Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1880, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 27, RELIGIOUS. The Prevalent Cast-Iron The- - ology Responsible for 5 Infidelity. $0 Says an Eminent Rochester Divine, Who Abjures Calvinism. ho Material Hell and Eternal Punishment a Dishonor on the Supreme Being. Palestine for the Jews—The Holy and to Be Made an Israel- itish Colony, Centennial Celebration in Memory of Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday-Schools. Catholicism and Atheism the Two Op- posing Forces Agitating the British Government. General Notes, Personals, Sunday Reveries, Services To-Day. OUR FATHER’S CARE. “Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.""—Jesus, ‘The golden lights of the summer Lic on the laughing land; ‘he voice of song is borne along By the breezes on every hand. ‘The flowers spread out their beauty Above the vivid green; And the water's rush, and the forest’s hush, Make tender the glowing scene. But the cooling kiss of the summer air, ‘And the joy and beauty everywhere ‘are proofs of Almighty; loving care. For our Heavenly Father knoweth ‘We have need of all these things. ‘There are sounds of a gathering tempest, ‘And the clouds are black as night; Or the carth is spread a shade of dread, And all things sigh for light; ‘The leaves of the green woods quiver, ‘Anda silence fails around, ‘Till over the hills. with a haste that thrills, ‘The thunder-peals resound, And angrily falls the pelting rain, ‘nd sullenly roars the mighty main, And the heart. grows sad with a fear of pain, But our Heavenly Father knoweth We have need of all these things. ‘The daylight calls to labor, Ciatne all our powers for the tying hours, aims all our powers for the ‘And we must each task purstte. Although we are often weary,, ‘And the aching hands hang down, ‘There is much to be done ere the rest be won, ‘And we wear the victor's crown. But the toil that comes to us day by day, ‘And even the troubles that throng our way, ‘More proofs of the love of God display. For our Heavenly Father knoweth We hare need of all these things. ‘Yes, need of the light and shadow, Need of the loss and gain, Need of the rest and labor, ‘Need of the ease and pain; For some great useful tesson Is taught by all that falls On our spirits here, till the rest be near, And tae voice of ‘the angel calls. Praise unto God! His love shall guide ko the sheltered place by the Savior's side, . And all is good, whate'er betide: For our Heavenly Father knoweth ‘We bave necd of all these things. CALVINISM REPUDIATED. 4 STARTLING SERMON BY THE REV. MYROW ADAMS, OF E( N.Y. A few weeks ago the Rey. Myron Adams, ‘pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Rochester, N. Y., delivered a sermon which created no little stir in religiouscircles through- out the State. The sentiments uttered were re- garded as extremely radical coming from any qnarter, but emanating from the pastor of one of the most prominent Congregational churches in the country, it was something like a bomb- shell in the camp of the Evangelical Christians. Atthe time of its delivery a brief synopsis was telegraphed br the Associated Press. The local Press endeavored to procure the manuscript in oraer to give the full text, but the preacher was ‘unwilling at the time to have it published, as he deprecated the excitement and opposition it would be likely to stir up among the evangelical clergy of Rochester and elsewhere. sbup Hobe thevend nis sencence in this re. Spect the excitement has been very great am widespread. Letters bave ‘poured in from all sections of the country, the great majority of which contain assurances of profound sympa- tay with and thankfuloess for such a vigorous and outspoken utterance. The Trrsune’s Rochesier correspondent had seen only the brief synopsis of the sermon in the papers (not being present to hear it de- livered) until a few days , When he was per- mitted to read the original manuscript, and he begs to say that it so far exceeds the very Meagre report, both in power and radicalism, that he at once determined to secure the sermon. ff possible for publication. After some suasion and argument Mr. Adams consent The sermon made an exceedingly profound pensation, and since its delivery bas formed the theme of numerous discourses by parties in Rochester and elsewhere. The Rev. Henry Austice, D. D., of St. Luke's pores Church, of Rochester, and the Rev. Edward P. Adams, of the First Presbyterian Church, of Dunkirk, N. ¥., brother of the Rev. Myron Adams, have also renounced the Calrinistic belicf in the doctrine of hell and eternal punishment. Following is the sermon of the Rev. Myron Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil.—Rom., zii., 9. if a man should profess to have a character of Jove, and at the same time should practice man- ifest cruelties, we might well conclude that his Jove is simulated and unreal His acts speak louder than his words; acts always do speak Jouder words. Suppose we say of God that He is holy, just, gad good: and then declare in unmistakable terms that it isin His heart to practice cruel- ‘Hes—crueltics that are even of infinitextent and duration. Virtually, then we say of cruel- ‘ties that they are holy, just, and good. But in ‘that way we deify something that is evil. Now ¥e are authoritatively instructed by the Apos- ‘Ue not to deify evil, but to abhor it, and, no Matter what place it may have in popular thought or religious literature, all the same are ‘We to abhor it. A question now mach discussed pro and con { this: Is Christianity in a state of decadence? ii is easy for the assailants of Christianity tosay Yes,” and it is easy for tho apologists of Chris- tanity to say “No”; and itis considered not dificult to gather statistics in Dhaest of either answer. It can be most eloquently asserted that lanity was never in s0 healthy and pros- us Acondition asitisto-day. But the no- has taken some boldof many thoughtful Deople, inthe Church and outof it, that such @loquence is a sort of whistling to keep up cour ‘ge inthe dark. Figures gathered from a par standpoint are very dubious means of en- Ygbtenment, and ePoorle suspect that there is More rose-water than arithmetic or substantial fact in those statements, so commonly and even ®arnestly made, that Christianity as now ex- pounded is marching steadily and swiftly to the onquest of the world. While, on the other hand, the assailants of Christianity nre credited With an animosity toward it which strains their ficulations outof anything like true propor- Let us first premise that there is nothing ‘hocking (necessarily) or anti-Scriptural, or Which need offend or surmble any earnest Chris- ‘Man, in the idea of the decadence of Christianity, its doctrines are now popularly taught. _In- it is prophetically announced in the New. festament that the day—or the time of moral 4nd intellectual light, or, in other words, the om of God—shall not come except there be an apostasy first, which falling aw: ostesy ecm to bave occurred very Christian history. ‘Moreover, let it once be settled in mind that yenuine decadence can, under the wise Divine Tovernment, only happen to that which is un- ‘ound and untrue, inherently, and all cause of apprehension is removed. If any Church or dther institution 1s suffering by reason of apos- =e from_ its orij right principles, its de- fence follows asa matter of the teaching of history, and as. matter of course,—and its de- ‘Sut in progress, Says Haward ‘White,—whoso book, “Life in pat has made him celebrated a both “Resi {epheres, and who has been main! ral formulating the newly named Conditional Immortality”: + lity”: “ Those whose spitions enatlle them to acquire ample jetoomns fon on the state ets opinionin Europe are unan- ie existence of h rehea unsettlement of the very Foundations of ba lous belief." And Canon adden, a man jhore widely known, says: “Never. since the EEst ages of the Gospel, was fundamental th denied and denounced so largely and with Such passionate animosity as is the case at this moment in each of the most civilized nations.” omnis State of things may be. accounted for in Qneof two ways: First, the world is always hos- le to truth,—bas a deep and unconquerable aversion to it, xendored by inborn depravity of nature. ‘The human heart hates God and roodness, loves darkness and and evary | evil. gay, that is’ the cadse of the difficulty. Or, second, the cause of the decline is to be found in the Church. Stephen declared to Israel at the time of his martyrdom: Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit"; so locat- ing the trouble in the very bosom of Israel, which was the “orthodox” Church of that perk: od, and therefore skepticism is not confined to the outer world, but it has invaded tho Church, and the Church is honeycombed by it, and the Church is the cause of it outside its own limits. Now itis the way with many to flatter them- selves that all is well and moving on to- and ward the expected victory, and ft ared phrase to say raid They are aye ing, eace and safety,” when the’ almost unanimous intelligence of the thoughtful world is disturbed. The most cena Minds of all parties are united in the opinion that a revolution is impending which threatens the life of the Church, and it does not require extraor- nary insight to discern that the cause 1s In the ‘Were the Church pure in doctrine, and pure also, even to @ moderate degree, in pmction: it would be unassailable. Christendom as a whole, in its statements of belief and in its concurrent testimony of life, has presented to the world a Deity whose reputed churacter is not, according to the common sonse of humanity, good. He is neither just nor merciful, and that is,as we may learn, tho real stumbling-block. And the Churen has rigidly excluded all in- Vestigation of the matter, und all argument ex- cept upon ono side, casting into the outer dark- ness of the “ unevangelicals” all who dared to seer dae the shanicter, of God from the race hea} upon it by it friends. oo ee yee nein “Many preachers of the Gospel declare,” says aclergyman of theChuren of England, “ that God will keep multitudes of His own creatures alive to all eternity for the sole purpose of tor- turing them, knowing perfectly well all the time that it can never do them one particle of good. 1s the representation which this gives of the. chnracter of God to , be accepted without ‘discussion? Is it thoro injurivus for men to try and force themselves to love such a God, if they can, and, if they can- not, to be driven into infidelity, or for them to inquire whether there may not ‘be some mistake in the common interpretation of the four or five passages that are thought to attribute such an intention to the Creator?” If we cannot even discuss this question except upon one side, how unhappy is our state! Now, if 2 mun were to keep any creature alive for the sole purpose of torturmg it, sny for a year, would not the whole civilized world with ‘unanimous voice declare that mun an unuttera- ble monster? Would not mankind recoil from him as from afiend? He might try to justify himself on the ground that the creature was very bad; but would. that make a particle of difference? You could not saya worse thing of a buman being than to say that he would do such a thing as that. Society might forgive a man for being a liar, or a thief, or even a murderer, but it could only abhor one who should keep alive a creature a year for the sole purpose of torture, and that without the possibility or remotest expectation of doing any good. Yet we have been able to hear it said of God, repeatedly, that itis His intention to take the jority, the vast majority of the human race, and keep them alive forever and ever, for the sole purpose of torturing them, and that with- out any regard to their circumstances, and more- over that He so decreed and devised uges ago, just because it pleased Him so to do. There are u few passages which are inter- preted in that way, and the whole character of God is made to bang upon that interpretation. And then we wonder that the Gospel docs not make progress! Why, there can be no Gospel ‘under the auspices of such a Being as that. if I say that God is good, und then add that He pro- Ee to torture the vast majority of men end- lesly; that He foreordained the countless vic- tims for such exhibition of His cruelty, then a man with any humanity in him willsay, “If that is goodness, I prefer badness!” That is ac- col to.the constitution of mind. Anditis not difficult to see that wherever there is preaching or teaching this doctrine of the historical! Church (which, by the way, some of the greatest of the Church fathers—Origen, for instance—did not believe) stands directly in the way of genuine Peis A constitutional principle of the mind that is active, and in any extent free, stands against it. Men may bo moved by fear and by considerations of personal safety to seek to proplitiate so dreadful a Being, but it is not possible they can love Him. Now, this is fundamental; and the opinion of Mr. John Stuart Mill is gaining ground every- where “that so monstrous aBeing [as he ex- presses it] as the God of tho old European the- ology is a chimera of disordered ‘imaginations.” Morcover, it is seen to’be a repulsively arbi- trary notion when we reflect that the great ma- jority of people have never had any chance, and under this scheme never will have any chance. All this revolts the reason and corm science ot mankind. It is the representation of an Infinit Enemy, and not of an Infinit Friend. Of course, then, the nttacks that are made on the Bible and on Christianity are fullof force, even though they may be very crude and un- learned. They appeal to something in man to which he is forced to listen, ‘and the reeult is ed into a skepticism as contemptuous as it is bitter. ‘There is not a Christian in the world, I sup- pose. who has any earnestness of churacter, who will admit for one moment that God is cruel or unjust. But it is possible that many 0 Christian will stoutly maintain that God will do things which, if they were attributed to any one whose character we did not know, all men would unite in calling them fiendish. We often use words from force of habit, without thinking of the real meaning of them. We certainly do so when we ce in one breath that God is good and that He will do the most hateful things. It is entirely conceivable that God will punish, will dealin severity and wrath with men.—will consume their pride and naughtiness of heart. It is entirely certain that He will not always per- mit His government to be trampled upon. It is conceivable also that souls which are radically unfit for the kingdom of rignieoneners might be permitted to lapse out o existence—because the eternal life is the giftof God, and everlast- ing existence is not a necessary fact to a bad be- ing,—but that the Infinit Being of Intinit Love can inflict torture for billions of centuries upon rational beings, is not conceivable, especially if no possible good can ever come to those beings fo tho remotest future. It looks very like an in- finit slander and misrepresentation of God, ‘which the Church has been too busy to examine {uto,—and itdepends upon the arbitrary mis- translation of afew words inthe New Testa- ment andafiagrant misinterpretation of the whole spirit and tenor of it. ‘Let us now glance at the notions which men prefer.to this notion of the Romish Church, which hrs also been engrafted on Protestantism. You may put together ull the current atheisms, pantheisms, and matcrialisms which centre in a sort of dark nucleus of nihilism, and they form the protest of thinking minds against the darker notion of an arbitrary and cruel God. ‘These form tne reaction against the “ perverse theisms” of the past. They take the Bible to be what it hus been represented to be by its professed friends, the exponent of a cruel and arbitrary government, and they Iny it aside, ignore it, as a mere specimen of mythology. and thus they lose it, and the priceless treasures of Divine wisdom are closed to them. And who must bear a share, at least, of the repronch of it? As 1 believe, the Church, which hus so dis- torted the character of God. And in the Church areformation must begin,—a radical reforma- tion, os it seems, so deep and so thorough that no one will think of falsely accusing the good- and severity. of God, even by the im- ness Plication involred in arbitrary inflictions. We Tight. lop of a few of the topmost ‘branches by way of reform, but that would be of little worth 80 long asthe radical error re- taains,—an error which dishonors God more than all the violence of His open and avowed en- emies. ‘The time has come for personal convic- in place of priestly teachinzs. tigns iy enough to say that if the wall of un- gpeakable misery isto ascend unceasingly and forever from countless multitudes, it seems im- ossible that any one who bas learned to love ig neighbor as himself can have any joy or any peuce. His heart must respond to that wall and ECho it. His sympathies will go down into the Sroful depths, and he himself, in’ the exercise of a real suffering pity, will find no heaven, no rest, ne home. Which bas compelled him to love them on earth will compel the continuance and enlargement of that love, and he will wail with those that wail : born by the’ very compulsions of his rel . = where did he get that aa ao planted the ereat Jove in nature? 2 't ig God who has commanded, and where Bowe find the command abrogated? These are no fancied difficulties. They have suggested themselves over and over again to those who seck to obey that command of Jesus: ‘Calino man on master [or teacher] for One is your teacher.” ess the: Chri aia pert to 6. Christian of all the, Copitrary and torcures everiasting!*, not tor the of thecreature, but for the Zeatifeation of some fechng in ‘Himself. We haye the ment of the “evangelical stand- pos’ It is hard to break away from the tram- fnels of these things. But the incisive words of Jesus in regard to those “who dishonor God by radi in point bere. thelr tradi dnrkness have come between the Clouds and dar! the Father in Heaven, but they face Of Minn an opinion and the darkness of Sigrepresentation, They have blotted out hope for many; they have fostered and contributed to Night on the earth. ‘Through them many a frightened soul the dim image of a gant Divinity: of Motoch-like proportions has gos up portentous and forbidding in at CM aa ‘And we cannot discuss se ard atchiess, evangelical pulpit J—except on one pa le. concurrent testimony the doctrine Neve in a eberestte iteiect dre iseaugh sad ‘nothing except cut of the orig- That nfs yory wrath, and ven- ugh. nal motive of love, ao the tind the freof his anger bel Bebrgies of his love,—dhen we mutt wohasper ne ay our breota the New Testament, believing in Jf they are his enemies the same Inw | to lend serious belief to Mother Shipton’ | the fullest extent that it, with the Old Testa- ment, is the Word of God; and, upon the puin: taking examination of these passages, I believe Christendom has iisrepresented the character of God and soiled the white purity of it, and that the Christian Church suffers in conse- guence, eas, seen oF jolt sullen when idol- When it made ebildren to pass through the fire. es B Ina thonghful, keen-eyed age its influence abates, and its energies paralyze; its members drift away from it into the prevailing forms of unbelief and atheism. If it proclaims the love of God, the proclamation is treated ns an empty formula; if it speaks of salvation there is mea- gre response, and salvation is not understood to be a rudical and permanent renovation of char- acter, but a safeguard against the endless flames. And so it has come to be a present and motoentous fact in the history of the Church, as God by an Apostle has said: “The letter (and especinlly tho mistranslnted letter) killeth.”” My friends, there are said to be snares of the Devil. Now asnare is mude to look 2s much 23 ossibie like a harmless. or even a desirable ob- ject, and thus the unwary are entrapped. But there isone thing which no Christian, or any person who desires to be right ought todo. He ought not by any persuasion, or by any pressure, to permit himself to dishonor God, by attribut- ing to Him a character which is evil, and which conscience, if freely listened to, teaches is evil. Iisa Satanic snare. Ho whois the traducer, the slanderer of God, hassomehow got into the minds of men to crook and twist their thoughts, and to make one of their cardinal doctrines virtually teach that God is cruel, vindictive, and that He will please Himsclf all eternity long with the groans of the suffering, who, tor a brief moment hereon earth,—many of them not knowlag their right hands from their left,—bave incurred His displeasure. It is the merciless dogma of men who believed in fire, and burned their enemies. Itmay, and I think eventually will, be seen to be a doctrine of devils. From it the Church will one day arise as from a horror of great dark- uess, and learn not to blasphemo! and be pre- pared to bicss mankind, with a pure Gospel, whose exponent it shail then become. But it is objected to these views that God is just, and has Divine justice to maintain in His universe; to maintain at whatever cost, and we are bidden not to forget that. Well, that is the very thing I am endeavoring to bring to remembrance. Justice! O, what burdens of horrors word has been forced tocarry. Corrupt as we are here on earth, we do not think of maintaining justice by torture. And we execrate the memory of those who have become infamous by their employ- ment of torture. We do uot torture, because we know it is cruel to torture judicially. And yet wedare to declare that will never cease torturing in order that He may maintain justice! But what sort of justice isit? Where did wo pick up ‘the idea of it? Is it justto doanun- just thing? Ia it just to torture people forever? Why, all the hosts of Heaven would be down on their knees supplicating God upon the throne with flowing tears and anguish to cease to be just, if that were justice. But it isnot. To think that God could annihilate the suffering millions—to say nothing of His power to rescue and beal them—and would not, would spoil Heuven for any one but a savage. ‘But by all those suppositions wo assail the character of God. Wedo most deeply dishonor Him, we reduce His luw to no effect, we make His Gospel u furce, and thoughtful men drift away into atheistic conjectures hoping for noth- ing beyond, but not tearing anything except the pains of death. Leslie Stephens, an English writer, voices the current opinion of the think- ing minds of his country who are outside of the Cburch and out of sympathy with it: “If this be the logicul result of accepting theories, better believe in no God at all.” Clearly, then, if the Church has disfigured the love and the justice of God, if it has enthroned in His place a Being who is capable of torturing forever the children of men, or a portion o! them, that sutticiently explains why God cannot come to His temple, which is the Church, be- cause It is occupied by another Being. “ What agreement hath the temple of God with {dols?” asks the Apostle Paul significantly; and itisa question we do well to usk also. Cunon Farrar, a distinguished clergyman of tho Church of England, uses somewhat strong language on this subject, with which I close: “Here I declare, and call God to witness, that if the popular doctrine of Hell were true, I should be ready to resign all hope, not only of a shortened, but of any immortality, if thereby I could save not millions, but one single soul from shat fear, and superstition, and ignorance, and inveterate hate, and slavish letter worship have dreamed and taught of Hell. . . . Unless my whole nature were utterly changed I can im- agine no immortality which would not be ab- horrent to me, if it were accompunied with the knowledge that millions, and millions, and mill- jons of poor suffering wretches, some of whom on earth [had known and loyed, were writhing in an agony without end or hope.” MODERN PALESTINE. ANCIENT JUDEA TO BE CONVERTED INTO A JEW- ISH COLONY. ‘The Cologne Gazette of a recent date says that among the Orthodox Israelites and Christisns unfriendly to the Israclites this has always been a favorit cry: “Palestine for the Jews!” and has gained strength in proportion as the power of tho present political ruler over the “beloved land” wanes away. The English preacher, Nu- gee. who has interested himself in this matter, expounded on the 14th of the month, in a public lecture, a plan which of late bas assumed a. practical shupe. The Englishman, Oliphant, has lafd tho plan before the Sultan. It is that the land of Gilead and Moab, embracing the whole territory of the Israelitish tribes of Gad, Reu- ben, and Mannassch, shall be converted into a Jewish colony, the Sultan being paid in cash for the territory, a proposition which the Sultan has alrendy favorably entertained. Still more, Goschen, the recently-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary of England, at Constantinople, has expressed himsclf as well disposed toward the furtherance of the plan. The territory in question embraces about 1,500,000 English acres, and is at present inhabited only by nomadic tribes. The colony is to remain subject to the Turkish power, while yet its immediate Governor is to be an Israelite. In this manner Judaism is to regain a firmer foothold in its own land, and the colony itself ultimately become a rallying point for the scat-. tered people of Israel, around which itis hoped an ever-broadeuing girdle of new scttlements will form itself. The purchase money for the territory of the new colony is to be contributed by the freewill offerings of patriotic Israelites. ‘Two railroads or highways are to be built, tho one ascending from Juffa to Jerusulem, the other extending from Haifa to the further side of the Jordan. Sir Moses Montetlore has ulready interested himself in these significant enter- rises, furnishing material aid for the sume. ‘or the construction of the road to Jaffa the ‘Turkish Government has aiready made 2 con- cession, with the proviso that‘vork shall bo commenced upon it by next January at the farthest. Still further, the construction of a ship canal from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aknbe and the Red Sea is contemplated. Palestine ty agnin to be reopened, under the in- fluence of the ideas of the nineteenth century, if only the Jews themselves are reidy with their contributions and their settlements for their own land.”” 7 ‘Another paper, also, the London Times, has the following: “A uegotiation is said to be on foot between the members of the house of Rothschild and the venerable Sir Moses Monte- fiore on the one hand, ana the Ottoman Govern- ment on the other, for the cession, under certain conditions, of the ifoly Land. The Ottoman Gov- ernment i8 already at its last gasp, for want of rendy moncy. The Jewish race wish a ‘habitat of their own. As the Greeks, though ascattered. people, living for the most part in Turkey, have aGreck Kingdom,so the Jews wish to have a Hebrew Kingdom. | This, it will be remembered, is the leading idea of George Eliot's ‘Daniel Deronda.’ Few persons, and probably the gifted authoress herself not more than others, imagined that the dream of the Mordecai of those pages was In the least degree likely so svon to be real- ized. Information as to the nature of the new Jewish State, whether it is to be theocratic or royal, is uacertain, but the arrangements inref- erence to it tre In progress. Prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves, more especially when those who believe in them are possessed of the sinews of Government. ‘The day when ‘the Dispersed of Israel’ are to be ¢ethered into one js contidently looked forward’ to, not: only by Hebrews, but by multitudes of Christians. The autnor of ‘Alroy’ would be guthered to his fathers in greater pence, were he permitted under bis Administration to see this day and be glad. Superstitious persons, who think that the end of the world is to be preceded by the resto- ration of the Jews to Palestine, will nclingd proph- ecy tnat this earth is to see its last days in 1851.” These extracts are significant, and specimens of long articles that have appeared of late in the European press, secular as well as religious. Whatever some people may think of prophecy, it is clear that a grand movement is on foot ‘for the regeneration of Palestine. The * Holy Land” looms up with every agitation of the Eastern question, and is, in fact, its central point. Asto opulation, Jerusalem has now 20,000 Jews, a larger number than the Turks and Christians combined, not to name the Russian colony out- side. Forty years ago. the population was only , and oniy within ten years was italiowed out~ sidetheGhetto. The Jewish populationof Pales- tine is greater to-day than ever siuce the Ruman expulsion. Andree and Pescher's “Statistical Atlas” puts the sum total of Jews in the world at 7,000,000, the number in Solomon's time. In Europe the Latin group of Jews is 89,000; the Teutonic 812,000; the Slavonic. 4,017,000; in all 4,978,000._In Asia there are 300,000. In Africa, 600,000. whe figures 150,000 for the United States are fur too low. ‘The interest in Palestine is shown by the In- ternational Exploration Society. Its” “Great Map of Palestine,” drawn on a scale of one fnck toa mile, will surpass all others, and, under the direction of the British Ordnance Survey De- partment, will show “every detail of ruin and village, anetent and modern, aqueduct, lana: tions, roads, deils, synagogs,_ tom! 1c ena ac, wadies, castles, forts, ding fount mountains, rivers, plains, iprings. and wells.” The preparation is exten- sive, and the proj has all begun. Jew- igh eynagogs an jitals are multiplied. The German Jews have already ity in- stitations and twenty-eight cot tions. The tide of immigration is setting in strongly, and the ‘appoinument of Midhat Pasha as Syrian Gov- ernor xives promise of: brizhter days for Pales- tine. A Venetian Jow has given 60,000 francs for the establishment Of an agricultural school inthe Plainof Sharoa,and Baron Albert de Rothschild has just guaranteed to the ex-Mayor of Jerusalem “a large pecuniary contribu- tion for the construction of “the Jaffa- Jerusalem Railroad. The South German ‘WFochenblatt reruinds its readers that the great banking-house of the Rothschilds, at the time of the last loan of 20,000,000 francs to Tur- key, accepted as security © mortgage on Pales- tine, and adds that “25 it is impossible fora bankrupt State, like Turkey, to pay back the money, the Israelites my now count upon their return to the Land of Promise as x certainty.” ‘A proposition is now under discussion, since a concession bas been made to the French for the Euphrates Vailey Hoad, to make ® junction be- tween the Intter fromthe old provinces of As- syria to Jerusalem the plan of Gen. Sir Fred- erick Goldsmid, a Jew whose munticence to the Turkish Jews is so well: Known, und whose dis- tinguished relative, Francis Goldsmid, n few years ago acted as reference in the question of the Persia and Afghanistan Eoundary. The in- terpreters of prophecy in reference to Israel’s future have quoted Isaiah, chapter xix., 23, a3 a prediction whose fultiliment this enterprise seems to favor in some way. ‘The text is this: there shall be to y sycian sball come into Egypt, Euyptian into” Asgyria, and ‘the’ Egyptians ahall serve with the Assyrians.” It is thought to foreshadow a tripartite alliance between Israel, Beypt, and Assyria, io the future of the Hebrew races, when converted. ‘Then the next verses are quoted: ‘In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a bless- ing in the midst of the Jand, whom the Lord will bless, saying, Bicssed be Egypt my People, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my in- heritance.” Itis agreed that no such alliance has ever yot taken pince. ‘The usual objection that Palestine is incapable of supporting a dense population is set aside by the testimony of the late United States Consul- General, who writes from Jaffa: “ Anabandant supply of water could be brought to’ the cit trom the pools of Solomon, were it not that all efforts are thwarted by the Moslem rulers. The land of Palestine is extremely productive, and were ¢olonies planted here, as they are in Aus- tralia, New Zealand, and the United States, there fsnoreason to doubt their success.” Arnold, the celebrated historian, who traveled over it, says, “The old abundanee is still sleeping in the soll of Palestine, and it needs not any miracle, but industry, to bring back the wealth and beauty of the enrly ugesof the Hebrew Mon- archy.’ ‘What adds interest to the Jewish question is the discoveries made by scholars of the where- abouts‘of the lost * ‘Ten Tribes,” or the tribes of the Northern Kingdom, carried away by Shal- maneser, a century. before the Babylonian exile of Judah, the Southern Kingdom. <Itseems to be established that the Jews in Afghanistan and in the Caucasus, and those iu China, with the 200,000 Falashas in Abyssinia, are ull descend- ants from the Ten Tribes. The wonderful in- crease, too, of Mobammedanism, outstripping Christinnity the last ten years asa proselyting religion, and the growing belief of orthodox ‘Mosioms that the decay of the Ottoman power is an sign of the end of the world and the judgment day, attract attention. The special interest En- glishmen take in the whole question is very warked. Politically, what Englend wants is a strong power in Syria to protect the Alexandria Rond and Suez Canal from Russian assault. Jewish nationality would solve that problem, rovided England had the protectorate. involves tho dispossession of tho Turks and overthrow of their Govern- Ment, and n contlict of nations for the posses- sion of Palestine and dominion of the East and the world. That means a general Asiatic, European, and African etruggle, with Jerusa- lem the objective. This, too, is interesting. With Egypt and Greece already existing, if di- plomac¥ ereets Syria and Thrace into two sep- arate Kingdoms, thon modern history repro- duces the four Kingdomsinto which Alexander's Empire was broken up, and points to Syria -as the apot where the last enemy of the Jews will appenr in the Inst struggle. Out of Syria Anti- ochus Epiphanes came, and it is thought that out of Syria, again, according tothe prophecy of Daniel, in his eleventh chapter, the last Anti- christ will arise. Tho discussions in tho press and magazines are many and full of interost. Oneof England's Bishops has just sald: “If ever the question is raised, and it may be raised ‘very soon, Shall the Jews be inducted into their pattimontal jJand as tenants at will? no matter yy whom the proposition is made, or for what Jparposs.--aveu hostile to England,—it will be ngland’s duty not to oppose but to assist, or at least permit Israel to be restored, unconverted.” ‘This is the gencral tone of Christendom. The “Reformed Jews"—I. e., the Rationalists—are laughing, or mocking. CATHOLICS AND INFIDELS. THE TWO OPFOSING FORCES AGITATING EN- ND. _ Correspondence New York Temes. Loxpon, June 3—Itis a fact worth thinking about that Roman Catholicism on the one band and®infidetity on the other are the two chief theological and intelicctual forces of the day. Romanism is a great and growing power in En- gland. The infidelity that is begot ot scientific culture is extending in London with a rapidity that chureh-gocrs have little’ knowledge of. Not the least remarkeble feature of the times is the singular way in which the new Liberal Gov- ernment holds-out ite‘ hands to.Catholiciemand infidelity, though Mr. Gladstone's majority is acknowledged to be the result of the Noncon- formist ticket. Now, the Dissenters are far more intolerant toward priests and unbelievers than the Established Church is; and it is quite certain to-day that if Mr. Gladstone asked Mid- Lothian to indorse his policy of appointing a Roman. Catholic to the Vice-Regal chair of India and bis toleration of Bradiaugh, the Scotch Presbyterians would yote against him to a man. Indeed, he has already re- ceived a numerously-signed protest against his action in this respect. In the past Mr. Glad- stone has'more than once had to defend himself from the charge of being a Jesuit in disguise. His latest answer was an attack on the Papacy which made Holy Church wince. Nevertheless, it must be accounted a little strange that he bas filled the chief position in her Majesty's house- hold with a Roman Catholic, and elected onc of the same faith to represent the throne in India. As Col. Ingersoll so well says, the humble bee is most swollen when first hatched, so the convert to Rome is blown out with a sense of his new dignity and importance. Perverts are the re- cruiting sergeants of the Romish Church, and it is nonsense to say that Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India, will not try to advance the interest of his new Church Jn the East. To what extent he ‘will damage the Protestantism of the Indian rule is nother question. Mr. Gladstone has already had to declare in Parliament that Lord Ripon is nota Jesuit. At the same time he hus morcor less | felt it incumbent upon bim to fling a protecting shieid over the worse than infidel Bradlaugh. Brond, unbiased minds may see in this an exam- ple of the Premier's generosity and liberal prin- ciple. The diplomat will only look at it us rep- resenting the difficulties which a Minister in- vokes when he mercly “runs for office,” and does not care a fig how and by what means he gets in, so that he does get in. As for the question of the oath raised by Brad- laugh, the issue is handicapped with the man. If n person of credit, and thought, and educa- tion, of cleun and binmeless life, had challenged the onth, he would have tapped an unsuspected spring of sympathy; but Bradiaugh is a moutn- ing ndyenturer, the writer of 1 obscene and filthy book, a demagog of the worst type. The question: before Purliament is;, therefore, in- Nested with 2 good deal of personal prejudice, though itis generally believed Bradlnugh will have fair play, andthe torecast of the Com- mittee’s report is that they will find they have no right to refuse to permit a mem- ber to take the oath who is willing to do ao. Bradiaugh, you gee, has eaten the leek. He declares that he is willing to take the onth. and wishes to do 80, and in his evidence yesterday he repudiates his own assertion that the outh will not be binding on his conscience. He now says it will, He contends that the House has no right, according to law, to refuse to allow him to take the outh, being willing, ashe says he is, totake it in full and without any reservation whatever. When it was first put to him, he de; clares, he did not refuse it, but only asked to be allowed to“ affirm.” A Committee of the House reported that he had no just clnim, as the Quukers have, to “aflirm.” He thereupon pre- sented himself to take the oath, and was op- posed by the House, he having in another place declared that the oath would not be binding on his conscience, that he does not believe in Go and that the golemn formality had no more in- fluence upon him than an empty sound. Brad- laugh is now fighting to be allowed to take the oath, and to-day he suys {it will be binding on his conscience. Was there ever a more miserable candidate Cor political and theological martyr dom? . ‘It was suggested in an American journal the other day that Bradlaugh is the Ingersoll of England. There could notbea fiercer libel on Ingersoll, The one is a giant, the other a yemy; the one is a Hercules, the other a Cali- Bae. Ingersoll has wit_and original thought. Bradlaugh has neither. Ingersoll thinks, Brad- laugh compiles. Ingersoll isin earnest. Brad- laugh is a mere “jobber.” T don’t know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to have the question of the oath by a person of Brad- Jaugh’s character (or want of character), or whether It would have been better if thequestion had been brought ¥hzo the court of history and ublic opinion by a truly nobie and great man. tt will not have quite dispassionate treatment under present circumstances, and, if there is any dignity or strength in infidelity, Brad- Jaugh trails it in the gutter of his “Fruits of Philosophy” reputation, and further weakens the position by withdrawing from the ground dh ‘A point is being which he originally took up. Pe pe the Opposition ic regard to Brad- laugh’s election which may be taken as a way- side illustration of the thorough office-sceking character of the general election. Neither Mr. Gladstone nor any other chief of the Liberal arty dreamed that they would do more than re- a majority by 20 oF oy e chance was regarded. Even Mr. Brad- laugh was counted into the chances, for every vote wasa vote, Theref Lib- ral Gate at Northampton, should be favor of Bradlaugh; and Mr. Morley, the great Nonconformist member for Bristol, ‘wrote a let- ter approving of Bradiaugh’s candidature. Thi: is looked upon as a Gladstonian alliance with Bradlaugh; and Mr. Chaplip, the young and act- ive Lincolnshire memser, * chaffs” the Noncon- formist voters at Bradford this week with these details, and says: “But for tho interferenceot a private member your Gladstone Government would have allowed Bradlaugh to take the oath, thus turning into mockery and ridicule one of the most solemn procecdings of Parliament.” Thus the Conservative Opposition point on one side to the Liberal patronage of Papal power in official life, and on the other to toleration, not to. use'a milder phrase of intidelity, the degradation of murriage. and all the. other horrors represented by Chiries Bradlaugh. The Nonconformiste, however, have one source of consolation, one concession from -Parlinmeut,— the Government Burials bill, which is to give them purochial and relizious rights in the Chureb of England burial-grounds. These privileges ought to huve been theirs long ago. Even now the new act which the Goyerument is pledged to pass is not w'lurge-hearted or generous-minded one. It is hampered with many provisions and limitations, but It is the thin edgo of the wedze which the Nonconformists must eventually drivehome. It only requires 2 few exhibitions of clerical bigotry to complete this reform, ani every chureh bhs its narrow-minded priests. While, however, the English Establishment and the Dissenters ure fighting oyerthe very low wall that divides them thevlogicaliy, the Papists are planting chapels and monasteries all over the lund; are tinding pluces for their emissaries in the very heart of our Government, and English Preteen’ patents ure sending their children to be educated in Continental Komish schools, be- cause the British boarding school for girls is, 13 arule, den of sexual intrigue and a licensed system of extortion and plunder. The Noncomformists in England will, no doubt, prove to be the bone and inuscle and in- tellectuul strength of the land when the next fight between Protestantism and Roman Ca- tholicism comes xbout in England. Just as cer- tain as the European war now being promoted is the contlict that one day must arise between those bitter old enemies, Protestantism and Catholicism. English Churchmen asa rule are nore tolerant and allow a wider margin to those of adifferent fuith than the Dissenters do. A canon and u doctor of divinity in the Church were on the platform, a day or two since, of the Sunday Society. Dean Stanley and many other divines of the Church favor the objects of the Society, which desire the opening of museums, icture galleries, public gardens, and such like institutions on the Sabbath. The most strenu- ous opponents of the League are the Dissenters, who, had they power, would model the English Sunday on the lines of the Scoteh Sabbath, “the purgatory,” according to Ingersoll, of the prestyforian Chureb. Lord Dunraven the Chairman of the Sunday So- clety. In his address he fustanced many. proofs of progress in modifying the severities of tho’ soventh ‘day, including the Grosvenor Gallery Sunday’ exhibitions, and the opening of the Blanchester Public Library. Curiously enough, he did not refer to the silent, but tre- mendous, step onward made under the late Gov- ernment in permitting the establishment of a coffee-tavern, chictly for Sunday customers, in Regent's Park. ‘ether it is that, contem- plating things ut a standpoint ot 3,000 miles away, your correspondent sees more of the sume than those who watch London life from a mere London stundpoint,1 cannot say; but it does often fall to my lot to see an rd events and movements, social, political, artistic, and religious, which utterly escape local ob- servation and record. Lwssthe irst to draw. public attention to this undemonstrative re- form Of the coffee-tavern in Regent's Park, and you will remember that I presented it to your notice from the Sabbatarian point of view, There is no more remark:ble instance of Sunday reform than the seventh-day scene in Regent's Park of handreds of people sitting inside and outside of u coffee. chalet taking harmless refreshments, and listening to the strains of a processional orchestra. This ina public park belonging to the Queen is a far bigger fact than the upeiling of the Grosvenor on a Sunday, or the cuncession mude to public opinion at Manchester. Yet the Sunaay Socicty, with Lord Dunrtyen in the chair, overlooks it entirely. ‘There is n good deal of the blind lead- ing the blind busiuess in English public life. [ suppose his Lordship’s Secretary, or the Secre- tary’s wirepuller, did not properly prime him with fucts and figures. I notice an important decision of the Supreme Court of Indiana in the Tines, touching the selling of cigars ut a hotel stand on Sunday, Which is quite in opposition to the judgments of English courts. But one day, when the British Legisinture gets sufficiently free from foreign questions and personal politics toattend alittle to home atfu irs, the Sunda; juestion will be honestly and tolerantiy tackled. ‘he ~4sult which would do most for religion and moraiws,and for social advancement. would be the closing of every bar-room and public house from Saturday night until Monday, and the ‘opening during the same period of every coffee tavern, “eating-house,” public muscum, and educational institution in the three Kingdoms. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. The Cook County .Sunday-school centennial anniversary, in commemoration of the starting, 100 years ago, by Robert Haikes, in his native town of Gloucester, England, of the first Sun-. day-school, was celebrated yesterday moraing at Convention Hail, in the Exposition Building. ‘The hour set for the opening of the exercises was7:00am., but long before that time the Sunday-school children from all parts of tho city began pouring into the vast building. At 9:30 o'clock there were fully 5,000 adults and children in the hall, and, when the gathering was called to order by the Chairman, Mr. D. W. Potter, President of the Cook County Sabbath- School Association, there were present fully 8,000 men, women, and children. The scene was a very pretty ono, in one re- spect presenting quite a contrast to that which Convention Hall contained when the work of Presidentiat-naming was going on within its walls. The darkly-appareled uudience which then occupicd it presented an appearance quite sombre in comparison with the bright effect produced by the light-colored dresses worn by the large mujority of the Sunday-sctool schol- .ars, The hall was very prettily decorated, the floral decorations being profuse and very pictur- esquely disposed, while the banners of & thou- sand Sunday-school classes, some of them lifted highin air from among the audience, others hung upon the inclosing walls, added to the brilliancy of the scene. The reporters’ stand, where a few days ago 20) newspaper men plied. their pencils busily, had been converted into a miniature conservatory, where a large va- riety of rare and beautiful flowers were taste- fully arranged. A large-sized portrait of the ven- erable philanthropist, Robert Paikes, was sus- pended above the spenkers’ desk. Upon the speakers’ stand, immediately behind it, vases and baskets of flowers had been placed with good effect, and in front of the distinguished guests’ balcony was a tull archway of tlowers. Upon the walls immediately inclosing the speak- ers’ stand the Sunday-school class banners had been placed in the greatest profusion, the barc- ness of the boards belug greatly relieved by the brightness of their tints. “The decoration of the hall, which was not the least. important of the factors making up the marked success of the Anniversary, was done by the following Indies: ‘Mrs. F. K. ‘racy, Miss Mattie Van Osdel, Miss ‘Liane Tustin, Miss Emma Tustia, Miss Jennio Wolle, Miss Mary Roney, of the Second Baptist Church; Miss Edith Caukin, of the Lake View Sunday-school; Miss Wishard, of ‘the Sixth Presbyterian Church; Miss Olive Murphy, of ‘trinity Chureh; Miss L. sf. Collins, Langley Avenue Baptist u Miss Mamie . Merrill, r Church; Miss "Josie Scully, Mrs. Protis, Miss Wickotl, Baptist. Tubernacle; Miss ’ Mary Plunusted. Miss Julia Callaghan, Second Baptist Cbureh; Miss Waterman, Lake View Suuday- gchool; Miss Jennie Pearce, Trinity Methodist Chureh; Miss Hunt, Sixth Presbyterian Church; ‘Mrs, Smith, Quinn Chapel; Miss Nettie Bennett, Chicao Avenue Chureh, aud others. Jn calling the gathering to order the Chairman expluined brietly the occasion of the anniver- sary, describing the efforts of the founder of the Sunday-scheol, and concluding with the hope that the nnniversary might result ina ickening of the interest’ already talen in tho unday-pchool movement. ‘The vast assemblege then united in singing the hymn, * We praise Thee. O God, for the Son of Thy love.” and “ My country, ‘tis of thoc."” ‘The Rey. W. C.,Willing,D. D., then tead two Scripture lessons, one trom the Old the other from the New Testament, and made an eloquent raver, in which he thunked God for the Sun- day-school and invoked the Divine blessing upon the institution which 100 years ago He founded on earth through the agency of Robert aikes. ‘Tho audience then sang the hymn, ‘Hallelu- "tis done,” after which the Rev. R.A. Hol- and, D. 22., Rector of Trinity Episcopal addressed the meeting, having “ The Bi hissubject. In opening he told the story of Robert Raikes’ first Sunday-school. The Te Deum of the Sunday-school was then heard for the fi time, Jt nad. since to grand proportions. Not only’ Dirittal but also tho temporal affairs of the place where the experiment was made were im- proved by the beneficent influences of the Sun- day-school. Devotion took the place of dissipa- tion. and the homes which had before been the scenes of squalor and debauchery became re- deemed and converted into comfortuble and happy family circles. In six yenrs the reforma- tion begun at Gloucester spread all over the Inud, and both the State Church and the Non- conformists saw in the Sunduy-school the fittest of ll instruments for Christianizing the people. Enlisting the sympathies of those who hud hitherto been pathetic In the matter of re- ligion, it raised the entire structure of society untilto-duy the English were the most thor onghly Christian people in the world. The movementof Whittield and Wesley bad done 4 Chureh; Miss’ Nellie Brooks "First Congregational Church, ible” for i great deal to produce this result, but to the Sun- lay y-school was due the greatest credit for it. ‘The Sunday-school was the strongest of all mis- sionary instruments. Outon the frontier the first evidences of the taking root of religion wus the Sunday-school, and {t did not take long when one was planted for It to grow into a congrega- tion requiring the presence of a minister and of a place to worship in. AS 8 vitalizer of the Church the Sunday-school was of great impor- tance. It provided work for the Church mem- pers, who otherwise might grow apathetic in the ae Ad che Port” was then sung by the au- di the combined vocal effort—for every one ofthe thousands t seemed to take et Faas ma n—proving very gran Gharked Leo ‘wes musical conductor, .and under since grown | his inspiring lead the voices biended us one, and produced a voluine of inspiriting sound which perfectly drowned the voices of a couple of Trumpets, an address was then made by the Rey. Fred- erick A. Noble, D. D., pastor of the Union Park Congregational Church. who had for his subject “The Bible Scemi-Millenary.” The speaker, after an interesting dissertation upon the won- derful book and its wonderful history, gave tho history of its translation into English 500 years ago, und also of the growth of the Bible ‘socie- ties, and the immensity of the work accom- plished by them, He showed how powerful an ally the Sunday-school had proved in spreading tho Gospel abrond, and, before closing, paid a tribnte to the great value of the system of uni- versal lessons, which, inaugurated fourteen years ago, had row spread over the entire Sun- day-school world. 2 hymn, “Jesus Loves Even Me,” wns then sung, after which Mr. B. F. Jacobs. made an ad- dress on “The Work in Cook County.” in which he showed that the latest Sunduy-school statis- tics gave the number of persons engaged in Sunday-school work all over the world at 23,80L,107, composed of 1,460.88] teachers and 12,840,816 scholars. Of these the United States had: 7,009,452, or 886,023 teachers and 6,033,124 echolars. Cook County's Sunday-school popula~ don was 03,445, or 7,025 teachers and 86,420 schol- ars. He also alluded to the Bible work, and pictured to the children how grand a monu- ment the millions of Bibles which had been distributed during the last 500 years would make if. piled one on another. His address was enlivened with several stories, reproduction |, of which, as told by Mr. Jacobs, is perfectly im- ‘possible.’ They delighted the children, and, as each one had its moral application, brought out brietly and in an interesting manner, the effect of the address was to impress the audience fully arin the importance of the Sunday-school work. ‘The meeting was closed with singing of the hymn, “ To the work,” followed by the doxology, after whieh the Rev.Dr. Clendenning pronounced the benediction. GENERAL NOTES. The Methodist Church owes $7,000,000 on its real estate in this country. ; The Christian at Work pleads for floral decora- tions in the church. The Central Presbyterian asks, Why not candy? After a lapse of five years St. Clement’s Epis- copal Church of Philadeiphia has been visited by Bishop Stevens. St. Clement's is ultra Ritualistic. The Chicago Woman's Baptist Home Mission Union will hold its next regular meeting with the Western Avenue Baptist Church (corner of Western and Warren avenues), Tuesday after- noon at 3 o'clock. Tea will be served a8 usual. Gentiemen are invited in the evening. ‘There are thirty-three missionary societies at work in Africa, and there are 75,000 converts be- longing to Protestant churches. with an outside population of 250,000 undor their influence. In Central Africa there are already ten Christian organizations ostablished with. more or less en- couraging prospects. A recent traveler in South Africa has placed in the hands of Dr. Cameron, M, P., a whi more formidable than the “cat” of the Britis! navy, with which he says that the missionaries, near ‘Lake Nyanza arc in the habit of flogging réfraetory converts. The subject will probably ve officially investigated. Seven thousand dollars, which were bequeathed to the Roman Catholic Church some time ago by an Australian merchant, have not been paid by his executors, The money was left to the Church * for deliverance of my [his] soul from purgatory.” and the executors refuse to pay the money uniil proof is given that the testator's soul has been reles ‘The agitation in the Church of England for a reform of the Book of Common Prayer still keeps up.- To effect the reform the subject will have to be brought before Parliament. At this distunce it seems odd that toa body composed of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and non-believers, should be intrusted the work of compiling a State prayer-book. Imugine the United States Congress engaged in such 0 job! Moro clergymen have sailed for Europe thus far this season than up to a corresponding time in any previous year. It is now considered the respectable thing for every pastor of a self- supporting church to go to Europe in the sum- mer. During next four weeks a great many more will zo. A church which has not sent its pastor to Europe can hardly hold up its head with becoming dignity’ among neighboring churches which have sent theirs. New York Archdiocese leads all others in the Union in Catholic. population,—600,000; Boston conies next, with 310,000; Philadelphia is third, with 275,000: New Orleans follows, 250,000; then Chicago, 230,000; Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn rank next, euch with 200,000. In the mumber of priests New York also leads, with 383, and Baltimore stands second, with 281." The Ro- man Catholic immigration here from 1820 to 1875 numbered 3.150220, and the present Catholic pop- uiation of the United States is 6,509,000. ‘The Rey. Hugh Miller ThomSon,once Rector of Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal) in New York, has recently been holding u controversy ina newspaper with the ‘pastor of a Unitarian Church in New Orleans, In one of his letters he makes the assertion that one-half of the con- gregation of the Rev. Phillips Brooks’ church in Boston were formerly Unitarians. “I know,” he said, “from the best evidence, that the cult- ured Unitarianism of New England is largely drifting into the Episcopal Church.” - The course of Sunday evening lectures py leading clergymen of the various denominations will be resumed in St. Paul's Reformed Episco- pal Chureb, Sunday evening July 4. Omthat evening the Rev. Dr.’ Ninde, President of the Garrett Biblical Institute, will lecture on “ Methodism.” ‘The Rev. Prof. A. P. Peabody, D. ., of Harvard University. July 1. on“ Uni- tarianism.” The Rev. Dr. Hubbs, of Cincinnati, on“ The Church of the Disciples” (Gen. Gar- fleld’s denomination), July 18. All seats free. A guild of Hitualistic persons has existed for some time in the City of Detroit for the purpose of maintaining the quasi Parish of Holy Trin- ity, which has never been recognized by the Bishop of the Diocese, either as a mission ora church. Bishop Harris was lately requested to yisit the parish and perform some official acts there, but he insisted on the recognition of dio- cesan authority before he went. This was re- fused, and the Bishop did not stir. The guild is now ind pout: Its dignity has-been offended. It maintains lay services. The Lake Bluff camp-meeting will be held July 28 to Aug. 8. A geueral letter to the minis- try and laity of the Methodist Church says: “You will'learn from the Lake Bluff Sunday- School Assembly program what provision is made for -your transportation to the grounds, and for your entertainment after you are there. Besides the hotel and cottages nlready erected we have room for a thousand tents,—where, upon the shore of our beautiful lake, you can encamp and spend a few days in recreation, for the body and spiritual feasting for the goul.”” Mr. Beecher has a hobby for rugs. Rugs of every nationality, hue, and texture cover his rooms and halls, matching ill or weil the other colors ng it may-happen. But fow people sus- pect that be {is authority on soaps, yet such is the case And the scent of the soup-boiler’s ket- tle is us the odors of Araby to the great preach- er. Toilet articles, the mysteries of the per- fumer’s distillations, ure to him an open book, and the liternture of the toilet, ancient and mod- ern. is as familiar to him as are the decisions of the Councilof Trent or the somnolent platitudes of the gnostic heresics. ‘The English branch of the Ritualist Society known ns the “Confraternity of tho Blessed Sacrament” held its thirteenth anniversary meeting lust week at Cannon Street Hotel, Lon- don, the large hall of which was crowded, while a side room was devoted to an exhibition of vestments, “altar linen,” and other objects of ecclesiastical art and interest. - During the last year 69 priests and nearly 1,000 lay communicants have been added to the roil of members, which now consists of 900 clergymen and 12,000 Izy per- sons. The Rev. Canon Carter, who is dubbed the “Superior General,” sald that there was strong evidence of a turn in the tide of popular feeling toward the Catholic section in the Church of England, and expressed his belief that they had seen the lust of persecutions for an extreme ritual. Last welt a peculiar ceremony: was performed in the Church of God in Philadelphia, It is styled “ the washing of the Salnts’ feet,” which is thus described: “Twelve or fifteen persons of both sexes rose aud went forward, the women taking seats be- fore the altar on one side while the men took seats on the other. Twoor three women then, with basing in their hands, came forward, while alike number of men on ‘the other side did the same thing, and, taking off the shoes of those before them, proceeded to geatly wash their feet, women doing this service for the women and men for the men. The minister then re~ lated the authority from which this ceremony was derived, and exhorted the suinta to strive to walk in the path of Him who set the example to them. As soon ns the washing was.completed the feet were dried with ordinury coarse towels, the stockings and shoes replaced, and, in the midst of another hymn, the saints took their seats. Afterward the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper was administered.” a ‘To the Editor of The Chicayo Tritnune, - Cucaco, June %5.—The Woman's, Christian ‘Association of Chicsgo, UL, would ask, asa patriotic measure, all Christian women either Rssociated or individually to remember continu- ully in prayer our own country and all the na- Hons of the earth, as all are under the tender love of Christ; petitioning, rst, that they may have rulers such as described In Ex. xviit,, 21; second, that the Spirit of Hollaess may fill all jands; third, that national calamities may be averted (amo: those threatened is the army worm in Long fsland, read Joel); and also that Gach Christiun wonmn do all in ber power elther aireetiy or indirectly to bring, every one to God. knowin, path of faithful obedience to Lis commands. JosEPH HAVEN, Chairman Committee on Religions Work Wom- ‘an’s Curistian Association. PERSONALS. ‘Miss Sydney Paul Gill, author of the hymn “I ‘Want to Be an Angel,” died last week at New- ark,N.J. She was a native of Birmingham, En- that national blessings come in the | gland, and wrote a number of hymas, but the one named attained the greatest popularity. . The Kev. J. T. Burhoe, pastor of the Universi ty Place Baptist Church, has sailed for Europe to spend his vacation. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, of this city, has been appointed one of the delegates to the Pan- Presbyterian Council. ‘The Rev. George A. Pelz, of Jamestown, N. ¥., has been found guilty of immoral conduct. He ag prowiltes: to leave the town and quit preach~ The Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York, has been chosen to preach the opening sermon before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in Philadelphia in September. Dr. John Hall has no sympathy with the con- sciously funny preacher. A clown in the pulpit bas mistaken his field of usefulness. is severe on Talmage. ‘The Southern General Presbyterian Assembly has appointed the Rev. Allen Wright, a Choctaw Indian preacher, oneof its delegates to the Phil- adelphin General Council. Dr. Mubtenberg. the author of the hymna “I Would Not Live Alway,” left a hoarded heap of gold behind him! Two gold pieces,—$10 in all,— ‘this was his savings to pay for his burizt! All that he had, all that he received, all that he wns, he gave to Christ and his friends while living, . and died leaving not enough to pay the expenses of his funeral. Bishop Crowther, of -the Protestant Episcopal Church, has received from the Royal Geo- graphical Society of England a handsome and coatly gold watch, in token of the valuable serv- iceshe bas rendered in the exploration of the Niger and other rivers of Africa. The Bishopis a learned man, and is as industrious and enter- prising as he is eloquent. : PIOUS TRIFLES. An aged colored man, hastening home from church, was asked why ho was in such a hurry. “Ob, nothin’ pertiklar, boss,” was his answer, “only I jess heerd at Confrence dat Sam Jokn- son’s fell fm grace, an’ I thought I’é get right home's soon 's I could an’ lock up my chickens. Dat's all.” A London paper states that the following curious directions are given to those who attend the Ritualistic Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Chiswick: ‘+ During prayers all are re- quested toknecl. The kneelers should be hung on the hooks provided for the purpose by those who have used them.” ‘The simplicity and purity of a child’s heart are often revealed in very uncouth ways. A little girl read a compwsition before her minister. The subject was * A Cow,” and after pointing outthe many good and useful qualities ot the cow, she added, The cow is the most useful animal in the world except religion.” Last Sunday one of our Sunday-school Super- intendents on his way to church met a boy with afishing-pole. ‘ Where are you going with that pole?” usked the Superintendent. He had not seen the boy since the last time he filled up ata Sunday-school picnic. ‘Please sir, I've got o wicked father, who sends me out to fish avet Sunday morning, but, as soon as I get out of sight of the-house, i am going to play hockey and come to Sunday-school.” ‘The late Mortimer Collins, who was ngit of bee describes the origin, as well as the reli; ion, of some of those scientific gentlemen in following lines: ‘There was an ape in the days that wore cartier, Centuries and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his ‘Then he was a man, and a Positivist. If you ar pious (mild form of insanity), Bow down and worship the mass of humanity; Other religions are buried in mists, “We're our own gods,” say the Positivists. Acie: in Pittsburg lately married a Indy with whom he received the substantial dower of $10,000 and a fair prospect for more. Soon afterward, while occupying the pulpit, ho gave out a hymn. read the first four stanzas, and was reading the fifth, Forever let my grateful heart boundless grace adore— when he hesitated, and exclaimed, “Ahem! The choir willomit the fifth verse,” and sat down. The congregation, attracted by his apparent eoataaions pead the romata| cre h gives ten thousands blessings now, And bids me hope for more. ; CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Church SS. Peter and Paul, cornor of West Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt. Rev. W. E. McLaren, Bishop; the Rev. J.H. Knowles, Priest in charge. Holy Com- munion at 8a.m. Choral Morning Prayer and celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a. m. Choral EveningPrayer at 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Frederick Courtney will officiate in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, at 10:45 a.m. and 7.45 p.m. Communion atSa.m. —The Rev. R. A. Holland will officiate in Trin- ity Ctfarch, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street, at 10458.m. Communion at8:30a. m. Morning subject: “The Summer - of-the Soul.” ‘ —tThe Kev. W. H. Knowlton will officiate in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washington and Robey streets, at 10:30a. m. and 4p. m. —The Kev. Clinton Locke will offici ate in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at lla, m.and$p,m. Communion at § a. m. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate in the Church ‘of the Ascension, corner of North La- Salle and Elm streets, at 1 a.m. and p.m. Communion at 8 a. m. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will officiate inSt. Paul’s Church, Hyde Park avenue, be- tween Fortyeninth and Fiftieth streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p,m. —The Rev. J. D. Cowan will officiate in St. Ste- phen’s Church, Jobnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth streets, at 1U:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Communion at morning service. £ —The Kev. Luther Pardee will oficiate in Cal- vary Church, Warren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 a.m. and p:m. Communion at 7:45 a. m1. —tThe Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will officiate in the Church’ of the Epiphany, Throop street, between Monroe and Adams streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. Communion at 8 a.m. —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Linco and Belden avenues, at 11 a. m.and4 p.m. —The Rey. James E. Thompson will ofictate in St. Thomas’ Church, Indiana avenue, between ‘Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets, at ll .a.m. and 7:45 p.m. —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate in St. Paul's Church, Riverside, in the morning. —The Rev. John Hedman will officiate in St. Ansgarius’ ‘Charehy Sedgwick street, near Chica- ‘go avenue, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. N. F. Raviin preaches at No. 431 Ogden avenue morning and evening. —fhe Rov. G..B. Vosburg will. preach morning and evening in Second Church, corner Monroe and Morgan streets. —The Kev. Kerr B. Tupper will preach at 7:45 mm. in the ‘T'wenty-fifth Strect Church, near Wentworth avenue. —The Rev. J.D. Broadus, of Louisville, Ky., will preach in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-tirst street, at 11 o. m. and 7:45 p. m. 2 —The Kev. E. B. Hulbert will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of West Wishington and Paulina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. T. Burhoe will preach in the Unt versity Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The -Htev. J. Rowley will preach in the North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedg~ wick streets, at 10:45 a. m. end 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the West- ern Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:0 p. m. —The Rev. W.H. Parker will in the Coventry Street Church, corner of Blooming- dale road, 2¢ 10:30 a.m..and 7:30 p.m. —The Key. R. De Baptiste rill peeeetia. Olivet. Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at ‘i am. and 7:45 p. m —There will be services in the South Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at Iam. —The Rev. A. K. Parker will preach in the Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Wess Jackson streets, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will ich in the Central Church, No. 200 O1 Street, near Sophia, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. W. A. Broadhurst will preach in the Dearborn Street Church, corner of Thirty- sixth street, at 10:0a,m. and 7:30 p. m_ —The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach in the Evangel Church, Dearborn street, near Forty- seventh, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Kev. 3ir. Meyer will preach in the First German Church, corner of Bickerdike and Hu- ron streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ne eer J.B. Sealey will Deir) at pied a m. and 7:30 p. m. at the First Norwegian Church, corner of Nobic anil West Ohio streets, - same Re vole Onenian, ea Deryce bd a. TH. an P. m. at the we Oak street, near Sedgwick. PRESBYTERIAN. c The Hev. J. H. Walker will preach at the Campbell Park Church, Leavittstreet, near Har- rison, morning and evening. —The Kev. W. T Meloy preaches at the United Church this morning, ana the Hev. M.A. Gault, of Blunchard, Mo., this evening. ‘ eon Her. Herrick Johnson will Preach morn- ing and evening in the Fou arch, corner Jush and Superior streets. see —The Rev. Dr. Baldwin, of Medford, Mass, will preach this morning in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. No evening service. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and ‘Twenty-first street, at 10:30 a. m. Evening service held at the Railroad Chapei, No. 715 State wee will presch in the aod ro Ogden av: * Home, and How “John Knox and ‘His Work in Isnd. : é —The Rov.S.E. Wishard will preach in tha!