Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1881, Page 17

THE CH ivan LUGS GO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 0, 1881_EIGHTEEN P .GES 42. 4 RELIGIOUS, Texas 5 ty | int ! “7 How death Jearuc then time, the, mee, Toor Ere, sates tears above a dear, dead face Inspecebless anguish rained, tupdred Foenan, ind (Gamp-Meeting as Seen the Late Judge Arrington. dall on the Beginning, the End of the Sab- path Day. jy, Thomas Expresses His Opinion ‘¢ the Alleged Heresy of the Rev. d. D, Wilson, iong and Undecided War Over Ritualism in the Anglican Church. > . Religious Services Are Con- ducted at the Auburn Penitentiary. Hotes, Personals, Sunday Sal- 4° ads, Services To-Day. GRIEF-TAUGHT. amy will you weep, NY friend? Itis not mect ; ‘qhashopelesty 10 £0: row and lament theLord bath taken to himself rutbl my. ive! foreiv ive! give Fee oea wild tears protest, mecuild so kindly lent. espe world Is full of graves, of little craves Nolonger than tbis tin; gtlaunnumbered boys where mirth once new-made mound, relgned mye vacant chair Is found. eqourt isn world-wide erief, but equally Toe world-wide joy ying that these tani! oeela ihe Heavenly fold.” yours, the joy untold, re evermore esly Treasoned. calm and wise, ‘own lips gricf’s bitter cup bsd Qarowing friend.—to whom for love are left ‘Oslr ¢ song’s sweet ccho and an empty Against my cruel words For death is death. and though an angel came Direct from God and Ke, suideath itself shall die. when grief is fresh ‘The beart must weep or break. tenderest comfort ME TEXAS CAMP-MEETING. BY JUDGE ARRING- The following article was written by the bts Judge A. W. Arrington, one of the aest and most elo Bareverhad. Wer in Texas, and, stopping on his way to Chi- eagoin New York, he published the article der the nom de plume of Charles Sum- nefield in the New York Tiznes. parsing work entitled “Tales and Tak- ings,” by the Jate Rey. J. V. Watson. Doubt- jes Mr. W. did not know the name to be fictitious, His publishers should at once ge the correct name of the author, The apostrophe to water is certalnly one of the test things inthe language. It has been delaimed most eloquently by John B. Gough hundreds of times, and doubtless the yoblic generally think him the author. The whole article is srap-book: During the fast week {n September, 1836, the fst successful camp-mecting was held in East- mTexus. Temploy the epithet “successful teeause several previous failures had appar- suy rendered forts of a like kind perfectly topeless. Indeed, the meridian, ut this period, ‘as most uncongenial to the religious and_moral taterprise. The country bordering on the Sabine 4ad been occupied rather than setticd by a class diadventurers almost 2s wild rentinen the Chicago ed a number of years Itso ap- worthy a place in every us the savages they bad scarcely expetled andthe beast a prey. Which still disputed their domains of forests, Professional gamblers, refu- or gees from every ignd, forrers of false coin, itieves, robbers, and murderers, interspersed mong the race of uneducated hunters and ferdsmen, made up tho strange soc huy, without courts, or prisons, or churches, or ehools, oreven the shadow of civil nutbority, ersubordination: a sort of unprincipled pande- Rooium, where fierce pussion sat enthroned, wating its bloody sceptre. the huwie-knife! Let Moone aceuse me of exaggeration for the sake ef dramatic effect. 1 am speaking now of Shelby County, the home of the lynchers, the temible locale, where, ten years Jater, Torty per- sos were poisoned to death at a marriage sup- i miscel- per. Ewill be obyfous that in such a community Tey few would he dispnsed to patronize camp- Usttings; and, necordingly, a dozen ditferent hls at various times had never hearers on any single sven these were not allowed 10 worship in peace: vailormly, the first. day or night « band of armed Ssveradoes, beaded ebfef judge and executioner of Shelby’ mchers, brcke in the alturand scattered the Bourne: the preac: collected a tsion. But by the notorious Watt seended the pulpit and thrextened ‘hers to a eratuituus robe of tarund ers, Hénee all prudent evangelists soon ed ty shun the fei nk e devel tn enun the felt bank of the and ten woe ‘The beeue, Kl tastes; lached fall S the w; “BARBEQUE CAMP=N “There will be ist Mon manty of Suelby. Gxercises will open with a splendid bar- iis preparations are Leu made to stile + there will be a zood barbecue, better ors, and the best spel “Sere Lae, tof Gospel. 7bls singular document Public house and grocer the Jnrgest. irees at the intersections aageyrands and principal tra! emote cells of thesmox eof ‘Srst mi Payed ot by Degatiy Tremeae the the the it Afterward had “perimentatis. Deed ha retied th the win te ere credulity. ed by the statements of Peter Brinson, of the “Double Spring Grove. a a at inquirers that “he “had been em- bene gt wissionary to provide an ample bar- “Bat fais vestion, of 1 ‘The mi “He mi {iguor, the bi exch visitor. sionery said be would attend to that son. lust be Feral rejoinder: travel 2, vine, wen infested by cohort uf demons: ole elapsed “without any new or Werect the ert nsn perious 2 field. At lenzth, however, an advertisement ap- an effort in bebaif of the unique. a perfect back- v, bath as to its texor and mode of, Faulleatioa, Let me give it veroutim et litera- TING. ucamp-mceting, to commence of uns month, at the Double neur Peter Brinson's, in the Paut DEeNTO: “stisstonary, M. was nuiled to the door it was at~ and even, hunters themselves found it in of the mountains, miles away from a human babitation, regarded the matter as a hoax, me wicked wag, in ridicuie of But tbls hypothesis was who aid Uy a stranger calling himself o Period and piace aavertised. ter liquor; are rou to was the inviriable fquor, too’ id Brins 4 precious original,” was the f propositivz which must of Qh opportunity to verify iy add thet an intense excitement © Tumor took wings and flew on lurned to a storm, a storm of exarger- bE ty echo increased in its sound, till eee else thom It met the staple of Nance: a, Ripulation Twas could be heard but the “Barbecue became the focus of dreams. And thus the ‘Preacher had insured one thing in ad- congreration embracing the entire of the country, which was likely the of his stratagem. 2 in that part of Texas at the my imagination being inflamed by curiosity, I took some troubie and Senin eh Athough my eves witnessed the Scene, 1 may well despair of the ‘Be peneit ork, Paint it; the pen of Homer or A: sas adbeen clearcd away immediatel: magnificent i “Double Spring,” which wheet UD with suticlent tore to turh a mili- the, somplecaie Ad odorif trom g dhe grove Belby H the Pulpiz These arable altar for mourners. Reyond of blank tables ¢ Yery centre of the evergreen grove. had been raised, and before it was distar¢ fifty. paces, 2 sucees- tended fn the form of a Grele. or the perimeter of a polygon, File i le Msues, refugees, AA beltsana big inclosing the area about the spring., Oegus, stream of the most delicious) Sed itself through the air. This was pant i ithe adjacent prairie, where the ter Brinson were engaged it Promised barbecue, \ itself was literaliy alive, teeming, phic Over with strange figures in County men, women, and children. Ail yah? there. "The hunters bad Nhand, and dogs barking at their jand gamblers, with nives peeping from ms, While here und there might fam beseen a sprinkling of well-dressed platters «|: With their wives and daughters, { The tumult was deafening, a torna: Ving tongues, talking, shouting, Garren, ing. and cursing for amusement.. Suddenly ee ars Col. Wat Foeman! Hurrah for inne t Poemant!” und the crowd parted right and left to let the ion Iyncher puss. ea Turned to the advancing load-star of alt yes. and shuddered involunturily at the satanic Foustenanco that met my glance, and yet the ki burs Were not only youthful, but eminently: aindsome: the btdcousness lay ‘in the look of THecgg ites ferocious, murderous. It was in {he reddish-yeltow-eye-balls, with nrrowy pupils Thin Gemed to Hash jets of lurid tame: in the a sucering lips with their everlasting icy Sane naae io tne reat be was a tall, athletic, man. His train, cA Aesperadoes, Followed big 1" * Coven armed oeman spoke in u voice, sharp, piercing a the point of a dagger: Eby Brinson, whero ls rie ney missionary? “We want to give hima Ie has not yet arrived.” replied the planter. Bue well i ubpose wo! tnust cute for: bim; but q e beards; - BEY AS 8 starved wolf.” ee “1 cannot till the missionary comes; becue fs bis proper pene Be as <A fearful light blazed in Foemun’s eyes as he look three steps toward Brinson, and fairly shouted, “Fetch me tho meat instantly, or Lil put sour own stomach with a dinner of Tead and ‘This was tho ultimatum of one whose author- ity was the only Jaw, and the planter obeyed without x murmur. The smoting. viands were arTanged on the table. by a score of sluves, and the throng prepared to commence. the sump- uous meal, when av voice pealed from the pul- pir, oud a tho biast, of 4 trumpot in battle. gentlemen end Indies, till. tho giv rbeeue uske God's blessing!” US BEF OF very ear started, eve! Was directed to the speaker, and a ‘wnisperl #lence ensued, for all alike were struck by his remarkable ap- e. He was almost giantin stature, h scarcely twenty years of age: bis buir, dark ag the raven's wing, flowed down his im- mense sbouiders In masses of natural ringlets u beautiful than any ever wreathed around jeweled brow ot a Queen by tho lnbored icvements of human art; his ‘eyes, black as inixbt, beamed like stars over a face us pale § d wearing a singular, indefluable expression, ch us miht have been shed by the light of a m from paradise. or the luminous shadow ef wnangel’s wing. The heterogeneous crowd, bunt samblers, homicides, gazed in mute ustonishment. The missionary prayed, but itsounded like no other prayer ever addressed to the throne of the Almighty. It contuined no enconiums co the splendor of the Divine attributes; no peti- tlons in the tone of commands; no orfzons for distant places, Limes, or ub} no implied in- struction as to the udministration of the goy- ernment Of the universe. It related exclusively tu the present people and the present hour; it isthe cry of the nuked soul, and that soul aa a sear forthe bread and water of beay- enly li ite ceased, and not till then'did I become con- scious of weeping. I looked around throvgeh wy tears, aad saw a hundred faces wet as with niin, “Now, my friends, partake of God's gifts at the tible, and tnen ome and sit down and listen ty His Gospel.” s It would be impossible to déscribe the sweet tone of kindness in which these simple wards rere uttered, thit made bim on Une instant SW nds. One beart, Lowever, in the assembly, is naddened by the evidences of the prench- T's wonderful powers. Col. Watt Foeman ex- claimed tn a sueering voice: “Mr, Paul Denton, your reverence has lied. You promised us not only # guod barbecue, but better liquor. Where s your liquor?” There!” answered the missionary in tones of thunder, and pointing bis motionless Unger at the Double Spring, gusbing up in two strong columns, with a sound fike a shout of Joy from the bosom of the earth. “There!” he repeated, with a look terrible as lightning, while bis enemy actually trembled at his feet; “there is the liquor, which God, the Eternal, brews for all nis children! “Not in. the sivamering still. over smoking fires, choked with poisonous gases, and sur- rounded with the stench of sickening odors and rink corruption, doth your Father in Heaven prepare the precious essence of life, pure cold water. Butin the green glade and grassy dell, where the red deer wanders and ‘the cbild loves to play, there God himself brews and down, tow down in the deepest valleys, where the fountains murmur and the rills sing; and high upon the mountitin-tops, where the naked gran- it glitters like gold in tho sun, where tho storm- cloud broods and the thunder-storms crash; and awny, far out on the wide, wide sea, where the hurricane howls muaic, and big waves roar the chorus, ‘sweeping the march of God,’—there he brews it, that beterage of life, health-giving water,” “And everywhere it is a thing of beaut; gleaming in the dew-drop; singing in the sum— mer rain; shining in the ice-gem, till the trees seem turned to living jewels; spreading a golden vail over the setting sun,or a white gauze around’ the midnight moun: sporting in the cataract; sleeping in the glacier; dancing in the hail shower; folding bright snow-curtains softly above the wintry world, and weaving the many- colored iris, that seraph’s zone of the sky, whose warp is the rain of earth, whose woof is the sui beam of benven, all checkered o'er with celes- tial tlowers, by the mystic hand of rarefaction. still always it is beautiful, tat blessed cold water. No volson pubbles on its brink; its foam brings not madness and murder; no blood stains its liquid glass; pale widows and starving orphans weep not burning tears in its clear depths; no drunkard’s shrieking ghost from the grave curses it in words of despair! Speak out, my friends, would you exchange it for the demon’s drink, alcohol? shout te the roar of the tempest answered, ol” Nol Criticsneed never tell me again thst back- woodsmen sre deaf to the divine. voice of elo- uence: for I saw at that moment the mission- ary held tho hearts of the multitude, as it were, in the hollow of bis band: and the popular fecl- ing ran in a current so irresistible that even the duelist, Watt Foeman, dared not venture an- other interruption during the meeting. Lhaye jnst reviewed my report of that singu- Jar speech Inthe foregoing sketch; but, alas! I discover that I have utterly failed to convey the fuil impression, as my reuson and imagination received it. The language, to be sure, is there; that I never could forget; but it lacks the spirit, the tones of unutterable pathus, the cadence of mournful musie alternating with the crashes of terrible power; it Jacks the gesticulation, now eracefulus the play of a golden willow in the wind, and anon violent us the motion of a mountain pine in the hurricane; it lacks that ale face, wrapped in its dreams of the spirit- Emma, and those unfathomable eyes flashing a ight such as never beamed from sun or stars, and, more than nll, it lacks the magnetism of the mighty sout that seemed to diffuse itself among the hearers as a viewless stream of electricity, penetrating the brain like some se- cret fre, melting al} bearts, mastering cvolu- tions. ‘The camp-mecting continued. and a revival attended it such as never before, or since, wis wit din the forests of Texas. But, unfort- ‘unuately, on the last day of the exercises, news asrived on the ground that a neighboring farmer had been murdered, aud bis wife and children carried away prisoners by the Indians. The young misstonary spraug into the pulpit and proposed the immediate organization of a company to pursue the savages. The sugges- tion being adopted, the miover himself. was elected to jend the party. After several days of hard riding they otertook the barbarous enciny inthe grand prairie. The missionary charged foremost to bis troops, and, having performed rod{gies of bravery, fell. not by the band of an yaaa, but by a shot from one of his own horse- men! Ineed seareely name the assasin; the reader will bave anticipated me,—the incarnate fiend Col. Watt Foeman, chief hangman of the Sholby lynchors and ten years latera master cook at the poisoned wedding. ‘Such is the only fragment of the biography of awounded genius, the sule twinkling ray of a dazzling luminary, that rose and sct_in the wil- derness, a torn leaf from Pau! Denton’s book of Ife. Peace to his ashes. He sleeps well in that lone isle of evergreens, surrounded by the ever- green sea of the prairie. Nature's beloved son inherits ber consistent tomb, that last posses- sion, the inalienable fee simpie of all time. A NEW QUESTION. WHEN DOES SUNDAY BEGIN?—WHEN DOES It END? Prof. Tyndatt in Nineteenth Century. Theologians were horrified when first in- formed that our planet was a sphere. The question of antipodes exercised them for a Jong time, most of them pouring ridicule on the idea that men could exist with their feet turned toward us, and with their heads point- eddownward. 1 think it is Sir George Airy who refers to the case of an overcurious individual asking What we should see if we went to the edge of the world and looked over. That the earth was a flat surface on which the sky rested was the belief enter- tained by the founders of all our great re- ligious systems. Even liberal Protestant theologians stigmatized the Copernican theory as being “ built on fallible phenomena and advanced by many arbitrary assumptions against__evident testimonies of Script- ure.” Newton finally placed his intel- Jectual crowbar beneath these ancient notions, and heaved them into irretrievable ruin. ‘Then it wasthat penetrating minds, seeing the nature of the change wrought by the new astronomy in our conceptions of the uyiverse, also discovered the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of accepting literally the Mosaic account of creation. They did not reject it, but they assigned toit a meaning entirely new. Dr. Samuel Clark, who was the personal friend of Newton and a sup- porter of his theory, threw out the {dea that ** possibly the six days of creation might be a typical representation of greater periods.” Clark’s contemporary, Sir Thomas’ Burnet, wrote with greater decision in the same strain. The Sabbath being regarded as a shadow or typeof that heavenly repose which the righteous will enjoy when this world has passed away, * so these six days of creation are so many periods of millenniums for which the World and the tolls and labors of Varian warble, calm, passiontess, spiritual, | Our present stateare destined to endure,’” The Mosaio account was thus reduced to a poetic myth,—a view which afterward found expression in the vast reveries of Hugh Mil- ler, But it this nbolic interpretation, which is now gunerally: sone tinl be the true one, what becomes of the Sabbath day?” It is absolutely without ecclesiastical me: and the man who was excented for gathering cks on that day must be regarded as the victim of a rude Jegal rendering of a religious epic. Lhere are inany minor offshvats of sdiscussion from the great central contro- Bishop forsely has detined a day ing of one orening and one morn- r, as the Hebrew words literally Import, lecay of light and the return of it? But what then, it was asked, becomes of the Sabbath in the Arctic regions, where light takes six months to “decay” and as long to “return? Difterences of longitude, more- over, render the observance of the Sabbath at the sane hours impossible. To some peo- ple such questions might appear trifling: to others they were of the greatest import. Whether the Sabbath shouid stretch from sunset to sunset, or from midnight to mid- night, was also a subject of discussion. Voices, moreover, W heard refusing to ac- knowledge the propriety of the change from Saturday to Sunday, and the doctrine of seventh day observance was afterward rep- resented by asect. The ecarth’s sphericity and ,rotation, which had at first been received with such, affright, camo event- ually to the aid” of those — afilicted with qualms and difficulties regarding the respective claims of Saturday and Sunday. ‘The sun apparently moves from cast ta west. Suppose, then, we starton a voyage round the world\ in a westerly direction, In doing so We away, as it were, from the sun, which follows and periodically overtakes us, Teaching the meridian of our ship each suc- ceeding day somewhat later th sul, For every fifteen dexrees of longitud traversed by the vessel the sun will be netly an hour late; and, after the ship has traversed twenty-four times fifteen degrees, or 300 degrees,—that fs to say, the entire ch- cle of the earth,—the sun will be exactly a day behind. Here, then, is the expedient suggested by Dr. Wallis, I. B.S. lian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, to quivt the minds of those in.doubt regarding Saturday observance. Sie recom- mends them to make a voyage around the world, as Sir Francis Nrake did, “going out of the Atlantic Ocean westward by the Straits of Magellan to the t Indies, and then to thé east, returning by the Cape of Good Hope homeward, and let them keep their Saturday Sabbath all the way. When they come home to England they will find their Sati fall upon our Sunday, and they ma forth continue to observe their Saturday Sab- bath on the same day with us.” “ANOTHER HERETIC.” DR, THOMAS IN THE ALLIANCE, This time it is the Rev. J. D. Wilson, pastor of theSt. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church, of this city. And the heresy is in atlirming the annihilation of the wicked, : Oflate the instances of departure from what have been regarded as .the “standard authorities,” or the commonly accepted be- liefs of orthodoxy, have been so frequent as to hardly excite much attentfon; at least they have ceased to be any longer a public surprise. But there are some features con- nected with the present case that canuot fail to make it one of more than ordinary inter- est, especially to the people of Chicago, and to the members and the authorities of the Church in which the offending brother is a regularly ordained minister. Tho Reformed Episcopal Church is one of the latest, if not the Jatest, religions denominations of our country. It has come into existence within a few years; is not as old as the Republican party; hardly antedates the “great .fire,’”’ and from this fact it would seem that it should be more largely permeated with tho spirit of the age, which is thatof a larger tolerance in matters of g beliefs, Another fact to be noted is that tie recog. nized head of the Church, Bishop Cheney, is himself a dissenter, if nota heretle, at least ‘on one point, as judged by the standards of the Episcopal Church. Now it will be a matter of interest to the ublic to see what this new Church and this ate dissenting Bishop will do with this still Jater dissenter. He frankly and openly states that he does not believe In the immortality of the wicked. Will the Reformed Episcopal Church tolerate so bold a departure from the common orthodox belief ? or will they bring the erring brother to trial? ‘It is very dent that if Brother Wilson werea Methodist or a Presbyterian preacher he would be called to account; there would very soon be the cry of unsoundness and a trial, - or at least the talk about a trial for her- esy. _The_ Congregational Church per- mits Dr. Goodwin to hoid his peculiar views about the second coming of Christ; and Dr. Locke holds and preaches the doc- trine of “eternal hope” and is not disturbed by the broad Episcopal Church; but will the Reformed Episcopal Church be thus generous in the case of Brother Wilson? LHe isone of the most faithful and devoted of her ministers, and is a strong and growing man who, whilst shrinking from an unpleasant notoriety and no doubt earnestly desiring to live in peace with his brethren, yet has the courage to modestly but firmly say what he believes. itis not our purpose*to discuss the merits of the doctrine at issue. It is a phase of the subject of future retribution; a subject that seems more than almost any other to trouble the thinking minds of ourage. Hardly any one who realizes the awfulness, the utter despair, of the old views of endless punish- 4 ment ean rest in that belief, or reconcile it with cither the memory or the justice of God. And hence the constant struggle to get away from those views, to find some theory more in accord with the deepest moral convictions and the undying Hopesot thehumanheart. Thatsinmustand will be punished, all are ready to admit; but that the moment of death is the moment of irreversible doom to all souls many can- not believe; and hence they have come to Jook upon life as an education rather than a probation, and to carry that education on into the future world, and in this way find hope for the lost in eternity. Others, like Brother Wilson, believe that only goodness can be immortal, and that.sin and the sinner will come to anend; will cease to be. It may be dificult to see any good reasons why God should hold a soul in being forever when He sees that there is no hope of its recovery to righteousness; to sce any good reason for perpetuating‘endless misery out of which no sible zood can come; and to many minds more reason for believing that such souls will be utterly destroyed; and of the two evils the Jatter would ‘seem to be the more merciful, It may be said also that this doctrine is gaining ground both in Europe and in our own country: but it remains to be seen, not whether the Reformed Episcopal Chureh will indorse the doctrine, for such they are cailed upon to do. but whether a minister of that Church can hold it and still be permitted to live in peace and do his work. RITUALISTIC TROUBLES. THE LONG AND UNDECIDED .WAR.- OVER FORMS OF WonRsHIP. New York: Herald. After the Church of Rome, the Church of England, by law established and by law sus- tained, is the richest, most powerful, most imposing, and, in some respects also, most pretentious Christian organization in the world. In spite‘of the power and preva lence of dissent it is in_a very distinctive sense the Church of the English people, and into whatsoever part of the world that peo- ple have wandered and wherever they have established themselves thither it has fol- Jowed them and there it has remained. It is not more truly the Church of the English neo- plein England than itis the Church of theEn- glish people and their descehdants in these United States,in British North America,in the West Indies, in the Australian colonies, and in South Africa. It is not wonderful that such an institution should occupy a large space, so to speak, in the eye of the world, and that any commotion or disturbance aifeeiing that institution should command almost world-wide attention. It is all the Jess wonderful when it is borne in mind that the churches of the Angelican Communion in-all lands turn to itas to’a parent for guidance and encouragement, if not also for protection and even for support; and that by all the reformed churches of every name ‘and denomination it has always been regarded as one of the strongest and most reliable bulwarks of the doctrines and_ principles identified with the great Protest-" ant revolution of the sixteenth century. Not in many generations has the Church of England presented so peculiar a spectacia to the world as it is doing now, and asit has been doing for some few years past. Itis no extravagance of speech to say that, rich, mighty, powerful as it is, if is literally torn if we stood Hi ‘by Internal dissensions. It is Very much like a house divided against itself. The principal source of the present trouble is what iscalled Ritualism, aname popularly but not aito- gether accurately intended to designate the remarkable increase of ceremonial.in the Church of Iate years,—the disposition to give prominence to ‘and to ext rate the importance of what may be called the exter- uals in worship, It would not be fair to say that in this latest movement in the English Church the spirit of worship fs sacrificed for the letter, for the leading Ritualists are all of them sviritually-minded men: but the tend- ency is to make too much of mere form,—to magnify the latter at the expense of the spirit. This singulat outburst of ceremonial- ism has been more or less conspicuous since 1863, although it must be regarded asa di- outcome of the Tractatian movement, derived its.name trom the famous “Tracts for the Ties,” published at 0. ford, IS3-18H1. It was net the object of that movement to intraduce or even directly encourage radical change of ritual; but it laid down principles and inculeated do trines me ultimate tendency of which to beget a strong sympathy with the histori Church of the Middle Azes, and thus to es aggerate ‘the importance of the outward -forins of worship. ‘This tendency was made yisible in various ways._ It was'seen in the increased power of the High Church party in the revival of CathoJi¢ doctrine and in the development of the ritual, It was seen also in the revival of Gothic architecture and the higher which was displayed in all niatters affecting church decoration. It was not less visible in the numerous secessions both from the clergy and laity,—secessions which made a great stir at the time, and which, from tho high standing and ability of some of the parties, greatly strengthened the’ Roman communion throughout the country. 1t was not, however, till about 1863 that what is now known as the ritualistic movement becaine either very pronounced or very gencral. It was one of the features of the chureh restoration movement that the interior cf the church was made to resume very much the character and appearance it had in Catholic times. The restored church had low and open benches,—the separated chancel, the altar table, with its coyerlngs of different color, according to the eeclesiastical seasons; its candlesticks and cross upon or over it. It was almost natural that in such eireumstances the celebration of the com- mmunion sbould become more frequent and that an increased importance should be at- tached to choral services. The tidal wave of ceremonial wors! edmparatively unimportant changes others ot a wore radical, but not illogical, character were soon to be added. Special vestments, such asalbs, and stoles, and chasubles, and tunicles, and copes, in certain proportions and at certain times, began to be worn by the ofticiating priest; lighted candles were placed on the altar at holy communion; incense was burned either ina “thurible,” or stand- ing vessel; water was mixed with the com- munion wine; wafer bread was used, and the elements were elevated either during or after consecration. ‘These and other changes ‘n- dicated the tendency of the hew movement, It was dificult—it {s dificult now—to look on at this ceremonial worship without ask- ing one’s self the question, Why is it that such clergy and such people should remain outside the Romish communion? Ofcourseso wide a departure from the general practice of the Chureh for over three hundred years, with the briet interval of Mary’s reign, created in many quarters, in circles both high and low, a feeling of sur- prisé which gradually assumed the form of indignation. As far back as 1859 the whole of the east of London ‘was convulsed with riots because of a persistent attempt made _ George’s-in-the-East to introduce eucharistic vestments ;‘and guch outbursts of popular indignation have been ‘not uncom- mon since, ‘The Ritualists claim, however, that the law of the Church is on their. side. ‘The rubrig at the end-of the calendar, in the Book of Common Prayer, enacts * that such ornaments pf the Church, and of the minis- ters thereof at all times of thelr ministration shall be retained, and shall be in use as were in this Chureh of England, bythe authority of Parliament in the second earor the reign of King Edward VL” .On this subject there is much difference of opinion. The question turns (on the kind of vestments which are here referred to as_ ornaments. The first Prayer Book of Edward VI. prescribes that at the time of the communion *the priest that shall execute the holy min- istry shall puton him a white alb, with a yestinent,—that is, a chasuble or cope,” and that the assistant shall put on “likewise the yestures appuinted for their ministry,—that is to say, albs with tunicles.” ‘This, the Ritualists hold, is all in their favor. It is held, on the other hand, that the Second & Prayer Book of Edward VI:, to which ref- erence is made by the order of Elizabeth, which remains in the present Prayer Book, retained the surplice only. ‘This question is much complicated by the fact that after the accession of: Mary the old worship was re- stored. It is a divided question, and likely to remain so while the Ritualists defend their position not by the words of the rubric only, but on grounds of doctrine and of expedi- ency. Luto these, however, it is not proposed now to enter. Enough has been said to in- dicate what ritualism means, and to make intelligible the lines of the controversy which now agitates the English Church. In proportion as efforts have been made to suppress the ritualistic tendencies which have so strongly and in so many_quatters manifested themselves, so_do the Ritualists seem to gather strength. Itis the old story repeated—persecution, if it does not kill, be- comes the strength ofa movement. Since the first report of the Jate Royal Commission the vestments have been introduced into more than thirty churches, In consequence of the growing and loudly expressed feelings of ; the laity in many parts of thecountry against what they called the Romanizing tendencies of the Ritualists, and in eonsequence also of the difficulty experienced by the Bishops in dealing with the offending brethren, 2 Com- iuiitee of Convocation was appointed to con- sider the subject. “This Committee reported in 18 that vestments. and altar lights, whether legal or not, should not be intro- duced without the sanction of the Bishop, and that censing ot persons and things, ele yation after consecration, wafer-bread, and the presence of non-communicants were to be discouraged. ‘I'he famous cases of Mackono- ehie, of St. Alban’s, London, and of Simp- son, in the Diocese of Essex, brought mat- ters to acrisis, Opinions were obtained id 1866 at the instanee of some of the Bishops from five eminent counsel, among whom were Sir Roundell Palmer and Sir Hugh (now, pond), Cairns, against the legality of all Ritualistic innovations:. Rival opin- ions were obtained by the counsel of the English Church Union from equally eminent counsel in favor of the legality of yestmenis. Of these last counsel all were in favor of vestments, all but two were in favor of altar lights, and all were against incense. On the mixed chalice and on the wafer-bread. they were about equally divided. Such was the state of things In 1867 when a bill was in- troduced into the House of Lords having for its object the limiting the ecclesiastical vest- ments to the ordinary surplice and hood. ‘This bill, which found favor with many and which was also bitterly opposed as interfer- ing with the rights and liberties of the Church, was finally withdrawn; and a Royal commission was appointed to inquire and re- port. ‘The report advised the restraining in the public services ot the Church all varia- tlons in respect of vesture trom established custom, and the providing of aggrieved par- ishioners with an easy and effectual process for complaint and redress. The upshot of this was that in 1874 the Arcithishop of Can- terbury introduced and carried: through his Public Worship Regulation bill, by which a court was appointed, with a specially qual- ified Judge, whose duty it should be to at- tend to ritualistic cases. Every reader of newspapers knows that this court has proved a complete failure for the purpose for which it was intended. Year after year it has been dealing with refractory clergymen and a complaining faity, butit hasaggravated rather than cured the evil. It has been principally useful‘in keeping alive the element of dis- cord, and giving it: prominence before the people. Ifa clerzyman is found guilty, and punished by suspension, deposition, or im- prisonment, he becomes an object of public sympathy. In many ways the new ecclesi- astical court was found inadequate and in- effective, and ritualism rather gained than Jost by its appointment. The National Church became divided by it into two hostile camps. Such was the state of things which the two Houses of Convocation had to face when they met about the middle of Febru- ary last. ‘The'Primate laid before their Lord- ships two petitions, the one arguing for a dis- tinetly avowed policy of toleration, and signed by the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. Church, and the other, which was signed by Bishop Perry, insisting on the enforcement of the Jaw and the non-toleratin of vestments and usages contrary to Scripture and not in con- formity with the intention of the articles and formularies of the Chureh. After much de- bating and tho expression of not a little diversity of opinion it was agreed at the Jast sitting of the Upper House to apply to Par-. liament for appointment of a Royal commis- sion “to inquire into the laws and_ courts governing ecclesiastical causes.” In the Meantime, itis to be presumed, prosecution will be suspended, {he whole difficulty is hip had set in, and to these | thrown back wheroit was ten or twolve years ago. The result so far is really a vic- tory for the Ritualists, : PRISON SERVICES, RELIGIOUS ENEKCISES AT HE AUBURN PENITENITARY. Special Correspondence af ‘The Chicago Tribune, Auburn, N. Y., March 18.~Lmagine, if you can, anything more strangely incongruous thanatemple in which the Word of God is preached, barred ‘and grated, and the eon- Rregation guarded by armed men to prevent the eseape of any member of it. Yet such an anomaly may be witnessed every Sunday in Auburn, and na explavation will be re required when it is said, that this seeming Jack of congruence exists inthe State Pris- on. AtGo’clock Sunday morning, the same as on aweek day, the convicts Jeave their cells and, march to the bucket-ground to dump their buckets. ‘Thence tney proceed to the mess-room, where the morning meal is eaten, after which, they return to their cells. At9 o'clock théy go forth again, this time ta the prison sanctuary, The chapel, as it is called, is a large room, perliaps 100 feet long and seventy-tive wide. At the frout end is platform, In the centre of this is the Chap- lain’s desk, and on the left are an organ and seats for the choir, ‘The auditorium is filled with long benches, Aistes rundown the centre and on either side. At the back end, just to the right of the large entrance-doors, is a sort of a box in Which isachair, This is oc- cupied by the Devuty-Agent and Warden or Head Keeper during services. Over the rear of the chapel is a small gallery for spec- tators. There is arow of windows on each side protected by heavy gratings. ‘The bot- tons of the windows are somo distance from the floor, and steps Jead up to them. The windows are the stations of the keepers and guards, ‘They sit on the broad sills and keep their eyes constantly on the prisoners. te walls bear such inscriptions as * Meckness,” * Faith,” “ Wumility,” and “ Peace,” and the floor is bare. The convicts marel in com- panies. Each company has a leader who holds his place by reason of meretorious con- duet. It is the duty of the leader to beat time for his company. ‘The men march one behind another, each man with his hands upon the side of the one in front of him, ‘The movement is the “‘lock-step,” and the, leader stamps with his left foot to keep his men in perfect order.. A good deal of noise is created. The motion is quick and the stamping sounds oddly enough to the ear unaccustomed to it. The frout seats are first filled, When the seat is reached the leader steps aside and waits until it is filled, with the exception of one man, when he takes his place at the end. Thus he is: ready to head his company when it marches out. The remain- der of tho company file into seats in the rear. ‘The keeper stands near and counts off the number of men for each seat. ‘Thus it con- tinues until all the men are in place. After the convicts have marched in the doors are elused and the “voluntary” is sung by the choir, ‘The choir, is the interesting. feature ot the services. Every member is a convict. Sopranos andj altos, as well as tenors, bari- tones, and-bassus, are men, while the instru- ments comprising the orchestra, which ig an exceptionally goud one, are played by males. The abseuce of the female voice is not noted, as there are some excellent sopranos and altos in the choir. aA c bank burglar at one time sang as fine aso- prano as is*heard in_ the average church, while the instrumental music is far more at- tractive than that heard in an edifice in Au- burn where honest folk worship. While the choir is singing, the eye may wander over the auditory, A serof human heads lays before you and affords such a study as a pirenolo- gist night not enjoy in a lifetime. There are Jarge heads, and small heads, and heads of shapes. ‘The hue of the hair is as varied the colors of a rainbow, and embraces ever thing from the snow-white locks to the car- roty-shock, In most instances it is closely cropped, F 2 a The faces form a striking picture. While many are virtuous-looking and intelligent, the inajority of them are repulsive, and tell plainly of the pernicious natures of the wearers. ‘The complexions for the most part are sallow, in consequence of confine- ment, and the eyes are shrinking. All seem to haye contracted an expression which is described in the phrase, ‘ta hand-dog look.” You coukl scarcely pick out a face that would tempt you to put faith in its owner. Almost without exception the men sit nerv- ously in their places and move their hands and feet uneasily. All are clad in the striped prison suit, although many come in in their shirt sleeves. Tho men are not allowed to turn thelr heads when they come in, an they must not look about while the services re in progress. ter the “voluntary” .prayer is offered by the chaplain? This point in the services indicates how much these men fear God. In looking about you will be sur- prised to see the small number who bow in communion. ‘The majority hold their heads up in a defiant way and seem to set at naught te laws of their Maker, as well as their country. It needs only a glance to convince the beiolder what sent this assemblage to ison. ba “Sunday-school” is held for half an hour before services. Only those who de- sire need attend, and it is not one in twenty who takes advantage of the opportunity. ‘The instruction is given by young men who volunteer to do this work. They are mostly students from the Theological Seminary. About the only ones who take any interest in the chapel services are the Sunday-school scholars. ‘The others leave their cells simply, to break the monotony and hear the music. ‘To resume, a hymn is sung and the sermon preached, at the end of which the convicts rise and sing together. As this is the only chance they have to exercise their voices. they are not slow to improve it. When they are singing, one forgets everything else. The effect is grand. A thousand voices rise in song wile the chaplain beats time. The great chorus fills the_ large room with music which, if not sweet, is sublimely powerful. As the pitch rises and falls, it is like the mut- tering, rolling distant thander. ‘The sound chains the hearer by its impressiveness. As it dies away and leaves the -air void, its power is indicated by its absence. The airs are simple and easily acquired, and for that reason alone are the grander, Barsand bolts cannot restrain the song, and it rolls out through the windows, in warm seasons, often attracting crowds in the street to listen to it. With outstretched hands the chaplain pro- nounces the benediction, and while the or- chestra plays, the convicts, at 10 o’clock, after having spent one hour in the chapel, retum to their cells. On their way they re- ceive bread and cotfee, which comprise their dinner. Bread and water are served twice during the afternoon, but they do not obtain supper. ‘The men do not leave their cells again until Monday morning except to pro- cure their buckets. The remainder of the day is spent in reading and writing. Nota few of the prisoners employ their time in lotting either mischief or escape. Light- hreade men end those predisposed to in- sanity are termed “Cranks.” ‘This class of- men have to be watched very closely in the chapel. If they become excited they are likely to jump up in their seatsand yell. One Sunday. while the chaplain was in the middie of his sermon he was surprised to see a convict pop up like Jack-in-the-box and shout at the top of his lungs. The prisoners are easily excitable, and one rnan_ might set all the rest yelling. Of late nothing of the sort has happened. Convicts asa rule do not like Sunday, as they do not obtain as much to eat as on other days, and it is tedi- ous remaining locked up so many hours. GENERAL NEWS. “A rich men’s revival” is about to be in- augurated in Boston. The Hub would be eccentric without eccentricity even in relig- ious matters, ‘The American Bible Society have just made grants of books to the value of about $7,800, including $6,000 for colportage, 300 volunies to the Friends’ Kansas Freedmen’s Relief Association, and thirteen volumes in raised letter for the blind. is It is stated that the English Church Union have resolved to appeal from the judgment ofthe Lords Justices of. Appeal in the En- raght case to the House of Lords. The hear- ing of the Mackenochie appeal has com- menced in the House of Lords. 5 Chaplain McCabe, Assistant Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church Extension Society, undertook several years ago to assist the church at Salt. Lake City in paying its debt of $40,000. It is now reduced to $1,500, with a fair prospect of its being blotted out entirely in a féw mouths. v ‘The Diocese’ of Connecticut last year put on recorda protest against the custom of cler- ymen preaching on trial in vacant parishes, deeming it edeeradatiog in public estimation of their holy office. Bishop Doane, of Al- bany, at a recent Diocesan Uonvention for Northern New York, commended the resolu- tion adopted in Connecticut. The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Mall, of the Epis- copal Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn has been elected to the Rectorship of the Cal- -ntion, and the remainder for the oeeatiet “proposed to re that,” ete. hurch of New York City, to succead ate, Dr. Washburn. Dr Stall and Dr. t! Washburn both left the Congregational win- istry for orders at the hands of Bishop Potter, of New York, many years ago.- ‘The.Waldensian Church of “Italy now re- ports seventy-four charches and_ stations,” with 107 pastors, evangelists, teachers, aud colvorten as‘against eilzhty-nine in 1870. ‘Their regular hearers number 4,987: their oc- casional hearers, 33,000; their commanican 2,911, ngafust 1,910 ten years ‘azo; week-day scholars, 1.786. Total of contributions, 49,409 franes, an fnerease of 40,000 francs in ten years. hy Steps have been. taken recently to raise a fund. of $100,000 for the Rochester Theologic- a Seminary, a partof it to be use payment of the debt now resting on the Ins' nent of a permanent. endowment fu A. IL Strong, the President of the has recently returned. from New Yo $651,000 of the required amount, sub with the understanding that it shall be paid when the remainder is secured. ‘The patronage in the Chureh of England is vested in the Crown, the Lord Chancellor, aArehbishops, and Bishops, Deans, and Chap- ters, the universities and their colleges, many of the nobitity and gentry, and { whole host of Trustees in various parts of the country. The Lord Chancellor has by far the largest mumnbder of livings at his disposal, and of pri- yate patrons the Duke of Devonshire aud the Eart of Lonsdale stand the highest on the list. ‘The largest living, Winw! is in the Birt of the Earl of Derby, and is valued at There is probably not a church of any .de- nomination in the United States, or in the world, that cultivates the * grace of giving”? more faithfully or to higher ends, than the Calvary Baptist Churen of New York, the wArthur, D.D., pastor. a couple of Sundays age it contributed 9 home missions, $5,227.30 to foreign missions, id promised ta add £5,000 more. Already 000 of the first sum named has been di- ided up among sixty Baptist congregations in the West as the means of Inducing then: to build as many new meeting houses. It is desirbd to call the attention of pastors to the class organized for the purpose of studying Hebrew. ‘The course embraces forty-eight weekty lessons, in which it is WW the principles of the Jan- guage in connection with a careful study of the book of Exodus. ‘The class now mun bers over seventy, If it can be inereased to one hundred, the Jessons hitherto written with the electric pen will be printed each week. Foralist of the members, 2 sample Jesson, und full particulars, address W. R. Harper. Baptist Union Theological Semi- nary, Morgan Park, Chicago, LL The Rey, Dr. Capen made an address at the Universalist Conference in Providence on Monday evening. Ie argued that Christ em- bodied a truth that might be summed up in one word, and that word was love. The Bible declared that God was love. At the time of Christ the world had no conception of this. ‘The Jews thought that God loved them onl. When Christ preached that God loved all, it caused great enmity among the Jews. ‘Tho New Testament blazed with this truth. “Lhe early Church was filled with this idea, but soon It bégan to be lost sight of. ‘The early Church was made up largely of men who had been pagans. Christianity encountered the stoicism of the Greeks and the Romans. It was not strange that pagan ideas had been grafted into the pure truths of the early Church. . Not until the Universalist fathers arose was’ there a Church which restored so fully this idea. : In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies a fort- night ago the Minister of Justice announced that the Government would not provose to reduce the salaries of the superior cler (The Primate_receives now $4,200 and ea of the other Bishops $3,800.) The Govern- ment, the Minister said, disepproved of the Episcopal agitation on the educational ques- tion, but to add to this disapproval a reduc- tion of the Bishops’ salaries would be a puerile yengence rather than an act of legiti- mate reprisals, Tha Government would, however, propose a measure which had not the character of reprisals,—the suppres- sion of the subsidies granted to the Profess- ors and the scholarships allowed to the stu- dents at the ecclesiastical seminaries. The financial position of these institutions made the State subsidies granted to them wholly unnecessary. He also announced that the Government would propose the suppression of the salaries of the ecclesiastical coadju- “tors, but would not interfere with the salaries of the lower clergy. The grants for the con- struction of religious buildings would also be considerably reduced. PERSONALS. ‘The Rev. Charles Beecher has resigned his pastorate at Georgetown, Mass. The Rey. W. I. Woodwell, of. Wells, Me., has gone to the Sandwich Islands to do mis- sidnary work. ‘The Rey. C. L. Work, of Freeland, O., has declined the call to the Westminster Church at Columbus, O. : : ‘The Rey.C. A. Tibbals, of Red Bank, N-J., has accepted the Rectorship of St. Peter’s Church, Brooklyi. : The Rey. Dr. Ort, of New York, has ac- cepted the chair of theology in Wittemberg College, Springfield, O. “ The Rev. L. G. Hays, of Springfield. U., has received a call from the First Presbyteri- an Church of Crawfordsville, Ind. Louis Strauss, a wealthy Hebrew of San Francisco, has left large bequests to Protest- ant and Catholic as well as Hebrew institu- ions. Rabbi Grossman, of St.” Joseph, Mo., has received a call to the B’nai Abraham Syna- gog, on the corner of Wright and Johnson streets, in this city. Prof. Frank B. Williams, formerly Ieader of the “Bliss Memorial Choir,” has been engaged as chorister for Grace Methodist Chureh choir, and will begin to-day, Chief Joseph, of the Iroquois.-#lio recently died on the Caughnawaga Reserve, near Montreal, Canada, was an ordained Method- ist minister, who had been instrumental in doing much good. Just before his death he had finished the translation into the Iroquois dialeet of the New Testament. Talmage recently preached his twelfth an- niversary sermon in the Brooklyn Taber- nacle, The views of this gymnastic divine on profanity are now in request. In a letter which he sent to be read at a public meeting in Brooklyn the other day he wrote: “By the throne of the Eternal God I assert it, This may be said to be a good twelve-thousand-dollar oath, the amount to which Dr. Talmage's salary has recently been increased; but in view of what Christ said in the Sermon. on the Mount—namely: “Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is God’s throne’—it is odd that the Doctor should have chosen just the form of protani- ty that he did. SUNDAY SALAD. « ‘The late Rev. Dr. Symington, not feeting well one Sabbath morning, said to his beadJe, who was a “character, “Man Robert, I wish you would preach for me to-day.” “Icanna do that,’ promptly replied Robert; ‘but I often pray for you.” 3 Religion affects people in different ways. “How do you feel, sister 7” asked a revival- ist of a poor woman who had been sitting on the anxious seat for some time. “I feel greatly relieved, sir,” was the meek relpy, “right here in the pit of my stomach.” “ A collection will know be taken up,” said the minister; “Deacon Swipes, will you pass ——" and that good man. waking suddenly with Ins hands full of hymn books respond- ed: “No, Vil order it up, by thunder ?; and. then the minister dealt him a dreadful took, and the good man passed out. ‘ Some people are very hard. to convince. “Why [thought you were dead,” saida gen- tleman toa neighbor. “Well, you see the report was false,” was the rejoinder. “I don’t know about that,” continued the man of obstinacy. “The person who told me never deceived me, and I can’t say as much for you.” ~ * Colored preachers may not always get the words of Scripture, but they generally un- derstand its spirit. One of them wanted to quote the text, “The harvest is past, thesum- mer is over, and we are not saved.” but not, being able to read he gave the gist of it thus, “De com has been -cribbed, dere aint any more work, an’ old Satan is still foolin’ wid dis community.” When aman is about starting for home after the church sociable and finds his um- brella gone—an umbrella that has been in the family untilit has become an heirloom, sir—his first impulse is to tear around and use language, erush his hat over his throb- bing brows, and rush out into the night and rain. His next impulse is to soothe his tem- pest-tossed bosom by selecting the very new- est and best parachute he can lay his hands on, and go home with forgiveness in his heart and the umbrella over his head, like a Ohris- ian. One of our-eminent physicians. took a 6- year-old girl into one of the cemeteries in the city, and, ithe course of their rambles, they came across a grave on which the little one yead the inscription, and then the Doctor told the child that the person buried ‘there had been one of his patients in lHfe, The-child stood a moment and looked at the grave in-* Givated and then at the many others around, and ingenuously asked, “ Were all these your pationts, too?” J along the Seeing Deacon Siowball capering street Jast evening in a manner that appeared: to puetake of the juvenile and the wordly, the reporter sald 1: “Hello, Deacon, you must be feeling particularly guy to pe waltzing Torth in “that style this evening?’ No, sik.” said the Peacor, halting, “Ese not a- t Lnebber_ walt es, sah, nor is E feelin’ oberly gay dis ebenin’. It’s probably owin" to de co:d wedder dat I displays a little ostentation in iny gait dls ebenin’ sab.?? A venerable Boston minister ealled on ane of his congrezation not long sinee and car- ried some oranges in his pocket for the niich-petied bi of the family, The eldest was delighted with this attention, and in- quired if the Doctor would always bring her something. On being told that he shduld al- 's bring her his love, sherefleeted awhile, then went to her money-box and extracted a penny, which shi d emphatically into ius hand with: “There! take that, and buy something for yourself CHURCH SERVICES. EVISCOPAL, Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner West Washington and Peoria .streets, The tov. J- H. Knowles priest in churze. The Ht.-Rev. W- BE. McLaron, S. T. D., Bishop. Holy com- iuuioa, 8a. m. Choral morning prayer and celebration of the holy communion, 10:30. Sun- day-school and children’s service, 3 p.m. Choral eveinng prayei wv. —The Rev, Frederick Courtney will officiate in St. Jumes* Churca, corner Cass and Huron streets: 70:50 a. m, and 7:39 p.m. —Services will be held iu St. Andrew’s Church, corner West Washington and Roboy streets, at 10:00 a.m, and 7:3) p. m. —Tho Rey. John Hedman will officiate in St. Ansgarius’ Church, Sedgwick atreet, near Chi- cago avenue, nt 10:40 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Ciinton Locke will offictate in Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, near Six- teenth street, at lla. m. and 7:30 p. m. Seats free in the evening. —The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will officiate in St. Mark's Church, corner Cattaze Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:3) a. m. and 7:30 p.m. ‘The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate In the Church of the Ascension, corner North La Salle and Elm streets, at J1e. m. and 7:9) p.m. —The Kev. Luther Purdce will officiate in Calvary Courch, Warren avenue, betweon Oak- ley strect and Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7300 p. —The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will officiate in the Church of the Epiphany, Troop streer, be~ tween Mourve and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 P. mh. —The Rev. W.J. Petrie will officiate in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, at IL a. m. and 4 p.m. ‘. James E, Thompson will officiate in is’ Church, Indiana avenue, between nty-nintb and Thirtieth streets, ab Ha. m. and 7:45 p.m. . 'T. B. Townsend will conduct services fu 's Mission, Nos. 987 and 989 Polk street, a.m, and 7:30 p. m. ~Tho Kt, Rey, Bishop McLaren will adminis- ter the rite of confirmation at St. Anusgarius” Church at 10:30 u. m., and at the sume time ad- vance the Rev. Jonn’ Hedman to the priesthood. —The Rev. A. A. Fisk, of Harvurd,will officiate in St. Andrew's Church, northeast corner West Washington and Robey streets, at I 7:80 p.m. . ~The Rey. W. A. Mosher will officiate tn eines Church at 10:45 a. th. No evening serv- e. BAPTIST. The Rey. A. K. Parker will preach in the - Fourth Church in the morning and the Rev. E. 3B, Hulbert will preach in the evening. —The Rev, W. M. Lawrence will preach in the morning and the Her. Kerr B. Tupper in the evening in the Second Churck, corner Morgan and Sonroe streets, —The Key, Kerr B. Tnpper will preach in the Church of the Messiuh at J p. m. —The Rev. Mr. Meyer will preach morning and evening in the First German, corner Bickerdike and Huron strects. —The Kev. J. B. Sunh will preach morning” and evening in the First Norwegian Church, coruer Nobio and Obio streets. —The Rey. Johit Oagman will preach morning and evening in the First Swedish, corner, Oalc and Sedgwick streets. . —The Rev, D.-B. Gunn will preach in tho South Lock Street Church at 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 P. _—The Rev. Joseph Rowley will preach in the North Star Church, corner Division and Sedg- wick strects, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:50 p. m. —The Rev. J. 'f. Burboo will preach in the University Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the West- ern Avenue Chureh, corner of Warren avenue,, at 030 a.m. and 7 p.m. > ‘he Rey, W. H. Parker will preach in the Coventry Street Church, corner of Bloomingdale road, 20 10:80 a. m. and 7:30 p. mo. —The Kev. R. De Baptiste will preach in Olivet Church, coroer Fourth avenue and Taylorstreet, atila.m. and 7:45 Bi m. ~The Rey, A. K. Parker will preach in the Centennial Church, cornnr Lincoln and West Juckson streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. ~The Rev. E. 0. Taylor will preach in the Cen- tral Church, 290 Orchard street, near Sophia, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~The Rev. G.C. Lorimer will preach ih the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-first street,at 11 a. m. and 7:80 p.m, Morning subject: ‘The Economies of Missions.” Evening: “ Divine Goodness in Human Suffer- ing.” Baptism at close of evening service. METHODIST. : The Rev. Dr. Williamson will preach in the First Church, corner of Clark and Wrshinzton Streets, at 10:30 a.m, and 7:00 p.m. Morning subject: “The Foremost Question of the Hu- man Soul Unanswered Save in the Word.” Evening subject: “A vractieal View of ‘Tempta- lon. —tThe Rev.G, R. Van Horne will preach in the Michigan Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-sec- ond street, morning and evening, the respective subjects being tention the Ultimate Stand- ard of Judgment” aud * The Good Soldier." —The Rey. Robert D. Sheppard will preach atGrace Church, corner of North La Salle and White streets. Morning subj “Sin and Sorrow.” Evening; * Excuses.’ 5 ‘The Rev. J. J. McLaughlin, pastor, will preach in the Jackson Street Church, corner of Ouleaby, morning and evening. —The Rev. George Chase will preach in the Fulton Street Church, corner Artesian avenue, morning and evening. Subject at the latter service: “Stepben, the First Christian Martyr.” —The Rey. A. C. George preaches morning and evening in the Centenary Church, on Mon~ roe, near Morgan street. —The Rev. A. Gurney, D. D., preaches morn~ ing and evening in the Ada Street Church. —The Rev. J. W. Richards preaches morning and evening in Emmanuel Church, corner Har- risoa and Paulina streets. t bi —The Rey. J. Lenebarger preaches morning and evening in Grant Pince Church, corner Lar- _rabec street. —The Rev. R. M, Hatfield, D. D., preaches morning and evening in the Langley Avenue Church, near Thirty-ninth street. —The Rev. Joseph Caldwell will preach in the Halsted Street Church, No. 780 South Halsted street, at 10:3 a. m, ana 7:30 p.m. ~The Rey. T. R. Strobridgo will preach Avenue Church, corner Hovey . m. and 7:30 p. m. ony" Phelps will preach tn St Derry 0 Rev. J. W. Phelps Paul's Church, Maxwell erent near New! avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. . ~The Rev. J. H. Alling will preach in the Simpson Church, Bonfield street, near Archer avenue, at 10:3) a, m. and 7:30 p. m. —Tne Rev. W. Thatcher will preach in the State Street Church, near Forty-seventh, at 10:0 a. m, and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. Frank M. Bristol will preach in the Wabash Avenue Church, corner Fourteenth street, at 10:50 4. tm. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. J. M._ Catdwell wilt preach in the Western Avenue Church, corner Monroe street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rey. W. Craven will preach in the Win- ter Street Church at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. H. Kellogz will preach in Asbur Chapel, on Kossuth street, at 10:30 «. m. and 7 . —The Rev. B. Bell will prenee in the Dixon Street Church morping and evening, s —The Rev. O. H. Cessna will preach in the In- diana Street Church morning and evening. —The Rev. W.'T. Hobart will preach. in the Jackson Street Church morning and evening. —Tbe Rey. F. Porter will preach in the Lin- ~ .coln Street Church morning and qvening. ¢ Rey. W. B. Norton will preach fa the Mile waukee Avenue Church morning and evening. —The Rev. J. M. Wheaton will preach in Northwest Church morning and evening. —The Rev. J. J. Keller preaches morn and evening in the German Church, No. 485 North Ashland avenue. * z —The Rev. J, Schell preaches morning and evening in the Emmunuel Church, corner. and Nineteenth streets. PRESBYTERIAN. 2 8 The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach in the . Forty-tirst Street Church at 10:45 a. m. |. athe Rev. W. A. McCorkle, D.D., of Prince- ton, N. J., will preach fg the Second Church, cor- ner Michigan avenue And Twentieth street, in the morsing, No evening service. ~The Rev: SE. Wishard preaches morning and evening in the Fifth Church, corner of- In- diana avenue and Thirtieth street. - ‘. ~The Kev. H. M. Collisson will preacttin the Fullerton Avenue Church, coraer%of, Clark street, morning and evening. . —The Key. McAtec preaches morning ‘and evening in tho Eighth Church, corner Wasbing= ton and Robey streets. —Prof. £. L. Patton, D, D., preaches in Jeferaa a al |