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‘ 3HE CHICAGO SUNDAY, kf YULTUBLK ok, /ASSU— BIG EY EEN: PAGHS. IT. FOR G00: —————— ith in God Makes the Christian a Better Man. he Theological Differentiation Between Theism and Deism. Canon Farrar on the High, Low, and Broad Fases of Episco- palianism. Present Condition of Methodist Missions at Home and Abroad. General Notes, Personals, Sab. beth Reveries, Services To-Day. THE FOURTH WATCH. | St Matthew, atv., 22-38, Lo, in the moonless night, In the rough wind’s despite, « They ply the oar. Keen gusts smite in thelr teeth; The hoarse waves chafe beneath ‘With muftied roar. Nomb fingers, failing force, Bearce serve to hold the course Hard-won half-way, ‘When o'er the tossing tide, Pallid and heavy-eyed, Scowls the dim day. And now in the wan Hight, Walking the water white, , Ashape draws near. t Each sont, in troubled wise, Staring with starting eyes, Cries out for fear. Each grasps his neighbor tight, In helpless huddled fright Shaken and swayed. And lo! the Master nigh Bpeaks softiy, “It is 1; ‘Bo not afraid.” E’en so to us that strain Over life's moaning main ‘Thou drawest near, And, knowing not thy guise, ‘We gaze with troubled eyes, And ery for fear. A strange voice whispers low, “This joy must thou forego, ‘Thy first and best.” A tbrouded phantom stands Crossing the best-loved hands For church-yard rest. ‘Then. soft as is the sall Of that white gleaming pall ‘By snow-tlakes made, Stilling each started cry, ‘Thou speakest, “ It is 1; Be not afraid.” THE BENEFITS OF FAITH. Wf MAKES THE CIIMSTIAN A BETTER AND NOBLER MAN. The Star and Corenant. The apostle defines faith as the substance of things hoped tor; the evidence of things not seen. Hope is a desire for some object einen good, united with an expectation of obtaining it. Hence there can be no hope without a foundation on which tp rest. Faith isthe substance, the foundation on which hope rests. We have a conviction that the doctrines of Christianity are true; this n we may all faith, We also have ace that there are things, not seen, which are realities. This evidence which things not seen to appear to us reali- jes, is faith. The Gospel speaks of many things which are unseen, and which must necessarily remain unseen, while we dwell here in the flesh, yet we have a firm conviction that they are realities; and there- fore we hope to gain possession of them in due time. God is unseen; Heaven is unseen; the glorious realities of the resurrection state are unseen.. By the exercise of faith we come into the possession. of hope, into the blessed and spiritual realities of religion, and are enriched with the treas- urers of holy affection, and the blessedness of salvation. Faith is nota useless thing, bar-. ren of sweet influences and heavenly fruits; but it works by love, purifies the heart, and _ overco:nes the world. It is of inestimable value, for it richly blesses those who possess and cherish it. Zi It must be conceded that faith does not create anything; does not make any truth; and does not affect the existence of anything thatis. The sublime truths of Christianity semain the same whether faith in them is entertained or not. The eternal verities of religion do not become so through the exer- cise of faith on the part of man. They exist, andremain what they are, independently of man’s belief or disbelief. " The existence and character of God; the revelations of Jesus Christ; the doctrines of our holy religion, ‘are not affected by our faith in them, or our want of faith. But by faith or want of faith, Weaffect ourselves. If we believe there is no God, then to us there is no Creator, no wise and good being governing the world, Ruiding events to their issues, and seeking the good and welfare of men; but the world and all upon it came into existence we know not how; chance presided over the world, and our destiny is enveloped in darkness and mystery. We reduce ourselves to state of orphanage by unbelief, and are without God in the world. Wehave no supreme power and intelligence in which to confide; no Fa- ther in Heaven to watch over, care. for, and less us; we involve ourselves in darkness, and become helpless wanderers without fplace, without hope, and without guide. ‘ne cloud that gathers over our heads, ma ing it dark at noonday, does not annihilate the sun; it only intercepts his rays. Unbe- lefis the cloud which intercepts the rays from the sun of ‘Tighteousness, converting the Christian’s beautiful day into the skep- tie’s night of gloom. é -, liwe have faith in God asa Nie power: ful, but malignant heing, severe in Hig jus- tice, exacting in His demands, witliout merey, unpitying, and unforgiving, He be- comes really soto us, though He has the aapassion of a father, the tenderness of a Rother. and even Waits to be gracious. , He iSto us what we believe Him to be, though, Infact; He is very unlike the cruel ‘being our ith revresents Hin. But ig eve God isa good being, Poss derness, Jove, and com- na illing to bestow favors than Fate Him: if we believe He is our ‘ather that weave His children; that He will ee “to love, protect, and bless; that e will not smite us in anger for our sins, h ux for our good, for amend- mation; that He wiil be merci- in every mood of our being; rencmber us with blessing, ippy Whenever the thought of t tothe mind: we are encour- ¢ to Hin for help in tine of drawn to Him by the sweet- uy influences; we confide in a holy trast; and have a feeling of that nothing essentially evil will Life is passed beneath the ivresence of a Father; all clare His goodness, and sq we are Ku ted to a devout recognition .of ar Worship springs from Jove and nat ¢ dees the viement of slavish fear does fil, an anty it: the world is sunny, cheer- coe au ant, aid an exceeding peace be- tae 2 IK IE mast be admitted that a full elect wey ial 88 the Father will have this hog LOM Men. And if so, itis one of the wie seetlent and desirable _ possessions ches “thea 1s aaited. The faith which Us With » tender ent good and watches over est in ete rc, and seeks our trae in- men to aes dential dealings, must Jead Ys iteousness tee, of heart and love of lable, and Lo be merciful, forgiving, ally transtons i imane: For one is gradu- moral Teed es the power of faith into eness of the Deity in whom he of man into the relati i ion of brothers. If God ire Father of all, and cares for all His‘chil- for ci men, it is seen, haye claims upon us i sympathy in trials, for aid in their mis- advo for encouragement in the day of bet a HOF oharlty y when fallen inte error i a arty ood wnder all the circumstances of life, “So faith has a great influence oy better ain a neblee “Christian, making him a DRISM AND THEISM. IMPRESSIVE PHASES OF MODERN RELIGIOUS tumdon Spedtaor, = Lon. lator. : The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the charge delivered at Dover, does 2 consider- able injustice to modern Theists. He pro- fesses himself unable to‘ explain the differ- euce between a Theist and a Deist, intimates that the names are interchangeable, and entertains a belief that there is danger of England sinking into a. “cold? Deisin or ‘Theism, like that of the eighteenth century. We need not say we hold ‘Theism to be only apartof the truth, and a faith which by itself does not satisfy human needs, while it almost certainly would not, as compared with Christianity, conduce to human prog- ress; but Dr. Tait is, nevertheless, : scarcely just-to Theists. The name by which they de- scribe themselves may be philologically a lit- Ue absurd, the distinction between “Deus” and Theos being of the most subtle or.im- perceptible kind, but they have suc- ceeded in imparting to the: woras in usage very different shades of meaning. “The De-. ist, in usual theological parlance, is a. man who believes that God was the Creator of the universe, and still exists, but, having placed his creation under fixea laws, He has ceased to interfere with His own work and disap- peared from the ken. of His own creatures, with whom, except as original law-giver, He maintains no relation. That, indeed, isa so believe towazdz excessive earthiness, not always ignobie, or seltish, or sensual in its maanifestation, but. still a state of mind in which the proyed inconvenience or inutility ofany action, or any line of thought, is 2 final reason against it. The world is to be inade happier, and happier only; and though, of course, individuals see that happiness in nobility, and there are Agnostics who are ilso detennined. ascetics or stoics, still, happiness is the end, and to the mass happi- ness is as much sugar as they wish. There can be no worse condition of mind; and it is of this, and not of dull Deism, that among the suffering masses there is danger. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. CANON FARRAR ON “dT,” “Low,? AND “BROAD”? CHURCIL In his address before the recent Church Congress in England Canon Farrar said: “Practically we may say that the school which is called Low Church, and which pre- fers to call itself Evyangelical,—the party whose glory it is to have the possession, and whose temptation it is to claim the monopoly, of Gospel truths,—the party which rightly and nobly upholds the claim of the. indi- yidual judgment to the interpretation of Seripture,—owes its revival in the great out- burst of religious life in the days of the Methodists. The party which is called High Chureh, and which prefers. to call itself Anglican or Catholic,—the party, which rightly and robly lays*a. deep stress on the Church and the Sacraments,—dates its re- yival from the great Oxford’ movement of which some of the leaders still live m_hon- ored age. The party which is called Broad Church, and which prefers not.to be called a party at all, which, in point of fact, is not a party,—which fas no party In- terests, no party organfzation, no party shibboleths, which’ would be false to its own most cherished principles if it strove toenlist either for its friends the loud enlogies or for its opponents the envenomed deprecia- “cold” faith, searcely distinguishable from the Atheism for which it was a mere cover, | and only separable by philosophers from Pan- ‘theism, in which the whole universe is itself the God. The difference between a Godhead’ which neyer existed and a Godhead which is suspended, though very considerable in reality, inasmuch as if God was Creator, His laws, when discernible, are divine, and not even potentially blunders, is theologic- ally very trifling, and if the lat- ter is accompanied, as is customary, with disbelief in a future state is practically of no importance at all. If the course of events here is immatably fixed, and there is no hereafter, God disappears for man into a phrase, a theory through which he avoids the intellectual trouble of searching into the origin of things. The Theists repu- diate this view altogether, and have changed the word “ Deist” into “ Theist,” in order to .express their repudiation. They hold that God not only was, but is; not only created the world, but governsit; has a permanent and yital relation to Iis creatures, may sus~- pend or modify His laws, -haying, like all other thinking beings, afree will, and is. at all events cognizant of their prayers, aspira- tions, ana efforts to approach flim. That faith, carrying with it as it does some belief in the utility of prayer, a strong inclination towards worship,. and a stronger desire to obey all that can be ascertained of -His will, is, though we fully adinit it to be insuflicient, not by any means necessarily a “cold”one. On the contrary, itanay. be a very hot one. We shall produce a shower of reimon- strances when we say that the very spirit of Theism, dominating and sometitnes snppress- ing Christianity, appears in all forms of Cal- vinism, is prominent in all Scotch theology of the popular Kind,—we believe that.thou~ sands of Scotchmen hold right and wrong to be distinguished from each other because God has distinguished them,—and is the very soul and vital principle of the theology of New England and the sterner division of the Puritans. God is so present to their minds— God the Ruler—that Christ sinks out of sight, ‘The faith hitherto has not appeared, except in individuals, unaccompanted by a belief that God has directly revealed Himself to man; but it is appearing now, and itwould not necessarily be a cold one. On the contrary, it would probably be a very warm one, would be obeyed by its Toran so far as they could see implicitly, and would gradually, if main- tamed for any length of time, forma race with tempers of iron, ready to prosecute to the death all who disbelieve, and ‘therefore rebelled, _pitilesly moral, though — the morality might not be ours, and at once as resigned and as stern as the true Legitimists usually are. The danger of such a creed, if diffused through a people, would not be coldness and indifference, but ardent in the maintenance and diffusion of doctrines evolved from the believers’ own minds. For as man, when he believes in a God, grows hungrily anxious to discern His will, these men, rejecting Christianity, or any other external revelation new in real or suj posed. existence, would be sure to. find this aw at last in their own deepest convictions, and make of them terrible instruments of cofhe archbishop of Canterbury is f e Archbishop of Canterbury is fearing a Theism which is old Deism, and we wonder his dread has much foundation. We should think not. No: individual, or group of individuals, can quite trace. all the di- rections in which the mind of a nation is drifting; but we should say that the phase of indifference to religion which’ appears from time to time in English life is. just now yery distant, and that when It arrives it will not be based upon the notion of a God in a state of supended animation. That form of Deism never got down very deep, and never will. There is none of the comfort of negation in it. Tt is a religion, buta religion for the content, and the body of English- Speaking mankind at all events will not speedily be -content, will de- mand some solace under its miseries which Deisin does not offer, and some guidance which it rather sneeringly declines to afford. Men have waked up far enough to wish the problem solved, and, after all, itis a double problem and not a single one. Deism tells us authoritatively the ‘Whence,—though it gives wonderfully little evidence, never account- A ing atall for evil, or attributing it to the Creator,—but it tells us nothing of the Whither, rather_implicitly denies the ex- istence of any Whither at all. We ave not much afraid of that for of belief taking any serious hold, but rather of aform of Agnosti- -eism which has its root in perplexity and an- ger. We think.ve see signs of 4 disposition to declare that the great problem is insolu- ble, that whatever rules, be it n Mind or only a Force, he or it does not intend the truth to be known, it there is a truth, and to go on, both in action and_ speculation, as _ the problem had no _ existence. That is the condition of mind, we know, of many. of the | cultivated who are not skeptics, nor doubiers, nor in- quirers, but who think they are as certain of their point as they are that the circle will be not squared. They are, they think, in pres- ence of a recniring decimal, and they are not going to spend life in the effort to resolve it. Tfno God exists they will save their time; and if He does exist, He must have set up the impenetrable wall. A distinct belief of the kind, not a vague, pulpy expression, but a fcrmulated belief, exists, we Know, m the most unsuspected places, its holders not un- frequently professing Christianity, as at all events the best of the illusions; and it has sunk very far down in the ladder in society. We tind it catch classes which have become suddenly aware that there is serious doubt afloat, and have caught something: of its ex- tent and force, till they fancy ey aye in the doubt a revelation as certainly true as they onte thought the ofd certainty. We should not wonder at all if, with the spread of education, that form of Agnosticism spread also all the more rapidly because it is apt to pe silent, acquiescent, and a little contempt- nous, and is so entirely neglected by relig- jous teachers. ‘They understand any faith better than a faith that a faith cannot be. If the Archbishop can wake the clergy out of their indifference to this condition of mind, and furnish them with arguments against it, he will do great service to his cause, for he may rely on it that the evil exigts, and may spread here as fast as in Germany, where the decision we have deseribed is that of whole communities. There are entire cities there where the disenssion of religion in any shape tly prohibited, the good and the’ bad, 2 and the fuolish, equally holding that - madness lies.—that’ nothing can be possibly known, and that there is something of moral wrong’ in striving. to know,—jnst what many good people think about Spirit- ualism, We ‘pelieve the feeling to be at the Foot of secularism, so far as secularism is a faith, thongh aiaed among the. lower secu- larists by what we regard as_ the most pain- ful, as it is often the most incurable, form of ‘Atheism,—the atheism arising froin a sort of horror of the idea of an Oninipotent i ermitting such a proportion a Beer jority of His creatures. The among the ma, truly believes. Faith t at eves, Faith in- God, who is both iran Mother in one, must bave asweet eri Teceives frit influenc i te eet euence on him who inGod as Father of all brings the race erlin say that openly, an Socialists’ of pe thousands of men, and more’ woinen, gland think it, and are determined Agnostics from self-pity and philanthropy. In both .in- stances the result is a tendency in all who Ee tions of party newspapers,—<dates its revival from the Cambridge Platonists. 1t has no shadow of enmity towards the High Church party. Like them, it attaches deep value to the historic continuity of the Chureh; like them, it has no jealousy of syinbols; like them, it delights in artand music as couse- erated handinaids in the service of religion. It has no shadow of enmity towards the Low Chureh party. Like them, it claims for every soul immediate access to God through Christ; like them, it accepts reason and conscience as more sacred than any outward authority; like them, it wholly relies on the one offering: for sin once offered. But, with the Cam- bridge Platonists, it would turn men ‘away from ‘tierceness of opinions’; it desires to puton reason as.the sacerdotal breastplate of its priestly habiliments; it holds fast to the trnth that the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord; it does not believe either that all wisdom died with the Mathers, or ‘that the Reformers locked the door ot religious truth and flung away the key forever.” Al surely such « party may claim for i tolerance which it most cheerfully concedes to. others’ when, in ancient days, it may claim the great names of Origen and St. Gregory. of Nyssa and St. Gregory of Nazianzen and the school of Antioch; and in modern days the names of Bacon and Hales, and Jeremy ‘Taylor and Tillotson, and Coleridge and Arnold, and Whately and Thirlwall. Would the Chureh haye been bet- ter without such names? Would it havebeen better without.the High Church nanies of Hooker and Ken, and Keble and Pusey? Would it have been_better without the Low Church names of Ridley and Hooper, and Cecil and Newton, and Simeon and Wilber- foree, and Venn? Does not the very exist- ence of such differing views among holy men show that if ‘diversity without unity is discord,’ on the other hand ‘ unity without diversity is death’? Ihold, then, that.these schools have been_of inestimable service to the Church. The Low Church party revived. theearnestness of spiritual religion; the Hish Chureh party reseued forgotten truths, stim- ulated slumbering energy, renewed theorder, the beauty, the reverence of worship. Broad. Churechmen, ever ready towork with both, devoted themselves with no little success to the study of exegesis, and did no little to co- ordinate the data of revealed truth with the discoveries: of © advancing knowledge. This has been. their influence upon the Chureh;. and what- has been their influence upon each other? It ‘has been to widen, to stimulate, to harmonize; to prevent those trutns from being obliterated’ which each severally maintains; to prevent the t, anny of ignorant narrowness, sacerdotal ar- rogance, and latitudinarian indifference; to save cach other from the common blight ot Pharisaism—the Pharisaism — of loveless religionism; the Pharisaism of exaggerated observances; the Pha: mn of doctrinal laxity, or intellectual disdain, In conelu- sion, three parties are inevitable, but parti- sanship is always wrong. Uniformity is im- possible; unity isa sacred duty. Sympathy, tolerance, candor are incumbent on all alike; jealousies and revilings are alw: and in all men, 3 grievous sin. ‘The Jewish schools were rent asunder between the followers of Shammai and Hiflel, At length, says the Talmud, the Bath Kol—the Voice from Ueaven—decided their rivalries.“ Both,” it said—andoh! how ofteimight the Bath Kol so decide our controversies ‘also—* both are right; but the Nalacha”—that is, the right torule—“is with Hillel.” “Why is this?” asked the Rabbis. And the answer is, ‘ Be- cause the disciples of Hillel were gentle, courteous, and forbearing; while those of Shammiai were fanatical and fieree.” What is this but the sion of St. Paul at the moment of his loftiest inspiration ?—“ And now abideth, faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest $f these is charity. THE DISCIPLES. NOMINATION THROUGH- UNIO} The Christian (Disciples) Missionary So- ciety has been holding its annual meeting at Louisville. 1t employs seventeen mission- aries, has raised 39,573.22, and received $6,750 in pledges and bequests. The additions to the churdhes during the twelvemonth have been 791. The following table was presented, as giy- ing by States the numberof churches, preach- -ers, and members: Churches, Preachers. Members. 88 320 ke 35 28 New York. North Carolina. ' 48 Wisconsin... a R Wyoming Territory. £ Totals. :.....2.02--.4,763 3,483 563,918 To the above may be added a floating mem- bership of perhaps 50,000, which would make spread total inthe United States of over ),000,, METHODIST MISSIONS. ~ ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS BY THE GENERAL MISSIONARY COMMITTEE—PRESENT CONDI- TION OF THE WORK AT HOME AND ABROAD, New York Heratd. This week the General Committee of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episco- pal Church will convene in New York to look over the extensive mission fields of.the Chureh and make the annual appropriations for maintaining and extending that work for another year. ‘This Committee is composed of allthe Bishops of the Church, now num- bering thirteen, twelve representatives of the Board of Managers of the Society, and twelve representatives of the Church at Jarge, elected. by the General Conference, -For the: purpose of the last-named repre- sentation the Church is_territorially and numerically divided into: mission- ary districts. The First: District. includes the six New England States, with a church memberstip of 95,653 and a representation or thirty-tivo delegates in the General_Confer- ence. The Rev. J. D. Beeman, of Vermont, ! ! Dr. J. M.. Trimble, of Ohio, who hi is their representative in the General Com- mittee. ‘The Second District includes the two Conferences which centre in New York and Brooklyn, the two in New Jersey, the Troy Conference, and the distant one in Fooehow, China, which has 4 membrship of 190,395 and a representation of thirty-eight in the General Conference. Their representa- tive in the Committee is the Rev. James N. Fitzgerald, of New: who is also Record- ing Secretary of the Missionary Society in place of the Rev. David Terry, retired after aservice of nearly thirty yeats in the posi- tion. The Third District takes in all the northern and western parts of this State and apart of Pennsylvania, and the North and South India Conferences,—a_vast, territory, with 106,610 church members and thirty-three delegates in the General Conference. Their representative iif the Committee is the Rev. Dr, William If, Olin, of Wyoming. . Those three districts embrace six Confer- ences each, The Fourth District embraces seven Conferences, as follows: Central Penu- sylvania, Deluware, East Ohio, Erie, Nor- way, Philadelphia,:and Pittsburg, with o membership of 196,800 and a representation of thirty-eight in the General Conference. Their delegate in the General Committee is doseph M.-Carr, of East Ohio. The Fifth District embraces four other Ohio Confe: ences, Kentucky and West Virginia Confe ence, with a membership of 171,674 and’ thir- ty-one representatives ig the General Confer- ence. Their delegate in the: Soraralttee, is en ‘more than a quarter of a century represent- ing the same districtin that body, The Sixth District takes in thirteen Conferences, white and-colored, from Baltimore south w the Gulf, together with the Liberia Conference sandwiched between. Its-membership does not correspond with the extent of its terri- tory, and numbers only 157,212, and its rep- resentation in the Genera! Conference thirty- seven, Their representative ‘is Mr, S. Ed- wards, of Baltimore. TheSeventh Districtem- braces three Conierences in Tennessee, -four in, Indiana, one in Kentucky, and one in Southern Illinois. ‘wo of these Conferences are composed of ‘colored preachers. The membership of the nine is 173,005, and the number. of delegates which they are entitled to send: to the General Conference thirty-five, ‘Their representative is John W. Loeke,~of Southern Mlinois: The Eighth District takes in three Ilinois Conferences, two in, Michigan, one in Wisconsin, und on in Swéden, and these together report 160,05 members, who have sent thirty-five dele; to the General Conference.” Their repre- sentative in the General Committee ts George R. Palmer, of Central llinois, ‘The Nii District includes four Confer a, one in Nebraska, one in Minnesota, one Swedish and one Norwegian seattered among the others. Their membership is. about 110,- 000,--a new Confereuce having been added which has not yet presented separate statis- tics, It was entitled to. thirty-four repre- sentatives in the last General Conference. Their delegate in the General Committee is Thomas B. Lemon, of Nebraska, ‘The Tenth. District embraces the Conferences of Kansas and South Kansas, Little Rock and Arkanses, St. Louis .and. Missouri, Mississippi and -Lonisiana, Texas, West Texas and Austin, with a membership of 119,611, and a repre- sentation of thirty-nine in, the General Con- ference. ‘Their dt e i is Joseph Dennison, Kansas. The Eleventh District includes the California and Southern California Conferences, Columbia River and Oregon, and Nevada Conference, with a vast, almost unmeasured, territory. anda small church membership of 1 and adelegation of only thirteen in the General Conference. ‘Their representative in the Committee is Charles V. Anthony, of Cali- fornia. . The ‘Twelfth and last district is com- posed of the seven German Conferenees scattered among the other Conferences of the Church here and the Conference of German: and Switzerland. These. together numbe 46,183 chureh members, and they had twent: two delegates.in the Jast General Conference, Every one of these representatives are new men except. Dr. Trimbic, and aft of them were elected by the lust General Conference to serve for four years. The Committee meets thus early in Noyem~ ber. (3d) that it may save expense to the Chureh by attendmg fo Church extension matters in Philadelphia after it has con- sidered missionary matters here. For the same district representatives in the Mission- ary Committee and the Bishops are the Church’s representatives also in the Churel Extension Society. pouneey, the two s eties held their meetings at different seasot and two bills of expense were paid for bringin: the committees together.--Now the~Miss ary and Church Extension Societies share the traveling expenses of delezates and Bishops between them, and ‘each looks after the entertainment of the Committee in its own city. Last year the Missionary Committee appro- priated to foreign and domestic missions. magnificent sum of. $679,852, including $64,- 000 ‘toward lguidating the debt on its treas- ury and $73,000 miscellancous expenses con- nected with the work. ‘fhe foreign missions of the Church received® appropriations last year amounting to $279,516; the domestic inissions, including those among foreign populations here and: Indians, $242,816. The Methodist Church does not give much atten- tion to the evangelization of the aborigines of America, on whom it expends the insignifi- cant sum of $3,55 ‘he largest evangelistic work in this direction is done by the Episco- pal and Roman Catholic Churches. ‘The Methodists put their. missionary money “where it will'do the most good” and pre- sent the largest spiritual. and numerical, re- turns, . Hence they gave last year to China, $4,000; to India,$60,500; and to Seandina- via, $42,600. In these three districts of the globe the Church is making rapid headway aginst superstition, prejudice, and idolatry. All denominations of Christians are sharing in the fruits of this evident breaking away of the heathen from old erceds and yen- erable: superstitions, and thes calls for missionary helpers and _ teachers are more frequent and — pressing ‘than ever. The Methodists have. 211 «missionaries of all grades in foreign fields and 1336 local preachers and teachers in the foreign work. In their domestic missionary work they have 2,034 missionaries engaged, or a total of 3,531, ‘Fhe members and probationers of the Church in foreign lands number 35,432. They own ehureh property valued: at $1,169,325, no in- considerable part of which would be’ jeopar- dized, if not utterly lost, by any severance of the peaceful relations now oxisting, between the Governments of Eastern Asia and our own, Their Sunday-schools in foreign lands number 330, in which they gather from Sab- bath to Sabbath 40.536 scholars, and their day schools 246, with 8,376 pupils. z _ Itis now sixty-two years since the Méthod- ists of Aincrica, under-the inspiration of Dr. John P. Durbin and Dr. Nathan Bangs, both for many years officers and stanch friends of missions, organized a society to send the Gos- pel to the heathen. ‘In the early quadreni- unis of its history the income of the Society was small; it could be easily counted by the thousands, whereas now it expends millions. There is more money appropriated now in one year to missions by the Mcthodist Epis- ecopal ‘Church than was formerly given in five years, and it cannot but.be asource of satisfaction to the Church to know that within the past twenty years she has con- tributed to the cause of missions the grand sum of $11,005,866.10.. During the first of those two decades “the contributions amounted to 24,872,815.05 and during the ond to $6,224,052.45, or an average of more than $500,000 a year in succession. And those twenty years covered a period of four years of bloody war and five years of great financial depression, which greatly cur- tailed the means of benevolence to all Chris- tian interests and leftmany a missionary treasury in,debt. In November, 1876, the Treasury of the Methodist Missionary So- ciety wasin debt $262,555.58. In November, 1876, this debt was reduced to $63,037.16, and. the ‘Treasurer expects to, report to the Com- inittee next week that, debt practically paid. And during those years of war and d 3- sion no.serfous abridgment of the mission work has taken place, and. since - prosperity has begun to return to the country and the Chureh new missions have been opened, as, for instance, in interior Africa, old’ missions have been strengthened and enlarged as the ealls pressed upon the Board of Managers, as, for instance, in Bulgaria, Mexico, and South America, andthe domestic ‘mission work was never in.a better or more prosper- ous condition than it is to-day. Of the older foreign inissions of the Church Liberia, commenced in 1833, has jteiled the smallest.proportion of results. That mission has four districts, with thirty appointments in cireuits and stations, and twenty ministers, and a chureh ‘membership of about 2,000. Desirous of stimulating the native preachers there to more zealous endeavors for the evangelization of their race the Church sent Bishop Gilbert Haven‘on a visitation thither a few years ago. . But, he- brought back with him an African malaria which finally carried. him to his grave and robbed the Church of.a brilliant intellect and: Atrién of one of her warmest advocates and friends. Last year the Missionary Committee avpropriated to this old mission $6,900 and for workin the interior $2,000 more.-‘The Bulgarian mis- sion, which had been practically abandoned, was taken up again, and nearly $10,500 ap- propriated toitlast year, because of favora- le tendencies toward the reception of the Gospel consequent on the enforcement of provisions in the Berlin Treaty. ‘The mis- sion has only forty. members... The Ttaliat and Mexican missions: received Telatively Jarge sums last'year, the fornier $22,520 and the latter $30,500.- The Italian mission has 800 members and, the Mexican 3 The.do- inestie missions aré operated:chiefly through the Annual Conferences, save>thosé in the Territories “~of Arizona’ and New Mexico, which are administered as foreign missions by_the ‘Bishops and the Board: of: Managers “of -the’ Missionary So- ciety. The annual Conferences have- mis- sionary societies ‘amoug themselves forcarry- ing on operations within their own bound- anes, As the Methodist Church leads all other denominations in the nuunber and ex-. tent.of its missions and the aggremate of its appropriations, the action of the ‘General-| iis Comunittee will be looked i the whole Church. hia GENERAL NOTES. In the Persian College at Oroomiah there are sixteen Nestorians, five Armenians, five Mussulmans, and twenty-three others in the theological class. i ‘The new Tremont Temple, the home of the Boston Baptists, was dedicated last week. ‘The dedicatory sermon was preachea: by the. pastor, the Rev. Dr. Ellis. c The Voce della Vorita says that there is no foundation whatever for the report that Leo XIII. contemplates transferring the Col- lege of Propaganda to Malta. fi _ The Gospel of St. Mark has been translated into the language of the Mortlock Islanders, the lastest work of ‘the kind. ‘These islands are in the Pacific Ocean, south of the Solo- mon Islands, Over two years-ago an iron church was shipped! from London to the Esquimaux Prestrienians on Uitte Whale: River, Hud- on Bay. “It only arrived a short tim and has been dedicated. weed ‘The town of Accrington, Lancashire, Eng., claims preéininence::s a Sunday-school town. Of the 30,00) inhabitants nearly 10,000 are connected with Sunday-schools,—8,738 as scholars, and 1,158 as teachers, The Britislrand Foreign Bible Society has dust completed for the Amoy and Formosa BY eons the printing of the Book of Proverbs in the and i: Amoy vernacular, in the Roman Jetter, niling out 2,009 copies for use among. ive Christians, Icis stated in 4 letter from Rome that. the Count de Chainbord has presented a petition to the Pope praying for the beatification (the preliminary degree of canonization) of Louis. XVI, and that Leo XHL has referred it to the Congregation of Rites. b {The Shiloh Colored Baptist Association, in Virginia, is the largest in the world. It con-: tains ninety- churches and 38,064 commu- né members, ‘There were 1 persons’ baptized upon a public profession of their faith in Christ during the last session of this Assdeiation. The churehes ‘are locdted. in twenty-three counties of Virginia. They voted not. to countenance any minister who uses strong drink as a‘beverage. They rec- ommended: each church and Sunday-school z issionary socicties for the sup- orbof their work 1 ‘The Rey. W. VY. Colley, their missionary from , Africa, spoke of the great work done by missionaries in Africa. A bombshell was thrown into the Meth- odist Conference at Appleton, Wis., last week, by the introduction of a resolution de- manding that'some definit déclaration should be adopted in regard to the cardinal doctrines of Christianity, and against “liberalism” in all its shapes and forms. The resolution elicited considerable discussion, and 2. good many references. were mace to the trial of Dr. 'Thoinas, of Chicago, for: heresy by the Rock TR Conterence. 3 5 The | Re . Lt. Hoskins, an alleged “ heretic”? of Milwaukee, wanted to have the Conference undertake to deting its belief upon some'of the disputed points in theology that now agitate the relig- lous world, Jt was considered by’some to be important that the Methodists of Wiscon- sin should put themselves on record in re- gard to the matter of Methodist doctrine. ‘Phe resolution was finally laid on the table by a vote of 83 to. 23... ; On Thursday evening the Synod of Phila- delphia listened to a stirring sermon from Moderator Parke, in which he set forth the dinicnities arising from an over supply of. tninisters,... Presbyterian economy. ,for,_ giving. them churches in which to work. Tle said: “If we already have more ministers than we can employ, we have no right to edueate more under'a solemn promise and then turn them loase: without 2 ministerial charge. The Synod seemed-to be much edified by this ser- mon; and to approve its sentiments. JLo ever, on Friday the subject of educating young men for the ministry cane up for dis- cussion, and a resolution was offered bewail- ing the falling off in the number of candidates, and declaring that pastors ought .fo present the matter to thelr young men more urgently. ‘This resolution was discussed at considerable length and with much spirit, and was at last adopted. ‘Those who advocate it claim that it will be very disadvantageous to shut off the supply of ministers on account of the ditiiculty of renewing it when it shall again be needed. - . : The Independent (Presbyterian) says: “The Protestant Episcopal Church has in recent jens been taking jong strides for- ward. ithas had the reputation of. being a fashionable and easy-going Chiureh, with Tit- tle aggressiveness in its composition; but it is now showing an energy, a purpose, and a determination which must result in substan- tial gains. It is multiplying its dioceses, es- pecially in the great West, and ere long they will cover effectually the whole United States. It-is giving increased attention to mission work, as is evident from the fact that several sessions of the two houses of the General Convention have been occupied solely with hearing reports from missionary districts and considering the needs of those districts. With a Bishop In every Territory, as is now proposed, the Church must obtain great adyantages in the Far West, which it will profit by in future years, The Church is internally united and at peace. Never in its history has there been greater harmony than now; and, instead of fighting each other, as they used to do, they now work together ina spirit of peace for the advancement of the interests of the Church.” is PLAGIARISM, To the Editor of The Chicago Trivune. _ CiicaGo, Oct. 30.—Your excelent paper of last Sunday -contained nearly four col- uinns of finely-printed matter which was copied almost verbatin. ct literati from the ages of a work entitled * Supernatural Re- gion,” and signed Gronson C. Keeler. “As this is not the first time he has stolen largely from the same work and published tne extracts as original, we think it only fair fo direct the attention of, the public to that fact, in order that they may read the book at oneé (if they wish to do so) and thus save, yaluable time. It will take all winter for Tar TRIBUNE to republish that work, even at the rate of four columns per week, and the most of your readers would prefer taking it all at once, in- stead of in the “continued story” style. If, however, Tue Tribune is going to be- cone a reprint, we would suggest a little more variety. ‘For instance, instead of tak- ing four columns from “Supernatural Relig ion,” we might take two from that work and the other two from the “Age of Reason,” or in selections from Voltaire. But in the name of common honesty, tet these things be cred- ited to their authors instead of the copyist. These suggestions are respectfully subinit- ted to your superior judgmentin behalf of maby readers. “Veritas.” PERSONALS. The Rev. W. Li. H. Marsh has resigned the Bastorate of the Central Baptist Church in Salem, Mass. ‘The Rev. Leigh R. Brewer, of Watertown, has been elected Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Montana. D. N.. Lyon, a returned missionary from Hongebow, says that Tank-Kee, the Chinese lecturer, is a pious fraud. Bishop McLaren, of this city, preached in Spanish last Sunday at the Church of the ‘Annanciation, New York. ‘The King of. Congo, cack sas become a it the Baptist Church. Tle is fhe cule Oe eri in the denomination. W. W. Eastabooke has resigned earns Rar Wine” Good, Shepherd, Burling- ton, Pe ‘and accepted St, Paul's, Silver Ciitf, ‘olo.| s Rev. Dr. Wise, of the American Israel- 1 ReReS med editorial control ofthe De- borah, another Jewish paper, but printed in German. Ps : The Rey. George P. Folsom, of Oak Park, has accepted an invitation from the Presby- terian Church at. lowa City, and will enter upon his Iabors there the 1st of November. ‘The Rev. Dr. Leeds, of New Hampshire, makes the statement that divorces are now more numerous in New England, in propor- tion to the population, than they were in France at their worst, in the time of the ‘French Revolution. The Rey. Robert E. Hill, a retired Presby- térian clergyman, died suddenly, Oct. 2 at his residence at Hopeville, N. J. He wi 3 years of age, and was born in Edinburg. Mr, C. M. Morton has accepted an invita- tion to become the pastor of the Railroad: Chapel, State street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth. This isthe chapel in which Dr. Mitchell preached every Saboath even- ‘he Interlor says of the late Dr. Plumer: He was the most yoluminous and most popu- Jar author that our denomination bas produce: published: works number thirty volume: some of which have been translated into for- eign languages, and all of which buvo been widely read. “Of these his Studies in the Book of Psalmsis probably the most widely known, though his minor works, such as * Jehovah- Jireh.” “Earnest Hours,” and others of like character, have been more generally circulated in. America, As an orutor he was impressive, elevated, often rising to perlods of grandeur. His presence was dignified and: noble, such 23 would attract attention in any assombly. In personal bearing he was a model of manly re- Bnement and courtesy. winning’ the veneration and love of all with whom he came in contact. SUNDAY REVERIES. Dr. Tastings, of Boston, in speaking of religious joy and of singing as being the natural expression of that joy, remarked that some congregations had so. little of it that they had to hire people. to do their singing. “Why,” says he, “I would as soon think of hiring a man to eat my breakfast.”” “J fear,” said a country curate to ‘his flock, “ when I explained to you in my last charity sermon that philanthropy was the love of our species, you must have under- stood me to say ‘specie,’ which may account for the smallness of the collection. You will prove, Lhope, by your present contribution, that you are no longer laboring under the same mistake.” E A +year-old Sundaygchool girl did the best she could with 2 question that was asked of the’ infant class, Said _ the teacher: ‘*« And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes.’ Now, what does that mean, children, he rent his clothes?” Up wenta little hand. “ Well; if you know, fell us.” “Please, ma’am,” said the child, timidly, “I-s’pose he hired Jem out?” a : A little 5year-old girl in the city asked her father oue day last week if it would do any good if she should pray ‘to God to let it rain. “She was told perhaps it might, and nothing more was thought of. it by her par- ents till after Sunday evening’s shower. When she waked Monday morning she asked her father if he knew what mide it rain. Ue said no, and she replied that it was because she had prayed “last night and the night. before.” Her mother remarked that she did-not pray hard enough, for it rai only 9. tittle, when the child answered, “Well, [ didn’s want to wake up-the baby.” —Spriuyield Republican, - Many years ago’ a political meeting was held ina log church at a Michigan village on Sunday, and a elergyaan who did not sympathize with it had gone there from mere cliriosity,. A’ thunderstorm gathered; the tain fell in torrents; the lightning flashed fiereely; it grew so yery dark. that the it inates of the church could scarcely see. The clergyman suddenly leaped. up and said that he regarded the terrific storm as a manifesta- tion of God's wrath for desecrating His holy day by such a meeting. He admitted that he had done wrong in coming, and said that he was afraid to stay. Sojourner ‘Truth, who was present. rose siowly, ahd, pointing her long, thin hand at him, shouted: “Don’t be afeerd, honey; dow’t be afeerd. -You won't be hurt, shuah. 1 kind.o’ reckon, honey, that God’s never heer tell o” you.” _. Peck’s Milwaukee Sun decribes.the follow. ing queer scene in one of the churches of that city last Sunday: - ‘There was. the quesreS eccne at one of the churches last Sunday, It seems that during the yucation the seats hud beeu newly varnished, und somehow the varnish was not rickt,as it was terribly sticky. The audience bad all got seated, when the minister got up to give out tho hymn, and ns the basement of bis trousers let loose of the varnish of his "chair -there was n \ noise ke killing a fly on the wall witn a palm- leaf.fan. Che minister looked around at the + cbaimte-see-if-be—was—allapresent.and..that uo. guilty man’s panfs hud escaped, and read the hymn. ‘The ehoit rose with a sound of revelry, und after the tendr bad swallowed a lozenge, and tho buss had couzhed up at piece of frog, and the alto had hemmed, und the soprano hsd shook out her polonaise to see If the. varnish showed on the south side, the audience bezan to rise. One or two deacons gotup first, with sounds like picket-tirtng in the distance on the ove of bat- tle, una thena few more got up, and the rat- tiling ;of the’ unyielding varnish sounded as though the tight was becoming more animated, and then the whole nudienee got on its feet at once with tl ound vf rattling musketry. Tne choir sun; Hold the Fort.” When the orches- tra had coucluded the people sat down gingerly, the services were shart, and ull went home pray- ing for the man that painted the seats. UHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL.~ Cathedral Church SS. Peter and Paul, corner West Washington and Peoria streets, tho Rt. Rev. W. E. MeLaren, S.T.D., Bishop; the Revs J. H. Knowles, priest in charge. Holy Com- munion at8 a. m.; choral morning prayer and celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a. m. Sunday-school and children’s service, 3p. m. Choral evening prayer, 7:50 p. m. —The Rev. Frederick Courtney will preach in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, at 10:3) a, m. and 7:30 p. mj —The Rey. R. A. Holland will preach in Trnity Church at 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p. m. Morning subject: .“ All Saints." Evening su ject: * The Problems of Evil in the Book of Job.’ —The Rey. Henry G. Perry will preach in St. Stephen's Church, Johnson street, near Taylor, morning and evening. % —The Rev. W. H. Knowiton wilt preach in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washing- ton and Hobey streets, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 D. —he Rev. John Hedman qill preach in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick strect, near Chi- cago avenue, at 10:30.. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rey. Clinton Locke will preavh in Grace Church, Wabush avenue, near Sixteenth street, at IL a.m, and 7:20 p.m. = —The Kev. Arthur . Ritchie will preach in the Church of the Agcension, North La Salle and Elm streéts, at Li x. m, ent 30 P. TH. —The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will preach In St. Paul's Church. Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets, at 11 a.m. and 7 350 p.m. ‘ Sine Rey. B. F.. Feetwood will preach in the cbnpel of the. Sixth Presbyterian Church, Onk avenue, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Hey. Luther Pardee will preach in Cal- vary Church, Warren avenue, near Oakley street, at 10:30 9. m. and 7:30 p. m. : —The Rev. T. N. Morrison will preach in the Chureh of the Epiphany, Throop street, near Adams, nt 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. mn. —The Kev. W. J. Petrie.will preach in the Church of Our Suvior, corner of Lincoln ana Bei- densvenues, at 11 2. m, and 4 p. mr. The Rev. Jumes £. Thomoson will preach in St. Thomas’ Church, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-ninth strect, uf 11 am. and 7:45 p. m —Services will be held in St. Luke's ion, 987 Polk street, xt 10: INDEPENDENT. Prof. Irymg will prench in Central Church, corner of Randolph and 330 a. ra. Samuc! G. Latbrop will preach in Chicago Avenue Church, corner of La Salle street, at 10:30 a. m. : ‘BAPTIST. The Rev. Dr. Burboo will prench in Univer- sity Pluce Church, corner {thodes avenue and ‘Thirty-tifth strect, morning and evening. Morn- ing Subject: “Christian Duty Personal and Absolute.” .Eventog: * ‘fhe Imperishabie Pow- er of Christian Heroism.” —The Rev. G. C. Lorimer will preach in tho First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-first street, at lla. m. and 720 p.m. —The Kev. W.M. Lawrence will preach in the Second Church, corner Morgan and Slonroe streets, at 10:30.2. m. and 7:30 p. m. ‘The Rev. Kerr'B. Tupper will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third strect.atllu.m. Subject: “St.John the Bup- tist: Hig Character and Mission.” : —The Rev. George H. Vosburgh will preach in North Star Church, corner of Sedgwick ‘and Division streets, at_ 10:45 a.m. —The Kev. E. B, Hulbert will preach in the Fourth Church, corner of West Washington and Paulina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. W. H. Parker will preach in the Coventry Street Church, corner Bloomingdale road, at 10:00 a. m. and 7:39 p. m. —The Rev. K. De Baptiste will preach in Olivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at Ta. m. and ier m. + _—The Rey. A. K. Parker will preach in Cen- tennial Charch, corner of Lincoln and ‘West Jackson streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:65 p. Mm. '—The Rev. BE. O. Taylor will preach in Central Church, No. cad Grehard street, near at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. am. ~The Rev. W. A, Broadhurst will preach in Dearborn Street Church, corner Thirty-sixth E - 230 D. ma. street, at 10:30 a. m, and Led at asi) preach in —The Rev. J. Ev! 1 Church, Rock Istand car-shops. Dear- Ee etrect near Forty-seventh, at 10:45 a. m. and 70 Pow str. Meyer will Prone in eho First —The Kev. Carne ekureh, corner of Bickerdike and tre! at 10:3) a. m. and 7:3) Horne fey. J. ‘B. Suath will preach = p.m. in the First Norwegian Caureb. corner Nobie and West Ohio streets, at 10:00 a. mm, and 7:00 p.m. —The Rey. John Onguian will--preach in the First Swe Church, Oxk street, near Sedg- wick, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Services will be held in Halsted Streot Char. near Forty-frst street, at fam. and 7:30 p.m. i ; CONGREGATIONAL. ‘ ‘The Rev. F. A. Noble will predct in Union Park Church, corner of Ashland averiue and Wasbing- ton street, at 10:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Itev. Churles fall Everest will preach in Plymouth ‘Church. Michignn avenue,’ ner. ‘Twenty-sixth street, at 10:3) a, m. and 7345 p.m. —The Rey. B, P. Goodwin. will. preach -in the First Church. corner of . Washington and Ann streets, ut 10:30 a.-m. and 7:60 p.m. 3lorning subject: “Shall We Doubt or Believe?” Bven- ing subject: “The Citizenship for the Times.”” The Rev. Arthur Little wil preach in tbo New England Churet, corner: Dearborn - street and Park place, at 10:20 a. m. and 7:50p-m- —The Rev. B. F. Leavitt will preach Evtne Lin- coln Park Church, corner of Sophia and Mohawk streets, at 10:45 8. m. and 7:3) p. m. —The Rev. I. Gai will prench in the Third Church, cerner of Monroe und Tatlin streets, at 1035 a. m.. Subject: “The. Kights: and Duties of Acierican Citizenship.” —The Rev. E. P. Goodwin will preach morning and evening xt the First Church, cornerof Ann and Washington streets. | 7 —The Rev. C. H. Everest will preach morning anu.ecvening.at Piymouth Church, on Michigan ayenue, between Twenty-fifth and’ Twenty- sixth sirects. . The Kiev. Arthur Little will preach morning and evening at the New England Church, Dear- bora street and Park place. —The Rev. F.A. Noble wili preach morning and evening at Union Park Courch, corner of Ashland avecue and Washington street. Sub- ject: “Have We a Doubtful and Vagueorn Positive Christignity?” Evemng .- subject: “ Thoughts on the Inspiration of the Bible.” —The Rev. E- F..Willitms will preach morning: and eyening in the South Church, corner of Drexel avenne and Fortieth street." —The Rev. Evurts Kent will preach morning and evening in the Clinton Streec Church, cor- ner of Wilson street. — —The Kev. A. Mosiroe will. preach morning and evening at Union Tubernacte Church, corner of Ashland aveaue sad Twenticth street. —The Kev: B.¥. Leavitt witt preach morning and evening at Lincoln Park Church, corner of Sophia und Mohawk streets, - —The Rev. C. A. Towle’ will preach morning and evening at Bethany Churth, corner of Pau- lina and West Huron streuts. ox SRESBYTERTAN- - The Hev. Joha M. Worrell will preach in the Elguth Church, ont ot Rubey and Washington, a 2. m. and 7:8) p.m. ‘ ‘The Rev. James Muchughlan will. preach in the Suvteb Church. corner of Sunsumon Adams streets, mornimur and evening. .- —The Rev. J. M. Allis, of Sin Francisco, Cal. will preach inthe F.rst ‘Church, corner Indiana avenue and Twen at rst street, ut 1020) a.m, ‘The fev. Charles M. Morton will preach in Rail- roud Caxpel. 1439 State street, 26 3200 p.m —The Rev. J. M1. Worrell will preach in Wasb- ingtonian Homie Chnpel at 8 p. ui. ~The Rev. H. M. Cullissoa : will Lae in Fullerton Avenue Charch, -near . North: Clark street, at 10:3 2. m. and %30 p.m, Morniny *The Christin Ministry.” Bvening “Tae New Thoology and Orthodoxy,” v. George H. Gould itt proaca in tha Second Church, corner Mishigit) avenue and ‘Twentieth street, morning und evening. 1 The Rev. A. B. Kittredge will preach in the Third Church, corner of Ashiagd and Oden avenues, at 19:0 a. im. and 7:3 p.m. Bvening subject: “Tue Ioxpirution of tre Bibie."* ” -—The Rev. Francis E. Patton will preach in Jefferson Park Caurch, corner ‘of Throop aod. Adams streets, at 10:02. m. und 723) p.m. + —The Rev. 5. BE. Wishard. wilr preach in the Fifth Chureb, corner of Indinna avenue and ‘Thirtieth strect, at 10:39 a. m. and 7:3) p.m. * —Kev, N. Barrett will preach in Westmin- ster Church, corner Jackson and Peoria: stroets, acts ae mm, und 7:30 p. :m. Morning. subject: “ Creeds.” . —The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach in Camp- bell Purk Church, corner of Lenvitt street, at 10:30. m. and Dd. Tm. —The Rev. W.'T. Meloy will preach morning and evening at the United Church, corner ot Monroe and Paulinn streets. —The Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D.. will preach morning and evening ut the First Church of Hyde Purk. bs METHODIST. f ‘The Rey. R. W. Mulfield will preach in Langley Avenue Church morning and evening. The Rey. G. R/Vanhorne will preach in the Michigna Avenue Church, near Thirty-second a.m. Subject: ‘Doing and 7 Att: p. m. Mrs. Henry wal de- vee a lecture, Subject: “What J3 the B ‘oxth? : —tThe Rey. A.C. George wilt proack in Cen- tenury Church, West Monroe, near. Morgan, ut Bt f. m. and 7:30 p. m. Evening subject “The Duty which Good Men Owe to the State. -—The Rev. Mr. Wiltiamsgon wit preach Ia the First Church, corner ef Clark und Washington streets, at 10:3) a. m. and’ p.m. Morning subject: “Orthodox Ubristian Work.” Even- ing Bubject:...> An Addreas-to Vounsfen.% —Tho Rev. Georzo C1 Street Church, corner of Artesian uvenue, ab Ws and 7:0 p.m. ‘Morning subject: ation.” Evening snbject: “The Lav, —The Rey. Frank 3. sristal will preach in Wabush Avenue Church, corner of Fourteenth strect, nt-ll aon. and.7 p.m, Moraing subjec “God's Progressive Stethod,” Evening subject “Truth and Tuesday. —The Rev, H. D; Sheppard will preach in Grace Chu! corner North La Salte und Whito Streets, nt ti. ond 7:30 p.m... —The Rev. K. R. Pope will prench in Trinity Church, Indians avenue, nour Twenty-fourth street, at Il a. m. and 73k}. m. —Thu Rev. J. 38. Caldwell will ern Avenue Church, corner morning and evening. - “ GURISTIAN.. The Rev. J, W. Allon will preach in the South Side Church, Prairie avenue, corner of Thirtieth street, in the morning. —The Rev. C. H. Caton will preach in the Second. Church, Oukley uvenue and Jackson strect, morning and evening. UNITARIAN. ‘The Rey. E. L’Gaivin will preach in the Third Church, corner of Monree und Lutlin streets, at 10:45a.m. Subject: “The Rights and Dutier of Americnn Citizenship.” —Tho Rev. Brooke Herford will preach at the Church of the Messiah, corner of higan av nue and Twenty-third strect, at 10:45 a, ject: * The Mornlitics of Public Life.” ADVENT. 2 Dr. Matthewson will preach at No. 91 South Green strevt at 10:45 1. m., and at. the corner of Noble and Superior streets at 7:30 p. m. + REFORMED EPISCOPAL. =.” ‘The Rev. F. W..Acams will preach In St. Mat- thew’s Church, corner of North Clark and Cen- tre streets, nt l1a.°m. and 7:45 p.m, Morns ing subject: “Breaking tho jow Ground.” ‘Exon subject: “Foundation, of Christiun —The Rev. C. M. Gilbert will preach in the Church of the Goo Shepherd ut 7:4 p. mm. . —Bishop Cheney will preach in Christ Chureh, Michigan avenue, corner of - Twonty-sixth street, at 10215 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Key. it, H. Bosworth will-preach in St. Paul's hureh, corner of Washington and Car- enter streets. in the morning. The Rev. J. D. Wilson will preach inthe evening. . — Rey. R. H. Bosworth will preach at Presby= terlan Chapel, Englewood, at 3:15 p.m. ~ MEW JERUSALEM. ||. ‘The Rev. W. F; Pen'lleton will preach in Lin- coin Park Chapel, near Menominea’ street, at IL am.and in Onion-Park Temple, corner of West Washington street and Ogden avenue, at fo'clock p. m. : oer aaa: Ryened in West- Monroe street, 5, UNLVERSALIST. ‘ The Rey. Samuel Eliis will preach inthe Church of the Redeemer, corner. of Sungamon and West Washington streets,at‘l0:i3a:m. —The fev. Dr. Ryder wilt preach as usual at~ St. Paul’s Church on Michizin avenue. . : MOSCELLANEOUS. ~ } + + There will be services‘at Temperance Church, coruer of Noble und Obi» streets. at $:30 p. m. —A Liberal reunion mncoting.will be hs in the hall, No. 213 West Madison street, at De. m. Subject: ‘* Women’s Sphere.” nee The Eclectica witi ineet at 213 West Madison at 73u0 D. m. . : —A Spiritualists’ and mediums’ mecting will be held ut 508 West Madison street at 3 p.m. —Col. George R. Clarke -wilt lead the Gospel, mecting at Pacitic Garden’ Mission, corner of Clark and -Van Buren streots, at TW. —The Centra! Seeting of Frients will be beld at 10:30a. m., in the Athonieum Bailding. —The W.'C. T. UO. will ne held in Good Tetnplars Hall, 10% West Luke street, at 4 p. m- —W. A. Shaw will preach In Carpenter ‘Hall, 221 Weat Madison. at Il a.m. Subject: “A Pe- culiar Pecple.” Gospel meeting in the evenws. —Judge ‘Gillett, of Valparaiso, fad,,° will ad- dross Christians at 3p... in Union Park Hall, SIT West Madison strect. J. 3% Carulo will preach the Gospel at 7:45 p.m. Judge Giltett will also preach in Gospel Hail, 2012 State street, attp.m. Meeting for Christians ut3 p. m. hicayo Library League inects ar Grimes’ Hall, 13 South Halsted street, nt 2:30 Bal le —Elder Forscutt will naddross ttar- Day Sains at Gastle Hal aD West ‘Lake strect, at 330 O. 10. 7:30 p.m. z —lanies Kay Applebee will proach ‘in the Chicago Free Congregational Church, mects-at Applevee Hall, corner of ‘Thirty-sixth. street ‘and Vincennes avenue, at 11 a. m. 7:30. p. me Morning subject: * What Are tho Fundamental Postulates of Relizioni ‘Evening subject: ‘ What Do the Scriptures Teach Respecting the Future Destiny of the Wicked?" entra meeting of Friends in the Athe- neon itulding, Dearborn street, near Rane dolpp. J. Henry wilt hold a Gospel tom- —Sira. S. 3f. Sarna meeting at S33 Cottage Grove avenue ab 4:30 p. m. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. * EPISCOPAL. " Oct. 31—Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity. Nov. 1—All Saints’ Day. Nov.5—Fast... ’ “gammonte.. Oct: 31—Twenty-fourth Sunday aft Nov. JAll Saints. * Say Bite enlaces Nov. 2—All Souls. BF aan Rov: OF the Octave. ‘ Nov. St. Charles Borrome Me 2 ie ae B. C.; 8S. Vitalis Nor. 5—Of the Octat Mg Nov, 6—Of the Qeta: hase will prewh ia Fallon A