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UA tne NNN, : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 188I—EIGHTEEN PAGES. lv RELIGIOUS. The Various Eastern Tra- ditions of Noah's Flood. a What 3 Young Lady Pastor Has Accomplished in Brooklyn. ope True Light of Asia” Not a Fair Picture of Original Buddhism. Reminiscences of an Eccentric Indiana Preacher Lately Deceased. General Notes, Personals, Sun- day Lubricators, Serv- ices To-Day. quE ANSWERING VOICE. BY DR. D. AMBROSE DAVIS. For The Chicugo Tribune. on the summit of a mountain, ‘Where all seasons beld the snow, Jwas gazing round about me, Up avove and down below. When a radiance came athwart me ‘Like a halo round my head, ‘and Lasked if I was mortal, Or was number'd with the dead. ghen a voive from out the stillness ‘Answered that there was no death? ‘pst all things that were were living. And they breathed their native breazh. fren rocks, from loftiest summits ‘Down to opals in the mine, Bad their lives in all perféction, Sacred lives, and ail divine. gowwith worlds, and so with atoms, ‘All are perfect in their place; ‘And all ballowed are their missions Throughout time and throughout space. God's own life pervades them always, ‘Worlds on worlds an endless piles ‘And unto His countiess children Glowing suns are but Iis smile. 3s is Jehovan's mandate, ‘Action fans life's kindled tire, ‘And that change termed death by mortals Js but simply stepping higher. Therefore, then, that * King of Terrors” Js thy friend and not thy tov, And thou wouldst rejoice to meet nim Ifthe truth thou didst but know, Ceaseless is the sou!’s ascension, Ceascless gifts will Heaven bestow; Cease thou then all doypts concerning The Lternal Fountain's ow. THE DELUGE. rEXDITIONS OF THE GREAT DISASTER. New York Sun. Ttisnot unusual for writers on compara~ tive mytholegy to place the Seriptural ac- count of Noah, the legend of Deucation, and asomewhat analogous story in early Chinese annals on the ‘sume fuoting, and to describe them as independent traditions of purely Yoral calamities. That there is nothing new, eenin skepticism, might be argued from the fact that this very view was taken by the tian priests of the Greek myth. They yromaunecd the Hellenes childish in attach- ing so much importance to the flood from Deucalion eseaped, as there had been, nid, several other inundations resem- ng it in being of limited range and sinall ortance. A much deeper significance is <u to some of these narratives by the Freneh archwotogi M. Francois Lenor- mant, who has published an original version of the Chaldaie tlood story inscribed on the cylinders unearthed at Nineveh. A review ot all the data has led hn to recognize in the iexends of Central and of Western Asia and of Europe, not allusions to sporadic and sireumseribed disasters, but dim traditions af agreat cataclysm which occurred before the separation of the Aryan and Semitic mices, and perhaps at the dissolution of the fiacial epoch. M. Lenormant clears the ground for his in- ing conclusion by pointing out what Je- geads should plainly be attributed to local events, or to importation from a foreign source. To the former class unquestionably belongs the inundation placed, by the historic Woks of China, in the reign of Yao. Sinolo- gists have shown that this disaster was due toau overflow of the Hoang-ho, and that the socalled works of Yu, the prehistoric engi- heer, were the beginning of embankments needed io control its waters, Among the stories of a deluge which are reckoned not Indigenous are those current amoung the Polynesians of the Pacific islands, inasmuch astheir race is believed to haye migrated from the Malay Archipelago about the fourth century of the Christian era. They might, therefore, have received through Buddhism the tradition in its indian form, The dilu- Vian story, current among the Kalmucks, also seems to come in with Buddhisin, and uow that the Chinese accounts of Buddhist uissions to Mexico in the fifth century of our era are regarded with respect, M.Le- Tomant is unwilling to lay much stress _on “he flood myths encountered among the Na- uaand Maya peoples by the earliest Eu- Topean students. He does not think these Jegends can be traced to the Spanish con- gterors as sume have hastily inferred, but he wane deny the possibility of a Buddhist which On the other hand, the diluvian traditions of Aryan and Semitic nations seem, for the Most part, Indigenous in the sense that no latersource can be assigned to them than the common cradie of the two races. All se legends also, while complicated here and there with recolicctions of local inunda- tions, point to a parent myth, recording a Visitation of the most comprehensive char- acer. The Hindus seem to be the only na- ton of Aryan descent who cannot be proved to have possessed an_original version of a Primeval cataclysm. The oldest Indian ac- count of a deluge is found in the Rig Veda, imtnslated for the first time by Max Miller, and unquestionably anterior to any of the indian tood stories discussed by Burnouf. Atvording to tne Rig Veda, a young fish, ac- tidenally caught by Manu, besought hin not io throw it back into the sea until full grown, Eat other fish should swallow it, Its request wing granted, it told Manu, “The very year t shall baye reached my full size a duge will happen. Then’ build a_ves- sand worship me. When_ the, waters Tse, enter the ve: and I will -save thee. ,dlanu obeyed, and, when the deluze came, fastened the eable of the ship to the unot the fish, by whick means the latter ought it to a’ point over the mountain o: euorth. There the tish bade his benefactor Rsten the vessel to a submerged tree, so that ae Waters mightnot sweep it away, and that Hoe hurtin as they ebbed he might de- Xend. ‘That this form of the flood story Ried imported from Chaldea seems demon- Wated by the fact that no other trace is qund in India of that tish worship which ples 80 widespread among other ancient peo- pred Whereas the Chaldaic divinity, Ea, was m0 ‘minently an ichthyomorphie god, al- Hob Jovariably represented on Assyrian and qeblonian monuments, as combining the Mens of fish ca man. Other features of the ‘ainian Jegend are represented in liter Todian ores of the deluge, but M. Le- agyaant thinks the Chaldean form was wie the more readily because it agreed ‘ora atradition the germof which had been roueht by their ancestors from the priml- ive home of the Aryan race. - ong diluvian traditions handed down by Reter peomles, but possessing & special char- those 23y be mentioned one contained in the Sacred books of the Iranians, in which bedeueinal Zoroastrian scriptures are im- in me . This story relates how Yima, who the homsinal conception was the father of DehwDaR race, was warned by the good a fg, jab the earth would be devastated by 85a place of The god ordered Tima to construct, Tefuge,a square garden pro- tected by 2 wall, and to cause men, beasts, and plants to citer ie nie ingly, when the deluge came, the garden of Yina, with its contents, was alone spared, and the message of safety was brought sai by the bird Karshipta, the envoy of he Divinity, As regards the more familiar Greek and Phrygian ‘legends, we need only point out that the myth of Deucalion seemed especially to embody the conception of a uni- yersal deluge, Of this tlood, while some lfmit- ¢d its operation to Greece, many authors at firmed that it extended to the wioleearth, and tnt the whole human race perished. it is also noteworthy, when we remember that the yord translated “ark’”'in Genesis signifies coffer,” and not vessel, that Deucalion also Should be said to have escaped, not by a boat or ratt, but ina chest or coffer. The term indicates that both the Hebrew and Thes- salian forms of the old myth were shaped by a non-maritime peoplt, and it is not unlikely that in this respect they diverge less from the primitive reminiscence than did the old Chaldaic paraphrase. Various types of the flood ‘story may be discovered. among other offshoots from the Aryan stock. There is littte doubt, for in- stance, that the Cymri possessed an indig- enous tradition of the deluge, though it is not easy to eliminate from the extant ac- counts,the features borrowed from Genesis. What seems to be the nucleus of the tale Tecounts three sweeping devastations of Britain by flood, by fire, and by drought. The first of these eveuts,” it said, “was the eruption of the lake of waves and the inundation of the whole country, by which all mankind was drowned with the exception ot yfan and po atehs who saved then- elves in a vessel without rigzing, and it was Ay them that the Island of Britain was re- peopled.” There is a twace of the same legend in the Scandinavian mythology, in which some would Iden- tity the cataclysin dimly recorded with the melting of the glaciers. The three sons of Borr, and grandsons of Buri, the first man, slay Yuir, the father of the lee giants, from whose wounds blood flows in such abundance that all the race of giants is drowned in it except Bergelmir, who saves himself, with his wife, ina beat, Again, the Lithnanians, whose Janguage is deemed nearest to the original Aryan, have a legend of astrophe whose groundwork seems very ancient, but in which fire plays the part elsewhere assigned to water. According to” their myth, a god, secing the carth full of iniquity, sends two giants (fire and wind) to lay it waste. These overthrew everything in their fury, and only one aged and childless couple remained in the country. ‘To console them the god sett his rainbow, and bade them. jump “on the bones of the earth,” which recalls the oracle directing the Deuca- lion to throw behind him the “bones ot the earth,”—to-wit: stones, In this case the two old people jmnped nine times, and nine pairs were the result, who became the ancestors of the nine Lithuanian tribes, _ M. Lenormant dwells especially on thestrik- ing points of resemblance between the ac- counts of the deluge in Genesis and the Chal- daic recital, of which three copies were dis- covered in the library of the palace of Nin- eyeh. These copies were engraved in the eighth eentury b.C, from a_ very ancient tablet in a sacerdotal library founded by the monarehs of the first Chaldean Empire. 1t is considered certain that the date of the original goes back at least seventeen cent- uries before our eray and probably further, for there are signs that the old inscription ot which a transcript was made for the King’s collection must itselt have been a reproduc- tion of amore ancient manuseript, Wesbould mention that M. Lenormant fas made an in- dependent translation of the cylinder texts based partly on the version of Smith and partly on thatof Oppert, butcontaining much original work. ‘The Chaldean narrative is fong, but its main features can be condensed in a few sentences. We are toll that a man named Khasisatra, dwelling ina town on the Euphrates, was warned ina dream, by Ea, the fish god, that alf fife, should perish by a fidod. Following the directions ot the deity, tie man built a vessel ** 600 cn- bits long and © eudits in breadmh and night, roofed it, and carefully calked the seams with asphalitum, He then filled it ns and implements, and caused family and s with, ame and will anin it, signal from the god he elosed the door of his floating dwelling, wherenpon the in fell, and an inundation breke over the earth. The thood continued in fall force for sis aud as many nights, but on the seventh rain grew weaker, the waterspouts ¢ and the vessel erounded on the pe: ar, a mountain in Armenia. Looking forth from his ark, Khasi ww that “ the whole of huinanity had returned to mud, whereupon he ut down, and the teary e over his face.” At the dawn of the si hday he had loosed a dove, but it vame back? he next fet so wswatlow, which also found no place te fight on, and returned. Finally he loosed a raven, which, spying Uh corpses on the water, lighted on them, remained. Soon afterward Khasisatra sent forth all that were ip the vessel, and offered sacrifice to the gods. It is a curious fact that a Greek version of the narrative inseribed upon the cylinders has come down to us from Berosus (third century B.C.), who made compilations from _ the sacred books of, Babylon. Accurding to Berasus a portion of the vessel which had grounded on the mount. nins of Armenia was_ still to be found there in his time, and pilgrims were recustomed to bring ay serapings of the asphalt: with whieh its timbers had been smeared. It is now generally adwitted that Genesis has transmitted to us two different accounts of the deluge, the one taken trom an Elohist, the other from a Jehovist document, which, however, are skillfully interwoven by the Jast compiler of the Pentateuch, Between each of these aud the Chaidaic relation there are some disagreements of detail. There is a varianee, for exainple, as regards the dimen- sions of the a the proportion of length to breadth being stated in Genesis as and on the cunciform tablet as ten me. may further be noticed that, in the Biblical narrative, not only is the term “coffer? used instead of vessel, but nothing is said about launching the ark, or about a pilot; whereas numerous instances men- tioned in the Chaidaic sketch show it to have been composed amid a maritime population. More important than sucht minor variations is the diflerence regarding the duration of the deluxe. Tho Nineveh tablets, as we have seen, make the flood last six days. after which the waters begin to retire. According to the Elohist narrative, which has been unraveled from the rest of Gen: by Michaelis, Ewald, and others, the deluge began about the mmniddle of Navember, and continued for a whole lunar year, plus eleven days, although the great force ot the water is ertainly a remarkal ig der the dlimatic conditions of Babylonia, the autumn rains, with which the level of the Euphrates and Tigris rises, bezin toward the end of November, while the periodical over, flow of the rivers occurs in the middle of March and culutinates at the end of May, after which time the waters go down aud yeach their lowest point in, Novembe ‘According to the chronological the Jeliovist document, whic segregated from Genesis by Biblical sehol- ars, the deluge is announced to Noah only seven days beforehand. ‘The waters are at their hight for forty days, and decrease dur- ing forty more, after which Noah sends out three birds, at intervals of seven days, apd thus it is on the twenty-first day after open- ing the window of the ark tl he, too, goes forth and offers sacrifice. Here the phases of the catastrophe seem so obviously calculatea on the annual spring overflow of the Eu- phrates that M, Lenormant does not hesitate to assign the origin of the Jehovist tradition to the original home of ham’s family, in Ur, of the Chaldees. It is certaimty a curi- ous fact that the overtlow of the Mesopo- tamian rivers lasts, on an @ ZU, SEVENTY five days, and that twent. ; days later— making 101 in all—the lands which been inundated become once more traversable. It may be thought that these coincidences with natura) phenomena prove too much; that they are what we should expect from theehronicier of a local inundation rather than froma transmitter of falut hints re- i) = at, specting a remote snd wide-embracing del- ure. But M. Lenormant is of opinion that the Biblical narrations, thengh comprising details drawn from Jater and minor d constitute, with the Chaldaic inscription three forms of one primitive tradition, “‘Tiis hauuting reminiscence of a great flood repre- sents, in his judgment, an historieal fact whieh left.a piofound imp on the pro- genitors of the Aryan and Sefpitice races,—a real and tremendons cataclysin which took lace in their native seat, whether that be looked forin the table land of Jran, or in some continent now submerged beneath the Indian Qcean. — ANNA OLIVER. HER SUCCESS IN BUILDING Ur HER CHURCH. ‘Miss Anna Oliver, the young Indy pastor of the Willoughby Avenue Methodist Episco- pal Church, in Brooklyn, fs much more suc- cessful in her ministry than many young men of her age, and her church has become one af the most prosperous in its vicinity. ‘The church she occupies was purchased un- der a foreclosure sale by the Williamsburg Sayings Bank to satisfy their first mortzage —nd of $15,000, Offers were made for It to turn it into a livery stable and a beer garden, but Miss Oliver purchased it in her own name for $14,000, and gave a mortgage for $13,000. She organized a church in the spring of 1879, in accordance with the discipline of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, but without the offi- cial sanction of any of the preachers of that Church, who, although sending word that they felt pleasantly toward her enterprise, also said that they could not recognize a°fe- male preacher. Miss Oliver was about to deed the property she had bought to'the church in the usual way, When she con- eiuded that if she did the Conference migtt accept the property and turn the worshipers out. Accordingly she had a legaf document drawn, -deeding the chureh to certain pérsons for the purposes of the Willoughby Avenue Metho- dist Church, but not subject to the direction ot Conference. Miss Oliver’s energy was wn- bounded, and when she heard that neighbor- Ing chureh-members were saying that her en- terprise would nut last a year, she redoubled her exertions, and now, ab about the comple- tion of her second year, she has reason to ba gtatitied at the retrospect. Miss Oliver is abous 26 or27 years old, with eoal-black eyes, brunet complexion, and raven black hair, which falls in glossy curls over ber shoulder. She brushes her hair smoothly beck from her forehead and face, and in other respects her toilet is in contrast with the “ fashlonable young lady of Madison square.” She dresses in black, usually in aluaca, cutto neatly fit her slender figure, and the sombre costume is relieved only by delicate bits of white ruche at the throat and sleeves. No jewelry, except a black jet pin, is worn by the girl-vastor. Her manner is that of an earnest religious devotee, and her conversation seems unmixed with cant. Her sincerity has won her many friends, and many veteran Methodists who sit weekly under her teachings would not exchange her fora Bishop. __” We have put the church and chapel build- ings and the land in good condition,” said Miss Oliver, in response to a question about the temporal condition of her church “and we pay 2g we go. ‘The buildings cost $47,500 to erect, but their present value is hard to estimate. The eight lots on which they stand are valued at trom $1,000 to $2,000 each. We have new fnrniture for the church and chapel, estimated to be worth $1,600. We settle: all bills monthly, and each montb’s proportion of interest on the mortgage of 315,000 is deposited in the savings-bank, so that when the six months’ payment becomes due it is all on band. We hold that no church can be conducted more econontically than ours. Twevty-two hundred and fifty dollars a year meets our entire expenses, pastor's sal and all. We recently had a gift of two building lots in New York City, whieh we are trying to sell.” * ITave you an income from pew-rents ?”” “Not adollar. No pews are rented. Our motto is: ‘Mave faith in God.’ We believe thatif the Lord needs a church, and the church does the Lord’s work, He will justas ive it the money to meet its current s He will give it the Holy Spirit to K meetings. We do not believe in ehurch fairs, festivals, oyster suppers, neck~ tie- sociables, leap-year entertainments, charades, tableaux, cantatas, wax-works, of any other of the numerons projects gotten up by other churches in order to meet. their ex~ penses, Which turn the Lora’s sanctuary into a play-house, an eating-saloon, or a house of merchandise. Our method of raising money is tu ask the people to give it in return for the profit they derive from the church serv- iges. Our only debt is that $13,000, and Tam asking the Lord for the mon believe that He has the money somewhere, and will before long give it to us.” Miss Oliver has overcome obstacles that would cause many young women to sit down and have a good ery. ter church was stripped of furniture some time after she bought it by aman who had a chattel-mort- gage upon it, given bya former society. Miss Oliver at once decided it was the best time to clean the church, and organized a serubbing-brush comiittee, with herself as Chairman. She rolled up her sleeves and went to work with soap and water to clean the house.j é v weeks ago it was necessary to com- ply with a promise to some adyertisers in au annual publication made by the church to 1 yieture of the edifice on the tide page. i discovered that there was no engrav- ing of the chureh, and none could be ob- tained unless a drawing of the churel was furnishel: Miss Oliver turned artist and mit churel, the cliapel, and the trees, and so the promise to the patrons of her enterprise. aA Western admirer of Miss Oliver’s pluck has presented her with a } the Kansns plains. She has devised a plan to make it a souree of profit, __ Miss Oliver's bitterest disappointment was in the refusal of the Bishops ot the Church to ordain her, She has appealed for thisrec- ognition in vain, but she is met by the answer that the Inw of the Church does not author- Tze the ordination of women, “Thave made almost every conceivable sacritice,” she say: vhat I believe is Gou’s will, Brought up in a conservative cirele in Now York City, that held it a dis- gtace for a woman to work, surrounded with the comforts and advantages of ample means, and trained in the Episcopal Church, I gave up home, friends, and support, went counter to prejudices that hud become second nature tome, worked for several years to constant exhaustion, and suilered cold, hunger, and loneliness, The things hardest for me to bear were laid upon me. For two months my own mother did not speak tome. When Tentered the house she, turned and walked away. WhenI sat at the table she did not recognize me. have passed through tor- tures to which the flames of inartyrdom would be nothing, for they would end ina dary? Miss Oliver’s true name is Anna Olivia Snowden. Her eritics have often referred to that she preaches under an alias. family, who at first seraced them by public ing, she dropped theirname and altered hers to Auna Oliver. Some years ago her family became reconciled to, her, and even proud of her, and then wished her to use their name; but, having won her way as Anna Oliver, she determined to cling to that name, which, it is whispered, she has several times refused to change. TRUE LIGHT OF ASIA, EDWIX ARNOLD'S FALSE ASSUMPTIONS. Cincinnatl Gazette, Feb. 12, The thirdof the Lane Semiuary course of popular lectures was delivered last evening by Mr. J.T. Perry. The lecturer announced his subject as “The True Light of Asia,” its purpose bein to review the connections of ethnic tradition with thestatements of Script- ‘ure, and especially to show that Mr. Edwin Arnold’s “Light of Asia” was anything but a fair picture of original and pre-Christian Buddhism. Before analyzing Buddhistic. history, the lecturer compared the theories of Theophiius Gale, Jacob Bryant, and other old-time authorities, who believed in a minute primitive revelation and in the large and di- rect influence of Judaism on heathen ereed and practice, with the ideas of Max Miller and other moderns who hold that religious enlightenment was subjective and individual, Me set forth his reasons for dissenting from the e: ne of either view. He then quoted many traditions of the Old and New World, to show that the belief in an original | para- dise, the practice of tree and serpent wor- A the many closely parallel, deluge traditions in countries far apart, justified the eonelusion that these were not: wholly myth- ieal, but founded on fact, E. B, Tylor, in ns ‘* Early History of Mankind,” though a pronounced evolutionist, bears strong testi- mony to the historic basis of the deluge Jezends, while in Ezypt the people found the floods vi the Nile so beneficial that they could not believe water tobe the source of evil; henee, their deluze was one of blood, Com- ing to the more especial part of the lecture, it urged thalin India, until after the Christian era, neither Ki ‘orship or Buddhism had attained its present form; that the original Buddhism made no preten- tu the miraculous, and that_the decrees King Asoka, the Buddhist Constantine, p have come down to us from about B. , contain no reference to any o£ -the e lugends which Mr, Arnold re- nd, as the lecturer asserted, ha with Christian borrowings, Further are no existing Buddhist works whose tence in their present form can be traced back beyond the fifth or sixth century of our era, or about 1,000 years after Guatama Buddha lived: Some of the proverbs ascribed to him may be genuine, and sume of the anecdotes of his life have a historical basis, but the “Lalita Vistara,” and other marvelous nar- ratives, which Mr. Arnold appears to: have treated as primitive documents, are no more entitled to credit than {s some wonder-book of the thirteenth century as a picture of prhnitive Christianity. Buddhism under- went many changes of doctrine and practice, In proof of this it was shown that Buddhist arehitecture was mainly post-Christian, the sect being merely loeal and unpretentious: |. maining at home, as he was nearly 70 years . long and bitter strug; until the third or fourth century of our era. The contest of that period between reviving Brahminism and decaying Buddhism, which resulted in the expulsion of the latter from Indin proper, wag then described, with a por- trayal of the influx of Christian ideas, which were appropriated by both the fol- fowers of Krishna and of. Buddha for their respective heroes. The lecturer closed by repenting a famous passage of the “ Mahath- arata,” the great Indian epic, in which there is a very poetical but yet intelligible account of the importation of Christian doctrines into India by certain wise men who visited the West, and by declaring that the true light that lighteth every man—the light of Africa, Europe, and America, as well as Asia—is not Buduha, Krishna, Confucius, or Zoroaster, but He over whose cradle shone the Star of Bethichem. —— MUSCULAR CHRISTIAN, DEATH OF THE REV. ELI P, FARMER, AT BLOOMINGTON, IND. Indtanapolts Journal. ; Broommxcton, Ind. Feb. 7%—The Rev. Eli P. Farmer died at bis residence, near this place, yesterday morning, in his ssth year. The deceased was born in Virginia in 1794, and emigrated to this State soon after its admission into the Union. His life has been closely identified with the material and religious development of the State for nearly three score years and ten. His profession was that of the ministry, but his means of temporal subsistence were derived from the farm. In his infnisterial eareer he introduced the novel practice of piving the people a free gospel, and in all his experience, extending over along life, he was never known. ask any congregation or church for a contribution in his own behalf. He was a chaplain in the fate Rebellion, and notwithstanding the hard- ships and priyations to which he was sub- jected (which he could have escaped by re- old atthe breaking out of the War), he uni- formly refused to receive any compensation from the Government, and so all throush the Ie the old man followed up the army in all the struggles and hard- ships encountered, endeavoring to strength- en the arms and encourage the hearts of the brave boys who were fighting for the Union by dispensing the everlasting Gospel. Ue was an evangelist of great power, and thousands of people all over this State who, thirty, forty, and even fifty years ago, waiter upon his ministry, delight to-day in recount- ing incidents of his life, .camp-mecting scenes, ete., all of which indicate that he was arevivalist of marvelous power. It is said that in the olden time quite frequently the camp-meetings of that period were little bet- ter than failures, but invariably the arrrival of Mr. Farmer, which was generally an- nounced by his mounting the stand with a song, electrified the audience, a-result intensified when he.began speaking in. his inimitable style. He was @ powerful man physically as well as religiously; in fact, he has been regarded_as the strongest and most active man in the State. This fact made bim feared by a class of bullies that always in- fested his meetings, and several times he was compelled to leave the sacred desk and soundly chastise those who were disturbing his meeting, and always with success, When the Hon. Mekee Dunn, in 1882, made the race for Congress in this Congressional district, it beeame necessary to have accom panying him-soie one who could protect him. In Salt Creek Township, this county, the Rebel element there determined that Dunn should not make a Union speech, and. on that day there was congregated a set of bullies that were anxious for bloodshed. When the excitement became intense and trouble was momentarily expected, Mr. Farmer arose, and in a voice of thunder said: “Gentlemen, I am first for my God, second for my country, and last for peace, but if you desire a fight Iam ready for you.” He represented this county in the Legis- lature some forty years ago, and while a member created a Sensation by soundly flog- ging the Speaker uf the House, -Mr. Henley, of Clark, who was afterwards in Congress. The trouble grew out of the election of How- ard to the United States Senate. Prior to the Rebellion Mr. Farmer was identified with the Democratic party, but at the beginning of the War he, allied himself with the young Republican party, and did great service for the Union, net only in the field but also on the stump. His denuncia- tion of Qisunionists and Northern dough- faces was most bitter and incisive, and his pleas for the preservation of the Union are remembered With pride by his friends, | He was asoldier of the war of 1812, partici- pating jn the historic battle of New Orleans, and his recollection of the incidents of - that war was clear up to his‘death GENERAL NOTES. The Baptist mission in Germany reports 134 churches, 26,650 members, 1,407 stations, and 11,813 Sunday-school scholars. The churches raised $63,000 last year for church purposes. F The statistical tables of the Lutheran Church, just published, show a grand total of 944,863 communicants, embraced in fifty-nine synods, This Church now ranks third in numbers in the United States. ‘The International Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Assoclation announce that the next biennial meeting of the lntermtion- al Convention of these_societies will be held in Cleveland, O., from May 25 to 20, 1831. The Baptist. Year-Book shows a Baptist membership of 2,296,327 in America, an in- erease of 163,205 during the year. The total Methodist membership in the same field is 3,486,000 in the United States, and, including Canada, 3,054,001, Of the 296 Friends who- died in England last year, one reuched the age of 100 years, eleven were between 99 and 160, fifty-five be- tween $0 and 90, sixty-five between 70 and $0, sixty between UO and 70; twenty-cight dicd under 5," The average was. 58 years 1 month and 2 days. _Arecent decision of tie Second Congrega- tion of Indulgences declares Uhat the cultus of the heart of St. Joseph, whieh has already been condemned by Gregory XLYV., is unlav ful; and. that, therefore, medals which e hibited, together with the hearts of Jesusand Mary, that of St. Joseph, are prohibited. The Brahma Somaj, or Theistic Church of India, now 130 churches scattered throughout the country, with numbers rang- ing from three or four to as many hundred. ‘The sehisuis of 1873 somewhat depressed the activity of this body; but there are evidences of a new energy and spirit during the last year. In England and Wales there are 170 denom- inations, with 45,000 places of worship, and upward of 14,000,000 sittings. There are 36,- 000 stated ministers, of whom 23,000 are cler- gymen in the Church of England. ‘The cout- municants number about 3,000,000, and the average Sunday attendance at church is 10,- An example of what may be done ‘in the way of Christian union was given in Bir- mingham, England, on sunday, Jan. 16, when the pastors of sixty-one churches— Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—exchanged pulpits in the even- ing. On Tuesday, Jan. 13, a united com- muntion-seryice was held, in which ministers from these denominations took part. The Yearly Universalist Register for 1851 shows thatsince 1877 the number of churches in that denomination, has inerea 38 to 739, the membership from 32.937 to 33,045 while the value of parish property ‘ha shrunk from $7,465,495 to $6,267,002. ‘The Sunday-school membership has fallen from 60,757 in 1878 to 58,151. ‘The number of col- leges and academies is reduced from 14 to 11. __ Philadelphia Presbytery, at its stated meet- ing Jast Monday, fell into the line of the nnanimons afiirmatives on the Assembly's Overtures concerning the reorganization of nots and the enlarcementof their pow- Not many ot dh it y meetings; but i ¢ y, Jersey City, as having already voted in the affirmative. At a recent prayer-meeting in Ashfield, Mass.} a member of a Congregational church brought a charge of infidelity against the pastor, founded on his ex ibie account of the creation, in which the clergyman explained the six ways as. periods not of twenty-four oni each, but of much greater length, accordigg to the widely re-- ecived teachings of modern scientists. The congresation, with scarcely an exception, Sustained their minister, and the name of the dissatisfied member wag on Sunday dropped from the roll of the church, at his own re- quest. NUE NORTHERN DEANERY. At the quarterly meeting of the Northern Deanery, there were present the Dean (the Rey. Dr. Locke), the Rev, Drs. Morison and Jewell, the Rey. Messrs. T. N. Morrison, Jr., Arthur Ritchie, Edward Ritchie, Hedinan, Kinney, Street, Courtney, Perry, Lytton, Knowles, Fleetwood, Simith, Pardee, and Thompson. The Rev. C Ellis Stevens was present-from New York, and Dr. Leflingwell from Quincey. The Rev. F. C. Coolbaugh having removed..the Rev. Edward Ritchie was elected Secretary. Announcement was made of a retreat, to be conducted by Mr. Courtney at the Cathedral, on the Monday and Tuesday before Lent: Holy Communion atSa,m.; prayer and meditation at 10:20, 2:80, and 7:30; the latter to be omitted.on the second day. Clergy from abroad are invited. The next meeting of the Deanery is to be held at Evanston, on the last Monday in April; Sermon by the Rev. J. H. Knowles, on Monday evening; Holy Communion, ‘Tuesday morning; essay by the Rev. H. C, Kinney, at the business meeting. A. resolu- tion was passed inviting the Rt. Rev. the Bishop to repeat in Chicago the lectures he is now delivering in New York. PARISIES WITHOUT PRIESTS. Patt Mall Gazette, Jan. 26. Tlerr Windthorst yesterday made his usual attack upon the May Jaws in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. Although the debate was adjourned, the motion is sure to meet with its usual defeat. ‘The facts which Herr Windthorst’s speech reveals ure indeed start- ling. One result of the eight years of war- fare between the State and the Catholic Church is that 1,770 priestly posts are vacant, and no Jess than GOL parishes are entirely de- void of spiritual ininistration. This state of things must needs cause painful thoughts to aGovernment which values religion if for no other reason on account of its supposed power to restrain disloyal and revolutionary doctrines. Butto all the arguments which the clerical Jeader urged with his well- known cleverness and vivacity, the Govern: ment and its supporters, whether Liberal or Conservative, have their old answer—Itis your own fault. ‘The first Falk laws, the Fons ct origo mali, merely gave the State power to see that the men appointed to liv- ings in the Catholic Established Church bad received a-liberal education, and to restrain the clergy from imposing temporal penalties for purely spiritual offenses. itis to the un- compromisinz opposition of the Church to these measures that the subsequent harsh- ness of the State, the deposition and impris: onment of Bishops, and the vacancy of curés isdue. Asfongas that uncompromising at- titude is maintained, the Government can~ not, if it would, desist from asserting the paramount authority of the State. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH. _ Boston comes naturally by its virtues, for in the olden time every one of its ancestors vas compelled to go to church. ‘The fol- ving is a copy of a writ, the orginal of which is in possession of the Rev. Dr, Clark, served upon the Sherif in the Town of Bos- ton something more than WS years ago: “Whereas the grand inquest for the body of the County of Suffolk have upon their oaths presented that Gamaliel Rogers, of Boston, in the County of Suifolk, “yictualler, hath wilfully absented himself from the publick worship of God for the space of five weeks Jast past, not having at such time any law- ful cause for so doing contrary to the Jaw, ete. 2. That Benjamin Loverage, of sd Bos- ton, laborer, hath absented himself from the publick worship of God for five wecks Jast past contrary to law, ete. 3, That Han- nah, the wife of Edward Sadler, of sd Bos- ton, ropemaker, hath wilfully absented herself from the publick worship of God for six weeks last past contrary to law, etc. ‘These are therefore in his Majesty’s name to will and require you to attach the bodies of the said Gamaliel Rogers, Benjamin Love- rage, and Hannah Sadler, if they may be foundin your precinct, and them convey be- fore one or more of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in said County of Sulfolk, in order to their being secured, to make answer to said presentinent at the adjournment of Court of General Sessions to be holden at Boston in and for said County of Suffolk on Monday, the 2sth day of January next, at 9 of the clock in the forenoon of said day, You are also alike required to summon the per- sons named as witnesses to the respective presentments to appear at the same time, to a evidence on his Majesty’s behalf. Tere- in fail not and, make return of your doings therein unto the said Court.” PERSONALS, Two Presbyteries, Aberdeen and Ayr, have adopted resolutions censuring the commis- sion of the Free Church of Scotland for sus- pending Prof. Robertson Smith, ‘The death is announced of James Cart- mell, D. D., Master of Christ College, Cam- bridge, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the Queen, Ile was 70 years of age. mother, two of his brothers, aw were received on con- fession of faith into the Congregational Church at. Northfiehon a recent Sunday. They have hitherto been members of the Unitarian Church, i ve inia newspaper says that on the last day of ta 4 degrees below zero, one Elder Scott broke the ice in Occoquan Creek, near Alexandria, and baptized Mr. J. W. Davis into the Prim- itive Baptist Church. The Rey. Dr. S. B. Shaw, of Providence, has celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Te served thi: Reetor of St. Luke's, Lanesboro, Mi js still hale in his S2d year. The Protestant Episcopal Church 127 Bishops in all, of whom sixty-six are st ing. Three have been deposed, three resigned, and there have been translated. The Senior Bishop, Dr. Smith, of Kentucky, was consecrate@ in 182, making his Episcopst term as long as that of Bishop White. The Rev. Henry 3f. Ladd, of Walton, N. has been appointed Fo.rign Secretary of nerican Mi: y .Lssociation. He isit the Mendi mission of the socia- tion in Africa shortly. It is expected that the party which is to found a mission in the Nile basin wilt leave this country next Sep- tember. The Rey. J. HW. Stegeall, Vicar of Great shtekl, Suffolk, England, who died recent- ly at- the age of 91, had led a yery romantic life. ie was the son of a Suffolk clergyman, ran away in his boyhood and joined the gypsies, was resened after some Vears, then arucled to a surgeon, afterward went to sea, was taken prisoner by pirates, esexped, and became a cadet on the M: blishhment, and afterward received 2 commission as En- sign of the Fifteenth Regiment; got wounded, returned to England, and afterward entered the Church... lic lived for many years “pass- has had il ing rich on £008 year, practicing often- times.as a surgeon among his fleck and sur- rounding district, and died amid the respect, of all. Farmers, tradesmen, and villagers followed him to the gra SUNDAY LEVITIES, “The land, my friends,” said an Irish ora- tor the other dayata meeting, “has belonged to the people from the days of Adam.” “Adam, indeed!’ replied a voice in the crowd; “do not speak of hin; he was evict- edfrom the Garden of Eden without com- pensation.” : An Ohio clergyman announced that he would preach asermon on every-tlay life, especially for those who didn’t expect to be- come great and distinguished. At the ap- pointed time not a mau except the minister was at the church, even the minister declin- ing to enter. Little Gracie has been taught many secular nursery songs, bat the other day her mother tried to teach her something more religious. She began with the song, ‘Jesus’ precious little fainb,”” but was corrected by the child, who said, “No, nuaunma; its ‘Mary had a little lamb. # “Isn't it awful cold 2” queried Smith, ashe on the car the other.day. ‘* ‘Terri- el? Any of your water-pipes fraeze up?’ “Worse than that’? “ How ?” “Fiad three barrels of potatoes frozen as hard asstones. I'll lose every one of them.” “Oh, no, you won't. Just head 7em_ up and send’ent to some charitable institution, and no one will know but what they froze while on. the way. It’sa golden opportunity you should nut neglect.’” = ‘The street boys of Cleveland recently at- tended alecture'on the “Prodigal Son,” il- lustrated with pictures. When the scene came to that part _of the story where the father exclaim “This, my son, was dead, and is alive in,” the lecturer asked: “ Was his son really dead 2? -One of the fut- ure Presidents from Ohio a — bit of it; te was only dead broke.” takes an Ohiv man who hasn’t got an office to explain the true inwardness of the parable of the Prodigal Son, The late Col. Isaac O. Barnes was a boarder at the old Bromfeld House, Boston, for many years, and some of his best stories were told in the smoking-rooin, which was his favorit resort, He was extravagantly fond of playing checkers, and, when inter- ested inthe gume, disliked disturbance of any sort. One evening, while absorbed. in the game, a boarder, who had probably just returned from an evening meeting, com- menced singing in a rouzh voice, “On Jor- dan’s statmir banks I stand,” but his recol- t year, While the thermometer was } swered; “* Not a’ lection of the tune and words onl ended to the first line. Thishe kept reveating un- tilCol. Barnes, greatly annoyed, exclaimed in his squeaky tones, “My friend, you’ve stood on Jordan’s stormy banks about long enough. Suppose you “cast your wishful eye’ to some other locality” The tune ful baaraes saw the point, and the singing ceased. : : CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL, Tho Rev. R. A. Holland wil! officiate in Trinity Church, gorner of Michigan avenue and Twen- ty-s|xtb street. Morning subject: “ Wisdom Is Justitied of the Children.” Evening subject: “The Confessions of a Fair Saint.” —The Roy. Henry G. Perry will preach morn- ing and evening fn the St. Andrew’s Church, cor- ner of West Washington and Lobes streets, —Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner West Washington and Peoria streets, the Rt. itev. W. B, McLaren, 8. 7. D., Bishop. Tho Rey. J. Hy Kuowles priest in charge. Holy communion, $ m. Choral morning prayer and celebration of the holy communion, 10:30. Sunday-school and children’s service, 3 p.m. Choral evenmg prayer, 7 The Rev, A, W. Mann, of Cleveland, 0., mis- sionary at large to deaf mutes, will conduct services in sign language in the chapel of the Cathedral of eter and Paul at 10:43 a. m., and in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, at 3 p. m. —The lev. Frederick Courtney will officiate in St. Jumes’ Chureh, corner of Cass and Huron streets, morning and evening. * —The Rev. John Hedman will officiate in St. Ansgurius’ Church, Sedgwick street, near Chi- cago avenue, at 10:00.a. m. and 728 D. m. —Tho Rev. Clinton Locke will officiate in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, morning and evening. —The Rey. Arthur Ritchie will officiate in the Church of the Ascension, corner of North La Saile and Elm streets, at 11a, m. und 7:30 p. tn. —The Rev. B. f. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottuge Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:8) a.m. and 7:30 p.m, —The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate in Cal- yary Church, Warren avenue, near Western, at 10:30.a. m. and 72 p. m. —The Rev. 'T. N. Morrison, Jr.. will officiate in the Church of the Epiphany, Throop strect, be- teen Monroeand Adains, at 10:3) a. m. and 7:33 p.m, . ‘he Rev. James E. Thompson will officiate in t. Thomas’ Church, Indiana avenue, between Twenty-ninth dnd Thirticth streets, at 11a. m. and 745 p. m. BAPTIST. The Rev. G. C. Lorimer, D. D., preaches morn- ing and evening in the First Cuurch, corner Thirty-frst street and Souch Park avenue. Morning subject: “The Messiah's Marvelous ea gh Evening subject: “Here and Be- yond,” —The Rev. W. M. Lawrence will preach iu the Secona Church, corner of More2n and Monroe streets, at 10:30 a. m, and 7:10 p. m. —The Kev. Kk. B. Tupper will preach at 11 a.m. in Avenue Hall, No. 19 Lwenty-second street. —The Rev. Joseph Rawiley will preteh {n the North Star Chureh, corner of Division una Sedg- wick streets, at 10:45 a.m, and 4:3) p.m. —The Rey. E. B. Hulbert will preach ia the Fourth Church, corner of West Washington and Paulina streets, at 100 a. m, and 7:39 p. ma. —The Ke J. t. Burboe will preach in the University Pince Cpureb, corser of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:8) a in. and 72) p.m. ~The Rev. C. Perrin will preach in tha West- ern Avenue Chureh, corner of Wabash avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. ut —The Rev. W. H. Vurker will preach in the Coventry StreetChureh, corner of Bioomingdale road, at 10:30 u. ur. aod 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach in the Qlivet Church, Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at IL a, m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rey. A. Parker will preach in the Centenniu) Church, corner of Lincoln and West Juckson strects, at 10:0 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. O. ‘Yaylor will preach in the No. 200 Orchard street, at 10:15 m. J.V. Vosburga will preach In the a Church, Lawndale, at 10:45 8. m. p.m, ‘The Kev. Mr. Meyer will preach in the First Germun Chureb, corner of Bickerdike and Kuron Streets, at 10:30 a. m.and p.m. < —The Rev. J. B. Sunt! 1 preach in the First Norwegian Church, corner of Nobile and West aut 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. . Joho Ongman will preach in the sh Chureh. Ouk street, near Sedg- wick, at 10:30 9. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rey. E. Wingren will preach In the Sec- ond Swedish Chureh, on Butterticld, near Thirty- first street, morning and evening. METHODIST. ‘The Rev. G. f, Vanhorne will preach morning and eveniug in “the Michigun Avenue Church, near Thirty-second strect. Morning subject: “Attainable Attainments,” Evening subject: “The Fourfold Division of the Old Testament— lecture third on the Bible. —The Kev. A. C. George, D.D., preaches in Centenury Church, on Monroe, near Morgan street, morning and evening. —The Rev. Jobn Williamson will preach morn- ing’ and evening in the First Church, corner Clark and Washington strects. Morning Subject: “ReaYandnasting Personal Freedom.” Even- Ing subject: “The Bondage of the Male Sex to King Alcohol.” —The Rev. George Chase witli preach morning and evening in the Fulton Street Church, corner Artesian avenue. Evening subject: “Amuse- ments.”” é —The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preach morning and evening in Grace Church, corner North La Salle and White streets. ~The Hey, Frank M. Bristol preaches morning and evening in the Wabash Avenue Church, cor- ner Fourteenth street. —In the Englewood Chureh there will bea love feast at 9:30 a. m., to be conducted by the Chica-~ go Praying Band. There will be a young peo- ple’s meeting at 4:30 and an inquiry mecting in the evening. Ohio streets, —The Re First Swedis! . CONGREGATIONAL, The Rey. E. F. Willits will preach morning and evening in the South Coureh, corner Drexel avenue and Fortieth street. : —Te Rev. F. A. Noble, .D. D., preaches in the Union Park Church, corner Ashland avenue and West Washington strect, morning and evening. Morning subject: “The Beneticence of Cnris- thanit Evening subject: ie Church: What It Is for, and Who May Jain It. lhe Rey. E. P. Goodwin will preach before & union mecting of the medical students of Chica~ gointhe First Church, corner of Washington and Ann streets, nt 7:0 p.m, on * The Relations Between Christianity and the Medical Profes- siun.” —Tho Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach morning and evening in Plymouth Church, on Michigan avenue, south of ‘fwenty-fifth street. —The Hey. Alessandro Gavazzi, the Italian evangelist and friend of Garibaldi, will speak In the morning and the Rev. E. P. Goodwin In tho eventug in the First Church, corner Washington and Ada streets. « i —The Rev. Arthur Littte will preach morning and evening in the church corner Dearborn avenue and Delawure place. —The Rev. B. F. Leavitt will preach morning and evening In the Lincola Park Church, coracr Sophiz and Mobawk strects. —The Kev. C. A. Towle preaches in Bethany Ubured, corne: lina and West Huron streets. PRESLYTERIAN. {Tho Rev. J. H. Walker witl preach morning and evening in the Campbell Park Church, cor- ner Leavitt streot. —The Rev. Heury T. Milter will preach in the Sixth Church, coracr Vincennes and Oak uve- nues, at 1s a. m. und p.t. Morning sub- ject: * Knowing Our Friends in Heaven, —The Key. D. S. Ife of indiana, will preach this morning in the Second Church, cor- per Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. ~Prof. Fraucis &. Patton, D.D., LL. D., preach- es morning and evening in the Jetfersou Park Chureb, corner Throvp and Adamis strects. —The Rev. A. E. Kittredge preaches morning and evening in the ‘Third Church, corner ash- Jund and Ogden avenues, —The Rey. Herrick Johnson, D. D., preaches morning und evening in the Fourth Churct, cor ner Rush anu Superior streets. ~The Rev. John Anderson preaches morning and evening in the Westmunsler Church, corner Peoria and West Jackgon streets. * —The Rev. James Siaclaughlan preacbes moraing gpd evening in tho Scotch Church, corner Sutyumon and Adams streets. —Prof. Franklin W. Fisu, D. D. preaches in the First Church, corner Indinna avesue and ‘Twenty-first street, at 10:30 a. m. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rt.-Bishop Cheney will preach morning and evening in Christ Chureh, corner Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. —The Rev. F. W. Adams ‘will preach morning and evening in the St, Matthew's Church, corner North Clark and Centre streets. —The Rev. Bishop Fallows will preach in St. Paul's Church, corner West Washington and Carpenter streets, morning and evening. Morn- ing subject: ** The Wrestling Anger” ; evening subject: “The Sorrows of Skepticism. —The Rev. ft. H. Bosworth preaches in Presbyterian Chureh, in Englewood, at 3: UNITARIAN. - The Rev. E. 1.Galvin will preach in the church corner Sfonroe and Latiin atreets at 10:45 a. m. Subject Home: Its True, Foundation and In- Huence.’ athe Rey. Brooke Herford ae a morn- ing and evening in the Church o the Messiah, corner Michigan avenue und ‘Twenty-third street. Morning subject: “On Crossine Bridges fiefore You Cotne to Them.” Evening subject: “Lectures on Mohammed and Mohammedan- ism.” First, *'The Life of Mohammed.” The Rev. George C. Miln will preach this morang in Unity Church, corner Dearbora aye- nue and Walton place. UNIVERSALIST. The Rov. W.H. Ryder will preach morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, on Michigan avenue north of Eighteenth street. In the evening the lastof the lectures to young men will be given on the temptations of city life, the special topie being “* The Temptation of Doubt.’ J LUTHERAN. The Rev. Charles Koerner will preach in the z! the 12. Pp. English Church, corner ot Dearborn avenue and Erle street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. ~The Rev. William Ashmead Schaeffer will speak in the Wicker Park Church, corner Hoyne avenue and Le Moyne strect, at 10:3) & m. CHRISTIAN. ‘The Rey. J. W. Allen will preach in the South | sin the past, alone. Sid e Church, corner of Prairie avenue and Thim tieth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. O. A. Burgess will preach in the First Church, corner of indiana avenue and ‘Twenty-first strect, at 1a. m. and 4:50 p.m. —The Rev. J. H. Wright will preneb in the Western Avenue Chured, ncar Van Burenstreet, morning and evening. —The ltev. Churies H, Caton will preach in the Second Church, corner of Oakley avenue and Jackson street, at 10:45 a.m.,on'*The Storm and Its Lesson." INDEPENDENT. The Rev. William E, Needbam will preach ia the Chicngo Avenue Church morning and even< ing. —Prof. Swing will preach in Central Musio- Hall at Ua, m, —The ttev. Dr. H. W. Thomas will preach in Hooley’s Theatre at 11 a. m. NEW JERUSALEM. Tho Rev. W. F. Pendicton will preach in Line coin Park Chapel, opposit the park, on Menome- inee street, at 11a. m. Dr. Pendleton will preach in the’ Union Purk Temple, corner of West Washington street and Ogden avenne, at 4 p. m. . The Woman's Christian ‘Temperance Union bold daily Gospel! meetings, Sunday excepted, in Lower Farwell Hallat Jp. m. ‘The leaders for ibis work are: Monday, the R: . Monroe; Tuesday, Mrs. Malcolm McDowell: Wednesday, Mrs. A. I Merriam; ‘Thursday, Mrs. C. H. Cases Friday, Mrs. M. B) Willard; Saturday, Mrs. He RB. Smith, Aare qvoman's Christian Tempernce Union nd ospel meeting in Good Templar Hall, No. 1086 West Lake street, até p. m : MISCELLANEOUS, The Rev. Alessundro Guvazzi, of Rome, Italy, will lecture in Farwell i att p.m. on * Civ and Religious Liberty in Italy.” ~—J. W. Dean, Evangelist, will preach morning and evening in the Englewood Presbyterian Coupe Rev, William FB —The Rev. William H. Beecher will preach in the Washingtonian Home xt 3 p.m. i H —The Electics meet at No.213 West Madison street nt 7:30 thisevenipg. Sarah M. Mills will lecture on “ The New Civilization.” . —The Rey. WW. Mann speaks morning, after> noon, and evening in Carpenter Hall, No. 22 ay Madisonstreet. Morning subject: “Eternal on —The Disciples of Christ meet at No. 29 West Randolph street at 4 p.m. —\ Gospel meeting for railway employés and thoir friends will be held in the Reading Room, corner of Kinzie and Clark street Mr. W. Couk will address the meeting. —Tho Rey. L. P. Mercer, of the Onion Sweden- borgian Church, will_preach in Hershey Music- Hall nt 1m. m, on “The First Works.” ‘here will be a song service in Farwell Hall 3 at 3230 p.m. ; =—Mr. E. F. Cragin will conduct a Sunday- schoo! teachers’ meeting in Lower Farwelt fiall at noon, ? Elder Thomas W. Smith, of Pittsburg, will address the Latter-Day Saints in Custie Hall,’ 619 West Lake street, morning and evenmg. Religious worship according to the Apostolic Order will be held in the morning in the build- ing corner Noble and Superior streets. —There will be a Liberal Reunion meet! at 213 West Madison street at 2:00 p. m, Subject: “Go Yo and Help Create a Future for Chicago, and Give Ic the Best Mayor a City Ever Had. —Tho First Society of Spiritualists moet in Fairbauk Hull, corner Stnte and Randolph streets, nt 7:0 p.m. Mrs. Cora L. ¥. Richmond willspeak. —Bible interpretations through Mrs. Rich- mond in Martine’s Parlor, corner Wood and Wal- nut streets, ut 10:45 a. m. ). —A Spiritualists’ and mediums’ meeting. will be beld at Grimes Hall, No. J3 South Haisted street, at 3 p.m. —The Rev. Dr. Mathowson will preach mora- ing and evening in the church 91 South Green street. Subject: “The Man of Sin.” —Central meeting of Friends at 10:00 a. m.ia Athenieuin Building, Dearborn street, near Ran-~ polph. —Col. George R. Clarke will lead the Gospel meeting at Pacitie Garden Mission, corner of Clark and Vau Buren strects, at 7:30 p. in. CALENDAR FOR THE WEER. EPISCOPAL. Feb. 20—Sexragesima Sunday. Feb, 21—St. Matthias. F Feb. 25—Fast. CATHOLIC, Feb. 90—Sexagesima Sunday. Feb. 21—Feria. Feb. 22—Chuir of St. Peter at Antioch. Feb. 3-St. Peter Damian, B.C. D.5 Vigil of St. Matthias. Feb. 24-St. Matthias, Ap. Feb. 25—Feria. Feb. 26—Oilice of the Immaculate Conception. MOLTKE ON WAR. The Institut de Droit Internatfonat has lately published a little hand-book in reference to thé “ Laws of War on Land.” It is the result ot the consultations of a Commission composed of law- yers and experts of several countries which wad held at St. Petersburg. The book has been sub+ mitted to the several Governments of Europe and America. The February issue of the Revus de Droit International, the organ of tho abore~ mentioned institute, contains a criticism of this hand-book from the pen of Field-Martial Moltke. The criticism ig in the form of a letter. addressed to the Vice-President of tho Institute, Mir. Bluntsebli, The letter reads in translation trom the French (it was originally written in German) as follow: Beni, Dee. 11, 1680.—You were kind enough to furnish me with 2 copy of the hand-book published by the Institut de Druit International, aud you express the desire that It might meet with my approval. First, and above all, perut me to agsure you that [fully acknowledgo your bw @ endeavors, Whose object it is to assuage the distress cuused by war. Perpetuntl peace ts a delusion, s dream, and not even 2 good one at thut. War fs an element of the order of things, ordained by Providence. The noblest virtues of mun are developed during Its continuance, courage and resiraution, tho truest performance of duty, and the spirit of immolation. The soldier sacrifices his life. Without war the world would bd attacked by putrefuction, and would lose itself in material isin. I fully indorse the proposition mentioned in the preface of the hand-book—viz.: thut the gradual umelicration of manners and mor- als must be shown by the mode and manner in which a war is carricd oa. ButI gostill farther, and believe that the {instigation of morals ulone is capable of leading us towards gaining an object which cannot be attained by tho nid of a codified edinon of mil+ itary law. Every law presumes an authority to wauteh.over and guide itin its execution, and it fg this very authority which is wunting in ree gard tu énforeing ‘obedience to taternationat compacts. We sre forced to admit that buman provress, us fur as the mode and manner of ear- rying on wae is concerned, bas in truth fol- lowed the general amelioration of morals, An important step in this respect hus been made during our days by introducing and requiring smilitury service. so that the educated classes are compelled to enter the army. The more un- couth and unbridled elements are yet, as for morly, ~~ component —_purt” thereof, but they are not any more, as Besides this, goveramenis possess two great and important remedies to prevent the worst excesses—viz.: strict discip= ine, to which the soldier has become accus- tomed during times of peace, and the great care of the army administration. which provides for ye SAR Ue ofthe troops while thoy are in the tel. , ‘The most {mportant and beneficial fact in war ig its quick termination: and in view of this tact the use of al means must be permitted with the exception of those which must be positively con~ demued. Under ag vircumstinces can I indorse the declaration of St. Petersburg that, to cripple thezmilitary resources of the enemy hia the only fustitiable way of carrying on a war. No, sir; the attack must be made un all the re- gourees of the enemy,—upon bis ‘inances and tuilrouds, upon all his stores, provisions,—yes, and even upon bis prestige. With such energye but with more moderation than ever befure, awasthe Inst War against France conducted, Tho fate of that campaign was already decided two mouths after its commencement, and the con- flicts and battles only assumed n bitter charuc- ter when a revolutionary government, to the great detriment of, France. protonged the war for taany months thorenfter, bY ehinsly adtnit that the band-book pays more attention to the necessities of war thun hagever been the case fn former similar at~ tempts. The recognition on tho part of tho Government of the forms aud rules nid down therein will not in my estimation, however, be jofiicient to secure compliunce with them. Since time immemorial it has been a generally recoz~ hized usage of war not to fire, upor a fag of truce; but, notwithstanding this tact, we have seen this rule yiolated on several occasions during the Jate war. Anarcicle of warcommitted to mem- ory by the soldier wiil never convince him thut be is obliged to look upon a population without a military organization which spontaneously *| takes up arms, and which threatens bis life at any motent, by night and by day, as a, regular eh ‘Cestain demands of the hand-bdok can- not be renlized, 2a, for Instance, the proof of the Jdentity of the dead after a yrent battle, Other propositions would xive occasion for criticism if the words: ‘In case circumstances will permit,” or, “if it can be done,” or, wit jt is possible’ or, “in case necessity stould demand it,” did not give them such a degree of elasticity. but for which unrelenting force af circumstances would brenit the chains with which you Intend toshackle war. Lam of opiafon that in wur, when everything must be judged from an individual standpoint, the only articles contained in toe hand-bool that will be of any material effect sre those which are, Jn the main, directed tothe com- munders, and also those referring to the wound- ed, the sick, the physicians, and sanitary mat- ters. The general recognition of these prioci~ ples, as well as those relating to prisoners, may regarded a3 an essential progre: couse VON MoutKE, General-Field-Marbsal, ——— Rev. RE. Beyer, of St. Louis, Mo,, for- merly Missionaty_at_New Guinea, advises everybody to use St. Jacobs Oil for rheuma- tism, gout, or other painful diseases of this nature. He says, after using it for his own case, that he felt more and more. of fife re- turning to his Jame limbs, and al) rheumatic pain was subdued at once.