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iit THE CHICAGO TRIB RELIGIOU The Jewish Exodus in the . Light of Modern Re= search. > Pharaoh's Pursuit of the Is- raelites Across the Red Sea, Ernest Renan’s Religious Belief - and Pri- rate Life—The Doubter of His Doubts, " Wothodism and Tobacco—The Great _ Moral Test for Future The- ologians, pln of Episcopal Visitation Adopted by the Metho- dist Bishops. General Notes, Personals, Sunday Reveries, Services To-Day. COMMUNION. BY MARY PACKARD ROLLINS. My pulses throb with joy the while +” Jsitat my Redecmer's feet, To catch, as Mary did of old, ‘Bis words of counsel, low and sweet “Dear Lord,” in ecstasy I cry, “] would forevermore abide Here, where tho grates of Paradise On noiseless hinges open wide.” In tenderness He makes reply, “Communion may indeed be blest, Bat if thou lovest me. arise ‘And by thy devds thy love attest.” ‘Thus strengthened by His grace divine, Tfind exch act of service sweet, * And wait, expectunt of the Joy Eternal, at His blessed feet. ERNEST RENAN. BJS RELIGIOUS HELIKF AND HIS PRIVATE LIFE. Londen Truth, Emest Renan was born fifty-seven years ago, and was destined by his parents for the priest- hood. Itwas while terminuting his studies at the seminary of St. Sulpice, in Paris, that he be- gen toentertain scruples as to the reality of his yoeation. He was already an excellent Hebrew scholar, and well versed in Aramaic and Aravic; while be had few rivals in his mastery of Greek and Latin. The Church of Rome considers the knowledge of tuis lust tongue as alone indispen- sable for those who aro to follow the ecclesinsti- cal profession, being wise in her generation; for 8 man Who has never read the Scriptures in the originul is less likely to be assailed with doubts asto the previse nature of their historic bearing. Buill the Church encourages those of her servants who wish to go turther, to read St. Paul and Isaiah in tho languazes in which they dictated. Ali she asks of them, however, is, that they shall implicitly aveept her solution of any ditliculty that may occur to them. Unfortunately Renan was not one of those youtbs who are content to take their religion on trurL He usked puzzling questions, and instead of receiving satisfactory answers, was bidden to bevvare of intellectual pride, and warned that th, Search after truth might be pushed too far. Tis spoke the preceptors. He turned sadly fom them, and tried to soe if any of his brother 1 apils could help him, but he was too far the in- gilectual and ioral superior of most of his foung contemporaries to gain much assistance an that quarter. He fell back at last, as.we have nost of us to do, on himself; guve up all at- lempts to believe that which seemed incredible tous unaided reason; and finnily abandoned a “miigion the primus: tenet of which insista on the fact that man is fibt sullicient of himself to comprehend the scheme of the universe: and must, therefore, submit his judgment to the deasons of Revelation. One must bo candid; and, while regretting {ebietly for his own suke) the position which Henan bas taken up, must admit that he shows none of the bitterness of the renegade. Indeed, the term cannot in fairness be applied to him, He professes, with’ perfect sincerity, to honor the communion he fas quitted, and to admire the virtues of the great muss of its ministers. He is no advocate of disestablishment, uo icon~ oclast. Nay, he has been nt paius to wssure the world that the spirit of Christ's teachings is the best medicine for the ills of our age. Ina striking prefuce to one of the later editions of the“Life ot Jesus,‘he bids the workmen of Paris dismiss the idea that socicty can be re- ‘oreunized on the basis of matcrialis 5 What, then, is Itenen's quarrel with ortho- doxy? Simply that he denies the possibility of miracles; and there‘ore rejects what humble Christians consider «8 among the most striking roof of the diviue missioa of Christ. In the famous * Life’ he makes nu serious attempt to disprove any alleved iniracle. tinding it more von- Yenient to nssume that the history of euch one ot them must, of necessitr, be fabulous. ‘The story of the resurrection of Lazurus puzzles him a lit- tle, the evidence being obviously of the strong- est; but he disposes of it to his own satisfaction by declaring that on this one occasion the Foun- der of our Fuith was probably guilty of fraud and conspinicy. ‘The merits of the * Vie de Jesus,” such asthey fare, muy be resolved into two, both purely lte- nurs. The French is excellent, and the descrip- tive passuges, though tov often marred by grave faults of taste, are vivid and picturesque. The critical value of the book is slight. “That jetof rose-water,” growled Strauss contemptuously, “will not extinguish the altar fire.” Bunsen aigbed think it-nan had been brought up by the Jesuits, “They just managed.” he suid, “to spoil him for a scholar.” There is more truth in this remark than appears at first sight, Yor Benan bas fought with the weapons of tho Jesuits. He can scarcely be termed a fair cou- troversialist; perhups it would be juster to say becannot always be so considered. Occusionally he will sum up a controversy with thut impar tality wnich, epringing, #s {t dues, from the con- Hict ‘of a multitude of noble sympathies, is Among the highest manifestations of genius. The statement in one of his essays of the rela- tive logical strength of Catholicism and Protest- autism is an admiruble specimen of temperate ‘ad lucid exposition, whether we agree or not Wihthe writer. His’ opinion, by the way, is is this: As aguinst the Protestantism of the Thiny-nine Articles, or the Westminster Con- i Home can claim the victory. But the tew Protestantism, which follows the spirit mther thau the letter. the ereed of the Arnolds, £0d Maurices, and Stanleys, scems to him to be on stronger foundations than those of ~ dogmatic Catholicism. Renan's own faith scems to be a vague Pan- theism, with a bulf-hope of the immortality of fhe soul, anda fancy that justice may possibly done to mankind hereafter. This you guther frum his private conversation as much us from isbuoks. Indeed, it is iu a téte-a-téte inter {lew thathe is seen at his best; for be then not for effect, but simply to explain his Meaning and elicit your own opinions. He is Rota bit proud, and will listen as courteously to the crude utterances of a jad fresh from col! 28 be would to the well-welghed expressions of a Jowett or a Dollinger. He knows that the opin- X26 of youth have their value as well as those of He is absolutely frank in conversation, reveal- ing bimedif xs a pure skeptic, in the true sense of much-abused word. He suspends his igggment on the great problems of natural re- fon. He doubts of God: doubts of bis own doubt, and jealously scratinizes the causes of Risunbelief. “Sometimes he startles vou by such paradox as the following: “I will believe tn Christianity the moment I tind anybody else who does." He will add: * E know several Very good en who call themselves Christians; but each ‘nd ali would find it necessary to explain away score of Christ's precepts, if questioned as to Whether they strictly followed their Master's injunctions. No, Christianity is an ideal dreamed by a poct—never realized. But what is the Bseof trying to attain to ahight which even Fénéion and Lacorduire could not reach?” le answer is sufliciently near atband. Re- Ran will probably have pointed out the weakness othisown argument before you have time to 4060. ‘Then, huving restricted the orthodox Tew (far better than most champions of religion sould), he proceeds to ussuil It from another side. ‘ou depart from this intellectual feast con- Tinced that the giver of it isa man of the quick- Sst susceptibilities, of the kindliest feelings, and of the keenest wit; but perhaps. too, recalling ‘ome words from & greater bouk than any our se bas produced about him that doubteth, who is like a wave of the sea, driven with the Wind and tossed," and feeling that not from such comes the regenerution of a country. The events of Henan's life, apart from the Publication of his different works, have been cw and uneventful. His nomination to the chair of Hebrew in the College of France (82) Provoked such disturlances—liberal and cleri- sal students yelling at one another and at the Professor during the deiivery of his inaugural Pea rat Yenan wdopted tHe simple ex" of ig the pexce ving no Kesar ‘The leisure Tous gained he devoted ae inging out. the” “idfe of gesus’s Tuy cane 18 appot ment The Minister cared nothing about the if he had an: Opgnlon. was nither on the elde of Renan than crey. But ue could not opeuly support the beresinren; and was fal 3 ‘ain to be content with bestowing a comfortable Place in the Imperial Wascty Upon him. Atter Sept. 4, 1870, Renan aus ren} Rated, Hoot creot OF Hebrew; but be ‘or the Republic. The syste government he most dimires are the “enion aod ihe Prussian. Modern democrucy vexes his can redisoul by its vulgarity. so any checks are aA ben wibich may help’ to restrain its action. 0 hereditary aris compulsory military Serviog, 0 King.—nay, a Pope,—were a better ruler than 4 Parliament clected by grocers and tailors, with no one to keep them in order. M. Renan's private life has never, by his worst enemies, been made the subject of neprouct. He issoamfable 1 man‘ that upanioup, his old tutor, cherished a hope almost to the last that they would some day ba reconciled to one another, and very likely her: will, in a happier manner than that imagined by the good Bishop. ISRAEL’S EXODUS. DR. DRUGSCH-HEY’S THIRTY YEARS’ EXPLORA- TION OF THE HOLY LAND. if the fact is properly considered that Dr. Brugsch-Bey (under the patronage of the Egyptlan Government) spent thirty years in exploration and in the study of inscriptions, in conjunction with the emincut French Savant, Mons. Marictte-Bey, the great importance and value of “ The True Story of the Exodus” will be fully appreciated. We ascertain from the volume that the most important fact established by their labors is the verification of the chrono- logical tables of Manetho, and the proof of the high antiquity of the Kingdom. This antiquity, beside which the origin of every other historic nation is modern, is made clear by muny inde- pendent proofs, sumetimes jarring against each other, but agreeing in general tendency. It was not considered advisable, owing to tho extent and expensive character of Dr. Brugsch- Bey's work, to reprodue it entire, yet, to en- able the reader to understand the historic connection, the compiler has made a brief summnary of leading events, and given an accountof the mosteminent of the Pharaohs, while reference is made to the early races, to the Royal residences, and to the Hyksos, under the Jast of whom Joseph wns the favorit miulster, Many-perspns might be indifferent to | the history of Raises the Gredt, unless they knew thht it was his daughter, the Princess Meri, who found the infant Moses; Aahmes would be a meaningicss name, unless we knew that he overthrew and seated himself on the throne of the Phuraoh, who had been the patron of Joseph; Mineptuh would uot be noticed. un- less we were told that he was the Pharaoh of the Exodus. upon whom the judgments of Heaven fell, and who was drowned with his host in pursuiug his slaves, It will be interesting, even to the tirmest believer in the literal in- Spiration of the Reoks of Mosc¢s, to know that although no reference whatever is mado in Egyptian history in regard to the Hebrews and their miruculoils esespo from bondage, the Scripture narrative, when rightly interpreted, is found toaccord known ovents and dates, and with the perumnent facts of geography. ‘Translators and commentators have darkened nnd perplexed the sucred record, and clerical chronologists have made havoc with arithmetic, and science, und history, in tlaing the unkuowabie anno mundi asa point of reckoning, but in the new light shed upon the story of the Exodus by Dr. Brugsch-Bey it_ comes out with wonderful vi idness. It will be seen, therefore, that Mr. Un- derwood’s compitation ‘rofers mainly to the set- Uement of the tamily of Jacob, aud their exo- dus usa people under Moses. ‘The uctual track of the exodus bus tor ages been the toplc of de- bate and controversy autony theologians, histo rians, und critics. Tut that the passuge was made through the Red Seu bas been commonly Supposed judubitable, whatever doubts may have existed as to the precise point at which tho receding hosts of Israel muy have struck that seain cilecting their miraculous escape from Egypt, It is the object of the present work to show that this impression is entirely erroneous, aud in reaching a new projection of the Hebrew route Dr. Brugsch-Bey professes to be guided by the literal texts of ‘the Hebrew records, 23 well as by light reflected from the monumental remains of Exypt. ** Far from diminishing the value of the sacred recurds on the subject of the departure of the Hebrews out of Egypt, the ‘pian monuments.” sys Dr. Brugsch-Bey, “ou the faith of which we are compelled 10 change our idens respecting the passage of the Red Sea, contribute rather ‘to faruish the most striking’ proofs of the Veracity of the Biblical narratives, und thus to reassure weak and skepticul minds of thesupreme authority and the xuthenticity of the sacred writings." Dr. Brugsch-Bey shows that in the eurly days of Egypt its eastern border fand, situated on tho sandy banks of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, wus largely occupied by “people of Semitic origin, who have lett abundant traces of their presence there in the names of persons and places. He tinds that the Scriptural designa- Hon said to have been given vy the Exyptian Pharsob to Joseph, his Vizier, ig a mere He- brew transliteration of the Egyptian title “Za-p-u-nt-p-an-ankh.” which; Ucing trans lated. means, “The Governor of the district of the Temple of Ankh,” that-is, the district subsequently kaown as the “ Sethroite nome.” ‘He holds that Joseph was Vizier under a * Hyk- sos” Pharavliz that the“ Hyksous" were Semitic conquerers of Egypt; that the appointment of a Hebrew Vizier was,’ therefore, in. accordance Mith the government truditions of that time; that on the expulsion of the [Hyksos intruders all traces of their presence and pow ‘as, far as possible, detuced from the Egyptian mon- uments; that this iconoclastic spirit bus dimin- ished, “if not extinguished, the hope that ¥gyptological sciences will ever find in the ex- isting monuments and hieroglyphics any record of the Semitic domination, of tue Hebrew cap- tivity, or of the Hebrew exodus: that Apopi was probably the Hyksos Pharaoh under whom Jos- eph ruled; that Ramses IL (Sesostris of the Greeks) was the Phrravh of the Oppression, and. thut Mineptah 11. was the Pharaoh of the Exo- dus. But it ison the route of the exodus that Dr, Brugsch-Bey hus condensed the best results of his scientific labors and researches, Accepting the itinerary of the Bible as bis his guide, be professes to find, in the geographical names preserved on anciont menuments and papyrus, a distinct indication of the path that was actu ally pursued. ‘That path, insteud of leading to the ited Sea, lends to along tongue of land Jying in the northeastern part of Egypt. betwcen the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Sirbonis. Along ‘this tongue of land ran the regular bighway be- tween Egypt and Palestine, but on the Sirbo- nian side it was beset with bozs and guicksands Which ave made it equally famous in, history and in song. We read in the pages of Diodorus that whole armies have perished in their murch along this trencberous path, and it is of this same tract, “Betwixt Damiata, and Mount Cus- sius old,” that, Milton sings in a well-known line of the ‘4 Pabndise Lost.” Dr. Brugsch-Bey's constructiok of the overthrow which here over- took the ariny of Pharaoh is as follows: “After the Hebrews, marching on foot, had cleared the flats which extend between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Sirbonis, a great wave took by surprise the Egyptian cavalry and the Cuptains of the war-chariots who pursued the Hebrews. Hampered in their movements by their frightened borses and their disordered chariots, these Captains and cavaliers suffered what, in the course of history, has occa- sionally befallen not only simple travelers, but whole armies.” The Hebrew w translated “the ed Sea " mean in the original * the sea of sedges,” and Ithas been common to suppose that the Red Sea was meant by this designation because its bottom is covered with sedge and sea-weed. But Dr. Brugsch-Bey maintains that succinctly this mame was applied to all the tmurshes and lagoons which fringe the Egyptian coust of the Mediterranean Sex, and that a wrong translation of the term was given after a knowledge of this geographical fact bad been Jost. Though it may raisea great many new ques- tions and arguments, the fact cunfnot be denied that Dr. Brugsch-Bey's work settles many mat- ters in regard to the Exodus, which have hereto- fore been indefiuitly and vagnely understood. It must, therefore, be considered-a remarkablo addition to religious literature. METHODISM AND TOBACCO. AGREAT MORAL TEST FOR FUTURE THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS. : E New York Times. Gloom sits enthroned in our Methodist col- leges and theological seminaries. It has always been the habit of Gloom to maintain a sitting position, just as it has been the habit of Sorrow 1 stalk and of Starvation to stare. In the pres- ent instance, Gloom has sat down in the locali- ties above mentioned in consequence of the con- duct of the recent Methodist Anuual Conference. That body has decided by a vote of 125 to 83 that hereafter every candidate for the Mothodist ministry shall be requested to pledge himself to abstain from the use of tobacco. This is a noti-" fication to young Methodists who are. preparing for the ministry that they must choose between the pulpit and the pipe. We need not wonder that in these circumstances they are filled with unspeakable wretchedness. . From time immemorial the Methodist minister has been permitted to use tobacco to his heart's content, .The itinerant preacher has often smoked his corn-cob pipe as a protest aguinst the prim formalism of the Episcopulian clergy- man, who holds that pure Havana cigars are alone in keeping with the spirit of the rubric. The Methodist Bishop has found that a paper of Hine-cut constitutes a link between him and the Deople; and it 1s said that the Western states- man, when temporarily destitute of tobacco, neyer applies to 2 Methodist Bishop, without having his opinion of Methodism greatly hight- ened by the -hearty and generous manner with which his application is met. An {identity of views as to tobacco has frequently led to the es- tablishment of fraternal intercourse botween Baptist and Methodist ministers, in spite of their differences in regard to water, and the severest Presbyterian preacher, who has just borrowed a match from his Methodist brother, feela bound in honor to avoid thrusting extreme Calvinistic doctrines upon him, ; Suddenly there falls upon the Methodist stu- are the English” dent, as he is quiotly smoking his pipe in the seclusion of the Seminary, tho news that the Methodist Conference hus’ ordered him to put out his'pipe or to whundon all hope of preaching ina Methodist, Pulpit. Tn his flest gurprise und indignation be will very probubly assert that the Methodist intnisters now in nective service are seeking to make themselves a priviléged cless, with the sole right to smoke, chew, and snug. Zor itis undeniable that the members of the Conference which passed the anti-tovaceo reso- Widon are exempr from its operation. They still cling to their tobacco. ‘Thoy hold that while strong tobacco is mect for Methodist Bishops and ministers of mature age, the young candi- dates for the ministry are too wenk to be trusted with it. They expect to pledge the young mon t refrain frou the weed, while thoy’ thomselves bave thelr pockets full of it. ‘They mean to cast out the cigur from the candidate's mouth with- out Urst casting out the pipe from their own mouths. Thus there will shortly be two dis- tinct orders of Methodist ministers—the old men, who smoke and the young men who are wholly cut off from tobacco. Nuturatly. the theological stndeut will resent the seeming seltishness on the part of tho members Of the Conference, and will claim that it ought not to fy upon them burdens whieh it refuses to bear.” "PO? Iudignution, however, will not’ mend the mat- ter. However bard it mny be, it is settled that hereafter no man can become a Methodist min- ister who is not willing to sacrifice bis pipe or his chewing tobacco, as the case may be. In those circutnstances we may exnect to sce a de- creaso in the number of candidates for the Methodist ministry. Many young mon will feel jthnt the thine hus come for a fresh oxamination “of the clnims of the Baptist or Presbyterian de- nomination, They will carefully stady the meuning of the verb baptizo, and having decided that, whatever else it may meun, it docs not ex- press any hostility to tobacco, they will forth- With offer themselves as candidutes for the Baptist ministry. Or with the conviction that perhaps: the claims of Calvinism have never een fairly oxaimined by thom, they will devote their time to 2 thorough study of the dectrines of predestination, election, and the persever- ance of the saints, and’ finding that thoy cun be beld by a’ smoker as weil as un abstuimer from tobacca, they will _ reject Arminius and all his’ works, und will become earnest Presbyterians. It ‘will not take much ingenuity for the Methodist theological student to discover that the Conference, in re- quiring bim to abstain from tobacco, has added anew article to tho falth, and has violated the spirit of St. Paul’s counsel in regard to the eut- ing of ment, Thus the Conference Will be con- victed in the youthful theolozicar mind of heresy, and it is possible that some enthusiastic and deiermined young man will establish w nev denomination, the cardinal principle of which will be the right and duty of smoking as a pro- test aguiust the heresy of the atiti-tobacco dogmn of the regular Methodists, if the Methodist ministers really believe that the use of tobacco is wrong, they should set the example of abandoning it. ‘The Methodist Bizhop should bring his paper of “solace,” the punister should bring bis pipe, aud the clnss- ly leader his snuff and solemnly burn them before the penple in token of thelr reformation. ‘Then they can with consistency require the young men to give up tobacco, aud cun huve a reason- able hope that thir advice will be cheerfully followed. METHODIST BISHOPS. PLAN OF EPISCOPAL VISITATION. Tho following plan ot Episcopal visitation has been arranged by the Bishops of the M.E.Church for the fall Conferences of If Conference. Place. Time. | Bishop. Alabama Koster. Austin, Laven. Biuek Hills “Sis: 27; Warren. Sept.23|Sferrill, i Petaluma... ept.15 | Wiley. Gentral Ati Montzome: .| Fuster. Central China ‘Mission... kin Klang. Simpson, Central German] Mission. ‘Cleveland... S| Andrews, Ceutral-{lo Palrbury Hurst Syracuse ... . | Foster. Van Wert: Peck, Huntington. Foster. Chicago German] Watertown, | urst, ‘Cincinuatt.., Mi Peck, Colerady Warron. Columbia Wiles, db: Warren. Foss, |Copent: Merrill. |Chariton.. Andrews. Andrews, foster. Bowman, Huven, {Stnpson. Horneiisville....jOct. 6) Bowman org Mturton’s Chapel |Nov. 18] Foster. Geruany "aad Switzerland. July 2) Merrill, Oct, 2B) iaven. Sept ib! Hurris, Sept. $) Foss. Sept. §'kturst. fAug-12| simpson, Oct. g}ituven. Sept. $! Bowman, :| Minneapolis. ct. 6 Maris. Virginia City’ °-2./July 231 Wiley. Nebraska City... /Sept30| Warren, Kearnes.... Warren. Nevudu o-| Virginia City. 23|Wiley. North China 3is-/ Pexin, Simpson, North Obio.. Pec! Nortawest } Harris. Bowman, Nonnwest iowa. Warren, Nortuwest Nor+ Southeast “indi- ona. nasees| Southern “Call fornis., Souther: {Shetbyvilte......! Los Angeles..... Wiley. Haven. 1|Fuss, Merri. Merrith, Roster, Haven. Andrews, i Wiley. Western uit Wurst West Fexas. sss Huven, West Virginia....] Huntington. Peek, West Wisconsin. |Pintteville farris. Wisconsin, <[Avpleton Harris, THE JESUITS. LEGISLATION AGAINST THE ORDER IN FRANCE, Hurper’s Weekly. Tho conflict of the Government of France with the Jesuits is likely to have far-reaching conse- quences. It affects the whole political situation, and may touch the stability of the Republic a8, now organized. It has already created adivision between the moderate and the radical Repub- licans, and has put an end to tho fusion of the Bonapartists with the Royalists, It has sub- jected the Republic to the charge of being at war with religion,—a charge which the present Ministers, like their predecessors, indinantly” resent. Ina conilict with the Roman Catholic Church, as a Church, the Republie would cer- tainly incur defeat; for the French peusant re- spects his parish priest, though he may choose his own course in politics, The De Freycinet Ministry have, however, taken cure to discrim- inate between the Jesuits and other teuching corporations, and notably the Christiun Brothers, who have under their care many of the younger children of the nation. The fucts of the situation are brietly these: The Ferry bill, al- reudy described in Harper's Weekly, was left as a legacy to the present Ministry by its predeces~ sor, having already passed the Assembly. The bill restored to the State the sole right of con- ferring ucademic degrees, and contained the famous Art. VIL, which runs in these words: “No person beionging to an unauthorized re- ligious community is allowed to govern a public or private educational establishment, or to give instruction thervin.”” ‘This article was avowedly aimed at the Jesuits, but_ was rejected by the Senate; the Assembly and the Senate were thus brought into collision. The Assembly is the real wer in the State; but fortunately, perhups, ‘or the present quiet of France, M. reveinet ‘bas not the intense anti-Jesuit zeal of M. Ferry. He, however, warned the Senate that tho rejec- tion of the seventh articie of the bill would be followed by the strict upplication of existing laws against unauthorized religious conzrega- tions. On the 16th of March the Assembly di- rected the Ministers 80 to act. ‘The French laws against the Jesuits ro back to the times of Louis XV. and Louis XVf. Under the first of those Kings the order was suppressed in France, and its"members expeiled from the Kingdom. The Republic in 1(% dissolved all ionustic orders; the First Empire in 10t created. the distinction between authorized and unauth- orized religious corporations, and forbude the creation of any religious community without the formal sanction of the State. Practically these laws have been slackly administered, so that the unauthorized religious corporations pow enroll 20,000 members. On the 30th of last Murch President Grévy issued a decree, which closes with these words: “Three months, dating from the present decree, are accorded,tu the su-” called non-authorized> aggregation, or Associa- tion of Jesus, to dissolve, and to evacuate the establishments it occupies In the territory of the Republic. This intervul will be prolonzed to the 3st. of August for the _ estublish- ments in which literary or scientific instruc- tion is iven jby the Association to the young.” Other unauthorized religious corpora- Yons may obtain legal standing by legislation or ‘through the Councit of State; but the Jesuits have peremptory notice given them to dissolve and disperse. This decree goes beyond the terms of Art. VLL; the article dissolved the schools onl; ans teeree: all Jesuit establishments of every description. ‘Phe tirst: elects of this notice given by the Government was an outburst of anger from the clerical orgins, ‘unfriendly criticism from the moderate tepublican press, and approval from the-Radicals. But M. ‘De Freycinet is not cred- ited with much zeal in the cause; ke is believed to accept his situation us a political necessity. Hecanuot govern without the concurrence of the Assembly; tho Assembly is resolved to- strike the Jesuita; and the State Minister, as in duty bound, delivers tho blow. But tho publi- | This prevented the inti cation of the decrees (there were: two) was fol- lowed by a genuine surprise. Prinoe Nupoleon, the Bonnapurtist leader, gave them in a publisked letter hig "ungualified spproy- al. He claims that tia decrees are not perscoution, but only.a return toan fndis- pntable principle of public luw—the principle, hamely. which subjects the oxistence of = religious order to the supervision of the political power. This, nithough not. an: English or Armcrican, Is a Frenets principle of government, and go far the Republic is in harmony with the traditions of the nution for more thun 100 years. ‘Thus the contlict, now rife throughout the Continent of Europe, bus entered on another phase. Unquestiogubly Jesuitism is a pérpetunl conspiracy ayainsyshuman liborty, but the best method of counterworking it {s for the Conti- nental States 2 serions problem. Belgium and Switzerland have undertaken, as was pointed out ina previous article, the supervision of all educution; France suppresses Jesuit schools. The members of the Company of Jesus will, however, renin on French soll, and cun con: tinue their work as educators In’ other schools than their own. The mischievous leeven will be dispersed more widely, but will still work in the minds of youth. .The leaven is most iischievous, for: the chief lesson of Jesuitism is that .“wo live ip times that are evil, and amidst institutions that ought to be undermined. pendiug the moment whon they can be boidiy attucked and overthrown.” ‘The danger to tho Republic is d real one, end the Republic is not strong. The Romnn Catholic Church and the Government eye. ouch other with suspicion, und a collision. may at any:time be precipitated, Already Bisbops have givon n9- tice of 1 purpose to disregard’ the warning, and have been reminded by the Ministry that the State is supreme, und will cause the laws to be respected. Thus in allthe changes of French polities, tho Church ‘remuins. an important fuctor.' The reactionary demonstration of Mar- shal MacMahon, which ‘brought his udaiuistra- tion tox close, is believed to have been inspired by priests. ‘The Chureh ubhors the Hevolution and all Its consdquences, will have none of modern ideas, und is the natural alley of the reactionary party, ‘Che moderato Republicans may for # time hold fn ebeck their more radical brethren; but the Chureh and the State, like two wary an: tagonists, will continue each to’ watch every movement which the other mikes. GENERAL NOTES, { During 1879 the American’ Bible Society ais- Dbursed $24,223 in the houle field and 393,963 abroud,—a total of $338,180. A missing MS.—the Commentary on Proverbs, by'the famous Abraham Abpn Ezra—has come, at length, into possession of, the Bodleian Lib- rary at Oxford, iZ A new momoir of Jobn Wesley 1s inan ad- vanced state of preparation,,under the auspices of tho Christian Knowledge Society. It is trom the pen of a Mr. Urlin, who years ngo wrote an essuy on the great founder,pf Methodism, Mrs. John C. Grexul. of Boston, who has made large donations to tho Presbyterian missions, has given $100,000 for the! development of a higher order of ‘Sunday-school Uterature, ‘The Golden Rule is fenrtul that money alone won't do jt. Spurgeon sald in a recent sermon: “The wor- | ship of the goiden calf 1s pretty general now. There is too much bowing down and cringing before itin all classes of society,- No cud of dodges nre tried to got a scraping of one of the creature's hoofs.” . A church has been erected in Kansas at a cost of $10 in actual cach payment and something added for labor. The labur was furnished by the brethren belonging to the churob, and given free of charge. ‘The materials of the churol chiefly earth and sod. Thero will be no mort- gage on this church, For the first time since the reign of Henry VIE, a military mass ig now celebrated In the ‘Tower of London for the benefit of the Roman Catholic officers and men of the Guards sta- tioned there. ‘This result bss been mulaly brought ubout by the Rev. Father Bowden, tor- merly an officer in the- Household Brigade." ~ The work of tho American Bible Soolety is thus summarized for the year 1879: Fumilies visited... ....-.c+ ++, 20+ BOT85T Families found without ihe Seriptures...100,687 Destitute familes supplied... ON STL ‘668 Individuals supplied in addition. Subbath-schools supplied... Anadmirnble report on the Aftican mission was presented at the meeting of the American Raptist Missionary Union at Saratoga Springs. ‘The report contained facts of remarkablo Inter- est, showing the earnest d@ire of educated young colored men to preach the Gospel in Af- Tica. ‘Twenty missionarles ould speedily be sent if tho menos ean be provided. ‘Tho strict Caurch of Euglend party regard Queen Victoria as a very bid churchwoman, She has built a castle in Scotlind and occupicd her Palace of Holyrood, but the beautiful chapel there Is us rovtless as on the duy she first suw it. Again, when she tinst;went to Balmorat it was noticed that she took a great suite, in- cluding everf her French mal buirdresser, but not her domestic chaplain, ‘The second Sunday in June is generally ob- served by the Universalist: this country as “Children’s Sunday.” On day. the. ahildren Qo the singing In'the chu :the exercises are nudupted to their son refit. This Sunday morning, at the usual hour for morni worship, the members af St.‘Paul’s Church. will Joiu with the little ones of the parish in thé ob- servance of this pleasant custom. Several chil- , dren will be baptized, and flowers and birds will add to the cheerfulness of tho service. The Austin (Nev.) Herald says: “We are sorely in need of a preacher, but we don't want aay cheap trash, We want a good, muscular Christian who can snatch sinners by the scruff Of the neck and drag them howling up the plane of righteousness; one who will not drink more than be can hold,'and who’ will not copy after ‘Beecher further than tostealbls sermons. Such Q man will get a right smart layouthere. If he can play the tiddle tor the regular weekly dance it will augment his salary somewhat.” Among the displays of, religious industry and “prosperity made at the Muay meetings, the well- to-do and prolific American Bible Society has helditsown. For surely it is some return for the 280,000 receipts tbat 1,958,039 copies of the Scriptures or parts of the Scriptures have been circulated in twelve months, that Mark and Luke in Muskokee are ready for the press, that ‘work on the ‘Telega version has been resumed, and that Isaiah in Mpongwe,John in Dikele, ax the Reval-Esthonian ible’ have already been published. Gilbert Haven, father of the Inte Bishop Gil- dect Haven, was appointed Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-sehvol in Mal- den,-Maas., in 1824, and beld the’ position thirty- fuuryeurs. The primary department of this famous school was organized in 193 dy the ex ertions of u sister of Bishop Haven. Tho school has over 3 members; the Maplewood Schoal, which sprung from the school ut the Ceutra, has 143 members; the Everett Sehool has 200 mem- vers, making a grand totat of over 700 members, from a very humble-beginuing of fifteen schol- ars, These fucts were reportud ut the late six- tieth anniversary of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church of that city. William Bridges, of Greencastle, Ind., was asked to contribute towards building a Netho- distchureh. He isa Universalist, and he said that be would give $100, on condition that a Universalist clergyman should be allowed to preach three sermons in the new ediilce. Tho olfer was accepted and the mgney paid. The Rey. Mr. Curry preached the tifst of the Uni- Versalist discourses, and improved the: oppor- tunity to violently assail ortnodox Christiauity. ‘The congregation was horrified, and on the ‘fol- lowing day the officers tried to ‘compromise with Bridges by returning the $100; but he declared that the barzain must be consummated, and the two remaining sermons are to be given. The Golden Rule regards the leading benevolent assucintion of the Congregational Church the closest corporation in the country. It is @ ma- chine controlled by n few in the name of the mituy, without the many baving any more power or voice in it thun the {rish luborers have in the councils of the Pope at Rome. At its annual meetings a fong list of nearly thirty committees is supposed to be appointed to “examine the ollivers' reports, designate the place of. meeting, und name other committees; but these com- mittees are all made out and-'their work done and reports prepared weeks before in the Secre- tary’s ofice. The presiding officer announces them witbout reference to who may be present. and the reports are read and the votes put to an audience which has no vote to give. those who are fgnorant it seems Uke an fmmense rush of business, when in fact itis no business at ull, —1 mere farce und boy's play, supremely ludio- rous to those who know the sham, A phenomenal case of church discipline and reguiation has just occurred in Philadelphin. When ministers and churches are ordered by superior nuthority to do otherwise than as the: have dong, the result is in most cases a refu: This course was looked for in the case of St. Clement's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Mr. Prescott, the ritualistic Rector of this church, had been for a long time ministering to his con- gregation in a style which brought down the wrath of the Low Churchaien. The excitement finally culminated in an official letter from Bishop Stevens to Rector Erescott, demandin that the objectionable. practices be stopped. Reetor Prescott resigned, and his Vestry refused to accept his resignation. This put hiin on ree~ ord us enjoying the full confidence and approval of his people. Then,to the astonishment of all euncerned, he wrote Bishop Stevens a letter, in which he politely consented to abolish the prac- Hous to which tho isbap bad taken exception. uction into the Dioces- an Convension of a troublesome quarrel over tho condition of St. Clement's. An English preacher who benrs the appropri ate name of Murniss bas been preaching a 8ia- gularly red-hot sermon on hell und the devil. He gravely says: The roof isred-hot. The floor is like a thick shcet of red-hot frou. See, on the middie of that red-hot iron floor stands ‘a girl. She looks to be about 16 years of age. She has nelther shoes nor stockings on her feet. The door of’this room bas never been opened sinco she frst set her foot on this red-hot tluor. Now she sees the opening. She rushes forward. She bas gone down upon her knees upon the red-hot floor. Listen! She spenks. She says: ‘I have been standing with my bare feet on this red-hot tloor for years. Day and night my only standing- place has been on this red-bot #oor. Sleep nov- ‘er came on ine for a moment that I might forget this horrible burning floor. Look at my burn and bleeding teet. Let me go off this burning fivor for one moment,—only for a short moment. x Oh, that in this endless eternity of years Imight forget tho pain only for one Slagle momeut!* -The Devil answers her question: "Do you usk for & moment—for ove moment—to forget your pain? No, not fora single moment during tha ne er-ending eternity of years shull you ever leave this red-hot floor,’ ” Mr. Furniss locates his hell inthe centre of tho curth, amd says it 1s 4,000 miles from the earth’s surface on either In.a sermon on “The Press of Boston," prosohed three weeks ngo, the Rev. A. HL Snorey, Speaking of the Sunday press, used the fol- lowing Innguuge: * And among the most iinpor- tant of the daily “papors is the Sunday issue. Now, [amuware that many good people will take strony exceptions to this statement. But 1 am tree to say that no paper comes to my table that {s more ‘carefully read, more thoroughly eujoyed, is more helpful in’ thought and more healthy in tone, than my Sunday morning paper. Zhe arguinents that are used against it, such a3 the Sabbath work neceusury to Issue It, the buy- ing of pupers on Sunday, the reuding of a secu- lar edition on the Lord's day,—these reasons have equal force in other things. Thore is not as much Sundiy work on a Sunday paper as there ia in the Monday morning edition, and the matter in the best Sunday pupers, In proportion to what they contain that E unfit for Sunday reading, iy u0 greater than in some of the 80- called religious papers. Nor am Lablo.to seo why buying o paper on the Sabbath is any greater desecration of the day thun buying a horie-car-ticket. {frequently tmeet people who cry out.against Sunday papers, who seein to be very familfur with their contents. Possibly they do not read them until Mouday morning; posai- bly phy read thom Sunday might. aftor the rest of the family huve gone to bed. In either case ene rould seem to be patronizing Sunday At the Inst meeting of the Methodist ministers of Pittsburg, fer want of something better to do, tho dominies tulked sbout the proper uttl- tude to be maintuined during pruyer. The shape which the question took was: “Ought we to in- sist on, our covgregutions knocling during ve ‘The geuonil sentiment of the mect- vus in favor of kneeling, although it was considered by some that muny people in. the congregations would look with disfavor on the preucher who Would too positively insist on the adoption of any particular attitude. Formerly iu the Methodist churches kneeling fn prayer waa the almost univeryal rule, the ouly exce fous being in favor of invalids and the aged. ‘The rituals of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches prescribe kneeling, and indicate when tho congreyution are to kuect. ‘The more rigid of tho Presbyterians were quite urgeut as to the duty of standing in prayer. Modern custom hus relaxed the habits both as to kneeling und stand- ing. In Presbytecian churches it is seldom that any but the old people stand during prayer. In the others kneeling is toa great extent going out of fushion. Nothing had so great u tendency to make people give up the habit of kneeling a3 the ample hoopskirts which the Indies wore twenty or twenty-ilve years ago. Acvoutred In oue of these, In full stvte, It wus a greut under taking for alady to turn and kneel ina pew. ‘The skirts of to-day are more manageable in geuutlestion, but the habit of “kneeling, once suffered to fall into disuse. is not likely ever to become ag general as it was. In most of the churches the ministers allow the largest Uberty as to posture in prayer thine, PERSONALS, Bishop Perry, of Iowa, has sailed for England for a two or three months’ tour. It is said that Archbishop Gibbons, who is now in Rome, will be made a Cardinal before he re- turns. Moody and Sankey are to pay for the eduéation of twelve Creek Indian girls at the Northfield Seminary. Bp, The muster-roll of Talmage's tabertacld shiows 2,081 members, Of these 416 were istered ubout one week ago. er Joseph Cook denies, through the columns of the Now York Observer, that be 4s elther the friend or defender of Spiritualism. ‘The Rt.*Rey. Francis Redwood, Catholic Bishop of the Diceese of Wellington, New Zealund, is the guest of Bishop Ireland, ut St. Paul. ‘The Rev. Mr. Perrin, of Springficld, Mass,, pro- elaias frou: bis pulpit that checkers, chess, back- gamton, and croguet are sinful under any cir- cumstances, Zig The death is amounced of the Rev. Rufus Anderson, D. D., for over balf u century con-! nected with tho American Board of Commls- sfouers for Foreign Missions. The Rev. 2. G. More. who had the distinction of holding tae poorest living in England (that of St. James, Shipton), which yielded $15 a year, hasdicd ut the age of & “He held this living over fifty years. ‘The Rev. Ht N. Boney, formerly of Charleston, S.C., bas organized two’ Buptist Churehes in Lit Deria, West Africu; one at Royesport, between Monrovia and Cape Mount, and the other at Barasville, near the St. Paul's River. Louise Lateau, the famous “stigmatic,” is threatened with excommunication by Mgr. Du- roussettu for, adhering to Mgr. Dumont, Bishop of Tournay, who bias been suspended by the Pope as ‘being of unsound mind. Mgr. Durousseau has been appointed to. the temporary charge ot ‘the see, but Louise Lateau declines to recognize his authority. Cunon Ryle will be consecrated Bishop of the new Diocese of Liverpool June 2 in York Min- ster. ‘An adaiirer of Canon Ryle hug made, him n donation of $5,000-"ns a thunk offering” for his appointment. "Phe money is intended as a fund to meet the expenses which will attend the laking possession of the see, including tho re- amoral to Liverpool. Although the Earl of Shaftsbury isin his &ith year, he 1s aremarkably-vigorous old gentle- man, and as full or fire a3 he was a quarter of a century ayo. For anniversary meetings he is the most popular presiding offiver to be found in* London. ‘In one day during the recent an- nlversury season he presided over several meet- ings, Involving a total sitting of seven hours. In this time tho Earl delivered three speeches. Dr. Miller Luther, Secretary of the Pennsyl- yaula Bourd of Charities, is prosecuting a num- ber of Dunkards for stedling his grandfuthor’s skull from x grave ut Ephrata, a Dunkard Village. It Is Said that they committed the depredation in obedience to a reputed witen, who told them that by performing certain cere- monies over that particular skull they would learn where some valuable papers were hidden, SUNDAY REVERIES. A portion of the clergy oppose the bill to legal- ize marriuge with a deceased wife's sister. These disciplinarians are possibly of opinion that the nan who murries twice, and is aficted with bur One mother-in-law, has more happiness here be- Jow than is good fdr man. A school-teacher who had just been telling the story of David ended with, “And all this hap- pened over three thousand yearsago.” A little cherub, its blue eyes opening wide with wonder, suid, after a moment’s thought, *O dear, marm, what a memory you have got.” “Do you think a man can run a circus and be a Christian?” usked the serious man. * Well, I don’t know—yes.” “Do you think Barnum, for instance, can go to Heaven?" “I think he has a good show,” was the rather equivocal reply. Strange that some men can never be serious. “But I pass,” safd a minister recently fn dis- missing one theme of his subject 1 take up another. “Then I make it spades,” yelled a man from the gullery who was areiming the happy bours away (nm an imuginary gamo of cuebre. It is neediess to say that he went outon the next deal, assisted by one of the deacons. Ayoung pustor who bas recently bad ason born to bim uotilies # brother pastor as follows: * "Gato us a child 18 born; unto us a son is given. —Is, 9, 6° It was written on a postal-card. ‘The receiver showed the message tw a sister in hla church. “Ab, yes,” sald the woman, after reading it, “it weighed nine pounds six ounces.” A ministor was questioning his Sunday-school concerning the story cf Eutychus—the young man who, listening to,the preuching of the Apos~ tic Paul, fell usteep, and, falling down, was tuken updend. * What,” he said, “do we leara from this very solemn event?” when the reply from a {little girl came pataud prompt: “Pleasc, sir, ministers should learn not to preach too long wermons.”” ‘Anold minister in Scotland had the habit in teaching his people of expounding the Script- tee book by book, and chupter by ehapter, aid, of course, the good man sometimes came to Passuges hard to be understood. His way of gethwg over a difliculty was very convenient, to say the least of it. He would suy: “No doubt, my Christian brethren, there Iva great difficulty here, as the commentators are agre (pea that; so let us look the diiliculty boldly in the face—and pass on It was dinner time iz a select boarding-house. At that interesting moment a new bourder ar- rived. He wasa vencrable-looking gentleman, with long silvery hair banging low upon his shoulders. [is face beamed with benevolence fand a sweet repose betokening a pure and holy jife, As be joined the other guests ut table, the landlady looked ton him, soying: “ Would you please ask a blessing, sir” and tho vener- able stranger shouted in ruply: “ You'll have Cy talk a littie louder, marm. I'm so —~ —— deaf.’ In the early stages of his ministry the cele- brated Dr. Strong, of Hartford, preached some time in a neighboring village. Gne day a, com- jmitteo ealled upon bim to suttle with him tor his services, wud, after stammeringa while, signified to him that his further services were not desired. “What does this mean, gentlemen?” asked the Doctor. “Why,” replied the spokesman, with some hesitation, ‘the people have got the ‘im- pression that you are inclined to universal sal- ¥ation.” “Gentlemen,” answered the Doctor, “Tnevor have preached that doctrine; but, if f ever should, I promise to make the people of this town an exeeption: Hartford Post. ——_— CHURCH SERVICES. ‘EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Church SS. ‘Peter and Paul, comer of ‘Washington and Poorta stroeta, the Rt-itey. W. E. McLaren, S. T. D., Bishop, the Rev. J. H. Knowles, Priest in charge. Holy Communion 8am. Services 1:50. Sunday-seboo! 3 p. m. —The Bey. Frederick Courtney will officiate morn- ing and evening in St. James Chureb, corner Cass and ‘Huron streets. —The Koy. RA. Holland will offictate morning and” evening tn ‘Irinity Chureh, corner ‘twenty-sixth street and Michizan avenue. Morning subject: “"'The Lost Found.” Evening subject: “ Honesty.” ihe Rev. W. H. Knowlton will preach morning and evening in St. Andrew's Church, corner Wash- Ington and Robey streets. . —TheHov. John Hedman wit preneh morning and evening in St. Ansparlus Charch Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenuc. —The Kev. Clinton Locke, D. D., will \- ing und evening in Grace ‘Charchy Wabeearectn, near Sixtoenth street. Sunday-school 24:30 a.m. —" Rev. Artour Ritchie will officiate at the Church of the Ascension. Commanion$4 m. Choral Eucharist, with sermon lia.m. Solemn Vespers, with sermon, $ p.m. Seats not reated. —The Kev. Charies Stanley Lester will preach poruing and evening st St. Paul's Church, Hyde rhe —The Rey. B. F. Fleetwood will preach: morning and evening ut St. Mark's Chureh, Cotage Grove arom comer Whiniy-atcin street, Sicha helle bare ‘: e tev. J. D. wo reach morning and evening at St. Stephen's Church, Bohasom streei - tween ‘Taylor and Twelfth. Aes ~The itey. Luther Pardée will preach morniug and evening at Calvary Church, Warren avenue, botween Oakley street end Western avenue. —The Key. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will preach morning” and evening st the Church of the Epiphany, ‘Throop street, between Monroo und Adams. 3 ~The Rey, W. J. Petrie will preach morning ind evening atthe Church of Our Savion, comer of Lint coin and Belden avenues. “the Kev. dates H. Thompson will preach morn- dng and evening at St. Thomas’ Church, indjana ave- Bue, between ‘Iwenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets. Huly Communion arse. tm. —St Luke Missiun, No. 97 and 99 Polk street Seprices"morning and evening. Suncay-senoa! 2 225 p. 1, Tine tev. James Woast, of Fort Leavenworth, Yi preach morning and evening. Ee Baiehuel Charen, range. zi aurnoprst. the Rev, C.G. Trusdell wil! preach at 10:30 in the Michizun Avenue Church, nearthice soc ct eres, Wompennice meeting in the mecting. —the Rev. Dr. Williamsen wil) preach morning and evening iu the First Churel, curuer Clark ad Washe ington streets, “Suto Sirect Church. wear Worty-seventh street. ae Sreqaorning services Uf ebildren’ 'sday. ‘The Re TETAS Wi preach in the evening. Subject e Kev. Mobert D. Sheppard will preach morn- ing und evening ut Grice Church, edrmer La Selle and White streets. Subject of both sermons: “Les- sone from, pie Sarena he 1 he Itey. Frank M. Bristol will’ preach at the Wa- bash Avenue Church, corner of Houstoonth street Services of chlidren's day util a.m. —The Rev. K. Pope will preach at 1045a, m. In ‘Trinity ireb, Inditna avenue, near Twenty-fourth steve) Vemperince meeting ats pem. J. Howard Seal, of Philadelphia, witl liver un address at W:Uo,m. Special service at 2:30 pas, “the Rev. ‘T. C. Clendenning will preach morn- ing und vvening tn the Langley Avenue Churcin om mooie tev. bE Cleveland vill —the tev, &- P. Cleveland will preach morning and evening at Grant Place Chueh, Grant piace, commer of Larrabee street, —The Rev. H. W. Thomas will prench lWorning and evening in ‘nienary Church, Munroe street, be~ tween Morgan and Carpenter. veine, Her, W, X- Niide will proach morning und evening in the Ada Street Church, between Lake und Fukon streets —The Kev. J. M. Culdwell will preach morning and evening iu Western Avenue Church, curner of Mon- wcithe itav. Georxe Ch 1 e le Kev. George Chase will preach at the Fulton Sirent Church, commer of “Arwesien avenue. —The Kev. J. W. Phelps wilt reach inorning and evening at St. Puiii's, corner of Maxwell street and Newberry uvenue. fe seateete Witten Craven gt preach morning and ening in Inter Street. urch, Ft Bt street near Stor os irda. . pee-seeond is Suuaw will proach morning and evening in Dizow Street Churell near North avenue, “he Rev. F, Porter will preach morning and ever= ing in Linevin Street Church, corner Ambrose street, —The Kev. J. W. Richurds will preach morning and. evening ‘In Emanuel Church, corner Harrison and Pauling streets. Dr, Thomas preaches at Centenary Church morn- WE ATS AVUILINE. proach o —Mrs. ink preaches at the Western Avenue Chance’ this "moruing, andthe Nev. 4.8. Hairn tis jovening. “At toe Park Avenue Church the annual children's day service oecurs thin morning, and iu tho evening tg tev. 1 Strobridge presobes, “The Rey. J. it. Richards will preach morning and evening in Jackson Street Church, corner Oglesby street. BAPTIST. The Rev. A. K. Parker will proach morning and gyoning nt the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monrve streets. —Mr. W. C, Douglas, Genera! Secretary of the YM. C.4.. of St. Louis, will conduct services at the Mis- sion.’ No. 41 Ogden avenue, at 10:45 a. In. —the Rev. George C, Lorimer will proach morning and evening at the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-trst street Morning sub- dect: “Contiiet.” Evening subject: “Peace.” ‘The evening sermon will be the. farewell sermon prior to Dr. Lorimer's departure to Europe. —The Kev. Kerr B. ‘Tupper will preach ot 11a. m. in the Miebigin Avenue Church, near ‘Twenty-third street, Sunday-school at 9a. m, —tne Kev. JB. Hulbert will preach morning and evening fn the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paulina streets. —The ey. J. ‘I. Burhoe will preach morning and evening in Gniversity Piaca Chureh, corner Douglas place and Rhodes avenue. —The Rev. J. Rowley will preach morning and evening in North Star Church, corner Division and Sedgwick streets. Subbath-sehoo! at 3:50 p.m. ‘he Key. W. C. Perrin will preach morning and evening in Western Avenue Church, corner Warren a ne, —The Rev. W. H. Parker will preach morning and eveniag in Coventry Churen, corner of Coventry Street und Bloomingdale rund, —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach morning and gyoninx aa Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Tay- jor stract. —The Rey. ¥.O. Taylor will preach morning and evening in Central Church, No. 30 Orchard street. “the Kev. W, A. Broudburst will preucn moratog and evening in the Dearborn Street Church, corner of RLY abet atgeee, en —Tae Hey. Mt. Meyer” will ‘preach morning and evening in the First. German Curety corner of Blcke erdike aud Huron streets. ; —The Kev. J. B. Sunth will preach morning and evening in the First Norwegian Church, corner of Noble und West Ohio strects. “the ev. Jobn Ongman wilkpreach morning aud ‘Srening in, the First Swedish Church, Oak street, near jeduwic “-Bupuist. Tabernacle, Nos. 2 and sl) Wabash avenue. Sunday-school at 2:3 p.m.” Gospel meeting at Twp. . —There will be services morning and evening at the University Place Church. Buptism at the close of the evening service. PRESBYTERIAN. ‘The Rev. J, M. Worrull will preach at10:30 8. m. at the Highth Chureb. ‘The evening services will be conducted by Seerutaries attending ¥. Ml G. A. Cone Fenton. Bible class Munday evening. “roe tev. James Maclaupnian will preach in the Scotch Church, corner of Adams und Sangamon streets, at ll o'clock am. No evening services wSPhe Rev. i. Walker wit prewch worming aud evening in the Campbel) Park Church, Leavitt street and Campbell Park. —The Key. Walter Forsyth will preach in Engle- wood Church murning and evening. —The Kev. George H. Wells, of Montreal, will preach morning und evening at the Secoud Church, corner of Michixan uyenue und Twentieth street. The Rev. in the Sixty Ch areuues., Subject: . deory ‘I’. Miller will preach at 10:3) a.m. shurch, corner of Vincennes und Oak The Christian Dress." At Sp jervice will be heid under the, auspices of the € A. Addresses by Mr. J. W. Dean, oflowa; Mr. A. G: Dawson, of ‘Wichmiood, Indy und Str Dyer, or pewrolt. *Sthe Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach morning and evening ia thy ¥irst Church, coraer of Tadiane Brenue and twenty-first streee “itis Kev. George, Pe Nichols, of sMlmaukeo, wilt reach inorning und evening in the Jefferson Park Ebureh, corner Gf Tamepand Adame streets. —The Kev. ©. N. Barrett will preach at 10:30. min Westminster jurch, coruer of Jackson und Peoria atreuts. "ACT: p.m." addresses By several Visiting Steretartes of the Weak GAs -The Rey. Arthur Swazoy will preach in the morn- ing at the Forty-first Street Church. fhe Rev. T. J. Lamont will preach at the Reunion Church moratngand evening. ie Rev. Herrick Juntion, will preach at the Fourth churen thi morning. ana "ne evening be stalled us pastor. “Dra wil preve the sermon, Dr. Patterson will churge the pastor, und ‘Dr. Johnson the peovie, {ho liv. We Ht Meloy will preach at the United Church, corner of Monroe and Poulins streets, as usual * concneaationar. ‘The Rev. E. F. Williamson will preach morning and eventuet the South Churen, Drexel avenue and Fortieth street. tells Her. Charles Hall Evarest wil! preach morn~ ng und eveulng at Plymouth Chureh. Sichixan avenue, betwoen Twenty-tiird and Twenty-fourth reves. Miithe Rev. ¥. A. Noble. D.D., will preach morning and evening in ttle Union Park Chureb, Ashland avenue und Washington streey Sunday-school at . ma. Teiev, G.I Peake will preach morning and evening ut the Leavitt Street Churet. the Kev E. P. Goodwin will pretich morning and evening In the First Church, corner Washington and Ann streets ~The Rev. Arthur Little will preach morning and evenlagin the New England Church, Dorn aye nue und Park piace. —Tho Rey.C. A.Towle will preach morning and gvening in Bethany Church, corner Puulina and West. Huron streets. Evening ‘subject: “Who Js Sty Neighbor?” ~_the dev, Evarts Kent will preach morning, und evening in the Clinton Street Chureh, comer Wilson siete nzronseeo xeiscoPat. ‘The Rt.-Rey. Bishop Cheney will officiate at Christ Church morning and evening. Morning sudject: A Quarrel Between ‘Iwo Ministers.” Evening sabject: * Your Valent, und What to Do with in” he Hey. F. W. Adums will preach morning und evening nt St, Matthew's Church, curner of Clark and Centre streets. —St. Puul’s Church, corner West Washington and Carpenter streets. Bishop Fallows will preach morn- ing und evening. All seats free In the evening. Tne Kev. J. D. Wilsun will preuch morning and evening st St Jobn’s Church, Hills avenue, near ‘Thirty-seventh street. ‘The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach at 10: inthe Church of the Messiah, corner of Michigan Byenue and arenes third street. subject: “Some thyughts on Grovernment.” athe Kev. H. N. Brown, of Brookline, Mass., will preach muruing und evening at Unity Church, corner of Dearborn uvenue and Walton place. —The Rey. E.J. Galvin will preach at 10:45a. m. in the Third Chureh, comer of Monroe und Laziin streets. (CUEISTIAN, . syenue. and Thirticth street. Morning subject: “ Lessons of the Convention.” —The Kev. J. 2. Wright will preach morning and evening in the Western avenue Chorch, between ‘Vou Buren and Harrison streets. itev. Barton W, Johnson will preach in the moruigg, and the Rev. Charles It Caton in the even- ing, at the Second Church, corner of Qukley avenue and Jackson street. SWEDENBORGIAN. ‘The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach in the morult Valon Ghopeh, ikepshoy Stulle-Hall. Subject: ChwJalug Perk Temple, corner Washington street and Ogden avenue, Services at‘ p.m, “UNIVERSALIST.. Rev. C. W. Tom)inson will preach tn the morn- tor the Church of the Redeemer, corner Sangamon and Washington streew. HEDREW. ‘The Rev. Dr. Schlesinger, of Albany, N. ¥.. will rench ot 10:30 a. m. in Sinal Temple, corner Twenty- ¢ strect and Indiana avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. George C. Noedham will conduct the services morning snd evening at Chicago Avenue Church, comer of LaSalle sureet. Sunday-school and Bible class st 3 p.m. in Mr. B, ¥, Jacobs will lead the Gospel meeting in | Jamas ; and ni Clara and Viv the evening at Pucitc Garden Missin Buren streo's. Services ut 8 o'clock. Donald Hoss will conduct the morning 1nd aven- ing servicesin the Gospel Tent, corner of Oxden and Warren avennes, Gospel ‘Tent, corner of North avenue and Lx Salle street, Morning service by Dr. W. 1. Manna of Indianapolis. Evening service by Mr. A.J. Dear of Dubuque. —There wit] be s special song service in conn with the Har spel, Temperance meeting of First ited tiovon Glad at. Avenue fall, 13 fweaty- Secund street, wt 4:90 a ane hibeent Ronnie meets at thelr ball, No. 213 West Madison street, e210) p. ma. “The following ludies have beca selected tolead the 3 o'clock temperance mectings in Lower Farwull Holl: “Mondar, Mrs” Dice: Tuesday, Stra Nating: Wodnenday, Sirs. Goodman; Thursday, Mrs. Waddell; Prids; v8. Jones; Saturday, Miss Kuker. “whe Eptscoyal Convocution of the Southern Dean ‘ery of the Diocese of Illinois met in Christ Chu Streator, on ‘Tuesday and Wednesday, June ¥ 1 Religious services were celebrated, und ndidresse~ hvered bythe itevs, Clinton locke and: Hepr: Perry, of Chi the Rev, D.S. Phillips, of Ran kee, the Kev. C. Kinney, of Joliet. and the Kev. Jobn R, THolet, Rector of the parish. A lay deiexatiun Was also present, —Disciples of Christ meet at No. 229 West Randolph Street ut 4 p.m. 3 . “The iter. M. HE, Forscutt will preach ta the Latter Day Saints, morning und evening, at No. 6i9 West steer. —The Chicago Free Keliyfous Charch meets at Ap- plebes Halt. corner of ‘Tbircy-firth street und Vin~ cennesagenue, at }ia.m. No evening lecture. —The Adveiit Christian Chures, Ji South Greén street. Service by Dr. Mathewson morning und even- ine, . —E. D. Ingersol, International Secretary Railroad Inge Branch ¥. 4.C. A., will lead the rultrond men’s Gus- pelmectina in the’ reading-room, comer Kinsie and Sy ae 3: p. m. Harry Sayles, of Daven- po! ai —W. A; Wagener, Railroad Secretary of Cotambt O., and Frank Sinith, of Toledo, will load the ralirood mon's meeting at G4 Soutt Cunal street at 3: pm —W. &. Busford, Railroad Secretary of Yoroato, Cagada, will toad the ralleoud men's Gospel musting at No. 464 South State strest at 3:00 p.m. All rail MEO G. It Ciarko will conduct the Gospel meeting pol. G. Viarke wil conduct meet a the Pacific Garden this evening. —The Young Men's Christian Association will hold Asonzservice und Gospel meeting 13 Farwell Hall, No. 143 Madison sircet, tis evening ut 7HG, to be ad- dressed by the following mewbers of the Secretartus’ Conference: S. A. Tagyurt. ¥. M. C.-A, Suave Secretary of ivania; JRL Kiliott, Nashville, ‘fenn.: Wal- ter C. Douglas, 5, Louis, M H. ¥. Withums, St. oui Mo.; and James Mctonauthey, Hurrisburz, _ —The young men’s Bible-ciass of the Y. M,C. A. will meet !o thelr parlor this aftgrnoug, and J. Hl. Rlitott, of Nasnvilio, ‘Vonn., will ‘tead. Song secvice az 3 oretuck, 3MLC.A, open-air services are as fullo 3:90 p. tm, on the duck, foot of Franklin stree! b ma. on the Lake Front, foot uf Van Buren street tnd at the Post-ultice corner, ull to be addressed by X. C. A. Secretaries, CALENDAR FOR THE WEEE., EPISCOPAL, June 13—Third Sanday after ‘trinity. June 13—Fust, catHotic, June 13—Fourth Sunday after Pentecost; St An- thony of Padua, C. June lt—St Busil, B.C. June 15—St. Pruncis Carscciolo, C, (from June 4); SS. Vitus und Cour. BSL Jane 16—8t. Jubn Francis itexis, C. Tune Sr. Ubsldus, B.C (grou May 16). June ls—-St. Bernardine of Sienna, C. (from May %): 3S. Marcus and Comp., MM. June 19-St, Juliana Fulcomiert, V-: 83. Gervase and Prowse, MM. GARFIE LD ON LINCOLN. A Speech on the Anniversary of the 3 Assasination. On the night of the 1ith of April. 1885, J. Wilkea Booth, erceping from behind President Lincoin. discharged a pistol-ball into his brain. A yeur afterwards, on the anniversary of that tragic event, immediately after the House of Kepru- sentatives was opened by prayer, Gen. Garticid “ moved that the House do now adjourn.” ‘The words of eloquence in which he urged the mo- tion will long be remembered by his country- men. Hesaid: ‘This day, Mr. Speaker, will be sadly memora- ble so long as this Nation shall endure, w! God grunt may be “till the lust syllable of re~ corded time,” when the volume of human his~ tory shall be sculed up and delivered to the omnipotent Judge. iu ullfuture time, on the recurrence of this day, J doubt not that the citizens of this Repub- lic will meet in solemn assembly to retlect on the fe and character of Abraham Lincoln, and the awful tragic event of April 14, 1985,~an event unparalleled ia the history of nations, certainly unparalleled in ourown. ‘ft is eminently pruper that this House should this day place upon its records & momorial of that event. ‘The last tive years have been marked by won- derful developments of individual character. ‘Thousands of our peopie before unknown to fame haye taken their places in history, crowned with immortal honors. In thousands of humble homes are dwelling herves and patriots whose names shali never But greatest among all these great develop- ments were the character und fame of Abra- ham Lincoln, whose loss the Nation still de-~ plores, His character is aptly described in the words of England's great taureate—written thirty years ugo—in which he traces the upward steps of some— “Divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began, And on a simple village green; “Wad Plaspe’ tis stint of happy chation, nd grasps the si ‘And breasts the blows of circomstanoa ‘And grapples with his evil star; i “ Who makes by force his merit known, And lives to cliteh the golden keys ‘fo mold a mighty state's decrecs, And shape the whisper of the throne; “ And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, ‘The centre of 2 world’s desire.” Such a life and character will be treasured forever as the sacred possession of the Ameri- can people and of mankind. In the great drama of the Rebellion there were two ucts. The frat was the Wur, with its battles and sieges, vic- tories and defeats, its sufferings and tears. ‘Thut act was closing one year ago to-night, and just as the curtain was iffting on the sec ond and final uct,—the restoration of peace and liberty; just as the curtain was rising upon new characters and new events, the evil spirit of the Rebellion. in the fury of despair, nerved and directed the hand of the ussasin to strike down the chief character In both. s It wus no one man who killed Abraham Lin- coln; it wns the embodied spirit of treason and slavery, fuspired with feurful and despairinz hate, it struck him down in the moment uf the Nation's supremest joy. ‘Ab! sir, there arc times in the history of men fons when they stand so near the veil that séparste mortals from the immortals, thine trom eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings and feel the pulsations of the heurt of the Intinite. Throw. such a@ time has thiy Nation passed. When 2u,- 000 brave spirits passed from the tteld of honur through that thin veilto the presence of God, and when at last its parting fotds admitted the martyr President tothe compuny of the dead heroes of the Republic, the Nation stood so near the veil that the whispers of Gud were heard by the children of men. Awe-stricken by His voice, the American peo- ple knelt in tearful reverence and made a solemn covenant with him and with each other that this Nation should be suved from its enemies, that all its glories should be restored, and on the ruina of slavery und treason the temples of freedom and justice should”be built and should survive | forever. It remains for us, consecrated by wat reat event, and under a covenant with God, to eep that faith, to go forward in the great work until it shall be completed. Following the jead of that great man and obey~ ing the high behests of God, let us remember_ thar— “He bss sounded forth a trumpet that shall never call retreat; He ae ont the hearts of men before His judgment seat, Bo swift, A soul, to answer him; be jubilant my fect: y For God is marching on.” GOOD MAN ‘AND GOOD WIFE. Prom the German af Goethe, ‘To-morrow comes St. Martin's feast: ‘The good wite loves ber inan ‘She makes tor him the puddings now, And bakes them in 2 pan. And now in bed they le at rest— ‘The west winds loudly roar; ‘The good man says tu his good wife, “Go bolt and bar the door.” “T'm now at rest, half warm,” she sald— “My rest I cannot mar; And, though ft blows a hundred years, Til never slide the bar.”* And then they made a wager there, In whispered words and low, Who first should spuak a word aloud ‘To bar the door should go. At midnight came two travelers there ‘Who wist not where they were; The lamps were out, the tire was cold, ‘They heard no creature stir. “ What haunted house is this?” they cried; Impatience tilled the pair; But still they heard ne mortal wora— ‘The dour kept silence there. ‘The snow-white pudding then they ate, Then oer the blace one boweds? ‘The good wife scolded to herself, But spoke no word aloud. ‘To one of them the other spoke, “My throat is very dry! ‘The open cupboard tells a tale Of spirits somewhere nigh. “A flask of schoapps I seize upon. ‘Which hits the ua aright; I drink thy health and thou drink’st mino, And we are freshened quite.” ‘The good man then sprang wildly | ‘And roared with all his Salghte > “A costly drink that man shall buy ‘Who takes my schnapps this night!” As though she had a fortune The guod wife danced the pote “Good man!”she cried.“ you spokethe ward, 4 And you must bar the Clarence Harvey in Home Journal. ’