Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1880, Page 9

THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. “RELIGIOUS. {mportant Changes in Ger- many—The Lutheran Influence. Life of the Jesuits in France— ” Gatholicism in Italy. prof, Smith Again Brought Up on a Charge of Heresy. ‘The Church in General—Religious Services in Chicago. church, school, justice, trade, warfare, etc., with supreme might and right. Materialism 1s the third and Inst anti-Christian influence. It arises now, ast did among Jews, Greeks, and Romans, at the close of a long period ot culture, and is rot philosophy, but marks the end of all philosophy.- It teaches that there is no responsibility and no punisliment; that to know ail is to forgive all; that sin and crime are a disease. It is monistic, Darwin- istic, Socialistic. Its theories, as elaborated in Marx and Lassalle, are cosmopolitan as opposed to rational, The individual. is en- couraged to give up all his rights to socicty, and to receive pay in pleasure. and enjoy- ment. It views lite from a day-laborer’s standpoint, and measures life only by the hour. Socialisin is atheism taken in earnest. It is God’s punishment upon society for the sins of the wealthy classes. Acquisition, en- joyment, sensuousness ‘have brought us to a time when men must, as Pascal said, either believe or despair. Pessimism, the latter al- ternative,: is the choice of those who find faith impossible, and isa proof that earthly: goods and pleasures do not satisfy. The young’men who enter the Lutheran ministry may be roughly divided into two classes: first, those fram respectable families, well bred;. o£ good figure; voice, feature, BEGINNING AGAIN. metimes our feet grow weary r bi ars rugged hills of 1fe— * gne path stretched long and dreary ‘With trial and labor rife— ‘We pause on the tollsome journey, Glancing backward in valley and glen, and sigh with iofinit longing fo return and begin again, Forbebind ig the dew of the morning, Jnall its freshness and light, before are doubts und shadows, “And the cbill and gloom of the night, We remember the sunny places ‘We passed sO carelesly then, And ith a passionate longing, To. and begin again. asking! of us on, ask, wil return n, vain. indeed. tied tr *g duties press aaete ‘dure Rao trom the labor, ‘Or sigh for the sunshine that's gone? ft may be. not far before us * ‘Wait fairer places than then; ths muy Fet lead by still waters, again. bet a ach we may not bexin a Forev’ upward and onward rer ths pa the hills of life, ‘And soon with a radiant dawning: ‘Transfigure the toil and the strife; And our Father's hand will Jead us vupward then: wear nh pence of a fairer world ‘Be'll let us begin again. RELIGION IN GERMANY. REANT CHANGES IN OPINION—THE LUTHERAN INFLUENCE—SCIENCE AND THE * ‘[elpane Correspondence New: York Nation. Daring the last decade, or since the last Schwartz’s well-known *“ History edition of of the Most Recent Theolozy,” published in Germany has undergone important eer in religious opinion. Beginning with the radical side, Prof. Zeller, of Berlin, ‘the foremost teacher of historical philoso- phy, the sonin-law of F. C. Baur, and the reputed confidential religious adviser of the Crown Prince and Princess, has published.a brillisntiy-written, matured, and moderate digest of the writtings of ‘the Tubingen school, Into these essays he has incorporated his own well-mown arguments, that the constitution of the Church. was during the early Middle Ages modeled largely into analogy with the Platonic Republic, and that the popular Stoic philosophy hed much in- fluence upon the development of its doc- trines. He lays great stress upon the fact that the Tubingen movement, unlike En- giish deism, French atheism, or German rationalism, was started by mature professors of theology and men of deep personal piety, and draws a picture of Baur’s profoundly religious and pastoral char- acter whieh all must, admire, and which made his sermons edifying to all who heard them. Zeller urges that the Tubingen method, thich consists simply in applying to the New Testament writings.the same canons of criticism that are applied to all other writings of antiquity, and which he would therefore designate ‘simply as the his- torical method, does not, if. rightly compre- hended, undermine, but only strengthens, the foundations of piety; and he reminds us how the Emperor Julian feared that the classical literature would be discredited if faith in the old mythology were destroyed. This movement is still very effective, along with the development of moaern science, in Incuning many of the most thoughtful and deeply religious to an outside position of in- difference or of hostility to the creed and rites of the Lutheran Church, which, by universal consent, is steadily losing its hold upon the mental, moral, and social life of all the large German communities, Judged by the num- ber of its eburches, the growth of its re- Selous Organizations, or by the percentage of its ehuret-go1 ulation, no large cit: in Christendom 1 a Miterly indiderens ia, and 1 had almost said unconscious of, the Peay eetence of instituted Ghristhanity as in spite o i the Kaiser’ st af tie Court. ee ey a ur war, to; with the May laws by which the Espabiioeed Churel Was reyuired to submit to all the restrictions imposed on the Catholics, uot only caused the distinctions between these and the Lu- to be confused in the popular mindy a both to seem involved in a common con- lamnation, but it crushed - the Ddllinger movement, embittered. united, and won syin- pathy for the Catholics, and brought the ese to the condition of a mere vassal of : bs State, while the latter became absolute the hi pong ina dangerous sense, even over * thought: i ee domain of religious life and tote now for the first time possible leer rm, married, and to die outside of the He the Church.’ The Catholic priests, by pected and hundreds, have abandoned their Parishes and Jet. them “run wild” rather seeuemgorm to oppressive laws or pass the ts cultus examination” which the to eran candidates for orders are required lo, Who afterwards in. their pulpits not smullunally often ‘abandon the old edify eet {0 the Gemuth, and begin to preac : osophs, while the religious ‘question and peianlsh Party have been introduced into sdf8t Lothardt, probably the most influen- has ji the conservative Lutheran leaders, of pnt closed an important and able series expine’ fectures, soon to appear in print, quenpate these and other evil conse- tee ite May laws, but chiefly impor- 4 defense from the standpuint he rep genera east anti-Christian influences in Botalisin, eS, chief of these, he says, is ra- fects The Middle Ages saw the per- of corporate life. Men worked, fought, and worshiped in masses. Ribjeet mation introduced the principle of aly. Men wished to be certain of Radiating fer himself without priestly Vein Kant’s aflirmation of autonomy; ae ultra-Protestanisu: against all au- ofthe ‘a pietism, which makes the edification eam ctyidual soul the chief thing; the duteary stress” literature,—all these are and nop eres of the leaching of Luther, tegtPeress beyond it. The rights aud a5 ? re of the judginent of the individual Zeitg dependent of the community, the have the authority of the Church, etc., tomas S emphasized beyond all alike’, 224 a dearee inconsistent tethes ith daily observation — (which origy 3s sin is the greatest fact in the then, and with the doctrine of heredity, ne qrettic art, lezal experience, ete. and rin Schools and through the press under- elemen the foundations of parental and mag- Gisciuline and authority. The third of rationalism is the. superstitious of knowledge for its own sake, Rhlch results in ‘i Aufklarung and repug- Faee to all obseurity and mysticism. - It ‘s doubtful’ whether editeation really Rowell better, and it is faise that the | AS the of virtue makes men virtuous. the (plZe Second t source of danger to By dere he designates Pantheism, which Which be most German philosophy, and_ tion of ‘as now found expression in-the no- cepting ue State as absolute. From the con- World is an im ie patton principle of the rsonal, changeless,.or ever- birt system of forces, Sowards which Inte are, eeling can be etther that of abso- in ah podence or of esthetic complacency “reli elon manifestations, eventuating in the rical transition in tu Hegel's plilosophy of the State, but Le fruit only di the last cqudes) to the ideas which have wire to auimate the German Em- Rest ers pett the united wisdom of the infant mei must be an absolute if not : Jogos, snburdinating and governing excellent social and domestic qnalities, and considerable tact in keeping clear of all sorts of trouble, but without deep convictions, eat scholarship, or much initiative power. Seeondly, students from the country, who are often pietistic and often indifferent, but are drawn into the theological lecture-rooms from various obvious associations, because other interests are unawakened, or because, so far as they have observed, a preacher’s life is on the whole more desirable than that of a teacher. Very many, after a year or more, abandon the theological fur some other faculty, and I have even heard it said jest- ingly that study under the former had come to seem almost like a‘ preparatory stage for medicine, philology, and jurisprudence. For students of limited nica wlio. reach or bass the clencal examination before finding their mistake, th@ results are sometimes scarcely Jess than tragic. ‘Ihe chief theolog- ical Verein, ‘despite its -becry. conviviality, js pietistic in a foreed’and almost medixva sense.’ The complaint that the right sort of young men for the pulpits, and especially for the theological Professorships, are not to be found, while in other departinents they ate pressing the older men aside prematurely, is often made by the religious press. Certain it is that many of the young docents, whose specialty is Semitic philology, or Hebrew archeology, or Church history, or diploma- tiology, have no deep interest in, or little kno ge of, the distinctively Christian doctrines, and probably for that very reason are inclined by. the instincts of discipline, fear, or loyalty to their Faculty to emphasize, often absurdly, the external forms of creed and practice, in order to cover the lack of a living faith.’ This, and the alienation of the more liberal-ninded, together with the ia ss and tasteless religious nihilism of the Social-Democratic brochures and lectures, have sapped the ‘‘mediating theology” of Dorner, ete., which’ was‘ so influential and promising ten years ago, and have caused the conservative lines to.be drawn in many re- peets closer than for many decades here. The Lutheran. Church is-tomely and old fashioned in its rites and services, has never been very successful with Sunday-schools or charities, is suspicious of revival work, las almost no popular or juvenile literature, and, in short, so faras the means of active aggres- sive work is concernéd, is comparati helpless. ‘The _recent Christian-S movement of Pastor Todt, which, r from the assumption that Christianity and Socialism had points of sympathy in that both were at botioin a protest against an ex- ‘isting order of things, attempted to organize enny-savines societies in ihe schools, and to instruct workingmen, and by such means to prove “the existence of undeveloped ele- ments of regenerating power in_Christian- ity,” has not becn a success, Meanwhile some of the older members of the Church, who share the standpoint of the Provestamt Verein, have wandered far away froin the commnon standard. The dogmatic systems of Profs. Biedermann, of. Zurich, and Pilei- derer, both published, I think, in 1869, fall just before the period we are contemplating, and are scholarly and systematic presenta- tions of Christian doctrines from a siand- point not essentially diifering from that of radical Unitarianism. The works of Kitsch! and Lipsius, however, fall within the last deeade. ‘The former neglects the metaphys- ical elements of the Divine nature, but de duces all from the moral character of Jesus. This all too-brief. and. impertect sketch should not close without mention of a ten- dency represented, though as yet not very numereusly, by young men of theolugical training, who insist that, despite their con- viction of the truth of: the extreme Tubingen and scientific methods, they have yet a right toa place in the Church. ‘They profess to see a profound psychological meaning in the atonement, Trinity, ete. ; a matchless didactic method in the doctrine of inspiration, the deity of Christ, the eterna! punishment; a moral and wxsthetic cultus in the rites and material equipment of the Church, and arr incomparable instrument of discipline and social order in its organization; and urge that therefore they havea place in its ranks and a right to assert its dovtrines far superior to that of the ordinary clergyman or lay mem- ber who has no such insight, and whom they do not scruple to charge with Pharisecisin. Whether this movement have life enough in it to bring it to any successful practical issue, remains to be seen; butit is in this spirit and direction that the greatest_religious re- forms have been wrought out. Itsethieal en- thusiasm 1s of the purest and strongest kind, and it alone makes the near religious future of Germany hopeful or interesting. A FRIENDLY- WARNING. ‘AN ITALIAN VIEW OF CATHOLICISM IY THE UNITED STATES, The Diritto, the principal organ in the press of the present Italian Ministry, has re- cently published the following article, en- titled “ Catholicism in the United States of America”: ‘$ There atein the United States, out of a population which must certainly now amount to 50,000,000, 7.000,000 Irish. They obey the voice of their prelates end Bishops like so many automata. And though they may be without any passion for public life, and without any of the habits needed for a life of freedom, yet from time to time there are men of note who abandon Protestantism to put themselves at their head, induced either by the desire of an easily-gained predominance or sometimes by the weariness of doubt. A century ago there were a tew hundred Catholics in the United States, remains of the French.don- ination, with a Bishop and twelve churches. Now they are 7,000,000, with a Cardinal, sixty- three Bishops, 6,000 priests, and as many eburches, besides 500 convents, 700 colleges, seminaries, and academies, 2,000 parish schools. In twenty years these numbers will be doubled. They will constitute 2 terrible power! Let it be noted that Catholicism has acquired this immense development only within the past twelve or thirteen years, from the nme of the great potato famine, which depopulated Ireland. ‘We shall absorb those Catholic mendicants! How many stronger elements have we not already amal- gamated? said the Americans. And even the Catholic clergy feared the contact of those limitless liberties, of that robust and vigorous individualism, so opposed to all their ductrines. Butinstead of that, on this point, too, the proud confidence of the Amer- icans in the invincible force of their institu- _tions was deceived. Catholicism has become a second nature for the Irish peasant; it has, as Herbert Spencer would say, transformed the globules of his blood; and in the United States, instead ot showing itself any longer weak. it drew new vigor from the more easy life of the emigrants, and obtained sumptu- ous churches, rich foundations, schools of its own, and all that it had been able to ac@nmu- late during so_many centuries in the Old World. Public opinion in the United States is beginning to rec. ognize the ‘danger. But if advice of ours could be of any service, we should counsel them to guard against the peril in time... Above all, do not let the Americans delude themselves, as they well might at. so at a distance, with the belief that the hurch ¢an oncé again gather together with fraternal comprehensiveness the elements of clvilization within the dicta of the Syllabus, Leo XUL can give some information on this point. - We, too, cannot see without emotion the plety.of those souls which, having no refuge fromthe doubts which assai! them, and which seek in vain among the multiplic- ity of sects that repose for the disturbed con- science which, amid the heat of.the battle of modern life, is more than ever precious. turn back to the ancient and pure fountain of the Gospel. It may be that, sooner or later, a re ligious revival may resul: from such move- ments. But so long as the Church is a. mon- opoly of the Jesuits, so long as:the Syllabus prevails over the Gospel, the Church .wil! pe @ constant menace to civilization and the lib- erty of nations—a menace against which the United States will do well to protect them- selves in time.” - FRENCH JESUITS. THEIR DAY LIFE—NECRUITS FUR T! DER—THE COURSE OF TRAININ FORCEMENT OF THE DECKREES. Richard Whitiay's Letter ia the World. Pants, July 9—The late burglarious entry into the house of the Jesuits in the Rue de Sevres at Paris by the Government of France gives a peculiar Interest to a study of that house -Jately published. As everybody knows, the French Government, reviving an old and obsolete decree against the Jesuits and other Catholic bodies, lately turned the Jesuits out of their est#blishments through- out France. The Jésuits had previously re- ceived & three months’ notice to quit, and, as they one and all declined to act upon it, the -Government seut the police and insome cases. ‘the soldiers to enforce the notice. The rey- erend fathers everywhere behaved precisely in the same manner—that is to say, they of- fered uo active resistance, but a very strong and determined passive one. They declined to moveon the summons -of the policeman, alleging that his order was illegal, and they required hfin to collar them before they con- sented to stir. In this way the Jesuit estab- Jishments, those at least of the non-teaching kind, throughout France were emptied. ‘The establishment in the Rue de Seyres, which is the subject of the following sketch, is one of the best known in France: 7 Trang the bell of the door of the house of the Jesuits, situated at 55 Rue deSevres. In the ‘porters lodge 1 saw two _coadjutor brothers. They were dressed iu Jong coats. ‘They hud youthful faces and hairless chins. Lasked to see Father X—. One of them looked at the list of the ininates and told me that the father was at home. Iwent up the great staircase, where I saw portraits in oil of all the Generals of the Order from St. Ignatius to Father Roothaan. ‘he coinmon characteristic of their faces.is 2 regard rather human than ascetic, a layman’s look. Mingled with these were engravings repre- senting -the martyrs of the Order and the authors of many famous books. .'On the first story there was a long and broad cor- ridor, frum the high windows of which one could see the recreation yard, the refectory, etc. There ,was everywhere a profeand sifence und @ good deal of light, The raw. whiteness of the walls fatigued the eye; we were far from the shade of the cloisters. Young brother coadjutors passed. from time to timeywith their eyes cast down, glid- ing along noiselesly in list-soled shoes, “Che gallery is bordered with a row of doors, on each of which there is a small’ card. contain- ing such announcements “At chapel,” “At the refectory,? “ With the Superior,” *Gone out,” “In the conversation-room,”? “Return soon.” A little ivory index marker ean be made to show which phrase is to be read at the moment. ‘In evel amber you find a table, four chairs, 2 crucifix, and a bed in a recéss near the door, There is also a ‘ranch of palin, Still the place dors not look lke acell; The Jesuit is of the, regular clergy, and nota monk. ‘The room is gay, thanks to the large window, but it is the room of a traveler, who has no personal in- terest in the furniture. The Jesuit father, properly speaking, owns nothing but his breviary, a companion whiel leaves him only at his death. ‘he door £ open; I pushed it, The father within took nonvtice. He was plunged in 2 profound meditation. “This eestasy has nothing in. common with our concentrations of thought. ‘The Jesuit’s ‘hour of rising is 4 o'clock. Voltaire said,g* How can you struggle with people who get up at 4 o’elock in the morn- ing?” A brother enters the chamber at that hour. He lights the candle and says, “ Bene- dicamus Domino,” and the: Jesuit awak with the reply, “Deo gratias,”” The Jesuit- has no domestic, lle makes his own bed. The rule of his life is not conventio! He dines at midday and goes to bed‘at 9. One day is exactly like the other. At11:45 he makes a particular examination of his cou- science. Franklin did the-same. Very often the father Jesuit writes his examination in his note-book. With this at the end of the week he can read the agitations of the soul Ge ture in general the same principles of criti- cism which he had applied to Deuteronomy and Canticles in previous articles. He has been at no pains in it ;to conciliate his op- ponents or to show: regard - to the sensitive- ness of the traditionalists, though it would have been prudent for him to doso, and he probably would have. done se could he have foreseen the Assembly's ‘deliverance in.his case at the time of wilting it. -Indeci, it’ is. known that, he endeavored :to with- draw the article end’ to. stop - its cir- culation after.the meeting of. the As- isembly, but by that time-the yolume had ‘been printed off, and the matter was beyond his control: Among the yiews and the ex- pressions in the article to which exception is taken are the following: .‘It may fairly be made a question,’ he says, ‘* whether -Afoses left in writing any other} Iaws'than the Com- mandments on the tables of stone.’ Again, hesays: ‘The story of the early fortunes of the nation down to the: time of David often presents characteristics which point to moral tradition as its original source.” Speaking of the Pentateuch, he reférs ,to: it as ‘Itseli 2 production of more than one writer” On the Song of Solomon, which in a former vol- ume he described as an erotic poem, he says: ‘This lyrical drama-has suttered much froin interpolation, and, presumably, was not writ- ten down till a comparatively late date, and from inrperfect recollection, so that its origi- nal shape is very much lost.’ He repeats his offeuse regarding Deuteronomy by alleging that in it ‘the ancient ordinances of Israel’ were rewritten in. the prophetic spirit? while he’ refers to ‘the _ historical books as they were finally shaped after the fall of Jerusalem, when that old popular narrative wit filled ont and continued in a spirit of prophetic pragmat- ism? Jie says of Isaiah ‘xill. and xiv.” that they ‘seem to have been first published ds anonymous broadsides.’* Finally, he refers to ‘the beginning of Haggada, the ‘forn tion of parables and tales ‘attached to hi torical names, of which the Book of Jonah is generally taken as an early example.’ ‘This very. business-like way of speaking of and dealing with. the books of the Bible seems like profanity in the eyes of orthodox. Presbyterians of the: Old School, whose idea seems to be ent the Bible dropped from - Heaven-precisely a3 we have it now, marginal references ineluded. ‘Chey believe that asa miracle nade the Bible,} so. a miraclé has preserved it, and that any one who treats it as.a body of national literature, the growth of centuries, is guilty -ofsacrilege. At the earliest possible ment after the publica- tion of the article attention was called to it ries in different parts of the To-day the. Presbytery of Edin- burg “spent ‘several hours” in ‘dis- eussing it. Notice has been given ef fiye motions ‘regarding it, and four were actually prepared,—two in favor -of prosecuting. the ease and two against. ‘The motion ultimately carried, by a inajority of 23 (42, minug 19) was that of Sir Henry Moncrieff, whicl? requests the Com- mission of the General Assembly to take, the article into consideration, ‘so far as to adopt such steps as they may judge fitted to meet the disturbance and ‘anxiety, and to vindicate Seriptural principle. Curiously enough, Sir Henry Moncrieff declared that he had not yet read the article, and that he did not intend to réad it till he was obliged to cousider it juditially, His sole ground for appealing to the Commission was that to many good souls it had caused ‘disturbance and anxiety’; but Sir Henry ‘cannot knew, and will not take the trouble to discover, whether these feelings are justilied or not. Dr. Begg came out inthe usual character_as an inspired interpreter of providences. He said’ that the finding of the Gen- eral Assembly ‘was the result of. mis- taken procedure, and that he regarded the publication of the new article as_ a marvel- ous providence to allow the Church to recon- der the whole question. Prof. Smith’s po- ‘sition was defended by Prof. Macgregor and the Rev. Alexander Whyté. Principal Rainy could not make up his mind either way, and remained neutral. The Commission meets just as with the phillogravh, which marks the beats of the pulse, one can study the move- ments of a fever. ‘The father whom I had eome to see asked his superior, the provin- cial father of Paris, permission to go out to dine, The superior, Father Mouret, is tall and about 55 Foars.old: He has a face with- out any particular’ expression and strong- ly marked cheek bones. His astonishing glance shows the depths of his mind; in short, itis 1 commonplace front of a house wherein suddenly one perecives through some window a splendid chamber. The father Ljiad come to see said: “Let me now go, down stairs and brush my shoes.” Each ‘ather brushes his own shoes. The reddish heel of the illustrivus Father de Ravignan, uta time when all the front.of his shoe was of a fine brilliant black, used to very much astonish the high personayes and the great ladies who wens to see him. The fact is the fathers clean their shoes without taking them off, and the great preacher was not supple enough to black his own heels. The onlv fayor which even Father de Ravignan ob- tained was that the Pope gaye him the right of the seal. He was allowed to receive and send letters unopened. ‘he rule is that all letters coming: shall be opened and a ; sent away shall be sealed by the Superior. In passing out of the house my friend asked one of the brothers in the porter’s lodge for %5 centimes. The Jesuit never has any money of hisown, Once no fatner was, allowed to go_out without his companion the “Socius.’” To be a Jesuit you must have the three great s's,—selentia, senitas, sanctias— science, health, and holiness. St. Ignatius preferred to take young men atthe age of 1s. Those full-grown men who_ suddenly throw themselves into the arms of the Lord because they have a horror of doubt go to the Order of La Trappe, while those who have been drowned, as it were, in human passions go to Chartereuses de Saint Bryno. ‘The novice, although he inxy be, like twenty novices of ‘this year, a doctor with his uni- versity dlelerae: ora pupil of the Polytech- nic school, mfust forget all the science he has learned. For two years they bray in a mor- tar, as it were, his still nialleable spirit to prepare it for the religious state, ‘They wash his soul just as new prisoners’ were washed. when they enter the jails. All his time is passed in lessons of asceticisin, of deport- ment, of pronunciation. The Father de Ray- ignan wrotea treatise on pronunciation which has become classic in the Order. Itis, be- sides, a sortof formula of oratory, containing all the notes and all the intonations of the art, The Jesuit reads and rereads it for six years, and it has been a text book for sixty. The Jesuit novice devotes half an hour twice a day to the material cares of the household. He is not kept in the kitchen asa regular cook ifheisdestinedtobecomeafather. Atiength, after sixteen years ot formidable labors, the Jesult is named profes. Those who have failed in any degree of the examinazion are merely father coadjutors spiritual. The pub- lic does not distinguish between the one class and the other, yet among the 6,000 Jes- uits spreal about in the world there are at the most 1,200 who. are father professors. Formerly the Jesuit father was the confessor of Kings and the counselor of first Minis- isters; to-day he desires nothing but to be professor of youth. The uniform mold in which the Jesuits are fashioned takes away their personality, but the want of ‘person- ality gives the more force to their, scholastic method. The Jesuit makes an. impression on his pupil by his profound knowledge. To be very learned is to be an aristocrat The pupil, who usually belongs to the aristocratic world, recognizes in. his professor a man of his own race. And then the Jesuit father works incessantly. He tries to mount higher and higher, and, althouzh he has been climb; ing a very Jacob’s Indder for sixteen years, he is not distracted by conflicting dutics anc pursuits as we are. from whom. woman, either present_or absent, takés the best part of the time. Ina word, the Jesuit father is not bound by the thousand ties of society. Hie is sure of his’ material existence day by day. He marches straight before him, be- cause, like Lot, his rule forbids him to turn his head. “His coffin is paid for in ad- vance,” and many great folks among us could not sayas much. He never hesitates in life, because he never has to choose be- twean two roads—the company always de- cides. ; 5 PROF. -SMITH’S HERESY. A NEW INDICTMENT DRAWN UP AGAINST “HIM BY W118 ORTHODOX FELLOW-cERUCE-. MEN. . awe + An Edinburg letter to the London News of July 14 says: “A new prosecution of Prof. Robertson Smith was initiated to-day in the Free Church Presbytery of, Edin-” burg. The ground of the proseention is an - article on ‘Hebrew: Language and Litera- ture,” in the. eleventh volume of. the ‘Encyclopedia Britannica,’ which has been published since the. Professor was formally acquitted and-replaced ‘in-his chair by-the General Assembly six weeks’ ago. “Ih this article Mr. Smith applies to Hebrew litera- | Aug. lis Itis the antumt session of the As- sembly for the consideration of, matters of urgency that may arise between the anntal meetings in May. The ‘opponents of- Prof. Smith are entering on the prosecution with every mark of zest and -detgrmination.-. That they were: so lately-‘balked ‘of - their prey makes thein all the more eager now, and there is no doubt that they are pursue their victim, if they are allowed, even to_his eceiesiastival extinction. Dr. Beg: thinks that he is entering on ‘the most seri- ous struggie that has taken place in the Chureh since the Reformation.” Another reverend person declared that, if Prot. Smith’s views were tolerated in the Free Chureh, ‘they migitt write “Ichabod” on their walls.’ ? prerared to chapels: 1,186 students were it seminaries .last sprin; a ealogical sparochini schools, i denomination hes also 1,726 mission-stations, besides its regular churel hes, 637 colleges, seminaries, and acade- mies, -2,246 prrochial “schools, and 873 chari- table instituttons, allindicating hurd work, and plenty of it. .The problem which has perplexed . pious orthodox souls for ones eke ee this satistacts 7, Solution by-the New York Methodist: “The notion that a heathen can, by.any possibility, be daimned for the lack'ot faith ina Christ of whom he never heard is too barbarous and too plainly contradicted by the spirit and teaching of “the Gospel to deserve serious attention. But what-must pe: a ta be! saved Hy a cay Absence of the Is ‘an do nothing better than he i: domg.” The Rev. eof the Dr. Whedon, one of the »most eminent of Methodists, ‘sa 3: “Wie is a saved heathen wha lives as neatly‘ up to the ight he has as does the Christian who is saved to the light he has.” > The excitement caused in France by the expulsion of the Jesuits has abated. - The other unauthorized orders have not been tis- turbed, and the remaining Jesuit educational establishments will not he broken up until the close of August. AN the ehurehes of Paris were crowded on July 4, as the eager- hess of the faithful to attend in all the places’ of worship was nothing less than a silent manifestation of sympathy toward the vic- tims of the decrees, At Notre-Daine-de- Lorette the'sermon was preached by Father Lefévre, one of the three cangregationists to whom the care of the Jesuits’ house in the Rue de Sevres was contided after the expul- sion of the fathers. «A passage in his sermon in which he fronically spoke of. “the former company ot Jesus” caused much remark. It is extremely doubtful if the dissolution of the large educational establishments. will in the end be fatal to the influence of the Jes- uits as a teaching body in France. ‘There-has been a little suarl between the Reformed Chureh at Gallupville, N. ¥., and its lute pastor, the Rev. Sanford Murselis, whieh has gone inte the Church Courts from Consistory to Classis, and trom Classis to % © Synod and back again, Mr. Mar- .Selis resigned and accepted a call to the pul- pit of the Refo: Chureh at Schoharie, The Churel at Gallupville refused to grant hima letter of disinission, as directed by the C! and an aplyal was taken to the Synod, whieh ordered the same thing to be dove. But the Church refuses to obey either Classis or Synod, and the pastor-elect cannot be received without his “references from his last pla The Synod of Albany therefore a‘few days ago discussed the propriety of it- self granting a letter dismissory to the Rev. Mr. Marsclis, but concluded to wait until September, and meantime appointed a com- mittee to labor with the Gallupville Con- sistory. é MODERATION IN CNURCH-GOING. The most marked change in the observanca of Sunday in America, says- the Rev. Russell Bellows, is the gradual falling otf trom the Purican habit of attending chureh twice a day. The morning worship nucir ag usual, but the rest of the diy is fast losing its established religious eharacter. This: falling off 1s not, in m judgment, necessarily an evil. 1t'is an evil, 4 thoroughly believe, for any one to separate himself from the influence of religious insti- tutions and religious teachings. The church has its place in human nature. God put it there, and I am not so fearful as some of the evils that will come from the diminished time spent in cliurch. In fact, Lam inclined to think that good has come out of more moderation in chureh-going. ‘To the ma- jority excessive church-going is not in ac- cordance with their private judgment, and a little exereise of faith with a whole mind is a hundred times better than too much religious observance, which is simply per- funetory, and which puts an unnatural strain upon the heart. Que religious service is something which, 1 believe, every serious man, woman, and child can be ‘taught to en- joy, it proper means be used to make the service what it ought tobe made. ‘This is the tendency of the time: not that there is any less interest in religion. There never was a time when there was more interest in religion than there is to-day. The people are merely falling off from chureh-going as a. habit. 1f this is a question of going to church two or three times on Sunday, I believe once is better than either twice or three times, PERSONALS. ‘The Rey. H. Ilsley, of Hopkins, Mo., has aecepted a call to Carlyle, Ill. : _The Rev. Chatles Holmer has accepted a eall to Christ Church, Delavan, Wis. Talmage has been making a tour of the gaming‘and dance houses of Leadville. . Mr. James W. Hawkes, of Newton, Kas., has been ordained as a missionary to Persia. The Rev. M.-E. Dunham, D. D., has ac- cepted the Presidency of the Whitestown QN, x.) Seminary. GENERAL NOTES. The Rev. Mr. White, 2 New Hampshire preacher, has founded a religious sect called “ Angelic Believers.” They believe in the dis- position of angels to visit this mundane sphere, The English House of Lords is still wor- ried over the ritualistic litization inaugurated by Tooth and Mackonochie, and, the indica- tions are that the anti-Ritualists will be badly worsted in the long run. The Government railway in the Province of Quebec was not operated-on Sundays for the benefit of American travelers until the Superintendent had obtained a dispensation from the Archbishop of Quebec. The Rev. Thomas Farrell, the deceased riest of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, New ork, 1éft $5,000 in Alabama bonds to be used for for the relief of the sober and honest poor of the parish, and the same amount towards the erection of a church for colored Catholics in New York City. Atthe close of the services at Ascension Chapel this morning, ground will be broken for the new church to be erected ‘by the con- gregation on the southeast corner of Elm and La Salle streets. The Rev, Arthur Ritchie, the Rector, and others will formally turn over the sod, there being attendant ceremonies, ' The Tunkers will not permit their women to wear hats, At their late annual Council a petition was presented asking if the sisters might not wear “modest hats,” but the Council said no, and_ gave as scriptural au~ thority for ‘their decision the texts: “Be not conformed to- the world”; “Abstain from every appearance of evil.” - Inarecentissue of the Christian Union occurs this remarkable statement: ‘Letters of inquiry, received from time to time, dis- close the fact that many Christian ministers are unacquainted with, if not ignorant of, the Aposties’ Creed. If this is true of clergy- men, 1t maybe assuined that multitudes of the laity know very little of this historic and precious confession.” North and South the total of members _re- ported in Baptist churches this year is 2,133,- O04, against 2,102,054 last year, showing an in- crease of $1,010, There are 1,095 associations, crease, 20; 24,794 churches,—increase, ; 15,401 ordained _ ministers,—increuse, 447, The additions by baptisin were 78,924, a iplling-off of upward of 353,000 from last year. {he exclusions numbered 20,580. In a recent volume written by the Rev. Dr. Curry, a leading Scholar of the Methodist Church, the doctrine of the resurrection of the body is distinctly repudiated. “Our Lord’s resurrection,” he says, “‘was_in no sense a pledge or pattern of the promised resurrection of all men; nor was that body in which Christ was seen for forty days after his resurrection the same that had gone into Heaven.” On a recent Sunday the church of the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, Elmira, N. ¥., was tele- phonically connected with anewspapér office |. at Williamsport, Pa., seventy-tive milesaway, and a portion of.his sermon stenographically reported for the paper. Nearly every word of the speaker could be heard in Williams- port, and the music by the organ could be heard as plainly as if it had been only jifty feet away. ? i Dr. Donald Frazer, of: London, comes out in favor of a modified liturgy for the Presby- terians and forms of prayer in such congre- gations as may desireto usethem. He wants more “Scriptural instructiveness” in Pres- byterian pulpits and less sensational preach- ing. The best antidote.to current material- ism and skepticisin and the best evidence of Christianity, he thinks, is a living and. con- sistent Christian, and the best cumulative evidence of the same sort is that which is massed together in a living, loving Church. During the reign of Pius (X, thirty new dioceses were created in the United States. At the opening of this century there was but one diocese there; now there are sixty-one, besides seven vicariates apostolic. The Cath- olic population is 6,148,222, ruled’ by sixty- seven Bishops and Archbishops and 5,959 priests, who minister in 6,407 churches and - Mr. Paxton Hood, oné of the ablest of the Congregational -ministers in England, is about to enter the Episcopal Church. :The Rev. Dr. Brunell, of Christ Church, Guilford, Conn., preached his farewell set- many on the 18th, after a forty years’ Rector- ship. The Rey. Samuel Nichols, D. D., of Con- necticut, died a few days ago at the age of 3. He was the ‘oldest Presbyter in the Caureh. The Rey. Arthur Mitchell, of the First Presbyterian Church, has received a call from Cleveland. He has taken it under con- sideration. : Bishop Hurst has since his elevation te the Bishopric of the Methodist Episcopal Church, received from two institutions the degree 0: LL.D. They are Dickinson College and As- bury University. Itis reported that Bishop W..H. Gross, of Georgia, has resigned, and will be appointed Coadjutor to Archvishop Gibbons, of Balti- ore, and will reside in that city. It is als said that the Rev. Marx Gross, now at Wil- mington, N. C., will be appointed successor of Bishov Gross, : The Rev. James Baird, D. D., recently of the Presbyterian Church, ‘has been ordained a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church py Bishop Potter, of New York. Dr. Baird iga graduate of Glasgow University and of New College, Edinburg, of which theological school Dr. Chaliners was President. The Rey. Charles R. Hale, S. T. D., assist- ant at St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore, has been asked to prepare a paper, on the Russian Church, to be read pefore the Episcopal Church Congress at its comin; meeting in England; Bishop Wordswerth has been usked to prepare a paper on the Eastern Chureh. This is the first instance of an Ainerican being asked to prepare a paper, on 2 specific subject, by the Church Congress. - Young J. Allen, of Georgia, a mis- wiry of he Methodist Episeopal Church | South, now at Shanghai, has been made a Mandarin by the Chinese Government. ie is said to be the first foreigner: who has re- ceived the honor. About two. years ago Dr. Alien visited the United States, and dur- ing iis stay delivered a very instructive lect- ure on the Chinese. So familiar is he with the Chinese tongue that for a number of ears he has edited a literary review in that language. , ‘A little less than a year azo Mr. George ©. Needham became pastor of Chicago ‘Avenue Church. Never since Mr, Moo ceased his direct efforts in behalf of the church has there been such a oneness of , spirit, accompanied with such vigorous Christian work, as in the: past year. The pastor posse: in a. remarkable Serree the Jiements of both a successful preacher and an evangelist, All his labors have been sup- plemented by his wife, who as @ religious teacher is searcely second to her husband. ‘The waning health of their little boy has been a source of much solicitude since they first came to Chicago.. Mrs. Needham was obliged early in the season te go with the Tittle fellow to the seaside, and- the whole famnly is now S| ending the summer vacation at Manchester, Mass. ‘The physicians both in Chicago and the East have questioned the propriety of the boy’s return. The pastor has sent a communication to be. read to his church and congregation Sunday“ morning, and it is feared lest it nay suggest the i:m- possibility of his return to the pastorate, ———__ SUNDAY SUNBEAMS. sermon should never be so short, in the santos of the New Haven Register, that the women will not have time to: take fash~ ion notes. 3 ps ‘An old lady visiting the Antiquarian Mu- seum in Edinburg, the other day, on inspect- ing the old weapons very earnestly, and fail- what she was apparently looking DE to snd a visitor if he could telhher where- abouts they kept the Ax of the Apostles. was a good thing for Noah that he had ae only ark atioat in all the universe at the time of the flood. If there had been: just one more ark there would have been a cul- ‘morning and-eveniogain St. Thomas’ lision the third’ day out, wnless those things were managed “better then than they are now. And probably they. were. not, as it seemed to be-considered dangerous to send out more than one ark at-a time. A small doy of Bath, Me., ‘had just, gone bed the other nicht, when he.began to dream about cows. me slight noise woke him up, amd_he said,.‘* Mamuna, I saw some cows.” “\\Where?”? she asked. “Up there,” said he, pointing to the ceiling. His mother remarked that that was a queer place to see J cows, and ‘the little fellow got slightly angry; and said, “ Well, I guess they could have’ been angel cows, couldn’t they?” 2 Sunday morning Brown told his wife tha; “| he did not feel able to go to church, but she might take the children and go,. while Would see if he couldn’s walk’off the deathly feelings ‘that came over him. .‘The prog vias carried ont, and Brown cang bane Téel- ing very much better; but now l&#iwige. is anxious -to know why he had fo rgfhale worms, in his cont pocket. Some Women make themselves disagreeable by being so Inquisitive. y : A young Indy.had been spending the day with a bachelor minister and ii ter. ‘The young lady, whose name was Miss Hope, had been inuch gratified with gthe kindly treat- ment received xt the good old manse, and on Jeaving expressed: her thanks for the kind- ness of the minister, making at the same time the remark. that she had not yet heard him in the pulpit; but, she continued, “I and 3 ning at the church corner of id Artesian avenue... K PRESBYTERIAN. , Rev. D. 8, Jonson will preach morn and’ evening in the First Church, Hyde ped Motning ‘subject: “The Sabbath and the South Pak Concerts.” . : ‘~The Hey. Arthur Swazey will preach inthe @orty-tirst Street Church at 10:45 a. m, —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach in the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes und Ouk venues, at 10:30 1. m. and S p. m., this being the last Sabbuta betore vacation. Morning subject: Palm Treesin the Desert.” - : —Prof. R. H. Mather, of Amherst. Mass., will preach in theSecond Church, corner of Michigan. femme and Twentieth street, morningand even- —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell wilt preach in the First Church, coruer of Todiana avenue and ‘Twenty-first street, at 10:30 a. ‘m.° The Sacra- ment of the Lord’s Supper will be administored atthe morning service. Eveuingservice hold at the ltnilrond Chapel, No. 1437 State street. \_—The Rev. RW. Patterson will preach in the Fulton Fourth Chui cerner of Rush and Superior Streets, at 10:45 a.m, and 7:45 p. m. : —The Rev. S. E.. Wish: will preach in the Fitth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and ‘hirtieth street, at 10:30 2.m.und8 p.m. Morn- Ing subject: ‘hristian Enthusiusm.” —The Kev. Francis [L. Patton will preach in the Jefferson Park.Chureh, corner of Throop and Adams streets, at the usuat hours. —The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach in the Campbelt Purk Church, Leavitt street, morning and evening. Communion at the morning ser~ vice. : —The Kev. W.T Meloy will preach in ths United Church, corner of Monroe and Paulina : will be over on the Sabbath to hear you.” “I shall be very glad to see you, Miss Hope, and, under the interesting cireumstanees, you ‘bt suxgest a - text for the oceasion, and T will do all the justice to it { can. “f will be glad to do’ that, sir,” replied the lady. “How would this one do: *Lay hold upon the Hope set before you’?” SERVICES TO-DAY. : EPISCOPAL. Cathedral Church Ss. Peterand Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoria streets. The Rt.- Rey. W. E. McLaren, S.T. D., Bishop; the Rev. J. H. Knowies, priest in charze. Holy Communion 8u. m.. Cioral,morning prayer and celebration of the Holy Cunimunion 10:30 a. m, Choral evening prayer 7:30 p. m. ~The Kev. Frederick’ Courtney will preach morning and evenwy ut St. Jumes’ Church, cor- ner of Cass and Huron streets. Celebration of the Holy Communion at 12 m. —The Rev. Theo. J. Holcomb will preach at 10:45 a. m. in Trinity Church, coruer Twenty- sixth street and Michigan uvenue. The Kev. W. H. Knowlton will preach 2t 10:30 a.m. and 4p. m. in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washington and Robey strects. ~The Rey. John, Hedman. will preach morn- ing and evening at St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedg- wick street, near Chicago avenue. —The Key. Clinton Locke will preack at 11 a, m. in;Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street. Church of the Ascension, La Salle and Elm strects, the Rev. Arihur Ritchie, pastor. Com- munion$a.m. Morning prayer 10 a.m. Choral Euchurist, with sermon, lla.m. Catevhism 3:30 p.m. Solemn vespers, with sermon, § p. m. After the Il o'clock mass the ceremony of brenking ground for the foundution of the new church will take place. 5 —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will preach morning and evening fo St. Punl's Church, Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth aud Fiftieth streets. —The Itev. 8. F, Floetwood will preaet: morn- ing and evening in St. Mark’s Church, Cottare Grove ayenue, corner of Thirty-sixth street. _ The Rev. J. D. Cowan, will preach morning ‘and evening in Stephén'’s Courch, Johnson street, between Taylor und Twelfth. ie v. Luther Pardee will preach morn- ing and evening in CalvaryChurch, Warren ave- nue, between Oukleystreet and Western avenue. —Lhe Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will preach morning and evening at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strect, between Monroe and Adums, —tue Rev. W. J. Petrie will preach morning andevening in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. e Rov. James E. Thompson will preach hurch, between ‘Twenty-ninth and Indiana avenue, ‘Dhirtieth streets. —St. Luke's Mission, 937 and 989 West Polk street. Services morning andevemmng. . Sunday- school at 12:15 p, a. B. The Rev. W. C, Van Meter, Superintendent of tho Italian Bible und Sunday-School Mission, wao bas spent several yours in Rome, will speak. of his Bible, Tract, Sunday, and evangelical schools, and other work in Italy, xt the Fourth Baptist Church, corner of Washington and Pau- liutn streets, in the morning, and at the Baptist Tabernacle, corner. , ofVi uren. street, and .. Wabush avenue, in the evening at 8 o’cloc! —the Kev. J. D. Fulton, D. D., of Brooklyn, will preach morning and evening in the Second Church, corner Morgan and Monroe strects. ‘The Rey. Robert P. Allison will preach at 7:45 p..m. in South Church, corner Lock and Bonaparte stréets. Sunday-school nt 10:30 a. m. —Tne Rev. C. C. Betting, of Baltimore, will preach in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-lirst street, at lla. m. and7:5p.m. —The liev. George H. McCielland,of Philadel- phia, will preach in the Michigan AvenueChurch, eur Twenty-third street, at iia. m. fhe Rev. E. Wingren ‘will preach in tho Second Swedish Church, Butterield street, near Thirty-first street, morning and evening. —The Rey. H. R. Coon, Jr., ot Vernon, Mich. will preach in the University Pluce Church, corner of Thirty-fifth street and Hhodes ave- nue, atlla.m. No cvening service. —The KRevs..A. King and N. Jackson will preach In the afternoon at the Free-Will Mis- sion, No, 49 North Morgan street. —Tho Rev. J. Rowley will preuch in the North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick streots, at 1U:45'a. m. and 7:50 p. m. —The Rey. C. Perrin will preach in the West- ern Avenue Church, corner of Western and Warren avenues, at 10:50 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev,-W.H. Parker will preach in the Coventry Street Church, corner of Blooming~ dnle road, at 10:30 a. m. and p.m. —The Rey. R. Do Buptiste will preach in Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Kev. A. K. Parker will preach in the Centenniul Courch, corner of Lincuin and West Juckson streets, at 10:0 a.m. aud 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Chureb, No. 290 Orchard street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rey. W. A. Broadhurst will preach in the Dearborn Strect Church, corner of Thirty- ‘sixth street, at 10:3) a. m. and 7:3) p.m. —The Rev. J. Q.. A. Henry will preach in Evan- gel Chureh, Dearborn avenue, near Forty-sev- enth street, at 10:45 a. m. and ale nm. . A song service will be held in the Mission, at No. 431 Ogaen avenue, util a.m. No evening service. ‘METHODIST. ‘The Bev. Robert D. Sheppurd will preach in Grace Church, corner of La Salle aud White strecte, morning and evening —The Rev. 't. R. Strobridge will preach in the Ha Epes Gaurd corner of Robey street, morning and evening. —Mrs. Jennie F. Willing will preach in St. Paul's Church morning and evening. —The Rey. John Williamson will preach in the First Church, corner of Clurk and Washington atrects, ut 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. —The Rey. N. O. Freeman will preach in Cen- tenary Chureb, Monroe street, near Morgan atrect, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p:. —The Rey. A. Edwards will preach in Trinity Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-fourth street, 10:45 a. m. Subject: * Relation of Sacred Music to ae ‘fhe Rev. Edward Beach will preach at 8 p, m. * aitne Rev. G. R. Van Horne will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Thirty-second street, at 10:30 a.m. and 7: iad = . Communion at the morning service. Evening subject: “ Sisera, the Cunaanitish General.” —The Rev. R. Shorts will preach in the Wa- bash Avenue Church, corner of Fourteenth Btreet, at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p.m. “The ev. George Chase’ will preach in the Fulton, Street Church, corner of Artesian ave- nue, morning and evening. —The Rev. T. C. Clendenning will preach in the Langley Avenue Church, near Eyan avenue, morning and evening. —The Kev. F. P. Cleveland will preach in Grant Place Church, corner of Larrabee strect, morning and evening. .—The Rev. W. X. ‘Ninde will Peeneh in Ada Fulton streets, Street Churcy, between Luke an at 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. J. M. Caldwell will preach inthe Western Avenue Church, corner of Monroe street, morning and creo 2 i —The Kev. J. A. Alling will preach in Simpson Church, Bonfield street, near Archer avenue, morning and evening. —The fev. F.A. Hardin will preack in the uth Halsted Halsted Street Cnurch,’ No. 773 street, morning und evening. “The Itev. &. M. Boring will preach in the State Street Church, near Forty-seventh strect, at the usual hours. Es —The Rev..William Craven will preach in the Winter Street Church, Forty-second street, near the Stock- Yards, morning and evening. —tThe Rev. S. T. Shaw will preach in the Dixon Litas Church, near North avenue, morning and evening. : ‘ —The Rev. F. Porter will preach in the Lin- coln Street Church, corner of Ambrose street, morning and eventing. —Tho Rev. J. W. Richards will preach in Emantel Church, cornerof Harrison and Paull-. na streets, morning and evening. —The Hev. J. R. Richards will preach in the Jackson Street Chyreb,, corner of Oglesby street, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. H. Kellogg will preach in Ash- ‘bury Chapel, Kossuth street, morning and even- ing. i i - —The Rev. J. M. Wheaton will’preach at the usual bours ine orth west Church, Western avenue, near Milwaukee avenue. —The Hev. W.''T. Hobart will preack in the Milwaukee-Avenne, Chures, No. 96 Milwaukee avenue, at the ugual hours. —Tho Rev. N. O. Freeman will preach morn- ing and evening at Centenary Church, Monroe street. ear ote will cul an APTIST. x streets, morning and evening. REFOUMED EPISCOPAL. The Rov. i. H. Bosworth wilt preach in St. Paul's Church, corner.of West Washington : and Carpenter streets, In the morning. Bisnop» Fallows will preach in the evening. Communion * at the close of the evening service. | —The Rev. Charies M, Gilbert will preach in. Christ Church, coraer of Michigan avenue and ! ‘Twenty-fourth street, at 10:45 a.m. —The Rev. R. M. Buker will preach in the Church of the Good Shepherd at lia.m. The+ Rey. J. A. Fisher willpreach at § p. m. —The Rev. Churles M. Gilbert will preack in ' Emmunuel Church, corner of .Hanover and: Twenty-elghth streets, at 7:45 p.m. * y—The Kev. R. H.. Bosworth will preachin - “trinity Church, Engiewvod, at 3:45 p. i. Serv ices held in the Presbyterian Church. Eee CONGREGATIONAL. ie Rev. E. F. Williams will preach in ‘the South Church, Drexel boulevard and Fortieth | street, in the morning. The Rev. H. M. Painter { will preach in the evening at 8 p.m, —The Rev. G. 8. McNeill will preach in Plym- outh Church, Michigan avenue, between Twen--! ty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, in the morn- ' Usual evening services, ' —Prof. T. W. opine will preach in the First / Church, corner of West Washington and Ann streets, at 10:50 x. m. and 7:43 p. m. —The Hey. G..H. Peeke will preach In the ; : Leavitt Street Church in the morning. Noeven- + ing service. —The Rey. James Thompkins will preach in Bethany Church, corner of West Huron and Paulina streets, at 10:45 a. m. —The Rev. G. B. Wilcox will preach in the Union Park Church, corner of Ashland avenue and Washington street, ut 10:30 u. m. and 7:45 p. i¢ Rev. Evarts Kent will Ciintou Street Church, corner of et 10:45 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘ SWEDENBORGIAN. ‘The Rey. L. P. Mercer, having .returned from his vacation, will preach in the morning before the Union Swedenborgian Society, in Hershey Alusic Hull. Subject: “The Wells of Sulvation Filled Up by -the Philistines und Opened by te." —The Rer. W. T. Pendleton will preach in Lin- coin Park Chapel, Clark and Menomonee streets, reach in the son street, atlia,m. The Rev. W. T. Pendleton will preaok in Unio Park Temple, corner of Washington street an Ogden avenue, at 4p. m. CHRISTIAN. z The Rev. George W. Sweeney will preach morning and evening in the First Church. corner of Twenty-Hfth street and Indiana avenue. —The Rev. Charles H. Caton will preach morn- ing and evening in the Second Church, corner of Oakley avenue and Jackson street. —tne Hev. Irving A. Searies will preach in th morning in the South Side Church, corner 0! ‘Thirtiech street and Pruirie avenue. Mr. Frank Kee will lecture in the eveningon “ The Orizin, Rise, and Decline of the Religions of China.” —Mr. E, Stewart will preach id the Western Avenue Church, between Van Buren and Har rison streets, in the morning. ‘ TEMPERANCE. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union holds dafiy Gospel meetings at % p.m. in Lower Farwell Hall, entrance Nos. 150 Madison street and 10 Arcade court. The leaders for next week are: Monday, Mrs. L. A. Harans; Tuesday, Mrs. Charles Goodman; Wednesday, Mrs. HS, bush; Thursday, Mrs. George Drake; Friday, Mie cad Jonéa; Saturday, Sirs. Malcolm Mo= vi =A Gospel meeting, conducted by the W. C &. U., is held every Sui at 4:30 p.m in Good. “Pemplars“ Hi — —Mrs. Harriet Servis will conduct a Gospel temperance meeting at the corner of Noble and Ohio streets at 4:30 p. m. , MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. Henry G. Perry will preach in the chapel of the Washingtonian Home at 3p. m. —The Society of Latter-Day Saints meet morning and evening at Castle's Bull, 619 West Luke street. —A meeting of Reliance and mediums will be held at No. 508 West Madison strect at 3 p. m. —The Society of Friends will meet at the Atheneum Building, Dearborn street, at 10:30 am, —Col. George R.Clarke will lead the Gospel meeting in the Pacitic Garden Mission, corner of Clark und Van Buren streets, at 8 p.m. —The Disciples of Christ meet at No. 229 West Randoiph street at 4 p. m. —A tree conference of Spiritualists will be held at No. 230 West Madison street at 2:30 p.m. Subject: “ Political Spiritualism.” —The Rev. Dr, Matthewson will preach in the Advent Church, No. 91 South Greenstreet, morn- ing and evening. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. 4 Aug. 1—Tenth Sunday after Trinity. Aug. 6—Fast. CATHOLIC. Aug. 1—Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost: St. Peter's Chains; The Machal MM. Aug.2-St. Alphonsus Liguori, B. C. D.; St Stephen, P. M. Aug.3-Finding of the Body of St. Stephen, Protomurtyr. : AUS Faeateation of St, Mary Ma ug. edicution 01 lary jor. aus G—Trunsfiguration of OurLord; St.Xystus IL, P., and Comp., MM. Ang. 7—St. Cajetan, C.: St. Donatus, BML THE LYCOMING. To the Editor of The Chicago r Cuicago, July 90.—In answer to thearticle in your paper of this morning, in -regard.to the Lycoming Insurance Company, under date “Philadelphia, Special Dispatch, July 29,2? we would ask for the publication of the following dispatches, which will explain themselves. Geo. P, TrEapway & Co., ‘Late Agents of Company. Wm. A. Krouse, Assistant Seer Muncy, Pa.z, Will Lycoming pay her losses? Dispatches from Philadelphia mornmg say gone into liquidation. wer quick. 3 £0. P, TREADWAY & Co. Muxcy, Pa., July 30.—Geo. P. Treadway & Com 123 La Salle street: Lycoming 1s solvent and will y all its losses, but may decide to retire from Business. . Ws. A. Kuovsr, Assistant Secretary. —————— A SOLDIER'S PICTURE. For The Chicago Tribune. - I've a carte-de-visite—there is Little else left, For the love of my youth is a memory now, And I think of the days in the dim, shady past When with kisses I biessed him and bade him to_ Ab! tho ‘banners were bright, though the soul- stirring drum Beat the facil of my hopes as they passed from my sight, For I uve to the cause all the Lord loaned to me, + ¢ And that carte-de-visite is my mem’ry to-night. ‘To the front, where the contest raged flercely and hot, ‘Where the dangers were thickest, the brave boy ‘was gon ‘And my heart beat with pride when they men- dined his name; But iy prayers und my tears were my secret 0. Yes, he wrote me that straps for his shoulders PSword £5 his side, that was gitaming and And a aWont fo ight, ® is nue was reported for prowess in war; gheene nae eviske ig my mem'ry to-night. gaze on that mute little semblanceof him, Ant Tae were he here, would he still be the e? Would he yore as he abot, could the dear boy re or would, ols he tarnish that dearly-bought fame’ b NC thousand times more ho had died Feholding that banner of beauty and light, = ‘Than to side with the party who robbed me of him, 3 . Wnile that carte-de-visite 1s my mem'ryto- night. They may claim that the War is thing of the hey may cry, “O forget!.We are dono with it: But the rank seeds of treason are ready and As wiih frat upon Sumter they struck the mad How a soldier who risked e’en his life for the Now dau vote with the Gray, or can aid in thelr rs = Isa mystery dark, as I gaze on that face In the carte-de-yisite that’s my mem'ry to New-Aax. night.