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13 SUNDAY, APRIL 1881 —TWENTY PAG RELIGIOTS. The Sunday Chapter—Fate of -Theological Books—Rise and Fall of Sects. Matthews, Brothers, and Sevi, Three Remarkable False Messiahs. The Latest Means of Converting the He*hen—The Lash, Rifle, and Bible. . .+ Frigitful Scandal in the Mis- sionsiy Department of the Seoteh Church. Burdette’s Discovery that In- gersoll Is More Orthodox than Infidel General Notes, Pefsonals; Sun- day Salad, Services To- Day. IME COMING. ) beart that is dreary, G <oul that is weary, There’s n better time coming for you. ¥ork on uncomplaining, the goal you are gain- g, dhere’s a better time coming for you. Tolt on! toil on! 1 Ere day be gone, g \ _There’s work in the vineyurd to do. \Fhen your labor Is doue for the crucified Son, \ Thero's a better time coming for you. The moments are tyieg, tio daylight is dying, There's pienty your tine to employ. - our pathwey pursuing, Prociaiming the tidings of joy. . e Toil on? teil on? . lie rone, ! in the vineyird to do. ¥ben your lubar is done Tor the crucified Son, Thert's i Letter time cominy for you. BETTER Sainto the highways, go into the by-ways, And bringe 1he lost sheep 1o the fold. our Labor of love to tho Father above s better thun sliver or gold. oil on! toil on! re day be gono, 's work in the vineyard to do. pur lator is done for the crucified Son, Detter time coming for you. Jow sweetthe 1o Through the 1a What J0F W oy see v From & s@id of con 1 Toil on? toii onl “Xore duy be There's work in the viucya When your lubitr is doue for the crucifled Son; ‘There's a berter time cmnlnt- lor you. ) Bre MILLARD AVESTE STATION, CHICAGO. THE SCXDAY CHATTER. SCE—TR: ADAMITES AND OTHER INFLU SECTS. C.T.Congdontn Neww Tork Tribune. “Among the curidities of literature there are none mwore curibis than religious books. Perhaps it is not 4 the credit of human nature that of all comaratively rare volumes such are the most eagy obtainable. Iloves- ilgate any heap of miselfaneous rubbish ex- hibited in front of anoj-book dealer’s shop and hialf of the dugy, proken-backed, stained, and dog’seaé specimens will be of the pious variety. Thee, offered at five- pence apiece, or perhagat tenpence, scemn to be begrzing for buveryiyyain. Frequent- 1y they are in particulat¥ Yood order, as If they had been bought frofiq sense of duty, ——-——ana—teft unread {rom a sgse of disgust. © Voyages and travels, twances, histo- ries have, it is evident'peen assidu- ously perused, but the wepoirs and journals of good men andiwomen, the confessions of queer and unusiy faiths, the peppery poleniies, the long-windy sermons, have about them a disreputabls freshness and the newness which comes of lyying been handled altogether too Tespectfily, Some of the scarcest of these volumes nh,' written in defense or exposition of those wspeuka- biy absurd notions which from the b&inninz lias kept up tie multitudinous bned of schismatics/ and _scetaries. Nubody,juntil T\he has lovked a little into the maties, can | ell how uumerous this has been; nor how mivnkind has, In the most jmportant of Jju- man, affairs, been befooled, bewild=set TOZ- ened,“and sisled; how, eyasfmong thoss who havs done the miyerifef, and have beck- oned thel- fof]ow-crestures into ditches, con- sclence ‘@ pej¢ pnitclligent, has been the sruide, whif, Junatic sincerity stretched out its tremblipg arus and eagerly prayed for martyrdg. The knave who plays upon the credulity of his victims while he despoils them in tie name of Heaven of their tem- ol n cheerally send to prison; lunaties. 1 aun nok sure that it would be worth while 1o write ahistary of the sveis which have il disappeared throush the eizhteen renturies, but about the. labor in- «d Insucit an undriaking. there ean be no dispute. “Schism began early and has never ceged. icountered the other day in Dr. Ever’s treatise on ** The Operation 'of Yol the HolySpirit.” the following partial Jist of different prof s: *Cenernl Baptists, Particuld.: Anti-Mission Baptists, Free-Will DBaptists , . Seven! Six Prit i. Baptists, § sh _Baptlsts, River 13tthren, Campbellites. Winnebren- arians, Aznnonites. Mugeletonians, Seckers, IZicksite; Quakers, Gurneyite Quakers, Wil- herite Qimkers, Moravians, Alienites, Lift- ers, Anti-Lifters,” with thirty-four othérs. These, lupwever, are modern sects or divis- ions. Aitomplete list from the beginnins would fil a volume. When DBoyle, the philosopper, died, he settled by will a fund for. pregthers “*whe should preach ex- ressly || against — Libertines, = Athelsts Jews, d Socinlans,” these bein; 2y suppose, [the religion! or anti-religionists for wnpm' the: poud devisor had -the greatestidislike. “3len suck-in opinion,” says Jepemy Taylor, *as the wild asses do .:J without d}stmumsh‘m the whole- n the corrupted air.”” ‘The most as- d comprehensive dissenter of o Jhave read is mentioned by Father Huc, the missionary to China. “The Em- peror Tao-Kow-Ang,” he says, *sometime befose his accession to the throne, addressed 1v tle peoplea proclamation in which he passed_n review all the religions kuown in , the Empire—Christianity ~ included—and * tawe at Jast to the conclusion that they were 8l false, and thut one would = well to de- / &pise them altogether.” Pests- - ~% not worse than the deseriptio tian worl one time, £~ et jucth mianus, who is guoteu by Givbon. Christian religion,” e says, ** which itself is pure and simple, Coustantits confounded by the dotage of superstitution. Instead of reconciling the partics by the weight . of Lis “authority, he cherished and propagated by verbal disputes the dif- ferences which bis vain curiosity had excited. The highways were covered with troops of Bishops, galloping from every side to the assemblies, which they call Synods; and while they labored ‘to_reduce the whole sect to their particular opinions, the public establishments of the posts was almost ruined by their hasty and repeated journeys.”. \¥l ever will read the history of this period w be surprised at the minuteness and insigniti- cance of the differences which_set professors of the same faith by theears. Perhaps I may quote here as well as_anywhere Archbishop ‘Whately’s squib upon .religious perseccution: Old Futher Loogleps 2 Wouldn't say his prayers; > Take him Ly tie rignt leg. Take him by the left leg, ! Take him fast by both lexe, And throw bim down stairs. “There,” said the Archbishop, *“in that nursery verse you may see the epitome of the history all religious persecution. Father longlegs refusing to say the prayers that € - uilis- by Am- ** The Mies, it no;;1plm it to Jook up the religions’ /were dictated and ordered by hislittlety ld= regarded s 4 heretic and suffers om.” It is rather curious thatin the opinion of many wise and good _men, the first and most fatalof all eventsto the primitive relizion was the setting up, A.D. 151, of a -Christian Acadeiny at Alexandria, the first_master of which, Pantanus, bad abatidoned first Sto- jeism and then Platonisuy, and had been a Ciristian missionary in Judia. osheim says that Ammonids “adopted with such dexterity the doetrines of the Pagan philoso- phy,as 10 appeara Christlan to the Chiristians and'a Paganto the Pagans.” Ieligion be- came so much o matidrof learnting that, ac- cording to one writer, modest, plaiu people retired’and kept at due distance.” having uo sh_for *‘stoical and academical dic- The long story of heresy be- not Is it probable "that it Wwill ever 3 Yet it is o history which will often repeat itself In details, am will rather revive old errors and notions tiian invent new ones. Singularly eriongh, the first heretic whom we.eneounter is Marciol, who had the ideas of the Shakers about mnr- riage. 1le did not admit married persons to ), **considering it wrong to provagate wubject to the cruel dominion of the Alarciun_scems to have been a i 1lis disciples, convinced that this workd is a prey to_evil, ztied death as freeing them frow it, 'The era in the Tabit of beirig baptized frequently, Some of the Shiker writers have discovered Mavcion, and malke much of him, Indeed, they may say with truth that in the early days of the Churelt there was a strong party in the Chureh i favor of celibacy. On the other hiand, there was a great deal of mystic libert- inism, of which it is pleasant nei ther to read nor to write. Wiy One seet which arose and maintained itself during the second and third centurles is n- teresting as showing the _propensity. of folly or of mdness in a relizious garb to repro- duce If, or elsc to go from generatian to generstion_in lonesomeness or obscurity, with ve nal outbreaks. The Adamites of North Afriea, claiming the original inno- cenee of st to worship with no supertluity of clothes. The compilers of the PTalmud found a hundred absuzd fables about ] 5 Inall rel history lie was the prominent fizure. le was s feuved by the angels tnd enn, be concluded, repre: 4 w ado y every other living creature. The tictions coneerning him both’ in Catholic and inmumerable, and heretieal literature w Ul . lie oceupies & prominent position in the Gnos- tic and Aanichaan systems. The first Adam- ites were a natural result of this; bub it is strange to find then reappearing, es) ally in Bohemlz and Mora in the fifteenth centitry, winder the leadershio of a Frenchman named John Picard. M. Picard, we may be | sure, styled himself Adam, the Son of God. Though Zisea made -war upon ‘them vigor- ously, and ali but exterminated thew, they still exist in Austrin, and made trouble there when religi declared in 1840, The writer Travels” says there were many Adami neland, and that at placed in the mid- I antest part of that these poor ol ures had the to marry at all. It is somewhat re- markable that so many of the carly hereties should bavedenonnced wedloek. When old Mother Lec, the first Shaker, sel up such doctrine, verhaps had no idea how old it was—this mouldy thongh not-venerable io- uon of the Tatianists, the Aporactaci, the Excalceati, not to mention a dozen other s Celibrey was long re- garded 1 iau virtie, and sub- sequently as a priestly qualificanon. - In the time of Cyprian, the comparative merits of martyrdom and colibagy were rated as-one hundred _to sixty. St Patrick, in the fifth century, in a more _claborate classi on, rates Bishops and doctors of the Church, single women, at_one hundreds mo and ec ties in general and widows professed at si vhile the faithful laity only stand at thir Muny of the Fathers have ex- travagant notions upon Lhis subjeet. 1 find the Shaker doctrine upon this point well set forth in a curlous bouk, entitled: **The "festimony of Christ’s Second Appearing. Published by order of the Ministry. Union Ohio. 18237 In this odd work I artin Luther described as *a damna- an,” “a iserable sinner,” and *an imperions and persecuting tyrant,” his prin- cipal offence apparently Leing that he mar- ried the excellent Catharina von Bora. FALSE MESSIAHS. THREE REMARKABLE SPECIMENS. An interesting history might be written of False Messiahs, and especinlly of Sabatai Sevi, who about the muddle of the seven- teenth century appeared at Smyrna and pro- claimed himself to the Juws astheir Messiah. Evelyn suys that ** the report of Subatai and his doetrine flew tinough those parts of Turkey which the Jews inkabited; they “were so decply possessed of their new king- dom and their prourution to honor, that none of tuem attended to business of any kind, except to prepare for a journey to Jerusalem.” Unfortunately Sabatai was so zealous that he was locked up in the Castle of Abydos, where, we are told, “ he composed a new mode of worship.” He was carried to’ Adrianople and bis divinity put to a singular test. The Grand Seignior ordered him to be stripped naked ana set up as n tardet for the archers to shootat. 1f his skin proved arrowwproof his pretensions were to be adm d. Upon this Sabatai ue- knowledgwd himself to be a humbug, and to ne~a ljjs life verged Turk, declaring that he had I0BE voen deSlians 6f making 5o gloriots a profession. ‘The Jews, who were all ready to start for Jerusalem, were mush ehiagrined this proceeding,—the historfas ;says that they “were overcome with confusky arid de- Jection of spirie.” N Richard Brothers was one of the lastng tye False Messiahs, and he made a good de] of noiseand not a few converts in Knglyd towards the close of the‘last century. Y undertook to restore the blind to sight; hy suw visions; he emitted prophecies; he pub- Jished a new Gospel, entitled, A Revealed Kuowledre of the Prophecies and Times,” Among his disciples was Sharpe, the cele- brated eneraver, together witha Mr. Ilalked, AL I, whoissaid tohave been 2 man of consid: erable learning. They loc] Brothers up in he madliouse, whege he became enamored of Miss Cott, who had been in the same place, to whom he wrote a love-letter of 200 pages, ).niz ler in it, **the recorded daughter of ng 35\\10, and future Queen of the He- brews.” Afterward, when he became still more enamored, be called her “the recorded daughter of David and Solomon,” from which we may infer that he Was erazy in- deed. Richard died in Bedlam. One last example of religious pretension will bring us nearer hoine. Jobert Matthews, Dbetter known as Matthias, came to New York 10 work as a house-carpenter, and was mar- ried in 18, About 1529 he began to preach in the strects of Albany. e permitted his beard to giaw; he wore grotesque elothing; he was repeatedly arrested for making a dis- turbance; he professed to bea Jew; he de- claimed against Freemasonry; sometimes he mounted an old and half-starved horse. When Matthews cameto New York he found several respectable men and wowmen already half crazed by religious delusions ready to receive him. e declared to them that “ he Jwas the Spirit of Truth; that the Spirit of Truth had disappeared from the earth at the death of the Matthias mentioned in the New Testament; that the Spirit of Christ had en- tered into that Matthins, and that he_was the same Matthias, the Apostle of the New Testament, risen from the dead.” Of course he obtained converts. Some of them were rich, and they spent their inoney frecly in making the knave comfortable and in dressing him 0:(pe_nsl\'el§. Among other things he wore “arich siiken scarf, inter- ven with gold, from wliich were suspended ve golden tassels, emblematical of the twelve tribes of lsrael” ~ He denounced swine’s flesh.” “If you eat a piece of x?ark, he said, ** it will go crooked through ou, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, ut one or the other must leave the house po The result of all this' tom- futic. s was that the principal disciple was sent to Bloomingdale Lunatie Asylum, while the prophet was consigned to Bellevue. Here he was shorn of his favorit beard, the loss of which he greatly lamented. At’ Blooming- dale his diseiple came gradually to his senses. Datthews was released from Bellevue Hos- pital, and_continued thereafter to preach with undiminished energy. Some of his dupes conveyed their property to him, and then wentluto insolvency. Ultimately he was found out and discarded ; and being suspected of poisoning oneof hisdupes, hie was arrested d brought from Sing Sug to New York for amination. Subsequently he was tried for indling, and appeared at'the bar **in lhis richestand most fantastic gurb, with his pink-lined green coat, crimson sash, Iace ruf- fles at his wristbands, a silver sun- upon _his left and stars of the same metal on the right side of his breast.” The indictment was abandoned, and Matthews taken to West- chester tobe tried for the poisoning, but upon this charge he was found not guilty. A complaint was immediately made against fiim for beating his marrled” daughter, and upon this he was foind guilty and sent to prison for three montls. 4 £ htis ease of Matethows maile o great holse I Sew York at the tine of Ll eventss and the newspapers were full of it OF the sub- sequent enresr of she prophiet 1 know notit- ing, except that he aied in Arkansas, Thnse who woulth hdve further information tou- cerning him are referred to Mr. William L. Stone's interestiig book, entitled “ Matthias anil His Impostures: or. the Progress of Fa- naticism. New York; 18357 QUEER MISSIONARIES. SCOTCH CHURCI METIIODS FOR 'CONTE] ING AFRICA—THE LASI, THE RIFLi, THE BIBLE, TUE FLAMBEAU. The religlous papers of Great Britain conie laden with 2 missionary scandal from Central Africa such as has not beer heard of sthce the days of the Englisl mission to the South Sea Islands. The facts, as we iind them con- densed in the London Christian World aid in the New York Independent, uve bricfly these: . 1In 1876 the Chureh of Scotland undertook to found a Christlan colony on the Shite River, near the southern end of Lake Nyas- sa, Central Africa. Land was purqhz\sed, and a medical missionary, Dr. Macklin, and five artisans were sent out. The Free Church Alission at Livingstonla, in the samé region, was to supply the new enterprise with a tem- porary clerical head. This it did for about o year, when tne new mission, wh been named after Dr. Livineston’s place, Blantyre, received in ordained mis- sionary direct from Scotland in the person of the Rev. Duff Macdonald, who,*for suflicient cause, as will appear, has been recalled, A Mr. Chirnside, of London, has been traveling in Central Afriea on comtnercizl business, and he saw enough as an Englishman and a Christian to make his blood boil and his face tinge with shame fov our boasted Christian givilization, When he returned home in 1878 lie published a pamphlet giving details of the cruelties pricticed by the missionary colo- nists upon the iznorant savages whom they had gone to convert. Tiils pamphlet ereated quite a stir in religlous and missionary cir- cles in Great Britain, and the religious press demanded a thorough investigation, be- cause, as they said, if the facts were as al- leged, or if the Blantyre methods of evangel- ism were adgpted for-all the missionary so- cieties, not £100 coutd be gathered In Great Britain for any nnssionary societies in ex- istence. The indignant feeting of Christen- dom repudiates and stigmatizes such heart- less and irresponsible conduct. " ¥ The Blantyre colonists, it appears, thought that their possession of territory carried with iteivil and ecclesiastical rights, and they justified themselves on that score and were Justitied also in their conduct by the African Sub-Committee of the Missionary Soelety, who certainly ought to have known better and to have cautioned their agents that any display of physical force for the repression of crime or the redress of wrongs was con- trary to British law unless by the authority of a Consular agent or other representative of, the Crown. The Church of Seotland Mis- sionary Society could not ignore or write down the published seandals of their agents, and they sent out the Rev. Dr. Rankin to in- vestigate. 1le was accompanied by Mr, Pringle, an elder. who went at his own charge. ‘They have lately made their report to the Society, and the Society has laid al the facts befure the Commission of the Gen- eral Assembly appointed last May, Hence their pubtication In detailin the British retig- ious papers and also in the Independent, which gi more attention to missionary matters and displays more care in its selec- tion of such news than any other of our re- ligious exchanges. The case in its worst forms was made out against the mission colonists. Dr. Rankin and Mr. Prinzle give eleven instances of great cruelty practiced upon the natives by these Scotch Christians. ‘The illezal acts covered a period of nearly two years, and some of the worst were done under the eyes and sanction of the Rev. Mr. Macdonald. “Seven of the cases are Tor flogging, two for attacks on natives, one for an’ txecution, and one for allowing a boy hurt in a quarrel to die overnight unassisted. Two of the cases are dismissed for want of jurisdiction, but the other nine were fully in- vestizated. ' No.2, a * habitual robber and housebreaker,” was sentenced in 1817, by Mr., James Stewart, of the Li Slon, who was In charge of Blantyre at this time, to receive ninety-six lashes on the bare back,—sixty to be given at once, and thirty- six at an Interval of ten days, during which he was to be kept in the stocks. John Bu- chanan and George Fenwick, members of the mission. swore that after the sixty stripes Dad been laid on, the man’s back was rubbed with salt and water and he was flogered again a night or two after. At first the instrument used was a hammoek clew, but Mr. Stewart said that was not half heavy enough, and a whip of several ropes, attached to a stick and ending in knots, was ade and used. When the man_was discharged he was told never {o come back. for if he was seen in the place again any native would beat liberty io thrust him through with an assegal. Mr. Prinzle’s report stated that this man, after the first flogging, was put in the stocks in a house in- fested with a formidable species of ants. - 1t should be said here, however, that Dr. George Smith, of the :ree Church, sllezes nnfair- ness in Dr. Rankin’s and Mr. Pringle’s re- ports in what they say about the services of memibers ot the Livingstonla Mission at Blan- tyre. 1le speaks of Mr. James Stewartas modest, gentle, and of high Christian charac- ter, and quotes him as saying that he acted under orders of the Blantyre Committee of the Foreign Missions Committee, which were contrary to thoseln foree at i.‘\\-sg\gswuin. Ile was to exercisc criminal and eivil juris- diction. Hesays there was only“one case of serious punishment during the fifteen months g was in charge, and adds: ** The attemnpt to convert such_scholastic discipline as was administered while I was at Blantyre into & Vprecedent or sanetion on my part, or on the nart of the Chureh tolwhich I belong, of such (oings ns subsequently occurred at that sta- tien 1 utterly repudiate.” Xo. 3 was the case ot 2 man who received six lashes for threatening to stab another. No. 4 was ol several natives who were flogzed for stealing snd immorality. Mr. Ilender- son, of the Cemxral African Trading Company, said that he saw qne of them receive eighty Jashes from a whiv of hippopotamus hide: and he was told by Alr. Reid, of Livingstonia, that the Rev. Dufl.Macdonald had flogged anotier u)p“\'mluu manner—~Nus8" was of the flogglug of - three boys, who were tied to a tavle in the school-room. ‘The saddest case in the list, says Dr. Rankin, was that of No. 6. A; man named Kattawalla was charged with opening a boxand stealing some beads. In less balf an hour, according to Mr. Ilenderson, after he was suspected he was tied to a tree and stripped and flozged under the superintendence of Mr. Macdonald and Mr. Buchanan. New whips were used, and the man was dreadfully cut on his neck, back, legs, and cheeks. Then he was taken down the road and flogged again, to make him show where tne beads were. He was kept in the stocks several days, whence he was -brought out to see the execution of Manga, and there flogzed again. was after- ward ascertained that the man was entirely innocent, and that M. Moir had opencd the box 'and taken the beads, and neglected to indicate the fact on the invoice. In the seventh case—the execu- tion of Manga for murder—the evidence, says Dr. Rankin, was “extremely slender, according to a European standard, but would probably be fairly satisfactory in a_trial be- fore a native Chief, direct evidence in Africa I.vemg.lmlyle to the system of Irish revenge.” Ar. Macdonald presided at the trial, and the man was shot by the natives. As respects the statement made to Dr. Rankin, that Dr. Laws, of Livm;:smnxat approved ot the exe- cution of Manga, Dr. Laws says that he was atr Blantyre when the murder was com- mitted; but the murderer was not even known then. Tle gave no advice, and, though he might have said in the course of conver- sation that murderers ought to_be punished with death, he had no recollection of saying ‘tlhx;v. :nelmissim Rrieiau,fl;hn to executea mur- erer. 1n cuse No. 8, a carrier, charged b AIT. Walker with having solen h box g'f: tuai received 275 lashes, was tied by the legs to rings in the store, and died the next morning, . Henderson was told by Dr. Macklin_ to say that he died of heart-disease. Mr. Mac- donald said that Walker came to him and said he wanted to give the man “a touch.” Mr. Macdonald- said do so: “*Do so, ihe man is in your charge” He was flogged by °Mr. Walker and by .the natives indiscriminately. Cases 9‘ and 10 were of raids on neighborin Chiefs. At three different times an arme band of men went out from Blantyre, once under the lead of Mr. Macdonald, tothe village of Mitiochi, who had stolen some calico. In these attacks eight of Mitiochi’s g?uple were shot or died afterward. fir. acdonald is said to have given instructions to fire the village and take the Chief prisoner. Dr. Macklin led an armed party against a ivingstonia Alis-- small. Chiet named Sanganise. On hi prodch_the people Acd to the Bush ard he fited five hits, The visit had refercnce to the punishment of 4 murderer. = - = Whit a ?)re'cluus Igt of Christlang to repre- sent the Prince of Pencé aiilung heathen tribes! And Dr. Raitki; after presenting ail the mitigiting circumsiancesin each case, wave Nifs opinjun that cruelty appeared In dily two cises, Nog, 0 and B, Mr: Pringle, ligwever, bxpressed the belief that * native fulo has proved to be the more humane, wbre - just, iord . consistent, and more giective.” The convener of tlie Forvizit Missions ~ Comniittee, = Dr. = Herdman, reported tlie findings of that Committee to be that, aithough there werd extenuating - eitcunistaiices, 'Messrs, Mac- donuld; Blichanan, anid Fenwick should be reealled. Dr. Macklin, the medical tiission~ ary, llOfi‘hi\Vln‘; beei conneeted with the DBiantyre Mission for a year and 2 half, could not be punished with a reeall. One of the whips with which the flozzing was done is In M. Chirnside’s possession. It Is sickening, says the London Christinn World, to read the <etails of Hiese outrages, and, worse still, it briigs 4 burning blush of shaime to the cleeks of every holiest man and loving woni- an In England. No wonder then that the Scoteh Assembly Comittissioh record ** with thi deepest rezret that varionsacts of eruelty, retaliation, and Indiseretion have been com- witted by several of thelt agents.” The re- citll of those agents is & very eagre punish- ment for such barbarism, and it is hoped thut the civil and eriniinal laws of England will lay its hands upon those murderers of hielpless but innocent heathen. Very perti- nently the Independent asks, “Is that the way to preach good tidings? s that the way to concilinte the lheathen? Is that Chris- tianity 27 INGERSOLL’S CREED. A DISCOVERY THAT JE IS QUITE ORTHODOX AFTER ALL. ¢ s Robert Burdette. Some one sends us a littie tract containing epigrammatic expressiohs front Col. Robert G. IngersolP’s latest lecture, **What Must We Do to Be Saved?” We have read the tract and we have read the entire lecture. If this is truly Ingersoll’s creed, the Colonel isw’t 5o far out of the way. He is coming avound, maybe, Ile mannges to et consid- erable Scripture into his creed, as he sets it forth. There is lots of hope, in fact there is a great deal of certainty for the Colonel. We subjoin a few articles of this great man’s ereed, just to sliow from what book he got his deciaration of faith. “Honest industry is as good as plous idle- ness,” says the Colonel. - Well, that's all right. That’s orthodox. The Bible says thé smne thing, and said it long before the Colonel thought of it,— “Faith without works is deal.” “Chyist believed the temple of God to be the heart of man.—Ingersoll. ' Yes, that’s orthodox, roo. We *must wor- ship hiw in the spirit.”” “Know ye not that ye are the temples of the Iloly Ghost.” “3f I gotoleaien T waiit to take my rea- son with me.”—Ingersoll. Of course, and so you will, *for now we see through a glass darkly, but there face to faces now I know In part, but then I shall know even s I amknown.”’—L1. Corinthians, ik, 12 g “ Fenr Is a dagger with which hypoerisyas- sasinates the souk”—Ingersoll. That Is good ' Gospel, and “perfect love casteth out fear.” . . «If 1 'owe Smith $10, and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.”—Ingersoll. Correct you are;’ the prayer of Christianity is *forgive us our aebts as we forgive our debtors,” **Oweno man anything.” “ Reason is thelight of the soul, and if you haven’t the right to follow it, what have you the right to follow ?’—Ingersoll. “Yet in the charch I had rather speak five waords with juy understanding, that by my voice I might teach others ‘also, than 10,000 wards in an unknown tongue. Brethren, be not children in_understandi howbeit in malice be ye chikiren, but in understinding be men.”—1. Corinthians, xvi.. 19, 20, “1f you go to Hell, it will be for not prac- ticing the virtues which the Sermon on the Mount proclaims”—Ingersoll. That's ult orthadox, *If ye know these things, happy.areye if ye do them.” The men whoSaw the miracles all died long ago. i = 1 wast’t acquainted with any of Jem.”’—Ingersoll . Samie way with the men who saw Servetus burned. But the Colonel most firmly believes that Servetus was burned. A little miracle now, right here—just a little one—would do more "toward the ad- vancement of Christianity than all the prfl:'mhu:g of the last thirty years.”—Inger- 80l Tf they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.”—Luke, Tvil., 31, “ 1 there is a God in the universe Ile will not damn an honest man.”—Ingersoll. “ A false balance.is an abomination unto the Lord ; but a just weight Is Hisdelight.”— Proverbs, ., 1. * _ ‘“There is only one true worship, and that i# the practice of justice.”—Ingersoll. * Render, therefore, unto Ceesar the things which be Cresar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.”’—Lake, a2, 25. “ God will not damn a good citizen, a good father, or a good friend.”’—Ingersol Certainly not; norany good man. “ A good man showeth favor and lendeth; he will guide his affairs with_discretion, Surely. he shall not be moved forever; the righteous shall be held in everlasting re- membrance.”—Psalns, xxik,'5 6. * Study the religios of the ‘body in prefer- ence to the religion of the soul. A healthy body will give a healthy mind, and a healthy mind will destroy superstition.”—Ingersotl. That _explains why the Indians have no superstitions, i ' People who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about 'saving them.”—Inger- soll. 1 Of course, Colonel; they are the hardest kind to save. G “] will never ask God to treat me any fairer than I treat my fellow-men.”—Inger- sol. § ‘Well, that's perfectiy orthodox. *For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heaven- 1y Father will also forgive you; but if ye for- give not men their tiespasses, neither will your Father forgive yqur trespasses.” “ For with ab d)udgmunc ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with -whit measure ye mete, it -shalfl be measured out 1o you.” - “Upon the shadowr shore of death, the sea of troubls easts no wave.’—Ingersoll. - The Colonel must Iave been singing that good old hymn, “Whex 1 can read my title clear,” in which occur the lines: And not a wave )f trouble roll Across my peactful breast. GENERAL NOTES. The American Hebiew Congrezational Convention will meet inthis clty in June. Since1871 gver %00 Huddhist temples in Japan have been divertel to secular uses. A very active revival i§ In progress in Liy- ons, N. Y. ‘At last accounts 300 brands had been plucked from the burning. The Abingdon, Ill., Church, which has, until recently, been a Cumberland Presby- terian Church, has voted unanimously to be- come Congregational, and has called the Rev. W. J. Clark, formgrly of Loda. “The Society of the Royal Law” is the felicitous name of an association of Protest- ant Episcopal ladies engaged in Christian and benevolent work in New York. It has grown out of the deslre for active usefulness -among Cliristian women. A mob attacked the English Wesleyan Mis- sion house at Marsala, Sicily, and burned it to the ground. After completing the work .of destruction the populace entered the Ca- thedral and were bjessed by the clergy. The Government is acting eergetically. The tower of St. Peter’s Church in Alban: cost_$40,000, and i3 the gift of one wenlth% fawily. It contains a chime of eleven costl bells, the gift of ome liberal indlvldunE Three or four of its magnificent stained windows cost $2,000 m'%.ow apiece. The Presbytery of Chicago will hold its annual meeting on Monday, April 11, 1881, at 10:30 o’clock a. m., in the Kifth Presbyterian Ghureh, corner of Indiana avenue and Thir- tleth street, Chicago.. Records of church sessions, statistical reports, annual assess- ments, and written reports of all standing fg:lmmees are to be presented at this meet- - The Lenten services in St. Paul’s Univer- salist Chureh, Chicago. will be as follows: April 4, the Flight of Time; April 5, God’s Helpers: April 6, "Religious Conversation; April 7, Life in the ‘Lords April 8, Our Lor on Earth; April 9, Our Lord in Heaven; -Avpril 11, the Christian Church; April 12, the Humility of Christ; April 18, Wayside Op- glass pril 1 April 15, Good Friday; April 16, U 1 To-Morfow: Thesé_ services conimelice pre- cisely ab 4:30, and continue from thirty to forty ininutes: The meeting is freé to all. 1t is now estimated that, the umber of converts resulting from the Moody and Sankey meetings in San Francisco is more than 2 thousand. Most of these have joined churches in that city. ‘The meetings have continued for more than four mEnhs. Moody abnounees his intention of rosting during the summer at his home in N orthfield, Mass, = The Church Missionary Society ias rc- cefved an_offer. from Mr. Avthington, of Leeds, of $25,000, the income of which they ;| A Wwill be at liberty to wards - caining 4 steamer and staff & Lipner Biuné and Lake Tehad, Tui = . 1 8 to Mr. Arthington, tha Socier se o dun inforin him that the amount -~ #uf- ficient for the purposes mention... Dr.Curry, in an essay on Christian 7 ties, says that many of much eele points of theology are “only speculs whose first truths re little more than g es, and Whose conclusions are valueless cause they rest on uncertain assumptio first_truths. . The doctrine of the “Frinity, Dr. Curry suys, is neither reasonable nor un- reasonable, simply beeause it is superration-, al, and, therefore, all speculations about it are on the one hand unphilosophical and on the other verging toward profunity. Although Christfanity in New Zealand is reported as being in a flourishing condition, with churches of nearly all the leading de- nominations. yet the aboriginal Mzoris of that country are dying out. Civilization has been too wineh for them, They never were a very robust people. Iuropéan stimulunts have done much to lower their standard of morals. ‘They are carcless as to their food and clothing, and their- personal habits are unpleasantly filthy. In Seventeen years the Muori popuiation has fallen off 20 per cent. The Lamapatam Theological Seminary is a Baptist institution, where native Iindoos are educated for the Baptist winistry. ‘Fhe Calcutta Times says that about 178 uiz men are now stndents in this establishment. A number of theseyoung men are married. Taving to spend so'inuch of their time in studies that they uo leisure hoursin which to earn money to Jive on, their wives help them - to make a living, In afew cases the wives also pursue tho theological studies, keeplng pace with their husbands in a thorouably creditable manner, This system, althoush it has not been Introduced “into our theolog- ieal seminarles, might be tried with ad- vantage, The wife is thus made special partner in her husband’s attainments, and is able to render him valuable assistance in his sermons. The Chureh. Tinies (English High Church) zrants for the suke of argument that the Archbishop of Cauterbury is right in calling” Ritualism *“Semi-Romanisu.” ™ But Iy.” it rejoins, *if the halfywhich is not Roman includes national autonomy, an open Bible, vernacular services, and congreza- tional worship; a_marrled clergy, and the abolition of compulsory confession; if it in- cludes the rejéction of pureatory, indulzen- ces, invocation of saints, the religious use of images, the worship of relics. and the trafiic in masses; if it, in short, involyes the hearty acceptance of the Prayer BooK and Articles —the most reverend prefate must adinit that nlf-Popery is so utterly ditferent a thing from Popery pure and siinple that nothing he could say respecting the one would be in the Jeast applicable to the other. We are quite willing to grant, if any one likes, that our Churchmauship is Madified Popery, but then it is Popery tnodified in the precise manner and to the precise extent that the Ref- oxx;m:\fisn Settlement was intended to bring about. The tenth.annual meetinz of the Woman’s BnYtnst Mlissionary Society of the West will be held in the First Baptist Church, In this city, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 13 and'14. The reception of delegations from sister societies, annual report ot the Board, and of -State Secretaries, addresses by re- turned missionaries, addresses by Dr. Lori- mer, mission work in Sunday-schools, a pa- ver addressed to young women. and a re- view, and reminiscences of ten years, closiuz up with a sucial reunion_on Thursday even- ing, will constisute an enjoyable nuniversary. Delegates comning by the Pittsburg, Cingin- nati & St. Louis, the Chicago & Eastern 11ii- nois, and the Michizan Central Railroads will apply for certificates entitling them to purchase tickets at one and one-third (125) rates, round trip, to Mrs. James S. Dicker- son, 3363 South Park avenue, who will for- ward them, with the usual cards of introduc- tion. To those who pay full fare to Chicago over other roads, certiticates will be issued by the Secretary of the Society entitling them t0 purchase return tickets atone-third the usual rates. 2 THOE REVISED TESTAMENT. There are several queer things about the Revised New Testament, says the New York Sun, the delay in the issue of which has called fortli so many curious questions, most of which have been met with unsatisfactory answers. One of the queerest statements is that made by the Rev. - Angus, who is one of the British revisers, Jr. Angus, w is one of the most ‘uinent of ¢ “iolars, says that “ the revised < .» was .ent over to America in its fina- <5 +1e American Dbrethren sent back . return - list of pas- sages in which they revord ““er preferences for other renderings than hose adopted by the English company. These, it _is under- staod, will be found at the end of the large edition of the Revised Mew Testament, to be issued by the Uni- * i’ presses.” It was thought by many L. .. ons that the American Conunittee of Re was simply a bobtail to the British his statement of Dr. Angus confirr - A the revised version comes over he. h the work of American scholars pinned vn in foot-note fashion. it is_ reasonably certain that Ameriea will have nothing to do with it Such an arrangement of passages about which there_is a_ditference will make the revised version very cumbrous readuns, and apart from other questions involved will make the book unvopular. 1f the preferences of any individual translators or revisers are to benioted on the margin or at the foot, all other such preferences should have been so arranged for the sake of uniformity. A cler- ‘gyman reading a_chapter from the revised version for the edification of his congrega- .tion will find his reading sadly interfered with by being compelled to turn to notes at the end of the book or to refer to marginal readings at the sides of the pages to see if he is giving his people the views of American revisers as well as British. It were better to delay the publication of the revised version for a dozen years than toissue it in such botehed form as contemplated in the state- ment made by Dr. Angus. ** CONDITIONAL DMMORTALITY.” . In the last dAlliance appears the following card from tha Rev, Josepl D. Wilson on the question of ** Conditiopal Iinmortality.” As I happen to be the subject of a communi- cation In your last issue, may L be Indulged in o few remarks? 5 Dr."Thomus’ communication glnyrully refers to mo as o * heretic.”” Although the ferm IS no longer opprobrious, and, of course, is not applied with any shadow of censure by the kind-hearted Doctor, it is still one from which [ shrink. 1do not hold views condemned by the standurds of the Refornicd Episcopal Church. Neither in its articles of . religion nor in it3 prayer-book does the Reformed Lpiscopal Church utter & syllable against the doctrine of the tinal destruction of tho. impenitent. Tho Protestant Episcopal Church alsu utters no condemnation of the doc-. trine, which has been beld for years by many of clergy. No duty, therefore, lies upon Bishop Cheney,—whatever his view upon the subject muy be,—or upon any member of tho Reformed Episcopal Church, to_ bring me to trial. 1have violated no vow; 1 bave departcd in no wise from the standurd to which Ibave given assent. Furthermore, the doctrine In question hug been held by ma for twelve years, and (s the re- sult, not of &n intellectual and moral rccoil from the fearfulness of the idea of eternul misery, butofa calm and unemotional study of the Holy Scriptures. The Seriptures uniformly con- dition life—iinmortal, eternal life—upon union with Christ. and 43 uniformly denounce destruc- don, death, and ‘perdidon wupon the ungodiy. & .y help. 1y prostrates him aud rend: eSS, s Tacult] ¢ as T as r, and his friends are _hobing for his restoration to health. i3 The Rev. Moses Marzohouth, LL. of Little Linford, England, knawi ne . thé finest Hebrew scholats of tha century, 18 dead, at the age of60. Bishop Mitchinson, Afglican Bishop of gned, and ceases 1o be Bishop in order !1 accept ™ the valuable. college living of Sibson,” and to assist the Bishop of Peterborongh. - The Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., hag been for fifiy-eight vears pastor of the Centre Congregational Churchof New Iaven, Conn., a duration of the |¢z\smg:\l relation perhaps Wwithout pfecedent in this conntry. ‘ The Rev. Dr. Van Zandt, of the Thenlozic- al Seminars at New Branswick, is aflicted With a cancer in the throat, which gives in- ¢ dications that it will probably prove 'ffix“d' The surgeous pronounce him beyond “their sailed from ] b nz wissionaries The following mis: e v T New York last week for Bra: J. Rans of Tennessee, who, after spend- ing five yearsin South America, returned e )smmne\g and fias traveled” exten- ugh the Southern eities arousing ions; the Rev. Junes ild, of_Seuth Ciroling, 1, 500 miles interior home last L. Roger, wife and ¢ who goes to Paracic from Rio Janefro, where Mr. Ransom is sta- tioned; Miss Mattle IL Watts, of Kentueky, gives up_her position as teacher in the fizh School of Louisville to take charge of a girl’s school in Paraci the Rev. James L. Ken- nedy, of Tenne seompanies M. Ran- g 0 the Third ‘Chrurch, corn Latlin streets. . . R —The Rev. Brooke Chureh of tho M e subjcy 2l “the Evening lecture: Tue Satacen s Sapgarisire: Sarseen “The Rev. George C. Min Uaity Chureh fn the Torcooa, " "N% h Us. LBy MISC! - 051 lecturs to e L5, 31 Wenr e o 1 3Ir. Donald Ross delf Side Gospel menting, street. on “God 2 Rai bow.” ut 3 p. will be heid a el mes 73 e, cutral Mevting of Felends wgis at 10:30 . in the Athems % Detbors strest, near Tandotag, Dl O Liberal lteunton ™ will bé helg 8 Tvo. 913 Weat Madison street 1 g L REG . AL Van Do Waltor by i in the GOsUE] Feuing v theth str nd Dortichd yads et 1 ark will lea@ the Gospel g Vel mecgg 4p, m. e =\ Spiritualisty’_inecting will bo belg West-End Opera-House, No. 43 Wee: street, at 3 p.mn. —{Be First Soctety of Spiritunlists wiy, Fairbunle Hall at 7:3) p. m. Mrs. (oo mond, trance speaker,” wiy tions from the audience wil be o ds, - & ne's Parlor, corner Wood and 1 1, interprerations through m-s'.m,‘\,,~ ‘ Wiy B sh lectures before Whs Fgs. Fite DOGLHRG OF £ ADIT Ty oy F™ W. Cook will lead the rdiivey, mectius, {1 the reading-room, corner Cugyy, Kinzie streets. 6.t —Elder T. W, Smith will speak to the Charch of Jjesus Cbrist of L 1 som to o, Miss Watts goes out nnder the auspices of the Woman's Foreimn Missionary Society, and the others are sent by the Gen- sionary Society of the Methodist scopal €hureh, South. SUNDAY SALAD. When that curfous woman ivas turiied into a pillar of salt, her Lot was nota happy one. —DBoston Transcript. Anegro one nizht at a meeting prayed earnestly that he and his brethren sight be preserved from what he valled thelr * Upset- tin’ sins.” * Brudier,” said one ot his friends, “you ain’t got de hang of that ar word. It's tbesettin*? not ‘upsettin’.’ ” ** Brudder,” re- pHed he, if dat’s so, it’s so. But I was prayin’ the Lord to save us from the sin of ’toxication, and if dat ain’t a upsettin’ sin, I donno what am.” " A ood prrson, who liad the happy faculty of saying a kind word foreverybody in whose Dbehalf one could possibly be said, recent of- ficinted at the funeral of a farmer who was known to be the meanest and most miserl hborhood, Insterd of exe- ed for his rtionate and nigigardly habits, this kindly di; posed clergy- 1nan simply spoke of him as ** the best arith- metieian in the county.”—Catskill Recorder. There is nothing quite so absurd as a liob- by-iorse, and yet every man has @ larger or sinalier one in the family stable: One never attempts to ride it but he makes himself ri- diculous. An illiterate preacher who, among otber falsehvods, believed that iuen are al- ways right and women always wWrong, was wont to declare that the five foolish virging who had no oil in their lamps were all woinen, while the five wise virgins wereall men. . % A winister ont in the Far West, who bas been troubled a good over marriage fues, issued the following circular and price list: *One marriage, plain, $2; ditto, Kissing the bride, 3; ditto, trimmed with one groomsman and one bridésmaid, 84; 50 cents extra for each additional groowsman or bridesmald. Bachelors past 40 will be charged extra. Maids of age, 10 per centum off. Mileagze will be charged in loug-distance matches, Liberal reduction to clubs. Pay- ments in vash; no notes or securities accept ed. No money refunded orrebates nade for poor moods. Come early and come often.” santeul, the Jesuit wit and poet, was an in- veterate card-player. One day he was sulm- moned to the puipit while engaged in a game r!que:. He got up, taking his cards with hi, and concealing them under his coat. Unfortunately, as he was preaching, he ex- tended his arms with a vehement gesture, and he let fall his cards, which flew in all di- rections about the chureh. The congrega- tion, of course, appeared much scandalized, but Santeul quietly called a child of some 10 years toward him, and said: **What is thot card which you hold in your hand 2 **The Queen of spades,” replied the boy. *And | which is the first of the three thenlogical vir- tues ?” “Idon’t know.” “Ahl! my breth- ren,” cried Santeul, with a burst of indizna- tion, “bebold how you teach your children the nawes of the cards, and neglect to teach them the virtues CHURCH SERVICES. ° BAPTIST. The Rev. W. M. Lawrence will preach morning and evening in the Second Buptist Church, cor- ner Morgan and Monroe streets. —The Rev. G. C. Lorimer, D. D.. will preach morning and evening In the First Church, South Park avenue and Thirty-tirst street. Morninz subject: ** Divine Consolition Mensured"; cvening subject: “Thou Art the Man.” CIIRISTIAN. Elder Miles witl preach morning and evening in the Church No. 51 South Green street. —The Rev. J. W. Allen will preach morning crating the di a and evening in the South Side Church, cornerof Prairie avenue and Thirticth street. —The Rev. 0. A. Burgess will preach morning and evening in the First Church, corper 1ndiana avenue and Twenty-{ifth street. —The Rev. J. H. Wright will preach in the Western Avenue Church, beiween Van Buren and Harrison streets, morning and evening. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. Frank P. Woodbury, of Rockford, will preach this morning in the South Cburch, corner f Drexel avenue and Fortleth street, and in the evening on * The Story of the Book.”™ - —The Rev. Cbarles H, Everest preaches morn- {ng and evening in Ptymouth Church, on Michi- gan nvenue, roulh of Twenty-fifth street. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. R A, Holland will oficiate in the Trinity Church. Morning subject: * Winning Souls,” Evening subject: * What is Hell.” —Bishop McLaren_will administer the rite of |/ confirmation in St. Mark’s Church at T:30 p. m.. | —The Rev. A. A. Fisk, of Harvard, will of-. ficiate at St. Andrew’s Church, Rubey and West' |, ‘Washington streets. / TLUTHERAS. The Rev. Willl 'm Ashmead Schueffer will preach iu the fer Purk Church, corner Hoyne |- avenue anfd Le Moyne street, at 10:30 a. m. —The Hev.- ocrner will preach morning and evening in the English Church of the Holy Trinity, corner Denrbora avenue and Erie streot. | METHODIST. t The Rev. John Williamson will preachin the | First Church, corner of. Clark and Washington | gtreets. Evening subjecti by request: ** How the Word of God Enlight¢ns the SouL.” —In the Michizan Avegue Church, near Thir- ty-second strect, baptismy recepdon of members, and administration of the Lord’s Supper in the morning. Evening subjéct: “The Rectabites, or tho Church and Temperance.”™ —The -Rev. Robert D; Sheppard. will preach morning and evening h\(inme Church, North La Sjg:lel?nu \FVIxiu‘:( streets. —The Rev. Frank M. BFistol will preach at 11 A m. and 7:30 p. m., at Wabash Avclime Cburch, corner Fourteenth street. 3 PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. J. . Worrall preaches morning aud ovenlng in the Bighth Courch, corner Washing- ton and Robey streets. 3 —The Rev. W. A. McCorkle will prenchin the Second Church, corner Michigun avenue snd Twentleth street, in the morning. No evening service. 4 —The Rev. Henry T. Miller will preach at g Sixth Church, Viucennes and Dukp nvenuls,u;% 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. —Charles M. Morton will preach in theevening at mahlimlrund Chapet, State strect and: Four- teenth. = —The Rev. E. C, Ray, pastor-elect of the Fi Cuten of Hrae BATE Wil proach there ng 10055 u. m. and 7:30 p. m. i The figurative, non-natural, and non-literal in- terpretation which has been pluced upon these waords i3 simply & melaachaly beritage from va- gan lhuught.lgflpetunled. with other pagan no- tions, by the Papacy. Respectfuliy, Josepx D, WILSON. PERSONALS, A call has been extended by the Hyde Park Presbyterian Church to the Rev. E. C. Ray, of Elizabeth, N. J. The Rev. C. D. Barrows, of Lowell, Aass., has declined a call to the First Presbyterian Chureb, San Francisco. The Rev. K. A. Sawver, of New Haven, Conn., has been called to the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Toledo. The Rev. Washington Gladden, of Spring- field, Mass.; is temiporarlly fillng the pulpit of the South Chureh in Hartford. Prof. Von Poezl, an Old Catholic and Pro- fessor in the University at Alunich, has been reconciled to the Church of Rome. The Rev. A. L. Stone, of San Francisco, i has been laid aside from ministerial duty by § a strange disease, which sometimes - sudden- REFORMED EI"]SC(‘PAI-: The Rt-Rev. Bishop Fallows will mornlog and evemng in St. Paul’s Cnuregflg:ic'? ner West Washington and Carpenter strcets Eventug subject: * Temptation aad Its Legal: ued:’:l;ellr; in li!lll‘:‘ g = ~The Rev. F. W. Adams wil preach morning and evening in the St Matthew’ -4 ner Centro dnd Clark sireets, Srhatoloon —Bishop Cueney will preach d evemng 1o Cbrist Church, mr:::l;fli'il}gmfln, svenue and Twents-Tourtt streot. Eveniig *-Huve We 2 Right t . o “&'fle“}fif"" i g o Pray For Te! —Bishop Coeney reach at 3:50 p. Church of the Good Sthncrd.us gl —The Rev. k. H. Busworth will Presbyterian Church, at ¥nglewout S§WEDENBORGIAN. The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach nt Hershd lclgll -n"'u a. m., on *“The Mission of ureh.’ : reach in th t3:45 pordl L UNIVERSALIST. by The Rev. W. H. Ryder will preach morn: ing and evening in 8t. Paul's Church, Michigun} s aveuue. ¥, - —The Rev. W. S. Crow will preach in_the. Church of the Redcemer, Washington and San-* gamon streets, at 10:3) a. m. : The Rev. E. L Galvin will preach this morn- ganiz Snints ing and evehing. *Signe of the Times g B e oniors 1 "tho Light of Prophesyes evening subject. i —spirituntists will celebrate the thi anniversiry At Grimes' Ball, So. 13 Souy street, at 3 p. nt. Tests, rappings. spiyg ruphy. Pablic invited. ol —Disciplizs of Christ mcet at 32) Wedt iy | streetat 4 p.m. TEMPERANCE. = The Womin's Christinn Teripera hold datly Gospel ‘meeting in Lower, Farwell Hallal o'clogk trances 130 dudison street and Arcags, The leaders for this week are: Monsg Cl;ucsd:u'_. Mrs. T. B. Cai Hagans: Friday. Mrs.. W. J. M, J. H. Caldivel.., —A Uospel meeting is beld in Good Hall, 1036 West . Lako street, every Sundiry p. m., conducted by the Woman's Christlag 1y, perence Tnion.” —Mr. Kenndes will conduct the tenpiiz, tngr at the corner Noble and Obio sty . & in_Castle Hull, No. 619 Lake sy Conyarse ol temperance meeting at Aventegy wenty-second street, atd p.m. — G No. X April 3—FIfth Siinday P April & Twents-ninth Day of Lent. Aprit 5—Tairtieth Day of Leut. Auvrll §—Thirty-frst Day of Lent. April 7—Thi cond buy of Leat. Apri y-third Day of Leat. Aprit 9-—Thirty-fourth Day of Leot: CATIOLIC. Apri} 3—Passion Sun April 4—St. Isidore, . C. D. April 58t Vinceat Ferrer, O April 6—Feri. . Aprij 7—Feria. 3, “pril &~ Scven Dotors of the B. V.30 April y—Feria. ——————— ABSENT. ! [IN MEMORY OF MY LITTLE PUFIL] {7 For The Chicagn Tribuaz, Amonz the faces of the little ekildren There was one fuce Sosweet und fair I cannot help but missft.: From its place. A hundred eyes are raised to mine eachmong; And yet, und yet e . How can [smile to great them, when my owags "Ienrs are wet? : i But yesterday a little child was with us; Her vo:ce. that clear £ And sweet sung ia the morning-bymn, wey Sore shail hear. 1 glance up from my book to hear her footis, Toseek her face; = Her name is on my tongue when [ remember &2 Her vacant place. A shadow on each schoalmate’s face hats fillG el baedbreath pon their trembliu, 3, 101 they togethe’. Spenk of death? P ¥ togetty On her desk her slate and book are lying: Yesterday 3 She left them there, with some word morrar. And—went gway, Never miore to come to me for lessor At His feet Who spake of old, “Si PP1itcic child: 1s ner seat. Pansies will the tiny grive grow over, In the Spring; But tears still drop upon the worn book- (A sacred thing) i From the sad eyes of the stricken mother. Cold and weak p Seem thie words of hope and consolation * We would speak. When I call the roil, the room I3 silent At her name: But 1 thouzht an echo, as I waited, Softly came, Flonting downward through the solemn quf Sweet and clear, : Like the missinz voice, from Heaven hightss 5, “ Present here!™ Queen Vic iu Tears. - . New York Sun. - % Private letters state that thero wss & m! receatiy at the mecting of the Privy coonall st Windsor. The Queen said sha woul@not giveus: Candabar, and Sir W. Vernon Jarcourtver: & quitely pointed out thar herujesty mustdoy 5 what her constitutional advissFs required berio} do. Wherenpon her Majese¥ began to cry, té; declared that, like Mrs Gummidge, shawsa; +lone lorn creetur now.” **She’s 3 thiokin the old un,” thox Sir William. “Sheltbf & . better presentlyr’ d she was better direotly;| apologized with dignity and feeling for ber moi. Dugeed) ! me&?flf weakness, and went oo with ough nothog had happened. 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