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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 6, 1881—-EIGHTEEN PAGES. 17 —— RELIGIOUS. g Story of Edith O'Gor= man, the Escaped Nun. Th The Great Lama of Tibet— Striking Resemblance to the Papacy. Some of the Pecnliar Doctrines Con~ pected with Transmigration of the Soul. Why the Publication of the *“New Yersion®® Has Been De- layed. 4 inisterial Departure from Orthodoxy That Has Stirred Two Sects. General News—Personals, Sun- day Salad, Services To- Day. THY WORD. Lord, Thy word abtdeth, ‘And our footsteps guidethy Who its truth believeth Light and joy receiveth. . ‘When our foes are near us, Then Thy word doth cheer us; Word of consolation, Message of salvation. ‘When the storms are o'er us, And derk clouds before us, Then its light directeth, And our way protecteth. Who can tell the pleasurs, ‘Who recount the treasure, By Thy word imparted T0 the simple-bearted ‘Word of mercy, giving Succor to the livings ‘Word of life. supplying Comfort to the dying! Oh that we, discerning Its most holy learning, Lord. may love and fear Thee, Evermore be near Theel CONVENT LIFE. 45 DESCRIBED BY EDITH O'GOBMAN, THE ESCAPED SUN—SOME TRUTH AND SOME EXAGGEKRATION. Cleseland Herald, March 3. Edith 0’Gorman, the ex-nun from a Jersey City Convent, last evening delivered a two bours’ lecture in Case Hall, on*“Lifeina Convent.” - Edith 0’Gorman fled from a Catholic con- vent in Madison. N. J., one cold winter morning, in a nun’s dress and penniless. She fled to escape a nameless crime, attempt- ¢d 10 be committed by the reverend father of that parish. Her sister, caliing one morning at the convent to inquire about her, was told that she was gone, no one knew where. Her family lived in Massachusetts. The sister went to Bishop McFarland, of Massachusetts, tosee if he knew where the nun had gone. Nooneknew. In August following that sis- ter herself heard the story from the escaped nuw’s lips. At the terrible recital she was struck with dismay. Her household gods were all siricken down around her,—the rock of her faith was gone. ‘The nun Edith 0'Gorman is now married 1o Mr. William Auffray, an eaucated French gentleman, who accompanies her as_ticket agent. He was educated to be a Roman priest, but was_converted to Protestantism before he met Miss O’Gorman. . Her manager appeared, and in a glib man- ner announced the Friday matinée for ladies only. 1le said Edith O’Gorman_appeared in Cleveland several years ago. le then told the people where they could procure her book. Hethen introduced her. A synopsis of her lecture is given: The Roman Chareh teaches that to become truly holy one must refuse to obey the laws of Nature and the natural impulses of the heart. Ayounggirl isinduced toaceept Christ s her spouse, to reject marriage, and enter a convent in_order to save lier soul. Ay spiritual confessor ordered me to entera convent, and said_such 2 course was abso- Intely necessary in_order to save my soul. Hesaid I was ordained by God to fill the Mighest position possible. that of - A SPOUSE OF CURIST. Listening to him, I entered the Convent of fhe Sisters of Charity at St. Elizabetn, Mad- fson, N, J., Oct. 2, 1862 I gave up my life in the outer world. Before entering the convent 1 had to confess all my form- er sins, little and biz. Every earthly tie was’ broken, and 1 entered the convent under the idea that I should find in the Sis- tersof Charity entire devotedness to purity ad caarity, ~ That delusion was soon de- siroyed, and the rose tint of romance was Lt fed by the sternness of reality, After three months in the convent the new nur's hair is cut off, she tramples it under her feet, saying, “Thus do 1 tramp on all ly vanities.” Nevertheless that same balr 15's00n sold for so many-dollars to deck the head of some other person in vanity. I s given a veil, and by the Bishop a silyer sing, with which he said I was espi sed to Christ. I was then compelled to lie as one dead on the floor for ten minutes, while over me the Bishop read the Latin service for the dead, 1 was then given a new name, and a terrible curse was pronounced upon all who should atteinpt to entice or steal me away. Alingps are given a new nauwe, and their Tormer life pronounced dead. _The vows we took were of poverty, chas- fity, and holy obedience. Nuus give up all €lr property. The chureh receives abso- ntely everythiing they own. A nun cannot géemgxepronoun “my? or “mine” without GUILTY OF MORTAL SIN. She herself is ever afierward no Jongerher own, but the property, body and soul, of the Chureh. If a Sister should dispose of a crust of bread to a poor one, without receiving the fal permission of her Superior, which is %dpm given, she is_guilty of mortal sin. uring miy six years in a convent I never but wice received permission from my Superior 10 glve auytiing to the poor, and then I was allowed 10 give some cold potatoes to two Sarving wen, 3 We hear so- much of Sisters of Charity, ¥hose very dress sets_them apart as devoted }ocumlt‘.xble Wol Ah! there is no charity ere. The true sisters of churity are the rany Protestant women of the Jend. who at the left e does. Lolic Sister of Charity . e do a single good act of ler own will, s‘:-r\ow of obudience is the strongest vow. Bas Wust twice 1 week confess to a superior eIy sin, of thought, act, or omission, and se the utmost thought of her heart. anatural inclination to y and go amongz the dwell- ver allowed to do such ho _confess to a natural ing the poor are sent to Inever knew there was e v > he wrld as I found dur- (e wy last four years, while in St. Joseph's -onvent in Jersey Cit: 1do not all priests are bad. lust be, T befieve, some noble souls P’ mmularmy of priests, just as I believe lnge_xrenuble wen mnong the heathen, but i ver had any dealings with the nobleones. Dever knew a priest to say a mass for the for ofa dead man, without receiving there- mfis mueh, at least, as SL priest Ygodd but one mass a day, and I have muu‘m many priests to receive in avear g ey for more masses than they could say m“‘}our:nrmye:\r.. ‘The nuns are not so it o blame as the priests, for many nuns © iiberal minded. but they are bound, liand ]mhunL Itisasin foranun to look in a {'#{-glmm. 1 never saw my face in a look- 'm‘gfil\s forsix years, and that was a great T ee for 2 woman. Emz nun falls in love with the pricst, she confess it to him and ask his advice, fflsh € has an awful opportanity to accous- * babe, it is asin, for fear that it should DOOT i :“’fk- Only tha ehusnance ta visit Linister to them, $0mueh wisery i There her moral_ruju. If 2 nun should kiss wake her motherly instinets, and make her atisfied with her condition. In our con- vent were nuns wlho. were as pure as purity itself, but others were as bad as bad can be. I was seventeen months _in a conyent in Pat- erson, N.J..under the Superior, Sister Mary Joseph. Before I was in her convent six munghs, 1, with my own eyes, saw that Sister Alary Joseph was not worthy of the name of ‘woman, and to her I had to kneel every time 1spoke to her, and had to confessto heronce a week. Weckly I liad to confess to her that I'lca(.bed her. All the nuns_in that Convent knew of Sister Mary Joseph’s unholy inti- macy with the parish priest. We applied in common to be released from her control, but were told that we must pay respect to our superior, 1o matter who or what that super- ior might be. WE MUST VENERATE ALL SUPERIORS, no matter what their individual characters might be. Death and insanity often come to the relief of these poor nuns who are com- pelled to obey and venerate those whom they know to be impure. My life in the convent w living death, a dally crucifixion, a hell on earth, But being ~desirous of sav- ing my immortal soul, must press on to the bitter end. Conscience 13 the chain which_keeps the nuns within the convent walls. If anun has areal desire to return to the outer world she can find many chances to escape. There are cloistered and active nuns. The former are few, and never see the outer world. The_active nuns, how- ever, must be as dead to the_outer world, as the ~cloistered nuns. ‘They are fre- quently in the strcets. But you seldom liear of an escape, because they arc desirous of pressinz on in their sacrifice to save their immortal souls. Besides, to whom can they go? Not to heretics, whom they have been taught to abhor. Not to their relatives, for then upon them they would bring the unpardonable sin. She would dis- grace her family if she would return there. Catholic fathers and mothers would see their daughters die a hundred deaths rather than that they should live to disgrace their family and bring scandal upon the ioly Church. Nuns must always rise at 4:30 2. m. and retire at 10:30 p. m. They must never look upon anything which they especially desire tosee. They must walk in the strect with downeast eyes, and, on passing a window, dare not turn their heads to look without or within. .Twice I failed to rise exactly at the sound of the morning bell. For those of- fenses L was given the easiest penances. I ever had to underro. The first time I had tolie at a door and let all the Sisters walk over me and WIPE THEIR FEET UPOY MY BODY as upon a door-at. The second time I had to eat my dinner off the bare floor under the table, and the dinner eonsisted of the crusts of bread which the other nuns threw at me. Such penances, and many immeasurably more severe and degrading, all uuns must undergo. If a single thousnt of father, mother. brother, sister, or any other Joved one, shall come to a nun, to tempt her away, or make her unhappy in her holy vo- cation, she must hate them as the enemies of her soul. All things which she sets her heart on are taken from her. What 1s woman’s life without love, except a living death? In the convent there is no love or sympathy, and each nun would be happier alone in the most desolate wilderness. While I was at Paterson I had charge for five monthsof thirty-threeorphan girls under 12 years of age. They had all to rise at 6 a. 1., dress hastily, and eat a_meal of hard bread and coffee, left from the tables of the nuns. They must all work hard, serub the floors, do their own washing and ironin; In March, 1863, a little girl, § years old, wa iven by its dying mother to the care of Sister Mary Joseph, and the babe fell 1o my aspecial charge. ed to sha y with the little one. 'That act w: and for doing it without permission, I wa compelled to live on water and bread for three weeks. Icarried the baby in my arms when it eried. At that act I wus discovered and one of_the sisters next night i d me how I should act to the ¢ jerking the orphans from their beds, sl them rudely, and making them walk in bare feet upon the cold foor. When the little baby eried at such treatment, she BEAT THE CIILD WITIL A LEATHER STRAP until the blood came all over its s AT shoald live a hundred years I never can for- get the cries of that motherless little one, Antil it became too weak to cry. One little girl picked a few goosberries in the Convent garden. She was locked up in a dark dun- geon, and when teleased therefrom, was a piteous lunatic. Her bare feet were torn and eaten Dby the rats. She is a lunatie to-day in Paterson, N. J. A 3 During my last three years in Jersey City T had to review, yearly, the clas; children in the parochial schools. Imagine my sur: prise \\'Yxen 1 discovered that inaeclass of children who h2d been under instruction one year, not more than twenty out of 100 knew one letter of the alphabet from another. But they all knew every word of the catechism and the prayers. The Chureh schools never teach science or literature,but teach ornamen- tal penmanship, ornamental needlework, ete. The children in the schools never hear the Bible read. Whiic in the convent I never so much as saw a Bible. ~The priests told me it was a dangerons book to read, except for the priests. ‘This shows that they are opposed to it, and ft is op- posed to them. The one blessing of my youth is that never was_ educated in 2 Roman_Catholic school I was edu- cated in_Protestant schools; therefore I know whereof I speak. At St abetl’s TRoman Academy in Jersey City nes 1y half the girl pupils were of Protestant parentage. In every sense of the word the Boman lic schools are inferior to the public sehouls, They are inferior in a mental and wora! On Friday afternoon I will tell the wo of Cleveland of the iwmmoral practices and teachings to which girls are subject in those schools. PHOTESTANTS ARE LARGELY TO BLAME for the great growth of Catholic schod! Americat, not only because they pat 4 the convent schools, bub because, as mer: chants and politicians, they are afraid losing a_Catholic dollar ora Catholie vote. If I shall warn any Pretestant parents of e dangers of the convent schools, if I shall warn innocent girls of ~the terrors of convent life, shall be well repaid. 1 am already p: in that 1 have res- cued from Catholicism to Protestantism my mother, three brothers, and two ers. attack no Catholic individual. I know and ity the darkness and superstition of the atholic But I war against that sys- tem of religion which keeps them in igno- rance, and _is evel ere polluting our day of light with darkness and erime. There is a great wrong unredressed, a judgment me to come, for which I earnestly £ THE HEART OF TIBET. A VERY STRANGE AND ALMOST UNKNOWN M LIAR DOC- 2 I Lassa (Tibet) Correspondence Globe-Democrat. How your correspondent ever managed to reach this remote and usually inaccessible THE corner of the globe may puzzle you to im ine. 1t puzzles me not a little. The story is very interesting, but too long to tell now. Besides, I am under a solemn promise of se- crecy to some of my Chinese triends, whom I have made during my long residence in the Celestial Empire, aud I shall not feel privi leged to recite my sigular adventures aund experiences in journeying with them to the Capital of this peeculiar Tand, At least until we have recrossed its bound- aries. ‘The story will keep. Meanwhile, there are so many curious things in Tibet that I am tesapted—and overcome the temp- tation by yielding to it—to tell you some- thing of tiew, feeling confident that your readers will be glad to hear of aregion of wwhich as little is probably known as of any spot under the canopy. My letier will doubtless be a long while in reaching you from this undeveloped country. Tused to be a_journalist, you know, until fortune smiled wpon Jae and drew me 2way from a calling which, however honorable, is the reverse of Incrative. Ionce thoughtl | hated writing, and Ldid hate it when it was my trade. But now that I have happily, ceased to earn my Borde: nd filet, as we were wont to say in Pari: F making _\_[b,, I find that an oceasional incursion into {he realms of ink is rather pleasant than otherwise, beczuse, perhavs, it reminds me of old times and very differens scenes. 1 am the first American—and one of the very few Eng! persons—who nas ever set foot in this dam habit of putting into type what is euri- ous and strange is too strong to be resisted. 1 shall not hesitate to e you what may ide-book facis. 1¢is need- less to mention that there never has been, and never may be, a gnide-book of Tibet, for they will, I think, prove interestinz as thev are assuredly novel. They arenew to me, and they must be to you who are some §,000 or 9.000 miles away. The native name is Bod or Bodyul, theland of Bod; Tibet or Thibet is the European name. The country covers an area of 600,000 or 800,000 square miles, and has a_population (cslimntedg, of some 6,000,000. Nearly the whole of itis now tributary to China, but the Government is, to some extent, in the hands of the Buddhist hierarchy, the chief pricst being called Dalai-lama, and the sec- ond priest Bogdo-lnma. These are temporal aud _spiritual Princes, and Lold sway in different parts of the country. Chinese soldiers are stationed_in all the prineipal towns, and not long since their number was compited to be from 60,000 to 70,000, The high- estoflicers of the army areall Chinese, and con- trol 1t entirely, as well as the most itmportant political and "commercial affairs. Commerce 15 dirceted by the Government, und is closely zuarded, the entrance of the main pusses cing garrisoned and watched by Chinese troops. “The early historyof Tibet is wholly legend- ary. The first King, represented to have flourished mere than 100 years before the Christian era, escaped from a copper box in which he nad been inclo: and was found swimming in the Ganges. At the beginni of the fifth century a Buddhist m: is said to have made his way into this coun- iry and introduced here his religious doc- trines. Three hundred years later Tibet was forced to pay tribute to China, and has done so_ever since to more or less extent. During the tenth century King Dharinaadopt- ed Mohammedanism; but he was assasin- ated. and then Buddhism was reGstablished, Subsequently the land was split into several States, and its power rapidly diminished. Between 1200 and 1400 the Chinese began to conguer the eastern parts of the country, which did nof, however, become wholly tributary to Pekin till 1720, when they were olitically regulated as they are at present. Western Tibet las been more exposed to the inroads of the Turkish_trives than to those of the Chinese; butthe Turks weredriven out by Aurungzebe, the last of the great Moguls, and then Mohammedanisin was introduced again, That quarter of the territory was joined to the Sikil Empire of Runject Singh carly in the seventeenth century, and it now forius part of the Maharajah of Cashmere. Only witliin a comparatively recent date has Tibet been known save from the ac- counts of Marco Polo, and the Jesuit mis- sionaries of the seventeenth century. In 1his country it has been partially explored by Manning, Capt. Strachey, the French Jes- Qits, Ine, and Gabot, and 'the brothers Sahl- agintweit; but the country is still as un- known 1o the mass of travelers as the inte- rior of Patagonia, = The prevailing creed in Buddhism, or rather Lamaism, which is’ Buddhism cor- rupted by Sivaism and Shamanisi, or spi it worship. _As ancient Buddhisin compri only worship of saints, and none of God, Lamaism does the same, aud comprehends the essence of sacredness under the name d Kow, m Chhog, g Ss ‘This consists of three most precious {cwas—the Buddha jewel, the doctrine jewel, and the priesthood jewel—looked upon as a sort’ of “Irinity, and representing, as in Christianity, an es- sential unity. The firss peison of this Trinity is the Buddha, who is not, however, the creator or source of the Universe, bub merely the founder of the doctrine and the highest_saint; although endowed with all the attributes of Supreme wisdom. - The sec- jewel i zion—effectually ar —his actual ex- istence acter he had disappeared in the Nirvana ‘The third jewel is the congrega- tion of the saints, mcluding theentire clergy, the carnate and non-carnate exponents of the holiest sonis. Inferiorin rank to these are the gods and spirits, of whomthe highest are Indra, god of the firmament; Yama, god of death and the infernal rexi Yamin- taka, zod of revenge, and Vaisravana, god of wealth.- Worship of these gods and samts mainly consists of reciting prayers and sacred intonation of hymns, accompanied otie, deafening, and most discordan of drums, hords, trampets, and _miscellane- ous instruments: This abominable uproar veeurs thrice a day, in the presence of the clergy, seated, according to their rauk, in two or more rows. On speeial holidays the altars and temples are decorated with sym- boli~ fizures of a hideous kind, and offerings are made by the laity of milk, butter, tea, tlour, and other such things in expiation of sins. Lamaism has three great fesiivals, the Log 2 8: festlval of the new year. in TFebruar b marks the commencement of the or the victory of light and warmth over darkness and fifteen is a s itluminations, and _prowmiscuous imyg, and is to this strange land what the nival is, or rather has been, to Homan C: olic countrics. The second festival com- memorates the conception or incarnation of. the Buddha, and denotes the opening of sum- mer. ‘Iie third is the water-feast, and, hekd in August and September, illustrates the be- ginning of autumn, The chief sacraments of Lamaism are Dbaptism and confirmation, the former being administered the third or tenth day after birth and the latter usualiy after the child ean walk and talk., Marringe is with these peo- ple a civil act only; but the lamas under- stand how to turn it to advantage by de- termining the auspicious day when it should be entered into, and they complete it with prayers and rites, whicii must be paid for handsomely, as must funcrals also. Funerals in our_sense, thoug, are not ob- servedt The dead are gencrally ed here in the open air, to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey. Still, the Lama feels called upon to be presen order to superin- tend the proper or orthodox separation of the body and soul, to tranquillize the departing rebirth. The spirit and fit It for felicitou: orable Tama must decide, i day. hour, and pl corpse 5 10 be ¢ of his function: forms until the s s which he per- refieved from Yuma, the infernal {uxlg —ilie same person- age whom evangelic Christians style the davil—and piously prepared for another and better life. Lumaism adheres, like Bud- dlisty, to belief in metempsychosis or trans- tion of souls. 'Tibetans of rank, learn- or piety are burned; and here, too, the officious priest interferes, el t is impossible not to see the striking re- semblance between Lamaism, - or Buddlism, and Rzoman Catholicism, which all intelligent Buddhists declare to be & poor imitat spurious reproduction of their religion consequently resent with heat and reas tho gross impudence, as they term it, of Catbiolic m in trying to palm oft npon theni & manite: t theolo; he genuine tiin, 1, 100, is very similar to t sts. Its head is ented by two hom I have al y spoken as xtraordinary power in the Gov- , or the oceuan priest, id arid by, and the other, ofx ficiadly styled the pious preacher, resides ata monastery near g Shass Ka Tse. The two hicrophant; in theory, the samo poral au nal rank and authority the Dalai is much the more powerful, in consequence owning the larzer terri- tory. After those come the Khutuktus, who be compared to the Cardin h f’ dinals and Aren- lops_ ot the Roman Catholic Church, bis The third erdotal rank is _that of the Khubilghans, who are very nu- merons, and whose three degrees represent th rgy pretending to be inear- ated s e Dala na and the Bosdo- 0 have been in their former lives ciples of the great Lamaist re- “Fsong Jeno pa, an cubodiment of ttwa Amftabbe, reputed to have luring the fourteenth century, the stem of the Lama bierarchy, The vere in their prior existence, it saints of vast renown, an e the reborn hosts of holy reat nuwbers in the tem- found in ples and monastenes of the eountr Up to the end of the last century the priests determined the ehildren into whose bodies the souls of their dead members had entered. w the Emperor of China seems to have ad in these transmigyations by decid- 11 il theanost {mportant’elerieal be nog _doubt that he.virtu- the Popes. Various methods al in the rebirth of a depar t Lamz, £ e body he wi . Usually, how- xd books and ofilelai astrologers (ted on the subject, and their opin- fon carries great weight. x If the Dalni-lama should die_the Bogdo- Jama would interpret the traditions and ora- if the Domlo-lama should die, the ni-lawa would interpret thens, The proc- Jawation of S0 momentous an event by the Papal meterl chosis is F_recmled by a rig- Qrous ation of the child who is to lierit the soud of the deceased ligh priest. Heis K:lnee]}' questioned as to hi: it eareer,—he is geperally 4 or 5 years old, %o the artieibs he hes ysed and the things he has sal y a certain theological jugalery he is at Jast! pronounced ths veritable child, and all present fail down. and worship him, the Lamna, who are of course responsible for the rrauds, heing i ticularly deyout. Tesides the three highest gradgs of priests ‘| thers is a ‘lower ander. whick. laving no o whos are el claim to inherited piety by transmigrativg .recruits its ranks from the Intellizent an moral, or, rather, the theological. "Fhisorder has four divisions,—the pupil, or novice, who generally enters the monastery in his 8th or 9th year, the assistant priest, the religious mendicant, and the teachier or abbot. All the members must take the vow of celibacy, and most of them live in relisious houses \which consist of a temple in the centre and a2 number of huildings employed as library, refectory, dwellings, and the like. A Khubilghan or abbot is at the head of the house, and is appointed by the highest Pope. There are also nuns and nunneries which complete the resemblance between Lamaism and Romanism. The Bible here is styled D K’gjur, meaning_the translation of "the WO i. e., of the Buddha. Tibet is a most religious country, if it may be judged by the numberof monasterics and convents, monks and_- nuns _ which also abound eéverywhere. Many of the wmonas- teries are made very rich by the presents and money received from the common people, who are so very superstitious that they con- tinually consult the priests, sed usually have to pay largely for the privilege. The treasures that are laid up in. the temples are enormons, and they are entirely safe; for no criminal, however hardened, would dare to steal them. If he should even contemplate the thing, he would believe that he would be struck dead, and that Yama would torture Tim for ages for merely entertaining the monstrous sacrilege. }! Many of the temples are literally lined with gold and set with precious stones; in- deed, the principal wealth of the land scems to Inive passed into the hands of the sacer- dotal class, whose authority Is never ques- tioned, and whose influence is limitless. One might call the Tibetans the Irish of the Lamaists, so absolutely and eternally sub- servient are they to the despotism .of the priesthond. Vagabond monks are plenty, and they get the small coins which the popu- lace have left after paying the bulk of their money to the higher functionarl 1 doubt if another such priest-ridden land as this can be found on the face of the glabe. Prayer-wheels, the turning of which is sup- posed to yus— doubtless—as vocal supplication, are seen on every hand. If any one see what superstitition is, and how it is inex- tricably involved with relizion, he should visit Tibet. Iknow of nothing that has a greater tendency to shake faith in all the- s than travel and sojourn in the far be as eflicacious—and they are to be Istill have so much tofcll you of this strange land and people, their Iaws and cus- toms, that I must defer part of my informa- tion to another letter. _1am persuaded, just at present, that the hizher education, of which you'talk so freely in the great Itepub- include a visit to. and an acquaint- Jie, mu: . h, Tibet and the Tibetans. ance witl “TIE NEW VERSION.” A BRIEF IIISTORY OF TUE ANGLO-AME REVISION OF THE ESTMEN CLAL OF ITS CHANGES—WILY ITS PUBLICATION WAS DEFERERED ANXD WHO ARE TO BRING OUT THE WORK. The Rev. L 1. Chamberlain D. D,, of the Broadway Church in Norwich, Conn., has written a short history of the Anglo-Ameri- can revision of the New Testament, which, in connection with the widespread and rest- less feeling of curiosity regarding the com- ing volume, forms a leading topic in this section of New England just now. lndeed, so general has the interest become that, articles concerning the work are already ap- pearing in the local press. The tone of these Ietters, in many cases, shows that almost utter ignoragge in relation to the “ New Version,” as it is popularly called here, pre- vails among the great majority of the people, and the methods, nature of its changes, and value are likewise to them asealed book. Dr. Chamberl ain’s history will, in a great meas- ure, satisfy the demands of the uninformed in the search of knowledge concerning it. In the 270 years which have elapsed since the former revision of the Bible, known as the King James- version, much additional light has Dbeen gained in the Greek of the New Testament. Manuscript evidence has been multiplied many fold. The great lubors of sueh scholars as Mill, Bengel, Wetstein, Griesbach, Lachmann, Tischendorf, and T're- gelles have yielded great results. There have been discovered one manuseript—the Sinaitic—containing the entire New Testa- ment, and another—the Vatican—containing the larger portion, and these probably writ- ten as early as the middle of the fourth cen- tury; two others, the Alexandrine and the Ephraem, belonging to middle of the fifth century, and the Cambridge manuscript of the Gospels and Aets, of the century follow- ing. In all there are now extant twenty- seven ancient and authentic manuseripts of the Gospels, ten of the Acts and General Eplstles, eleven of the Pauline Epistles, and five of Lievetation. On the other hand, the editors of the King James version possessed only asmall namber of inferior and com- paratively modern manuseripts, and those imperfectly collated. 1t is by reason of this increased knowledge that the revision has been made, and, consequently, on the 6th of May, 1870, the Convoea- tion or Canterbury appointed a comumittee of biblical scholars of the Church of Ensland 1o revise, for public use, the anthorized ver- sion of the Bible, ing the Comunittee with themsclves repre- of other_denominal S ] by invitation of the English revisers, asimilar Ameriean Committee was formed, composed ot di: edseho [ all the evangenical denom ons, and divided, like the English Committee, into two companices, one for the Ol Testament and one for the New. Among the more widely kuown of the names o the Knglish side are the Rt-Rev. Dr. Browne, Bisliop of Winchester (Chair- man O. T.); Archbishop Trench, Bishors Thirlwall, Ellicott (Chairmaa N. T.), Lix] and Wilberforee; Deans Alford, he Iiev. Prof, Leathes ary Ou the men as Puilip Sehatt, ent of Committee) s D. D, LL.D. . Wool- ican side are s D, LL. D, (Pr Prof. William Ilenry G (Chairman O, T.); ex-President ' sey, D. D., LL. . (Chairman N, T cetlor Howard Crosby, D. D., LL. ¢ Timothy Dwizht, D.” D.; Prof. Matthew B. Riddle, D. D3 Prof. Thowas J. Conant, D. D.; Prof. IL'B. Hackett, D. D.. LL. D.2 Prof. J. Henry Thayer, D.D.; and Prof. Ezra Abbott, D. D., L - The two Interna Am . al Committees have been enmaged in one it the same work. The labors of the English Committee have been submitted to the American Commistee and vice versa. No changes have been made except by a two-thirds vote, and after exam- ination by each member, as well 2is consults tion in committee. Each company has gone over the ground twice, and in diflicult por- tions three times, 1 nee has b made to divines, scholars, and li e of either Committ unadjusted differences, be subinitted in the work i is believed to be entirely undenomination The aetive members of the English Connit: tee have numbered fifty-two; of the Ame can Committee, twent; ‘Their s hias been continued for ten side of the gcean, and forn and it is clahmed that, to proved Greek scholal to sueh original ma ¥ s eyond the reach or knowledge of their p nothing of an in- , they h SOrs. Among the many claims for its valne may be stated the following: the out- come of re fies of the v knowledge in restoring the Sq their textual purity, to the unlearned ev nore than to the learncd will the new version be profitable. The meanin; Word wiil be made clearer and will become disarmed. 'The changes made are not fundawental, They touch noching which is essential to: Christianlty, It js 4 new revision and not a new trausiation, The chapters and verses of the ol work are done away with, although w inal notes show where they formerly exi nd the matter is simply in narrative_style, paragraphed throughout each book, The sectious changed are reproduced in foot notes as they read in the former volume. Obsalete words a ¥ 11+ or Ey caring” by n}owmg." Qusolete itications are amended as i1 Revelation, , 6, where “admliration” 15 translated “ wonder” (a former meaning of the word) ; Acts, ., 15, “carriages® is translated * baggage™; James, xi., 9, “convince” is now rendered “‘convict.” Proper names are harmonized in the Old and Testaments, as Joshun and Jesu: and Jones, Elisha and Eli Greok tenses are regarde zives, Matthew. % given.” instead of ** we forgive;” Acts, n 2, “Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed,” instead of * Ilave ye received the Iloly Ghost since ye believed,” etc. Poetry is rendered in soniething of a metrieal form. ‘These are but a few of the muny advantages claimed for the work. That much comument will be provoked there can beno question, and while there is little doubt that the new process is sure eventually to claim general aceeptance among the people, it is also cer- tain that this condition of things will eyent- uate slowly, and many good folks will be rmued end perplexed by the change, for a arge class of the most devout readers of the Bible—seven-tenihs perhaps—have neverhad the question of accuracy in translation once raised, and are wedded by long usage to the exact words of the Book™ which they revere. Every scholar who has studied the Bible de- voutly hus doubtless made for himself, by the aid of such helps as scholars have, most ofthe changes which thenew versionadopts, These wili not, therefore, be likely to be dis- turbed by the changes, nor will they causein such minds distrust or skepticism. When the publication of the révised New Testamens was put off from Feb. 1 till May 1 the delay naturally oceasioned considerable speculation as to its causes and some sus- picion that everything was not rizht about it. A work of this natare will, of course, b loudly called for, and it is said that a first edition of 300,000 coples has already been manufactured in England. and 100,000 copies are saud to be already in New York City, not t themn permitted to be sold. They are ting a cablegram from the authorities in England authorizing their issue. ‘The first copies ean only be had at the price of 310 euchi. Arrangements have been made in New York to put the entire book into type inside of twenty-four hours from the time a printed copy of the English edition can be procured, and within three days 10,000 low-priced copies will be bound ready for delivery to waiting purchasers, and at least 5,000 copies will be manufactured every day thereafter until the demand is met. Of course the only chance the English publishers have to circuwvent this plot is to throw thousands of copies on the American market at equally eheap rates, and this the New York agents of the Univer- sity Press promise to do. A publishing com- pany of this city is alsoto bring out the work and” has agents at present canvassing throughout this seetion. MORE “HERESY.” A DEPARTURE FROM ORTHODOXY THAT IIAS STIRRED TWO DENOMINATIONS. New York Sun. Last Sunday the Rev. Thomas R. Slicer an- nounced from the pulpit his resignation of the pastorate of the Park Congregational Chureh, Brooklyn, and preached a sermon giving his reasous for abandoning orthodoxy. The inteltigence of Mr. Slicer’s adhesion to liberal doctrines has occasioned more com- ment in the Methodist Chureh than in the Congregational Church, for he has beenin the Iatter Chureh for the, last four years only, while he was in the Methodist ministry for cleven yeal Every ol Methodist minister has anec- dotes to tell of the Rev. lenry Slicer, or “the War-Horse of Methodism,” as he used to be called for his denominational energy and zeal. 1le took a Jeading part in the Gen- eral Conferences in the half ceniury of his minist; Ile was a stroug supporter of the nerant system. The wife of Father Slicer was the granddaughter of one of the pioneers of Methodism, and her father had been a Methodist minister also. 1t therefore scemed in virtue of hereditary appointment to the Methodist ministry that Father Slicer’s son Thomas, while stilla g;ou\h, mounted his horse, and, with um- yrella’ hanging from his pummel and his library in his saddle-bags, started out as a Methodist country cireuit rider. Now, after having been an orthodox minister for fifteen publicly forsikes the faith. on the ub&ccl yesterday he said that the mythologic theology of orthodoxy was everywhere breaking down and giving way, Clerzymen nominally orthodox feit it and adwmitted it among themselves. They make a show of defending the old dognas, but they practically turn”their backs npon them. Men have their livingsto earn and their families to support, and they avoid shocking their people by frank declarations of their opinions. “But” said Mr. Slicer, “I am 1 canearn my 8 (U king Si youig, strong, and lealth; Jiving, and I cannot conceal my conscien- tious convictions, ‘Talking of the influences that had brought about his change of opinion, Mr. Slicer said was most sirongly impressed with ilure of the old duogmas to impress the r the lives of men, when, after four vears' eireuit work in Maryland, he went to Colorado. Old-faghioned warnings and ap- peals, based upor stem of futurerewards and punishments, had no_influence on the strong, brave men of the West. They were not to b redd from honest convietion by threats of eternal punishment. e had gradually given up doctrinal preaching, and Tiad labored to inculcate practical rizhteous- To impress good conduct should be the aim of ministerial effort, and for years that, and not the teaching of dogmas, had Dbeen his object. 1t had finally become im- possible for him even to zive such assent to ortliodox dogmas as is implied by the posi- tion of an orthodox minister. Mr. Sticer says that there was no disagree- between himself aud his church on the Under his ministry its debt has ed, and it is in a flourishing condi- 1lc had entered the Congregational nr tion. i _Con Chureh because he liked its independent polity, which gave to the various congre, tions & wide latitude of thought and action; Dut his chureh had received aid which was intended for orthodox u and it would not have been honest for him to divert that trust by leading the congregation intg Li s that e has no p! e devoted to the winis- tevial calling, but cannot preach antiquated formulas that he does not himself believe. THEIMPENITENT'S DESTINY TIE OF ANNIHILATION TAUGHT BY A MIED EPISCOIPAL MINISTER. Much interest has been excited among the attendants of $t. John's Reformed Eplscopal Chureh in this eity by a series of sermous by the Rector, the Rev. J. D. Wilson, taking bold ground against the doctrine of eternal punishment. Mr. Wilson is recognized as one of the ablest thinkers in the Chicago pul- pit, and his expressions on this subject have made some stir among his brother clergy- men, some of whom look upon them as heterodox and dangerous, while others ad- it that they have long privately held simi- Jar views. A reporter of T I NE has obtained from Mr. Wilson the following brief | abstract of his’ arzument, which in his ser- WONS W Seript very T Y cation, ke to anything like notoriety m, but iiad no e ]lmiuu in afirming his convictions. said: g I hold the view commonly called *condi- tional immortality,”—i. e., eternal life exists Jesus Cl ‘The argu- son and Seripture. a dilference be- vers and ‘sin, ntly by God ent thatin the present s not always punished arded. 1lence a recti- 1 for,—a time of retri- zly Second: i state of thil ill that retribution con- in such punishnent as shail It, ending with_ex oB. Elernat torment is not just. It is e ' and a just God eannot intlict it. Aorcover, wternal torment iwplies eternal sinning, and nming involves a deteat of God. It the Devil as powerful as God, R there are two Gods, one of ne life in plants and Wl suel life has possibil- pent of those possibili- toes not always follow, Al blossoms ible fruits, but only some come to All egs are possible animals, but i So all men ol thelr destiny. are possible immortals, but souse fail to reach innmortalit; Fifth— 6 cannot by reason prove man im- © the best we can do isto prove thab e is capable of immortality. - 11. Revelation—DBut reason canuot prove much gne orother. God knows what Is before s told us all we ueed to i > we are to look to the Bible for intormation, Virst—The Bible uniformly promises life only to the righteons, +7This is life eterntil to know the only true jod and Jesus,*” 1e that hath the Son hath life.” « e that believeth on the Son hath life.” “#Wages of sin 15 death; gift of God is eternal life,” etc., ete. Second— struetion,” * tgeeoind di as though b No dev found anywhere in the Bibl S S Rowever poed attantion. - e Some texts eviITtt.t;cxv., las|z ;'Brse: “These . . . to rlasting punishmen ig] i“fi’ g S| t, but the rightcons Here ** punishment” is shown to he just long as “life,”—I. e., eternal. Butb&i“s Il::‘ls- ishment is destruction; which is compfete entire, final, and without rewedy. * If it be objected that destruction is not punishinent, answer that the Bible says it is. *They shall be punished with everlast- ing destruction from the presence ot the Lord,” etc. 1f it be objected again that destruetion can- not be properly called everlasting, I answer the Bible calls it so. “They shall be pun- ished with everlasting destruction,” ete. Mark, ix., 42: * Unquenchable fire.” This means fire which cannot be put out till it di vide Isaiah, xxxiv.,10; Jer., 3 xx., 47; Rev, xiv.,, 10, * Smoke going-up forever.” This refers to some punishuient upon the Beast before the Judgment Day, and means total destruction. Rev., xx.. 103" “Tormented for ever and ever.” the Devil, not m Revelation. 2, and following verses, portrays judgment. All who are not ad- witted to_life are burnt up, 2nded, de- 'stroyed. No sin is left anywhere in God’s universe. God becomes all in all. If it be objected that the soul caanot be de- stroyed. I answer: *Fear him svhich can destroy both soul and body in hell. This is a verybrief and very bold state- ment, but to a diligent student of the Bible, who compares text with text, it will show that from the day that death was threatened to the sinning Adam the Bible is uniform in presenting the truth. John, jii, 56: *¢ 1le that believeth on the Law hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Law shall not see life.” 1 think that the notion of the necessary im- mortality of souls came into_the Church from Paganism through Neo-Platonism in the third century. & GENERAL NOTES. The Jesuits have in Belgium twelve col- leges, two of which are ir Antwerp, one in Ghent, and one in Brussels. In these collezes there were 5,106 students at the opening of the scholastic year, of whom 1,362 are in the elementary classes. 1In the Lower Iouse of the Convocation of Canterbury a resolution has been introduced syreferring to the evils existing in the Chureh on account of the traflic in livings, and ask- ing the Upper [Touse to take the matter into consideration and provide a remedy. The printing-press which Mr. Wheeler took with him to Illarpoot overa year ago, and which is run entirely by the students of Ar- menia College, has already printed more than 500,000 pages, among them an arithmetic and a hymn-boolk in Koormanjie Koordish. The Church of the Advent,in Boston, is extremely ritualistic. Its four ministers wear cassocks indoors and out, practice celibacy, and live in a house by thewmselves. The par- ish is quite. successtul; the church has 800 communicants, and a new edifice is being completed without a debt. The curates of St. Margaret’s, Liverpool, have all resizned to go as missionaries to In- dia, and Bishop Ryle has declined to license their successors, on_the ground that the par- ish does not conform to the standards and usages of the Church of Engzland. Aspecial business church meeting will be held in the First Baptist Church Friday evening, March 1L, to consider questions re- lating to the rebuilding of the Michigan Av- enue Church. Matters of great importance to the Church are to be considered and de- cided, and a full attendance is desired. The Brooklyn clergymen are considering the propriety of a revival movement, ndt so muely, apparently, to bring in new members as to wake up the old one: their meet- ing Mr. Pentecost said, in ely, that *in the early days of the Church 3,000 converts were made by one sermon, and now it takes about 3,000 serinons to wake one convert.” A camp-meeting of the native Christians of the North India Methodist Conference has recently been held, lasting several days. ‘There were over eighty tents, and an inw?li- gent audience all through the meeting of be- tween 500 and 709, reaching uearly 850 some of the time. The meetings were interesting and impressive. At the close all joined hands, making an unbroken ring, represent- ing that they were one in Christ. ‘Thomas Nelson & Sons, of New York, state that the New Testament only will be published - probably - daring the month of Mag. ‘The Old Testament not being finished. the complete Bible cannot be issued for four or five years yet. Styles and prices have not been determined ou, but the trade and general public can rest ured that the books will be sold at such prices as will com- mend them to the popular feeling, so as to reach all classes. » ‘The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol in re- ply to a meuorial concerning the present rit- ualistic erisis says: **‘The toleration of cere- monies and usages that have been declared Dby the final_court to be illegal is a subject of extreme ditficul At present I cannot ses 1wy way to any other arrangement than thi. On the one hand, to maintain the principle enunciated by convocation in reference to the monition of the Bishop; and on the other hand, to avoid direct interference, where no offense was given to the congregition, until comiplaint should be formally made. When complaint is so made, then I'cannot see how le for the Bishop to refuse to at- = it is pos tend to The English Ritualists, the Rev. Jessts. Enraghit and Dale, who were_imprisoned for their rit sm, arequite as r S ev since thei raght continues wints to but broken and hi raght’s s suflicient to ervices, nnot, as his iealth chureh is_elosed are trying to r: wt the cmplo curate for his parisk:, which cont persons. Mr. Dale’s parish, St. Vedast, is in apart ot Lomdon where the residents are very poor, and where few want to attend his ehuireh, 1le never had large congregations excite- ng with his friends. & probability that the suits auzinst either of these clergymen will be pressed, as public opinion in England is so _decidedly oppose! to further action against them. ? The Rev. W. . Davis, of Massachusetts, has been engaged since October in mission- ary work among the lumber camps of North- ern Michigan. lle estimates that not far from 40,000 men are engaged in_this work during the winter, quite shut out from all re- ligious opporturiities, Mr. Davis has been going from camp to camp during the winter, ing with the men, hold i services when possible, and selling or giving away good reading. Only in three cases thus far have foremen of lnmber camps refused hiin admittance. 1lis planis that two men o together,—one to preach and one to sing,— therr circuit to consist of fificen camps, to which they would _pay regular visits for a certain number of w Societies have Dbeen erganized in Manistee and Clare to so- licit and raise funds, and also obtain the as- ance and codperation of all persons inter- sted in this good work. It pected only this winter to thoroushly organize prepara- tory for wore substantial work early next fall. The Young £l Men’s Christian Association Sunda oon public lectures in Farwell Hall were f opened three years ago by the Tiev. J. M. Gibson, D. D., and thousands of people hnve since been not_ouly euntertained but instructed by the well-known gentle- men who have followed in the course since his departure from our city. ‘The lectures of © Dr. Gibson were published in book-form, and have had a very wide circulation, both in this cnuntri' and Scotland, where they were republished. The lectures of the Rev. 1lerrick Johnson, D.D., are soon to appear in book-form, and_will doubtless be much sought after. The Rev. Frederick Courtney, tector of the St. Ja Episcopal Chur will finish the cou season with several Jectures on *‘The Commandments of the See- ond Table,” the first_one to be given this atternoon at +o’cloek. The Rev. Mr. Court- nger to this kind of work, d an_enviable repu- , where his lectures Mr. D. L. Mondy the greatest Bible tation drew crowded houses. considers him one of preachers of the day. Tt will be remembered that something like a year ago the purpose was formed of creat- ing an endowment for the General Theolog- jeal Seminary in New York, amounting’ to 2250,000, and that a committee was appointed fo take this matter in hand. The friends of the institution will be glad to learn that al- ready SL1S.000 have been pledged, and that, with the exception of some $2,000, all has who now holds the office, howerver, being recluded by the terms of the bequest, Ile, t seems, with equal generusity, gives his money and his_services. Furthermore, not during the lifetime of the donors, or at lpast without their consent, may any part of tais money be used except in paying the expenses of the institution, In this way the income may be added to the principal. The New York Methodist says: “ Itsounds strangely to hear thatan act legalizing lot- teries at church fairs has been_introduced into the Legislatura of this. State (New ‘ork). If some Ingersoll had done it as a bit of satire at the expense of Bible religion, it would be rezarded as a_grim joke. “Bu there is no doubt that this bill has “its origin in the desire of some persons to promote church finances by lotteries. We suppose that the Romanists are more directly behind the measure; but we suspect thatnot_a_few Protestants are more than willinz that the act should pass. Would it not be well for religious people to devote a little calm med- itation to the peculiar attitude of 2 church seeking the power to do_a thing which on grounds of public mornlity, and for the pro- tection of the younz and the poor from a ruinous a habit is forbidden as a business en- terprise? We are not much in the habit of applying metaphysical reasonine to practical questions; butisitnota very practical mat- ter for churehes to avoid practices which etf- lightened legislation condemns? And does not the call for special power to do what_is forbidden in the interest of morals deal a hieavy blow to ‘the moral usefuliess of re- ligion? 7 g SIMPLICITY OF SCOTCH CLERGYMEN. ome of the Scottish elersy have con uted materially of late to the :\mus!lue:lr!“l,i not to the edification of Caledonian newspa~ per readers. An astonishing presbyter in Skye swallowed a storyina comic paper about England having been invaded by a Russian army amd Mr. Gladstone thrust into jail by his justly indignant sovereign, and so scared his flock that they would not set oug Trom shore to fish lest they should_be incon- tinently snapped up by the Livadia or some Russian Alabama. And now the presbyters of Caithiness have brought to lizht a secret compact between the Devil, the Directs 0 ors of the Uighland Railway, and 3r, Faweett to desecrate the Sabbath by bringing about a snow-storm and then hindering hun- dreds of men from attending church on the hollow_pretext of shoveling snow off the rails. In one heinous case men were so em- ployed **only about _one mile from the church,” while the Post-Oflice people are “habitual desecrators.” Mr. Iverach, of Thurso, also reported that he was *thrilled with horror the other Sunday at seeing, about 5 o’clock in _the evening, a zood many men on the ice. 1le was too far off to be able 1o say whether they were sliding or merely ing, but he had little doubt” that there good deal of idle conversation going on among them.” Mr. Robertson, of Pul- teneytown, also made an _eloquent presenta- tion of the enormities of **Sabbath desecru- , and ** the s ! ve, lying on the pew before himn, wus adverti: mentsabout * Epp’s Cacoa’ and a *New Pulpit Robe Establish~ went’ on the back of the Frec Church Rec- ord, which had been distributed in the ews.” We should like—oh, how we should. like—to lure Mr. Iverach and 3fr. Robertson over to the Tabernacie to hear Talmage! PERSONALS. Bishop McLaren and family are in New Orleans. e Prof. Williams has resizned his chair n Williams to aceept one in Princeton. The Rev. R. L. Fox, of Burlington, N. J., has aceepted the call of the Union Presby- terian Chureh in Detroit. 1t is probable that the Rev. Dr. Slicer, of Brooklyn, will be called to fill tho pastorate vacated by the death of Dr. Chapin. The Rev. John S. Inskip, the well-known Methodist evangelist, has arrived in India, and will speedily begin hismissionary labors. Arthur Edwards, D. D., and Augnstus_C. George, D. nd O. Horton, of this city, have been appointed delegates to the Ecu- wenical Methodist Conference in Londen next Septemoer. Tue Rev.John Ross, of the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission in Manchurlo, China, has completed the translation of the New Pestament into the Corean, and already four Coreans of the'litérary class have been bap- tised. The Rev. J. M. Lans, of Glasgow, Seot- land, thus writes of this city: “It is ap- parently one of the most godless of places,— abandoied to the love of the world and the things that are in the world,—yet I am as- sured that there is in it the heart of & most earnest and vigorous Christianity.” Mr. and Mrs. Woodwell and Miss Elizabeth Small, of Newburyport, Ma and Jiss y A. Loveland, of Nor h, Vt., left Boston Jan. 31 for the Hawaiian Islands. JMr. Woodwell goes to Kau to tuke charge of a small Englishi-speaking community, and to work among the laborers ou the sugar-plan- tations. and Misses Loveland and Small take charge of a boarding-school at Kobala. ‘The Rev. Reuben Jeffery, D. D., has made a great suecess of his work in Denver. The! congregations of the Baptist ciiurch of which he is pastor have so greatly increased thata new house of worship has become a necessity. Plans for “the new building are now prepared providing for an audience room which will seat 1,500 persons. The chureh is to cost 580,000, and to be the most beautiful one in Colorado. . BUNDAY SALAD. Acurate in England, while marrying a couple that came without the parents of the bride, asked: ** Who zives the woman away?” when the would-be husband replied: *“ No~ _hudy; 1 am taking her myyself.” + *\What is the meaning of a hack-liter?"” asked a gentleman at a Sunday-school ex- amination. This was a puzzler. Tt wené down the class until it came toasimple urchin, who said, ** Perhaps it is a flea.” An old Senteh lady zave a pointed reply to aminister who knew he had offended her, and who expressed surprise that she should come so rezularly to hear him preach. Said she: My quarrel’s wi’ you, mon; it’s no wi’ the gospel.” “Do you know, young man, that cards are the Devil's books 27 asked a solemn lookingz personage to a fellow who 1s shuftling the *papers.” *Oh, yes; you shall have thew, sir, as soon as we have had our little game,”” replied the young scapegrice, turning up a Jack. - Mr. Talmag@Says that if Le finds, when he f:ets to Heaven, that at least 100,000 souls have not been saved through his instrumen- tality, he will ask to be ¢ d, and will hastlly retire. But what will this model man do if he finds that lleaven can't get along without him 2—Etmira Free Press. A mother had taught her little girl to re- at, at a Sabbath-school concert, th 3 “[1o, every one that tinirsteth, the waters” When evening ¢ calmly, with perfect self-possessi Every one that hoes, comeand get Tler astonishment was great when she saw the laughter of the audience. A New England pastor called apon one of his Deacons, with whom he was ai variance, and, with an air of great solemnity, said: “ Brother, it is a shame that this quarrel of ours should bring scandal upon the Churcf. I have prayed earnestly for cuidance in the matter, and haye come to the conclasion that you must give in, for I cannot.” The reason given by tne colored man for not gong too near the hind legs ot a famous. roan mule was so satisfactory that wé can afford to adopt it as an excuse for not doing a great many other thing * De reason,” I said, “why 1 nebber ’proach_dat roan mnule from de rear is dat I'm too fond ot my fam- ily an’ don’t belong to no chureh, nudder. “ Making 2 call the other day,” writesa fair correspondent, **I casually opened a Bible on the drawing-room table while wait- ing for my friend. ' There was a folded piece of Pnper inside, andit was marked, Icouldn’s helpseeingit, ‘recipe for punches.” My friend entered at the moment, and I handed itto her. -* Why, where in the world did you get that?? she nsked, *I've been looking for it for six months.” * SERVICES TO-DAY. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. A. Masker will preach at 10:45 been paid in. They will be surprised and gratificd to learn aiso_that of this sum 575,000 were given by the Hotfwan fainily,— the father haying contributed $25,000 With which to create an especial endowment. At the same time, the present Dean of the Sem- inary, together “with a brother and sister, have contributed $30,000 by way of endow- ! wens for the support of the Dean, the one . m. In Trinity Church. 2 —The Rev. Frederick Courtney will officiate morming and evening in St. Jnmes’ Charch, cor- ner of Cass and Huron streets. % —The Rev. John Hedman preaches morning’ and evening in St. Ansgarius’ Church,on Sedg~ . wick street, near Chicago avenue. —The Rev. M. De Forest, of La Crosse, will of..,