon bis duties at once. Tho Rev. F. D. Moore, pastor of tho First Pres- byterian Church of Covington, Ky., proached at Sunday laws were contrury to the teachings of tho Bible and common sensé. ‘The Presbytery has voted unanimously that’ the sermon was horotical, and Mr. Moore has resigned bis charge. Edmond D, Pressenso, D. D., the French Prot- estant divine and well-known writer on thoo- logical subjects, has been. appointed Secrotai of the French Legution at Washington. He will receive a hearty welcumo in this country. Ho comes here in an ecclesiastical representative chaructor also to represent the religious needs of his countrymen. A few dnys before Ben Wade's death Mr. French, in a conversation with him, made some remark regarding Henry Ward Beecher, which called out the following response: ‘ Beecher! Beecher! Don't tatk tomo of Beecher! I don’t like him! Heis a tad man! Beecher hasknocked h—Il outof religion, and" (slapping his knee to emphasize the expression) “I tell’ you, sir, that religion without hell {sno better than pork Wwith- out salt.” Last Sunday evening the Rev. Samuel Marks, of B'ney Sholom Temple, formally inducted Mrs. H. S. Goldsmith, of this city, into tne Jewish be- lief, by impressive ceremonies In the presence of friends and members of ber family. The con- vert,for some yas had shown u decided pre: erence for our belief. Mrs. Goldsmith had been for mauy months under the tuition of the Rev. Marks, in the requisit religious training. In propounding the ‘questions she answered them with perspicuity and with the deepest convic- tions of her conscience. The convert is an in- telligent lady, and will ‘certainly prove an orni ment'to ‘Jewish socicty. Immedintely after this wolemioy bad Py re fae bee ols pee aS cording to. Jowish ‘rites, cunited.. a lock.—Jewih Occident. ate ve ove i SUNDAY PIETY. A few diys ago a Norwich, Conn., man bought achest of tea in Providence, R. I., and on open- Ing found a stone inside weighing nearly eleven pounds. He remarked that the weighs of Prov- idence were very mysterivus. A ilttle girl in one of our public schools the other day had occasion to purse the word “angel.” Coming to the gender, she stopped dismayed, and asked her teacher If “there are apy nien angels."—M©eriden Iecorder. A negro woman near Chesapeake Bay lately made an amusing reply toa Wall street specu- lator of a religious as well as duck-shooting tara of mind. “Are there any Presbyterians in this vicinity?” he asked. “Well, massa,” she an- swered, ‘I ain't heard of none of dem bein’ shot this season.” 2 “Has your husband shown any encouragii signs of growth in the fear of the Lord?” askec aclei an of a New England woman, as thoy. shared a social oup of tea. “ Well,” said the woman, “I kinder think be has, for [ have late- yy noticed that he never goes out on the Lord’s- jay without u shotgun.”—The Hour. ‘A little 5-years-old boy of one of our citizens was riding out with his nother a few days since, when they were overtaken by a thunder-shower. After n sharp flash of lightning the little. fellow looked up into his mother's fuce, saying with a serious alr, and with head turned on one side, “Mamme, I guess God. scratched a pretty big match that time, don’t you?" The other Sunday the Sabbath-schools had a lesson which involved an explanation of the term bypocrit. In one of the infant schools a teacher labored very carnestly to give her class ncorrect idea of the word. One little ‘girl said she aiways thought it was a great big animal, and she guessed she had seen one at a show. “Oh,” the teacher said, “a bypocrit is a man who makes believe to be real foot when he isn't. Sometimes 2 man will give alot of money toa church just to muke people think that he is bet- ter than anybody else." Well, m: pene ain’ta hypocrit," spoke up a little girl back in the corner of the seat, “for ne only gives a penny every Sunday ."—Carbondale (Pa.) ler. One of our most popular ministers was drawn into 2 discussion by a merchant a few days ago on the subject of praying for rain. The mer- chant was skeptical about it, and contended that the rainfall was governed by fixed laws, The ininister referred to several casesin theScripture where requests were granted in answer to prayer —citing specially the case of Elijah, The mer- chant admitted the point, and remarked that an- other notable case of the suspension of natural laws was when Elijah commanded the sun to stand still, “Prue,” said the minister, “ but you have the wrong name. Elijah was not the man who com- manded the sun to stand still.” * Who was it?" innocently inquired the mer- te. chittacon,” sald the minister in an absont- mided but triumphant way. CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral SS. Peter und Paul, corner of West Wash- ington and Peoria streets. The Rt-Rev. W. E. Me- Laren, $.1. D. Bishoo. ‘The Rev. J. H.'Knowles, priest incharge. Chora! morning prayer and cele- bration of the Holy Communion 10:0 a.m. Choral evening prayer 7:30p.m. The annual festival of St. George's Benevolent Association will be held in the Cathedral at4p.m. The full Cathedral service will be celebrated, and the Rev. Frederick Courtney, of St. James’ Church, will preach the sermon. ‘I'he offer- Ings will be devoted to the endowment of a Led in St. Luko's Hospital. '—The Rov. Frederick Courtney will officiate morn- tng and evening at St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets. The Rev. R. A. Holland will officiate morning and evening at Trinity Church, corner of Michigan ave- nue and T'wenty-sixth street. —The Rev. W. H. Knowlton will officiate morning and evening at St. Andrew's, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey streets. —The Kev. John Hedman will officiate morning and evening at St. Ansgarius’, Sedgwick street, near Chi- cago avenue. : —The Key. Clinton Locke will officiate morn ing and evening at Grace, Wabash avenue, between Four- teenth and Sixteenth streets. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate morning and evening atthe Church of the Ascension, corner of North La Salle and Bim streets. “The Kev, C.D. Lester will officiate morning and evoving at St. Paul's,Hyde Park avenue, betwoen = ‘and Fiftieth streets. Fort Bitov Be. Fleetwood will officiate morning and evening at St. Mark's, corner of Cottaxe Grove avenue and Thirty-alxth tree! he Hey. J. b. Cows ze Vs: n will officiate morning and eveniea int St Stephens’. Johnson street, between Taylor und Twel zx —The Key. Luther Pardee will officiate morning and wrens, ine Calvary. ‘Warren avenue, between Oakley nue. street Mey iN Sorrison, Jr. will officiate morn- and evening at the Chore uf ie Epiphany, v street tween Mon! e103. pari Kev. Games ¥E, Thompson. will officiate miorn= tng and evening bt noch streets iy sninth at incon her, W.J-Fetrie will officiate morning and afternoon st the Chareh of Our Savior, - edierapaipet ste Chareh of Our javior, corner of Lin: --I. B.. ‘townsend will conduct the morning und evening services at St. Luke's Mission, No. 7 Polke REFORMED EPISCOPAL, The Rev. F. W. Adams will preach it ¥ 10:45 8. mand 7:65 p. a D. Wilson will preach in St. John’s enue, near Thirty-seventh street. at Morning subject: “ The Curo- ature"; ovening: “The Resur- rection. —Bisho) nerot 5 fasts mOTnIne. eee Je id ay [dir ing Out?" v. Cl . the ovening. = ai & Gilbert preach in —The Rev. Dr.Cooper e installed as pastor of the Chureh of the Good Shepherd at 1:45 pe m- Blahop Cheney will ofticiate. Rev. KR. H. Bosworth will proach In St. Paul's Storming aud evening. aud’ in diuity Gauree, Bagie: ing wt ve and in T's ty wood, at 3:45 p. m. . 7 eens PRESBYTERIAN, ‘The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach in the Reunk Church and administer Communion in the morning. AtT: p.m. be will preach in the Campbell Park Church, corner of Leavitt street. —The Kev. Edward C. brits will preach inthe Re- union Church in the evening. —The Rev. Walter Forsyth will preach tn the Engle- ‘wood Church. on Sixty-third street, morning and —The tev. W. BM. Scarrett will preach in the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue. ‘and ‘Thirtteth street, at 10:45 1. m. The Rev. 8. E. Wishard will, preach at 7:0 pm. ~The Rov. ££. Miller will preach in the Sixth Churen, corner ‘of Onk and Vincennes avenues. at 10: am. and 720 p. mi. Sopning subject: Two Latters and What Uan Be Spelied with Them.” vening sermon to young men. —The Key. J. Monro Gibson will preach mornin: and evening'In the Second Church. corner of Michi- Fan Avenue and Twentieth strvet, the sorvices closing is pastoral connection with the church. he Hey. Arthur Mitchell will proseh this morn ing in the First Church, corner of Indiuoa avenus und Twonty-tirst street, und this evening in Railroad Chupel, No. 715 State street. —There will bo morning and evening services tn the Third Church, corner of Ashland und Ogden avenues. Evening subject: “The Parables of the Lost Coin and the Lost Sheep.” ~The Rey. #.1. Patton will preach morning and evening in Jofferson Park Church, corner of Throop and Adams streets. and rip Cheney will preach In Christ Church, Line Fad- ~The Rev. £. N. Barrett will preach morniny evening In’ Westminster Church, corner of Peo: ‘Juckson streets. —The Rev. James Macinughian will preach morning and evening in the Scotch Church, corner of Sanga- mon and Adams streets. —The Itev.J.M. Worrall will preach morning and evening in the Eighth Church, corner of West Wash- ington and Robey streets. —The Kov. A. M.Collisson will preach morning and evoning in the Fullerton Avenue Church. ~The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach this morning in the Forty-Arnt street Church. —The Kev. J. Ll. Jenkins, of Pittstiold, Mass. will proach this morning at the Fourth Church, Rush and Superior atreats. No avening service. METHODIST. ‘The Rev. Frank M. Bristol will preach in the Wa- bash Avenue Church, corner or Fourteenth street, at iia, m. und 7:0 p.m. —The Rev. W. JL. Thomas will preach in Centenary Chureh, West Monroe strect, near Morgan, at lo. m. Song service at7:30 p.m. —Dr. Williamson willtpreach in the First Church, corner of Washington and Clark streeta, nt 10:3. m. and 7:45, 3 bjeet: "What, Why, he low the General Judgment?” “What Is Known on the Subject of the Deluge." ~The Rev. . M.Bortng will preach in the State Street Church morning and evening. —The Rev. George Strobridge. of New York, will preach this morning, und the Rev. Robert D. Shep- pard this ovaning, In Grace Church. corner of North Eaxslle and White stents, Evening sublect: “Jesuit story.” —The Rev. G. S. Hubbs, of Apploton, Wis., willpreach morning and evening in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second street. @ Rov, i. BH. Pope will preach morning and evening in ‘Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near Zwenty-fourth street, Hvening subject: * Stop- others.” zine Itev. 7. Clendening will preach morning and evening in the Langley Avenue Church. —The Rev. E. 2. Cleveiund wil! proach morning and evening in the Grunt Fince Church. ~The Rev. H. W. Thomas will preach morning and evening in Centenary Church, Monroe street, near lorgan. ithe’ Rev. 8, A. Adams will preach morning and eventing in the Ada Street Church. —The Rev. ‘I. Kt. Strowbridge will preach this morn- ing und the Rev. George . Strowbridge, of New York, this eventng, in the Park Avenue Chureb. —The Rev. J. Al. Caldwell will preach morning and eventing in the Western Avenue Church. —The Rey. J, W. Phelps will preach morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, corner of Maxwell and Newberry streets. —The fey. F. A. Mardin will preach morning and evening in the Iialsted Street Church, ~The Kev. J. H. Alling wiil preach morning and gyening in Simpson Charen, cormer of Hickory and ntlold streu ~The Rev. William Craven will preach morning and evening in the Winter Street Church, Forty-sucond street, near the Stock-Yards. “The ltev. George Chase will preach morning and evening In the Fulton Street Church. Evening sub- fect: Temptation.” © ~the Kev. 8. ‘Tl. Shaw will presch morning and ing in tlie Dixon Street Church, —The Hey. F. Porter will preuch morning and even- ing in the Lincoln Street Church. —The Kev. J. W. Richards will preech morning and evening in Emmunuel Church, corner of Harrison und Paulina streets, —The Kev... H. Kellogy will preach morning and eveniny in Asbury Chapel, Kossuth street. —The Rev. J. M. Wheaton will preach morning and evening in the Northwest Cuuren, Western uvenue, near Milwaukee avenue. Tho Key. W.-T. Hobart will preach morning and or ron in the Milwaukee Avenue Church, No. Milwaukee avenue. —The Kev. 0. H. Cessna will preach morning and evening at No. Géi West Indiana strect. * BAPTIST. ‘The Rey. G. C. Lorimer will preach this morning in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and ‘Pulrty-tst street. Subject; “ Splritual, Rudiation.” Inthe evening the Rev. Mabie, of Indianapolis, will deliver the annual missionary sermon before the Baptist Union Theolovical Sewinary. “Ueno Rev, N.¥. Ravlin will preach morning and eventing at No, Si Ogden avenue. eae “The Rev. C. Porren will preach this morning and the Rev. John Gordon, of butul, this evening, in the Western Avenue Church. Shere will be preaching mermiag and evening in the Second Chureh, corner of Monroe und Morgan streets. —Thore will be preaching morning and eventng tn the Michigan Avenue Church, néar ‘Iwenty-tnird street. —The Rev. E. B. Hulbert will preach moruing and evening In the Fourth Church, corner of West Wash- ington and Paulina streets. —The Rev. J. ‘I. Burhve will preach morning and evening in the University Place Church, corner Doug- las place und Rhodes avenue. fo itev. J. Towle: will preach morning and even: ing in the North Stur Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick streets, tho ley, WH. Parker will preach morning and eventing in the Coventry Street Church. —The ley, it De Buptisce will preach morning and evening In Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near ‘Taylor street. "There wili be proaching this morning in the South Chureh, corner of Locko and Nonapurte streets. ~The Hey, Ak. Varker will preach morning and evening in the Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and West Juckgon streets. ~The itev. EO. ‘Tarlor will preach, morning and evening in the Central Church, 20 Orchard street, B. F. Jacobs will tead the afternoon und even- {ng mectings uz the Baptist ‘Tabernacle, No. S02 Wa- bash avenue. —the Key, W, A. Brosdbirst will proach morning and evening in the Dearborn Strevt Church, curner of ‘Thirty-sixth street. ithe Itev.J.Q. A. Henry will proach morning and evening in Evangel Church, Dearborn stroet, near Forty-seventh., 2Sthe tev. J. B. Vosburgh will preach morning and evening in the Millard Avenue Churer, Lawn- dale, ihe Rey. Mr. Meyer will, preach morning and evening in the First German Church, corner of Bick- erdike and Haron streets. “the Rev. J. B. Smith will preach morning and evening in the First Norwegian Church, corner of Noble whey Jeb Oneman rill prec morning and '—The Rev, John Ungman will pi evening In the First Swedish Chureh, Oak street, neur Sedgwick. ecfhere will be morning and evening services in the Halsted Street Church, between Forty-tirat and For- ty-socond strects. YAe Hey. J. Jackson will preach this morning in Chui the Hyde Purk Church. preach morning and n.! ua “The Rev. C2. Roberta sill evening In the Englewood Chure! a CONGREGATIONAL. ‘The Rev. F. A. Noble wit! preach in the Unton Park Churen, corner of Astiund avenue and Washington treet, at 10:0 a.m. end 7:45 p.m. seget sev, Charios Mull Gverest will preach tn the Pirmouth Chureb. Mieliiqan avenue, bolxecn Twen; ty-Aftu and Twenty-sixth streots, ut W:) a.m, and 7:90 p.m. fhe itev. E. F. Williams will preach in the South Church, corner of Drexel avenue and Fortieth street, morning and evening. Orme tev. G- H. Peeke will preach morning and evening in the Leavitt Street Church. ‘the Rey. James ‘lompkins, Secretary Ilinols Home Mission, will preach tuts morning, und tho Kev. James Powell this evening, im the First Church, cor- ner Washington und Ann streets. Brenig subject: Our National Danger from Lliteracy.”” “the Rey. Arthur Little wit preach morning and evening in the New Englund Church, corner of Dear- born avenue and Park place. Leavitt will preach morning and —The Rey. B. F. evening in the Liacoin Perk Church, corner of Sophia and Moknwk streets. ihe Itev. C. A. ‘Towle will preach morning and evening in Betbuny Church, corner of Paulina and West Huron streets. Morning subject og Cloune Ing the Little in Faith.” Evening subject tt Supper.” st CHRISTIAN. The Rev. J. H. Wright, State Evangelist, will reach morning und evening In the church corner of Western avenue and Congress street. —The Rev. George W. Sweeney will preach moraing First Cl , corner of Indians rom His Charac ing subject: “The Conversion of Cornelius, Gentile Ruler” ‘he Rev. irving A. Searles will preach morning andevening in the South Yide Church, curner of Prairie avenue and Thirtieth street. Morniny, sub- ject: The Gates of Hell.” Evening subject: “ Mir Beles,"—one of a series of Inersollism. <The Rev. George W. Sweeney, pxstor First Church, Twenty-nfth street und Indians ‘avenue, will preach this morning on “The Divinity of Christ Shown from His Humanity,” and this evening on 0 sion of Cornetius,—the Firet Gentile Convert, is tho first of six sermons on the “ Apostolic Conver- sions,"—Sunday evening sermons. UNIVERSALIST. Rev: W. H. ityder will officiate morning and cent ett sn Pauls Church, Michigan avenue, be- fiteerith and Eighteenin sirocte, ing, of Jultet, Ill, reach teva Syaning int the edeemer, re A ‘tn the Church of OTRINg ne ee and West Washinuton streets. —Elder. ‘N. Lord will preach mourning and even~ ing in the Secon an dChureb: corner of Oakley avenue fa Jackson street. UNITARIAN. ‘sa Ge Herfurd will preach in the Church oe ere comer of sichigan avenue snd 4 3 reat, at 10:45 #. M1, ‘Twenty snird sities G- Ames of Boston, will presch morning aud ovening in Unity Churet, corner of ‘and Walton piace. Dearborn avegue Sage will presch this morning in ah ‘Oak Park. : : Onley Chay f-1- Galvin will Fiegch this morning tn tho ‘Third Church, corner of, Monroe and Lattin ‘Babject: “ Reverence.” NEW JERUSALEM. ‘The Bev. wv. me Pendleton Sri preach tn the Lid=. ‘Park Cl near Menominee street, at la. m., sO ar parion Perk ‘rewmple, corner of Washing von street and Ogden nvenue, at 4 p. m. —The L. I. slercer will preach this morning before the Union Swedenborgian Church, in e-Hall, Ne ison street. Subject: Mual No. $5 Mad! ‘Worth of Life in the Light of immortality.” ‘TEMPERANCE. ‘A.Gospel meeting under the auspices of the Wom- ex's Christian Temperance Union will be held in streets, sion that two port me stoutly. {ts price. Similarly, sausage. and c! lin, April 2, 1830.” oe Good-Templara’ Hall, No. 185 West Lake, street, at m. <The Gospel Temperance meeting of the First Red= Ribbon Club will be held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, at No. 159 ''wenty-secund street, z "he Women’s Christian Temperance Union holds daily Gospel meetings in Lower Farwell Hall at 3 p. ‘M. ‘The leaders for the week are ns follows: Mon- day, Mra. A. P, Dil; Tuesday, Mrs H.R. Smith; y, Mrs. 'T.C. Clendenning; Thursday, Mrs, W. G, Powers: Friday, Mrs. W. J. Kermott; Saturday, Mis. M. B. Willard. <The Rev- Mr. Bruce will preach this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in Temperance Church, corner of Noble and Ohio streets. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Rev. James Kay Applebee will preach in Ap~ irty-ffth xtreot und Vin~ plebee Hall, corner of ‘Thirty-t ant Eonnes avenue, in, the morning. Subject: “if God Exists, What Then?” No evening lecture. —The Liberal Keunion will be held at No. 218 West Madison streetat2:30 p.m. - —Dr. Mathewson will preach to the Advent Chris- tiansin the church at No. 91 Greon street, morning and evening. —The Kev. J. N. Morrison will preach in the Wasb- Ingtonian Home Chapel at p.m. ‘ —The Rev. S, Shepherd will preach in the Madison Street Indvpendent Mission in the evening. 7 —Elder Mark IL. Forscutt srl promt in the Lat- No. 19 West Lake street, at fect: “Christ. Was He Ly r M. Carnie, the Scotch Evan- gelists, will hold meetings at3 and 733 p.m. ever’ evening in the Gospel ‘lent, corner of Warren an Oxden avenues. =Mra. Cor L. Y. Richmond will conduct the sery- Sos of the First Socloty of Spiritualists tn the West End Opera-House, No. 4:1 West Madison street, a6 10:45 a. m, an 45p.m. Morning subject: ~Is There a Setenco of Spiritualism?” Evoning subject chosen bY ike Diseiptes of Christ wil 4 Ne ‘ciples of will mect at: at No, 29 West Randolph street, Bee —Dr. Wiggin will bold a Spiritualists’ and mediums? meeting at J p. m. at No. dB West Madison streot. —The Rey. Dr. Lecky will preach this morning, at Pucitic Garden Alisston. southeast corner of Ciark and Van Buren streets. Subject: “All Nations Shall Be Blessed in Christ." Col. George 1. Clarke will lead the Gospel meeting in the evening. —Mr. Needham will preach this morning at the Chi+ cago Avenue Church. Sr. Moody will meet with his Sunday-seboo! on Chicago avenue to-day ut J o'clock. ‘The schoo! is the Jargest in the city. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. nh, No. wy EPISCOPAL. May 9.—Sunduy after Ascension. May 4.—Fast. CATHOLIC. May S-Sunday within the Octave of the As- cension; st. Gregory Nazianzea, B. C.D. May 10.—St, Antoninus, B. C.; SS. Gordian and Epimnehus, MM. May seramey tf A vefore the Latin Gate (from jay 6). May 12.—-SS. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilis, and Pancratius, 1M. May 13.—Octave of Ascension, May 14.—Foria. May 15.—Vigil of Pentecost—Fast. CLARENCE DAVIS. The Bigamist Gets Five Years and a Thousand-Dollar Fine. ‘The Criminal Court was crowded yesterday morning, so far as seats were concerned, the main attraction being the closing ansument of Stato’s-Attorney Mills, who drew better than the evidence, though the latter in a spicy case is usually more relished by the curious than the speeches of counsel. Even the benches in the gallery were occupied,—a great compliment to the brilliant prosecutor. Davis sut beside his lawyer while Bir. Mills was nddressing the jury,and several times, when his infamy was being referred to, doubtless wished he could dink through the floor. Once or twice be seemed togetangry at the language used, but showed no disposition to resent what was said, as when Col. Cameron mude his speech. The three wives were seated Inu row on tho prosecution side of the bar, fucing their husband, Miss Lynch being flanked by her futher and mother, but Mary Ann and Maggie sat by themselves. Davis looked hard at one or the other now and then, en- deavoring to attract their attention, but they ignored him. The women were differently affucted by what the State's Attorney said. Mary Ann smiled at the slaps given Davis, Clara seemed indifferent, while Maggie's feel- ings were evidently hurt by the harsh though just allusions to bim. MR. MILLS spoke to three points only. First, as to Davis, chnracterizing him as a mora! bigamist, & rulner of women, man who was not aman, bute heartless, devilish scoundrel; second, us to the law, not disputing the proposition that if Magyie had a husband the marriuge with her was void; and third, us to a conspiracy to blacken Maggie's churucter in order to sbleld the prisoner, Mr. Mills claiming thut the testi- mony of the truthful witmesses proved beyond doubt that she was nut Mattie Snell. He concluded at twenty minutes of 1, and the Court then gave the ordinary Instructions, the case of course turningon the Snell marringe, if the jury believed the evidence olfered by the defense regarding it. ‘The jury left the room at aquartor of 1, and were out just fifteen minutes. When they re- turned there were not over 150 people present,—- the others having gone off under the impres- ald take the twelve ap hour or. two to make up thoir minds. Of the wives, only Clara was on band. - THE VERDICT. ‘When the Clerk read, * We, the jury, find the defendant gullty a3 charged in the second count of the indictment, and fix bis punishment at tive years in the Penitentiary and a tue of $1,000," the spectutors begun to applaud, but the nolse wus ut once suppressed by the bailiffs. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were evidently pli but Cluru betrayed no emotion ‘ond swallow~ ing the lumpin her throat. Davis himself was very upgry; he really believed that he would be acquitted. ‘When the other wives, who were in the Stute’s Attorney's office, heard of tno result, they were happy, though Magyie ufterwards seemed sorry. ‘hough the most wronged of the lot, the defense having tricd to show that sho wna a prostitute, she appurently cares more for Davis than the others do. When Davis was xbout to be taken hack to jail he requested the privilege of seeing Clara and bidding ber good-by, but her paren re- fused, and he went off with the bailiff growling at their * inhumanity.” ‘A reporter saw him subsequently, and he abused Maggie, and said he hadn't had a fair show; though about the only thing be com- plained of was a luck of money to get witnesses. ‘He said he would rather be behind the bars and chained to the tloor thun live with a harlot. . He had done nothing which grated on his conscience, —wus u much-ubused, innocent man, and woul be vindicated yet. ‘Mr. Van Buren made a motion for a new trial, but it is questionable if he is successful in that direction, for to all except counsel there would scem to be nothing to justify it. In cuse tho motion is overruled an ap- peal may be taken to the Supreme Court, but that is doubtful, since Davis has 00 money to pay for the prepnration of the record. His friends believe him guilty, and will not help him, so the chances are that he will go to Joliet and serve out hig sentence,—the limit under the statute, but not as much punishment as | erime deserved. —— SONG-SOUNDS. Softly through the open casement, on the nighh, ‘breeze borne ulong, Steals the fond, inspiring cadence of a dear and olden song; To my spirit speaks it kindly, in a soft, metodi- ‘ous rbyme, Ofa ole that often woke it in an unforgotten t i Leonore, in ev'ry measure of the melody | hear The tones that Denth hus silenced, through the ev'ning swelling clear; ; ‘And I funcy--bleased tauey—that thy spirit hov- ers where Drift tho strains of that old ballad to me on the summer-air. Leonore, the tender cadence of that song wo loved so well Falls to-night upon my ead heart Iike a cherished hope’s last knell; Yetl listen while cuch sweet note wakens yearn- ings only vain, For thoneart t tho’ bowed in sorrow, findsa pleas- ure oft in pain. Now,while softly on the silence steals the melody alon; Leonore, heed'st thou tho singer? O beloved! hear'st Uwu the song? "Bove the stars that pulse in splendor drifts its cadence sweet? To theo 7 Come they not, those sounds so hallowed, ‘cross ‘Eternity’s cal ses? On the alr like incense rise they; like a prayer sweetly sal By a mourner, meek and holy, for the pure and worshiped dead, Floats the measure of that dear song heaven- ward, beloved. And O Leonore! cun'st thou not hearken to our song’s sweet love-sounds ST THe MAPLES. x Si. WrLsom. Curious lake on Light and te =. Young Sctentist. Ifa piece of woul be placed in a decanter of water, and the focus of « large burning-glass be thrown upon it, the wood will be completely charred, though the sides of the decanter through which the rays pass will not be cracked _ nor In any wuy uffected, nor the water percept- ibly warmed. If the wood be taken out, and the rays be thrown on the water, neither the vessei nor its contents will be in the least affected; but, if a piece of metal be put into the water, it soon becomes too hot to touched, and the water will presently boi. Though pure water alone, contained in a transparent vessel, cannot be heated, yet, if by a little ink it be made of n dark color, or the vessel itself be blackened, the effect speedily takes place. Pathetic Advertisement. ‘This pathetic. advertisement appears in the Berlin ung: “Twins ure.come tw me for the third time. Thistime a boy and a girl Lentreat my friends and patrons to sup- Excellent butter, well ‘wpe ined