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tr, “ 20- RELIGIOUS. Prof. Roberts’ Reasons for the Changes in the New “.. Testament. Prof. Elliott’s Protest Against. _ His Forced Retiracy : -» from a His Chair. in the Presbyterian, “'. Seminary of. the Jorth- west. The Comic and Tragic Side of Cler~ °°" -jgal Infelicities Here and Elsewhere. Hodern Skepticism and ts, Arro- : gance Considered by a Layman. General Notes Abroad and at Home— Personal Mention—Sunday Salad. SIMPLY TRUSTING. Ido not guide my frazile bark; J could not steer clear of the strand, The raging walripools, shoals of sand; ‘And Lshould greatly fear the dark. ‘When billows high sround me roll, T should grow faint andsick with fears. My eyes would hold such floods of tears, should grow blind and lose control. And I should drift afar and near, The sport of every idle gale: 1, 100, some piraté-ship mizbt hail. |» "And then, uh me? what fate so drear? But now, I neither know nor care ‘Whether the sea be wild or calm, Whether the winds blow bane or balm, Gr wherber skies pe dark or fair. For there is One sits at the belm, “Who fears not shoals, nor storm. nor To port He'll safely guide my bars, Vv And suffer naught to overwhelm. THE CHANGES. PROF. ROBERTS’ REASONS THEREFOR. ‘The reasons for the changes which have been made in the authorized version of the New Testament, and which are_ set forth in the Revistd Version which we publish in its entirety to-day. have been set forth ina vol- ‘ume just from -the press, and by the pen of the Rev. Alexander Roberts, Professor of Jumanry, St: Andrew's, London, and mem- ber of the English Revision Committee, which is accompanied by a supplement by a member of the American Committee of Re- ‘vision. There appears to be nd doubt that the new revision is replete with the -correc- tion of flagrant errors, and the doing away with a good dealin the matter of fine shades of weaning that has proved a serious stuin- Dling-block to ‘students and other readers of this book of books. ‘i IN DISCUSSING THIS PILASE of the question, Dr. Roberts sa: “When we trace the parentage of our English Bible, _ and when we see on what a slender basis of authority it rests, when we confront with this the enormous wealth of material for set- . ting the true Greek text which we possess at ‘the “present day, and the amount of labor “which has been expended in applying them, we might well fear that. the alterations re- quirimg tobe made in the Bible. with which we have all our days been familar, should be of the most. revolutionary character. But such is- not the case.. No ducirine of the faith is in the slightest dezree af fected. False supports ofJ . important doctrines maybe removed, ~ and true defenses of then may be supulied, but that is all. - The Bible remains, for all _prac- tical purposes,totally unaffected. Enzlish Christians now know the utuost that Bibli- cal science demands. No suspicion need in future haunt them that scriptural truths Which: they love are insecure. More than this, every loyal Christian heart should sure- ly rejoice to have access in as pure a form as possiole to_the message sent us by our Father in Heaven. That is the great posi tive work which las. been aimed at by the New Testament Company, and the fulfill- Ment «of which is presented in the revised Yersion. English readers of the Scriptures have now an opportunity of making them- selves acquainted with the New Testament in a form more nearly representing the prim itive text than they ever had before.” _As is well known the transmission of the text.of the Scriptires depended for centu- ries upon manual transcription, and it is not - to be wondered at that many errors crept in, There are in the various manuscripts and versions fully 150,000 varieties of reading, many of which are of no greas importance, and the actual number: or vital ditferences may be reduced to perhaps 400. Prof. Ab- bot, Writing on this question, says that these “involve a difference of meaning, often very slight, or the oiuission or additionof a few swords, . sufficient to render them objects of some curiosity and_interest, while a few ex- ceptional cases among them may relative! be called important. But our critical helps are now so zbundant that in a very large ma- + jority, of these important questions of read- ‘ing we are able to determine the: true text witha \d degree of vonfidence.’, What re- ee joubtful we can afford to leave doubt- TAKING UP PROF. ROBERTS’ COMMENTARY on’ the new Revision, we find’ the great va- riety of. readings arising from the following, among other causes: First, from the mistakes of copyists; such mistakes as oceur even in the printing of modern books. For example, at L Timothy, 1,4, the authorized version reads: “Godly * edifying which is in faith.” The Greek word translated. edifying, i -“oikonomia,” mean- ing “economy” or “dispensation”; but, the * eopyist carelessly mistook the *‘n’? for a “‘d,”” and read the word “oikodomia,”. which means “building” or “edifying,” and the translators, therefore, correctly rendered “gouly edifying.” ‘The truc text. being as- certained, the revised version renders, * The dispensation of God which is in faith.” Secondly, from.words of like ending in the smanuseripts. Suppose an English reader transcribing the ifth chapter of Matthew from our common version. Both the eighth and ninth verses end with the.word “ God,” and it, would_be one of the easiest and most natural of mistakes for his eye to light on that word at’ the end of verse 9 instead of verse &, and so : to go direcily on to the tenth verse, omitting. the ninth. This has been a fruitful cause of omission in the best Greek manuscripts. Fer instance. in MS. B, the forty-seventh verse of Matthew xii. has been. omitted, obviously for the reason that buth the forty-sixth and forty-seventn verses end with ‘the word. ‘lalesai,” “to speak”; and the copyist’s eye, as he finished ‘the forty- sixth verse, resting on the word at the end of the forty-seventh, passed «directly on to the forty-eighth verse, omitting the fort: seventh altogether. So, the passage _ John, 11, 2%, will... be - found iG italics in our English Bibles, as being of doubtful authority. “te-that acknowl- edgeth the Son hath the Father also.” Reference to the Greek text will show th: the three last words in both: clauses of th text are the same—“ton patera echei”—thus leading transcribers to overluok- the second ne Sianse lich now stands in the revised ver- ion, y ~ Glosses, doxologies, or liturgical formula- Ties written on the margins of manuscripts, ere Sometimes inadvertently introduced ‘into the text by transcribers. In the fifth ‘chapter’ of Jolin, for exwmple, the fourth erse, about the angel troubling the - pool Bethesda “at certain. seasons, has been: a great puzzle’ to ~ expositors. it will be found to have’ been omitted from the revised version, ithaving been a marginal explanation which the copyist inserted inthe text, Most of these errors oceur in the Gos- pels. The doxology of the Lord’s: Prayer, aOR pilegted by. ‘the best: textual critics, y found its way i mamner, ‘a Way into the text. in this Error would also arise from the. uncon- scious working of the copyist’s mind on the Passage. Few transcribers were mere ma- es, and supplementary expressions, due dark; ; | j that I intended zo iuy before the General .\ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1881—TWENTY. PAGES. ; to the exercise of their own mental powers, slipped In without their perceiving it. ‘Thus in Luke, xxiv., 58, our Kuglish “Biules read. nz and Lirssing God,” the * bless x n added by the copyist, sand con- sequently being omitted.from the: re ised version. ‘The more intelligent the ‘tran- seriber the greater would be the danger of such Japses. ~ a % Lastly, some variousreadings may hayebeen due fo the doctrinal:bias_of “the «subscriber. ‘phe insertion of the famous passage of the three heavenly witnesses, 1. John; v., 7 and 8, aay seem to have risen from a desire to vin~ dieate the doctrine of the Trinity; yet, on the other hand, if may have been 2 inere marginal gloss admitted in dvertently into the text. In Gither case, if consent of Se! from ‘the revi ¢ the strength of this tempi: it have been very successtully. resisted, and there is reason’to believe that few of these :l- ternative rei ins can be ascribed to preju- dice or unfaithfulness, SPEAKING OF THE WORK OF REVISION the American reviser, who occupies a, portion of Dr. Roberts’ book, says of.the English connnittee in giving au account of the steps which ied to the King James version of 1611, to the Canterbury revision in 1870, and to the part taken by American revisers in coopera- Hon with those of England: g ‘The committee was divided into. two companies, one for the revision of, the Old Testament (presided ‘over by the Li Winchester), the other for the re the New (under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol). They Ss lars, and is therefore omitted dL yersion. Notwithstanding tion, it seems to heid “regular month! tings in, the derusalem Chamber, of historic fame, and in. the Chapter Library, belonging to the Deanery of Westminster. ‘Tho meni- hers codperatedt on terns of equality, but the Episcopal members are, as may be expected, largely in the majority. ‘The whole nun- ber of English revisers in 1880 amounted to fifty-two (twenty-seven in the Old Testament Company, twenty-tive in the New Testament Company). ‘More than two-thirds belong to the Church of England, The Independe the Wesleyans, the Baptists, and the Presby terian Churches of Scotland (which had no share in the authorized version except as the. disowned mother of King James), are well ented in the Committee. Among the evisers are severnl of the ablest and sound- est Biblical scholars of the age, who would, be selected by all competent judges as. pre- eminently fitted for the task. ? Soon aiter the organization of the English Committee a courteous invitation’ was ex~ tended to American. scholars. to codperate with them in this work of. common interest, In view of the great distance it was deemed best to organize a separate committee that should fairly represent.the biblical scholar ship of the Jeading churches and_ literary in- stitutions of the United States, Such a com- mittee, consisting of about thirty members, was formed in 1871 and entered upon ive work in Oetober, 1872, when the first revision of the synoptic Gospel was_ received: It was likewise divided -into two companies, which met every month { ept in July and Angust) in the Bible Touseat New York (but withoutany connec- tion with the American Bible Sucicty), aud codperated with their English brethren on the same principles and with the intention of bringing out one and the ‘same revision for both countries. x-President Dr. Woolsey, of New Haven, acted as Permanent I y of the New. Testament Company Green, Professur in Princeton, as Chairm of the Old Testament Company. ‘The two Cominittees ex atl the result of their la- bors in confidential communications. The ew Testament v mmpleted in October, 1880, just B00 years after the first Enslish translation .of the whole Bible by V ‘The revision of the Old ‘Testament progress on both sides of the Atlantic and will be finished in three or four years. If it be asked by what authority the American Committee w: phointed, we can only say by the authority. of the British Committee, whieh was vested in it from the beginning by the Conv ‘ion of ak tg The American chu: y not cousited pert Bidlical tion was carefully made from of Greek and scholars (mostly professot Hebrew), and with ‘an r-repre- sentation of the leading denomin and theological institutions of the country, with- in the necessary limits of convenience tor united wark. ence and public senti- ment, as far as expressed, haveaproved the choice, 3 ‘There never was a more fruitful and har- monious body of competentscholarsengaged in 2 more important work on the America: Continent. Representatives of half a dozen different denominations, Episcopal Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists Methodists, Reformed, also one Unitariar one Friend, and one Lutheran, hay for eight years, and are still meeting every month, at great personal inconvenience and without prospect of reward, discussing innu- merable differences of text and rendermz. THE READER OF TY EW REVISION will find at the conelusion of the work an appendix of readine: h the American Committee preferred to “have substituted for the renderings of the English | revi Speaking of these important alterations, which the English Committee have placed in the Kk out of courtesy to the American Comittee, the same writer in Dr. Roberts’ book says: ‘The appendix is subject to the verdict of the Ame: an-commuinity. Lf ap- on, it wil ultimately text of the Amer SUI retail a cert liter Bible Society, with its present constitution, is confined ‘to the circulation of . the authorized English version ant cannot publish the revision. But this constitution n be changed, and will be changed wit adoot the re time to make the Ame! tically available, if deemed w ent. “This will not be the issue. vision, butonly an American recens one and the same revision; and the cha will ne more affect the unity of the rev! than the differenees of English, and ican speliing now affeet the unity of the En- glish language. On the contr: tal unity. will be all the more ay effective for the variety in ‘un tails. Worshivers of the letter fense, but worshipers of the spiritof the Biblewill rejoice. . But.whatever may be the ultimate fate of the American Appendix, itis of very jittte account as compared with the substantial agreement. Itis a matter of wonder and | congratulation that two cominittees, divided by the ocean and representing two independ ent and highsaninded nations sensi of their honor, should, aft unbroken aud conscientious Or, rived at such a substantial harmony iv the translation of their most sacred book, which is recognized by both their infallible guide in all matters .of Ch: ur faith and The Anglo-American Revision is. the no- blest monument. of Christian union and co- operation in this nineteenth centu ‘And herein is the finger of Providenceand j the best guarantee of success. PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY PROF. ELLIOTY’S PROTEST AGAINST THE AC- TION OF THE DIRECTOL The Rey. Charles Elliott, D. D., who was some weeks ago retired front yds Professor of Hebrew in the Presbyterian Theoligical Semi- nary of the Northwest. has written tbe tollow- ing protest ‘ugainst the’ summary manner in which he was shelved: Cu1caGo, April 5.—Lo the Revereil the Bo: of Directors. of the Preshytcrian Laceloyy Semi- nary of Ue Northwesl—REVEREND AND ReSPECT- xp BRETnT Intuvated some months no sembly 2 statement touching several. mutter connected with this Seminury, a public know! edge of whiche] deem necessary to vindicate myself from cre retiection east upon me by th action of your reverend body hist April. J beg leave tu nddress the statement to your reverend body, and tu put a copy of It into the hands of the Committee of the General Assem- Diy on ‘Theological Seminaries at its meeting, at Buffalo, on the 19th proximo. Allow me to state, at the outset, that J do not intend to refiect upon your reverend body, une. less 2 narrative of fucts muy be considered in that light. 1 desire, moreover, to state that my colleagues have no part in this matter. I am solely and personally responsible for every word inthis communication. 1 do not men’ that [ Stand aloue as to the propriety of my course. Almost every one’ to whom I have mentioned it concurs with me in the propriety of it, ond fuvors_an‘exposition of some things which 1 have no desire to muke, for the reason that it would iead ine into personalities. I wish your reverend body to understand that. I intend to avold ali personalities in this communication. At the meeting of your reverend body in April,-1690, you requested two of my colleagues aud myseif—all of ‘us elected by the General eee resin OBE COIS in thls Seminary. mpliance wi reques we in m; resignation on Feb. 8, 1851. is in soe di The request was, of course, equivalent to a re- moval; and viewed in that light, it comes'under the supervision. of the General Assembly: @loore’s Digest, p. 394.) ? 1 do not wish your reverend body to think that Idesire or intend ta invoke the uid of the Gen- eral Assembly. That is very tar from my mind.. But as, I was intormed, mavy questions were now: rejected’ by:-common | asked by the members of the Assembly Inst veur touching the action of your reverend body in the mutter ‘specitied.—on which it was snid the report of your-reverend body was silent—2 few ftems of infurmution fram ‘one who 1s per- gonally- interested "may ‘contribute in part to & full understanding of the state of affairs in this Seminary. SR gen oe oe , The raison ngsigned by your reverend body. for your action in: requesting my “resignation jvas financial distress on the part of the,,Sem- inary. : do not callin question your. sincerity in assigning that reason., But ulong with the public announcement of'the xetion of your rev- rend body—by \whose authority the announce- ment was mado I do not know—another an- nouncement.was -inude, that the Seminary ox- pected x large increase to its funds, and that It would be reorganized. «The ; inference from such -announcemente was, of course, that tho expected increase of funds and the reorganiza- tion of the: Semmary wero conditioned on the resignations of the tbree Professors included in your action, und cn the clection of other mct. ne reason might still be culled a financial one; and the action of your reverend vody might be justified on that ground. . On that puint have nothing to sav. ‘But it was wolspered around—I have been told that it was openly uvowed: by some members of your reverend body, for which’ you; of course. hire not responsible ‘as a body—that there were reusons for-your action lying back of the flnan- tial one, and that these ‘reasons were probably Tae potent ones with your reverend body. What these reasons, as pertaining to my colleagues, were, Ido not know; und T have no right to ap- pear before your reverend - body as their xdvo- cate ina maiter which they. have not communi- ented to” die. I speak only for-myselt, whose professional aud official churacter hus been in- jured by tho public circulation of such rensons us Lbave just mentioned. ‘They convoy to the public.nind that, in the estimation of your rev~ erend body, Lam not qualified for my" position; and, 0 far as your uction is concerned, 1 stand stizinatized before the Church and the com- munity. ‘The ucuon of your reverend body your has also cre- ated the impression that, in y delibutate judgment, the welfare of the Seminary required the summary meusure—unprecedented in. the history. of theological seminuries—which you adopted Inst year at the close of the seminary term. ‘ft is known that the number of students has deen declining during some years. past.- It has now reacbed in its downward tendency twenty- one In the seminary classes.’ ‘This diminuuon in numbers requires some exphination.- Allow me to call the attention.of your Tey- erend beds to sume facts. Ttis known to your reverend body that the Rev. Drs. Halsey, Blackburn, and myself, shout ten years ago, carried on. the Seminary alone during two years; and the number of students during those two years was, if 1 remember cor- reatly, thirty-elzht each year. Since that time the number, with the exception of two or. three Years, bas never been greater. ‘ ‘Now, this is not what we would naturally ex- pect, for the following reasons—viz.> ¥ (a) The increase of our Church in the North- west. @) The high attainments and raro’ ability of the retiring Profe of Theology. * But the result would not have becn otherwise had the Apostie Paul occupied a chair in the Seminary. 2 What, then, are the causes of decline? In my opinion they are various. 1. This Seminary. nut compete with wealth- jor seminaries. It hus uo money or at. least very Mttle—to induce students to-come to it. Princeton has almost’ as many schohtrships as students, Other seminuries are well supplied with them; and students will ro where they can receive the most money. This is very natural, since the Borrd of Education contributes now only $1002 yerr to theological students. The scholarships of this Seminary are few in num~- ber: aad, few us they ure, your reverend body were obliged to alienate some of them tompo- rarily for the payment of taxes. ‘2. ‘The Seminury does not. enjoy the sympathy of the churches, from which: it must ‘draw its support. 3 For the lack of this sympathy on the part of the churches I may be, in some measure, per- sonally to blamz; und I um willing to bear my sbare of the blame. . . ‘But perhups neither the members of - the Faculty, nor. the members of your reverend body, are persunally to bhune. Many things have conspired to alienate the minds of the members of our churebes from the Semiuury which neither your reverend body. vor the Faculty could control. 1 ought, perhaps, to ex- cept from this statement the alleged fact, if it be u fuct, that’ the churches of the Northwest are not firly represented in the Bourd of Con- trol of the Semluary. ‘This’ is a wide-spread opinion, for the truth ot which 1 do not vouch. ‘The fuck of sympathy, onthe part of the churches cin, 1 think, be accounted for on the following grounds—viz,> : (a) The bitter purty feeling—the effects of which ure still felt—connected with the estab- hment of the Seminury in Chicaro. ‘This P feeling is understood to bave Leca both puilticn! and veclesfastical. @) Young men of our-Church studying for the ministry have assigned, Lhave beca wid, a3 0 reason fur their choosing the Congregational Seminary on the West Side, the dissensions con- nected with the control of this Seminary Now, [ean positively ‘aflirm that ever since T became conneeted with the Seminary the Fuc- ulty have, in all their olficial relstions, been en- tirely harmonious. Allow rie to“ask, with all pect and kindness:, Has like burmony ex- isted in the Board of Directors? It is well known that worthy and influentin! inembers of your reverend body have either resizned or re- fused to attend the mectings of your body: on the ground of what tey called bitter party feeling and dissensions. ‘I-merely mention the fact: 1 do not know with whom the blue lies. (¢) Loud complaints pave. been- made very proudly nbout the agents employed by your reverend body: t intend no personality in this statement; I merely mention the tuct. W) A great miny wealthy meu, L am well in- formed, have said that they would contribute Nberally to the. Seminary if; the poliey of its Directors were changed. What that means Ido not profess to know, for 1 do, not understand very clearly what the potley of your reverend body is. Some think-that it bns a political bins, and others that itisto prepagate a particular type of theolozy. I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not charge your reverend body, or any of your agents, with these things. ‘They exist as fucts, =Tmean mental impressions,—and L_ mention them merely 28 impressions, or mentul facts. ‘they may be unreasonable and ground- jess, but they have contributed to the ahenation of muny ininds from the Seminary. 1 will now speuk of things that are more per- sonal to inyseif: 1. It was my Intention during several years before yaur reverend body requested my vesig- nation to resin my ebatr at n ; s—v distaut future, for thte 3 (a) My Hil, embracing, a ries constitutes t ebairs and a tutorship. ¥ ()) Yous men cuive to the Seminary with prejtidices ngalust the Hebrew portion of my department. ‘They bave told ine thit their pas- tors advised thea! to neglect Hebrew, us thoy had themselves forgotton all that they bud learned of It, ree () ‘The most of our voung men como to our Seminary with very little linguistic training; and duriog the time allotted to Hebrew, jaa Semi- nay course, make very little progress. ‘these remarks apply cuietly to the Hebrew portion of my department. (d) ‘Ken years ago your reverend body passed the following resolution, which has never been carried into effect. T unly suy safely that no aj- tempt hus heen made to carry it outs RESOLUTION OF THE HOARD OF DIRECTORS. it is respectfully suggested that us soon as eticable the duties of tho Professurship. of Literature be divided, so as to provide parate chuir for instruction in the fitera- ent. It is hoped that titution may be found te endow such u chair at no distunt day.” Assembly, 1871, p. 627. MBLY, TION OF ‘TLE ly difficult one to in other Semina- ebairs, and fn Princeton two “ The Committee call attention ‘to the suggzes- tion of the Burd. of Directors that, as soon as pructicuble, the duties of the Professorship of Bidlicn! Literature be divided, so us to arrange for x scpurate chafrof instruction in the literu- ture of the Old ‘Testument: and they express the hope that liberi! friends of tho institution muy be found to endow sueh a chalr at no dis- tantday. We see, however, no necessity for tm twedinte action on this unttter, Innsimuch us tha by go aeeat plished and competent ehaur is Mle an instructor. Sil, p. 585. me to mnke two remarks on these reso- jinutes of the General 3 (aly) Your reverend body acknowledged, by your action, that } have been tilling two ebairs. known to your reverend body that, during rs, Ebuve been receiving bulf the salary’ Gil) ‘fhe Genernl eowpetent to fill both. 2. Allow tne to ullude: to an action of your rererend body, which, viewed in comparison with some other netlons of your body, [ con- sider unfair tome. As: pertaining to my col- Jeagues, it night be characterized by a stronger term, itis true that { consented to it; but, at that time, Ldid not know that your reverend body were dealing, or were avout to deal, more generously with others. 1 allude to the matter. of interest 3 iris kuown to your reverend body that, two ago, the Seminary was indebted to the . Drs. Hulsey, Blackburn, and myself about sembly considered me x ater $4000 cach; and’ that. at that time, our. sal-. aries were . reduced ‘to $1.50 your ench (this year ~ $1,300), “about nl of what we hud been receiving some yeurs previ- ous. Your reverend body allowed u3 6 per cent peranuum onthe mouey due to us from the Seminary, payable out of our awn incomes of 31,500" a have no right to ‘complain. But when I learned that the Kev. -Drs.‘Halsey and Blackburn bad been paying to the Seminary 8 and 10 per cent per apuuin on money which they were obliged to borrow from the Seminary, and which they would not have been obliged to borrow bad their salaries been paid to them, then I felt that they were dealt with—pardon the word—unjustly. Moreover, when I teurned that your. reverend body puid Kast spring 10 per: cent per’ anuum— wow and then illegal interest. in this State—to vuther officers of this-institution, and that, too, not out ot their own incomes, 2s in our case, but out of-the funds of the Seminary, 1 confess that was: puzzled to understand the ground of the discrimination. In the euse of one it was perfectly just. The Now, as -1 consented to this, 1° other, I have been informed, zenerpusiy con- tributed & very Inrze proportion of. #3 salary to the Seminary. Butimy. colleagues and myself were virtually contributing the one-hulf of our sutluries iu the game ‘way. It would gratify me very much to be able to Say that 1! contributed quif of my’ salury to the Seminary, instead of being obliged to “say that it was reduced from 33,000 to $1,500; and then to $1,400. If your rev- erned body-had given me tue opportunity to be generous, I would not bave disappointed you. “IL feel the more on this point as my culleaguea, the Rev. Drs. Halsey: and Blackburn, and iyself, during the two-yenrs that. we carried onthe Seminary. alone, were instrumental in, saving. the Seniinary at feast $2,603... ‘ af, 3.As I wish.:to: avoid: personalities,. I will merely allude to some -Irritating ' matters; for which your, reverend: body, 23-0 body, are not onsible. refer to matters reported by tho. sttthents and by members of , the community,— such ws. conversutions by members of: your . body in. the prcseie of Students, and “reports throughout.the eity and the: country traceable to the sume source,‘ unfuvorable: to. the chur- acters of some of the Professors. It is thouzbt by some that they were intended to create pub- lie sentiment against us, and thus furnish a rea- son for the action of your reverend body in rela- dion to us. elbhr's 3 He £5 * [wish itto be distinetly understood that I am not judging any man’s motives, nor affirming that your reverend body were governed by such intluences ip your action. Lonly wish to say to your reverend body that [have felt very keenly under some reports that have been made tome ; by students and others. “Allow me to allude, .in conclusion, toa false’ impression existing in the minds of some of your reverend body. It is. that we received notice, at the ‘close of the Seminary year 18i8~ "79, that you expeeted us to resign ‘at the close of the Seminary term 1880. No such notice was ever given,—not even: the slightest. intimution, untess 1 remark or a member of your Financial Committee, made im tho presefce of the Ki Rev. Dr. Blackburn .and myself, mijht be so con- strued.. We were well uware, from reports, whut game members of your reverend body were en- deavoring to effect; but we did not kaow that they: represented your reverend body in that imaitdr. Your action was entirely unexpected. T bave no desire to eharacterize it by the oppro- Urioug terms by which it Is characterized by Christians of atl denominations: but I wish to receive it with that spirit of meekness and gen- tieness which the Gospel of my Lord and Master requires. ‘ é ‘Now, my dear brethren, after. eighteen years. of hurd inbor.—I say hard, I leave others -to judge of my faitbfuiness,—L bid you farewell. lf Lknow my own heart, I cherish no ill-will against, any of you. Many of you I esteam as my personal friends; and towards some of you, with whom I have: bad along acquaintance, I cherish x warm affection, 1 pray that God may guide you In managing the uffuirs of the Sem- inary, and that, its future may be prosperous. Yours, very fraternally,. CuarLrs ELLiorr, CLERICAL INFELICITIES. THEM COMIC AND TRAGIC PECULIARITIES. Prof. Swing in the Alliance, It will after.a time be. conceded that the con- version of a youth at some high-pressure revival does not give the world any guarantee that such a youth should be educated at church expense and launched into the Christian ministry. This conversion does not convey any education or information, and will leave an“ignorant and brutish mun very near the intellectual con- dition where the revival found him, When re- ligion shall be interpretuted as a character, to be slowly acquired, our public wilienjoy a better group of clergymen, and elders, and deacons, thar it now enjoys. A man may be religious and stil be a fanatic or an fron-bearted, cruel husband or father, or may be deficient in brains. ‘To make a preacher of a religious man is. very often to use up some very poor muterial In the construction of an important piece of work. Or course thereare cruel Inwyers, and mean blacksmiths, and scolding, pettish statesmen, but inusmuch as clergymen are .teachers of tho ideas and qualities of Jesus Christ, itis particu- iarly desirable thnt they should be able to avoid pinching, and pounding, and torturing a wife or n helpless child. The Rey. Newman Hall was himself the victim of his- wife, and while she wag not able to thrash the reverend husband she mude this world as hot for the preacher as somo other world is made hot for many not piously in-. clined, but this Newman Hall case wuS excep- tional, itheing only too true that some clergy- men are wont to whip, and bent, and scold ter- ribly their lovely wives. How much of such domestic cruelty comes from the theological tenet that wives must be submissive, and be silent, and must ‘consider the musculine af- fnir as’ being. the head of -the house, is not known, but it fs well known that in the highest forms of othodoxy, the wife of the clergyman 18 sometimes Kuocked around at a lively rate—a fact. perfectly dreadful not only because these wives are generally educuted but from the xdditional reason that their position compels them to endure their wrongs in silence. A whisper outside the home of what were taking pluce inside of itwould perhaps eud at once the income ‘und thy profession trom which were coining the children’s daily bread. ‘The dally papers contain many accounts of in- stances which bring before us'men who combine the two qualities of preacher and brute—men who buve a persuasive, oily rhetorle for the pulpit.and a kind of borse-whip rhetoric for home use... The Pittsburg preacher whose casé 1s well - remembered, bad a Sunday, elo- quence of a very high order to be used upon the -fashionavle ‘ladies who moved down his nistes, but at the breukfust-table he often persuaded bis wife to this or that course by flinging a hot cup of coffee or a greasy beef steuk into ber face. The evidence collected at the trial of this Doctor of Divinity was amazing in quality and quantity, and tended to show tint a man may in 2 ‘certain sense be a zealous evangelist und yet be at home st regulur byena. The Lindley or Lindsay cuse, where the re erend futher beat w little son to death for not snylg bis prayers properly, Hes in most hearts only too fresh in its awful outlines. We might almost wish the: memory could be washed of such records, and wholly furzet that such i father lived and that sucha littlechild died. The world as it-is will pleture itself upon the mind, and man's only refuge must be sought tu belp- ing so far reform the world. that it vill fill the memory with records of the beautiful. rather thun of the terrible. ‘The history of last week is not such as to war- rantus In supposing that the race of erring or cruel preachers {s rapidly becoming extinct. One case ia rather Inughaple than terrible, the ense of dear brother Burns, who changed bis name to * Bournes,” that while he preached with the shorter form he might run an opera com- pany with tho lonzerstyle of spelling. His pres- bytery ought to torgive him on the ground that. itis very customary for members of au opera company to chinge names, Out of the opera business Mr. Burns turned into # Sunday solic- itor for x poor’ preacher. The story was very touching aud very true, for the suffering Culvinist was not a ‘myth, nor was bis poverty a fiction. ‘The joke Is scen in’ the neat little understunding that the pious solicitor was to take hulf the re- eceipts. With such a diviston of the spoils the Chicago Presbytery cannot well find funlt be- cause this conduct. may have come, not from Burnsus 2 teacher, but trom‘ Bournes"” as 0 showman, and if 80, it was. proper that the suf- fering family should..turnish the play und the scenery, and that the manager should haye balt of the gross receipts of the public preseutition, ‘There is no inughable side to the cuse which comes in from a clergyman’s family in the Town Of loom. A lonely house called the parsonage ought, it Seems, to have been called an inquisi- tion. Here, in a dreary plice -a_ wife's tenrs have fallen ~ for yeurs,: and. a face which once dorned a village in Southern Obio was bleached of its color nad was minrked rapidly with deep Hines of hidden grief. ‘The wite.bas at last cue back to her mother and brothers in this city,—a refuge she ought to have sought ten years uzo. A sense of duty, w misapprehension of the nature of mar- riage vows led the once bright and happy bride to sind by 2 home that offered ber a wretched life and a premature grave. Evidently the stu- dious busband should be teft alone’ with his books. He cannot abuse or insult them aud aight indeed make a peaceful hermit since he is simply irritated and made savage by the. pres- ence of retincd humanity. MODERN SKEPTICISM. ei PROTMST AGAINST ITS ARROGANCE BY A LAYMA: ‘The following excerpts ure taken. from an ar- ticle on “The Arroganceof Modern Skepticism.’ published in the current number of the Contem- porary Review: * Men of sefence, of-all persons, should seek to ve tree from bigotry and prejudice. Yet it is evident thut when once entangled in the deadly meshes of skeptical -vride, while “ they profess themselves to be wise, they .becume foolish,” and in very truth “worship. und serve the crea iture’more thun the Creator.” As has been, well suid: “tis asking too much of inanimate ma- terial to make a system of worlds such that one star shall send heat and liebt upon an earth, and make its soil send forth ‘violets, grasses, trees, and animals, and finally man. . It is asking too much of material things to have them arranging the deposits of dew by night, tke showers of rain, and the.,ripening influence of- the autumn months. It. is asking too. much of dust and ashes" to’ expect... them to make beautiful birds to fly. inthe air, beautiful gold and silver fish to live in the crystal brooks, much to expect of the power of dust to originute the iden of purple grapes and blushing peaches. We know that tne material forces of Nature can belp along all these shapes of the wonder- ful; but if bad material can do such wonderful works, man should: lament that he bas 1 mind, forhe has at the ontset been whuily surpassed by clay that hud neither life nor mind.” ‘The foolish sarcasm so often leveled against: Protestants, that they worship 2 Book, fs bardly worthy. of ‘notice... It “is, true Uhat. they hold ‘jt in. the. highest. honor and regard: it. with “deepest reverence, us containing that revelation on which their faith. is founded, the history of the lire ana death of Iiin who was empbat- jeally the Truth. But.the fact that this history has been transmitted in 2 Book fs, so to speak, simply an accident. Tho revelation of Christ would bave been equaliy acceptable bad it becn received throuch uutnenticated tradition orin £00, my prayers? You never say. yours, do you?” And the mother snidz," Little boys ‘snouldn’t any other way, for it is not the Book which com- peis our belief, any more than. tho miracles ae “ ” Laas it suas teeompunied Christ's advent, Tt | ask so many questions. » Go ta: sieep, my fae ecauso He is in Himself tho most stupendous | a, = ved a--Methodist_ winister, miracle of the ages: because his life and chars, ones Ear erred d poor. 0, Lord, if Thou will: keep him bumbie,”.sald the Deacon, who next prayed, ‘we ‘will keep him poo) Passing along the ‘strect:lately- 2 high-tem= ered ‘old, misery ‘was accosted by an. urebin, and {mportuned for. the loan of adime. .* Not a nickel,” :exclarmed.the: testyold gentleman.: Weil, you" needn't: be ‘so sassy about ity" re turned the: gamin,.““yer won't take your-moncy along with yer when yer die.‘ Why not. you little ‘rasedl?"“'Cos -yer'd be: afraid it would ‘Afuncy preacher iii one “of the. churches of- |: | Providence, a Sunday or two.azo, detined the soul ag ‘**the* non-atomic’ centre of psbychic force," and throughout his-discourse, when al- luding.to the sont, used ‘the “phrase.” The fm- provement .is. suggested :on: the- old. reading: SWhat 1s a-min.xdvantaged if he gain the whole world and lds¢ his own non-atomic centre of psychic force?” es ‘A vicar of a country, parish in England bad occasion ‘Intely: to -remonstrate -with a lowly member of his tlock,-who. had regularly been conspicuous by his absence from the celebration of the Holy Communion, for his non-uttendance. Hodge bazarded the ‘excuse that he didn't con- sider bitself sufticiently qualitied :to attend. Why not?” urged the vicar; “you ‘have been contirmed.” . “Yes, sir,”, replied Hodge, * and. vaccinated, too; but. they neither of "em took.’ ‘The latest and most refreshing Sabbath-school incident hoppened in a .class not a thousand miles from Lewiston.’ The teacher bad zrown eloquent in picturing to his little -pupils the beauties of Heaven. and’. he finully: usked: _“ What kind of little boys go to Heaven?” A lively little 4-year-old boy, with .kickinz boots, flourished his tist. ‘* Well, you inay answer, said the teacher. “Dead ones,” the little fellow shouted at the extent of his lungs. . acter. Were such us‘no mere. mun could have | -vented or described;-and, Indcod, the miracles” themselves become: credibie from the greater. malracte of His life, for it would have: uppe 1 strange if, when Incarnate Divinity was_mani- fested in the world; no unusual display of Divine power had ocourred.= 220. 000005 ‘To the objection. that, after all, the Christian religion is only one among.many, and little, if at all, superior to the Mohamietuo, the Confucinu,, or the Buddhist, we reply, that to compare thom’ is to. refute: the suggestion. * Place. beside the life of the blood-stained conqueror, Mahomet, the life of the meek dnd gentle Christ. .Con-- trast the moral, tenching of Confuvius,: grand though it be, with tho: life-teaching of the Sav- for..-Even tho self-denfa! and philanthropy of : Buddha, in -upproaching most nearly to Christ, do’ but. display the vast, gulf, which exists be- tween them. = ¥en es | It may perbaps bo sald that to attempt to re- ply to attacks upou the: Christian faith, which ure evidently for the most part mere declama- tions, and ‘will cetainly’fuil to intluence any candid student, is useless. Unhappily, how- ever, such. -attacks’. have > their injurl-. ‘ous ‘effects, not, indeed,..upon . the minds ot sincere keekers after ‘truth, still [ess upon the belief of those who -have ‘embraced, the Christian “faith after .carefut ‘study of; its claims. .fo such persons: the sarcasms of the Agnostic'and the culumntes of the -Positivist appear what in truth. they are, more expres- sions of helpless ignorance: a8 it a blind mau were heard deelniming against the light because the only eifect he had preceived wns the noise and bubbub which at sunrise broke tho quiet stillness of the night; or, as it 2 deaf man were heurd declaiming ugiingt music, from observing what would of necessity appear to him the menningtess and grotesque movemeuts of the musicians. Juet as these Inck tho correspond. | ing senses which would enable “them | to FoR : a it RHECMATISH Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago,. Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, appreciate .the beauty of light or of music, z * a a 40 our skentical writers seom Ho have wo corres: CALENDAR FOR THE WEES. Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and - sponding sense whereby to uporeciute auy' * s L : cs Spann Sanse Brable by. sieut. or tone. On ay 22—Fitth sender atiae Biditer: . Sprains, Burns and Scalds, ¥; their principles they would be justified in deny- | May 57-2) po vation-Day. General Bodily Pains, °°: ing the spiritual power which . breathes in some noble.book, because the soul which pervades it cannot be perceived by 2 snjorascopes and be- cause all their chemical tests and sclentific dis- section would only .precipitate the constituents tis in such a’ spirit they ex- May 4—Fust—Rogution-Day. May 25—Fust—Rogaton-Day. May 28—Ascension-Day- “May 27—Fast. Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Fest’ ‘and Ears; and.all other Pains and Aches. : CATHOLIC. a of paper und Ink.. . . quale oe yreat. book of creation, refusing to May 22—Fifth Sunday after Enster; St. Joho No Preparation on earth equals St, JAcons Or e9' recognize the Mizhty Spirit which speaks | Nepomucen, M. . . aanle ‘sure, siuple and cheap External Remedr.; Through Nature because it {8 not provable by | May 23—SS. Sater and Calus, PP. MAf.(from }. faf entails but the comparatively tiling ou ° their scientific metnods,. But though theirat- | Aprii 2); Rogation-Duy. of 50 Cents, and every one suffering with, thelr sclentiic methods. Bure harmless tothe | — May 2t—Our Lady, Help of Christians; Roge- | can have cheap and positive proof of its uon-Da Qp-Day- 5. Gregory VII, P. C; Vigit of the | -Directions in Fleven Languages, : eandid and sincere: student, thoy are _too often hurtful and even fatal to othors, who are only too anxious to find some support in refusing’| Ascension; Rogation-Day. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS ty credence to that which condemns thelr life; an ‘May 20—Ascension of Our Lord, MEDICINE. = a fomany-an ambitious youthenger to be thought | May 3;—St. Mary Maguaten of Pazzi, V- aoe : n worthy of 1 placo in the ranks of culture and to y May 2i—St. Philip Neri. C. A. 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Sutherland, well known a3 “Senator Bob Hart,” has become assistant pas- tor of the Laight Street Baptist Church of New York, at a salury of $1,000 per anoum. . ‘The subject of the Hibbert Lectures this year Is * The Origin and Growth of Keligion as lilus- trated by Buddhism.” Mr. Rhys Davids is tho lecturer. Lust year M. Renan filied the chatr. Of ecclesiastical dignitaries in the Church of England there’ are two Archbishops, twenty- nine Bishops, thirty Deans, eighty-one Arch- & Delicious _ and Refreshing Fruit Lozenge, ‘Which Serves the Purpose deacons, SIU ‘rural Deacons. There are 23,000 untae stipendiary clergymen. < PP 11 ad To Gisscow. Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, and Londen. ‘Aremarkable indication of progress in South i) J 14uS. A Oe re ore er canton ‘Sorond cabli s Caroling ig the fact that a colored mun named Steernze, out ‘$2. ‘These steamers carry nelther®. ttle, sheep, nor pics. - > caitle, shee, DOF PISUSTIN, BALDWIN & C0; 53 Broadway, N.¥., und Jud Randolph-st, Chicago. jj JORN BIECEN, Western Manager. ee ce WHITE STAR LINE,. < Carrying the United States and Royal Malt. between) i # New York und Liv |. For passuge apply to Comes "4 office, $5 South Clark-st . ALFRED LAGEKGREN, Gen’ Western Agent. 2/-Drafts on Great Britain and Ireland. E NATIONAL LINE: For Liverpool and London direct, cubin, $90 to outward steerage, £5; prepaid stecrage, £3, being: lower than most lines. 3 ie PB. LARSEN, 4 South Clark-s “CUNARD MAIL LINE. Salling twice a week to and from British Ports Pas; sete lickots trom Liverpool, Queenstown, Giasza% Hibiin, eltase Vand Londonderry at, lowest rates eens Chics core rand at loweseaiet 0. Geet and upwards, at loweseraies © ©, eat-in DE VERNET. Con'l Western Avent. PROPOSALS. ri + ‘To Contractors. 5 Se Sealed proposals will be received by the Bull osealed Decrease Cottece froma Siay 30 until June. € ISI at? p.m, for the erection and comptetion of colleze boncding-hall to be built at Cedar iaplds, fowa. ‘The huilding will be heated with steam: . Bids © will be received for each portion of the materials and labor, or for the completion, of the entire building. Plans ean be seen after Muy.20 at the’ office of F. ML EilisaArehitect, Sturshailtown, Iowa, and at the oftes: of AvV. Eastman, Secretary. Cedar Itapids, awa, to whom should bo address: all proposals: or-othes communications. ‘The Building Committee reserv the right to reject any or all bids. eee KEV. STEPHEN PHELPS, President.’ ‘Improvement of Calnmet Hurbor, Ll. s U.S, ENGINEEIt OFFICE, ‘No. 9 Honore Buildinz, CHICAGO, Iil.. May 15, 181. ‘Separate sealed proposals, in triplicate, will be re- ceived at this otice until 2 o’clock m. Thursday, Jone 1s, 1881. for improving Calumet Harbor, Ill. 3s. Tollows: = L.—For dreduing about 00.000 cuble rards. IL—For Pier Extension, nbout 15) lineal feet. For specitications, blanks Yor proposals, und all n- formation apply to this office. -_G. J, LYDECKER, Mal. of Engineers. MEDICAL. Thaddeus Salters has been orduined a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and made as- sistant toa white gentleman who js rector of a colored church.” B A Roman Catholic Bishop of New-York, in conversation with a Bishop of tho:Protestant Bpiscopal Church, recently stated that the worl of the confessional revealed the fact that nine- teen out of every twenty women who fall can truce the beginning of their sad stute'to the modern dance. - The special servicesat Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, instend of the regular Sun- duy-schoo! session, are to be of more than usual futerest to-day. Nearly all of the Superiotend- ents for twenty yeurs past, including Albert G. Lane, the first Superintendent, are to participate inthe exercises. —~ * The Rev. Dr. Talmage is_an American divine of fame, or, perhaps, notoriety, who is chietly known in Rngland by the rutnlesness with which, inalecturing tour ne made. through the prov- inces, he bled his sangufne co-rellgionists who hud been’ deluded into offering him large fees. ‘Taimage recently announced that if, on reach- ing Heaven, be found that fewer than 100,000 souls bud been. saved through his instrumental- ity, he would ask permission to return to earth and make up the Dulance. In the meantime, ut the close of his services he requests the audience not tocarry off the hyma-books.—Logdon World. ‘The benutiful Cathedral of Milan has recently been solemnly reconsecrated under-somewnat |, peculiar clreumstances. During the first week in April n man named Selpione Venturini en- tered it about 4 0’clock in the afternoon, drew his revolver, ard shot himself through the head. ‘Although be did not die on the spot, but was ro- moved to the hospital, where be lived till the following day, the attemnpted suicide was heli to have desecrated, the church, which was accord- ingly stripped of its ornaments and closed for twenty-four hours. ‘The rite of reconsecration was then performed by tho Archbishop, a great crowd attending. The Congremutional Counell which convened at Tilton, N. 1, Muy 5, to consider the case of Elijah J. Roke, declared that it had no right to exist and dissolved. Mr. oke has been deposed from the ministry by a Council, excommunicated from the church in Fremont, ll. of which be wasa member. and expelled from the Elgin Association, Illinofs;'and by a Council last Sep- tember he was declared to have “no ministerial standing in the Congregational -body.” — Stitl he is assuming to exercise all tho functions of a minister, After the Council at Tilion bad dis- solved, the members of It, 93 individuals, by unanimous vote, advised Mr. Roke to go back to Minols, where his tronbles originated, ahd there have his assumed wrongs righted. z i ‘Tho wealthiest of the theological schools in this country ure the Presbyterian. Princeton has buildings valued at $1,000, "and funds amounting to. nearly $700,000. The’ Union Sem- inary of New York holds real-estate worth $150, 000 and funds worth $700,000, ‘The seminary at Auburn, N. possesses $500,000—$200,000 in yenl estate, $300,000 in funds. Of these” two kinds of property the seminary at Chicago bus, respectively, $300,000 and $150,000. ‘The Western Disagreeable Purgative Medicinos. TROPIC-FRUIT LAXATIVE is thé best preparation in the world for Constipation, Biliousness, Headackie, Piles © and all kindred Complaints.-. It acts gently, effectively, and is delicious to take. Cleansing the system’ thoroughly, it imparts vigor to mind and body, and dispels Melancholy, Hypochondria, etc. One trint convinces. Packed in bronzed tin. boxes only. I a..'o Price ‘25 and 60 Cts, » Sold by all Drigusts, ‘Mado from 2Professer-ttorsfords’ Acid Phosphate. Itecommended by leading physicians.. Makes lighter biscuit, cakes, etc., and te healthier than ozdinary Baking Pow- er. z Incans. Soli at n reasonable price. ‘The Horsford Aimaonac and Cook Book sent free. ; a9 iT) ‘Medical Colleges, is well kuowa om the Pacific coast as founder the mammotn Bellevow Medical Suititnte, Sau Francisca, and ibaa ‘oc Well koown fact that Tor 35 years be bas ronfinedt himself te tbe cig Sindy ana treatment ot Sexual aid Chronic Disense, thus givthz os aulvantages that few possess... Dr LUCAS addresses bhimielf eh Eeriy totinee who nave already. placed Ubemuetes under ie eae igourant advertiing charlatans, from whoun they hare'teeeived 23. Wet aay who, ta fact, have’ done them more Karan than gonk Medicine, Itke afl otlier sciences, Is proxrewive, axl every yar; ‘of remedics of © Theologieal Seminary at Allegheny City. Pa.. has a Siren eta Debio ncolorieal Seminary ae ey Ce cane | Rumford Chemteal Works, Proviaences RT |’ grattmite paver dre LUCAS fur to, urge! hn teat Seminary possesses property aggregating $400,- andS3 Lake-st., Chicago. that it will agond sex puoenate aes bot permaoest coe. ~ pare m ig ————— 1@ are sofferins daneaing 08. These six Institutions hold-one-fourth of : YOURE MER creat us qiieios Goer NEW PUBLICATIONS. DR. HUNTER’S nal Weaknew), a:nong. “Tame uf the fo the entire amount of property owned by the Lt seminaries In the United States. - Dr. Dorchester has prepared a table to show the progress of evangelical doctrines in this BOUL Sy 88 NOW ek: Gathilics Unelasitfiad. * PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON sei ane “02 5 ‘i savetting alent 07 stowed ith ges AO : frmone racket is 0 As aA tal nthe ratio of ministers to members in various denominations shows that in the Af- rican Methodist Church there 1s ane minister to evers 2t members: Reformed (Dutch) Chucch, one minister. to 17; Presbyterian, one to 114; Protestant Episcopal. one to 100; Congregation- ul, one to 107; Methodist Episcopxl. one to lit. he avorare in seventeen denominations is one to fy ender stands your ailineaty andj who alone will Ruow source: (RTP gfprocllon, thd permanent rele for allen that mele TS wulzery’ hideous," Thieuaite ten Uhoeiamt of food staading Ia thetoclal world, of pecminencs in the : Seamer, of culture ant reflaewenl. are tovlay roftsing trom the raits of thelr doings. the seeds of which werr,sowa devise of thaaahtletneat; Young uma, turn and gaze upon tbe cea ¢ Sreaae tuermirror fr prot to subtantats this fact.” ORE ood Be control the arm of Fate, or bad. hie the diction of a Webtet.Be could not appeal to von more sincerely. . 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Over 20 year’ experience, in curing Ituprure. Manufacturer of the Common-Sense Truss, Adopted by the U.S. Government ng the dest. Also Elastic Stockings; looms foctted In Chienco, BARTLETT, BUOTMAN & PARKER, Gntico 38 Stuto-st., Chicaxo, M1. SUMMER RESORTS. + dolog st you pot only fan the flanve, but inetd, Natare and posrele Fontes ange Sls tees Hes arora grey fle esr MIDDLE AGED MEN tee cn ce 4 are promatarery oid, ae revolt of excenes or outhfol foltet 2a ‘who re troubled by tom freqnent ‘evacuations of the blader. afte Zevompantee bya sight totdog of lata season, apatite ropy sedhineat tn the ovine, am wa Eos Spr rh corp arto tn te Ser agus chanpavon orpbl appenraoce. esaung 3 Sep neng ne he sal ene apreanaty, So ras of deat’ Worcsese, in all sath carn’ perfece cure u cowranterd era acetal g savoration of the Genito-Urinary Orewns, 3 wilt. fartelt, $509: Joseph Cook Is now engaged in delivering 2 series of icctures in Spurgeon's Tabernacle. ‘The Minneapolis Methodists have purchased a handsome residence in that city for Bishop Foss. The Rey: Dr.S.R. Riggs has completed the revision of the Dakota dictionary and grammar. The Rev. G. C, McCully, of Calais, Me., has re- celved n calt io the Fort Street. Congregational ae Chureh, Honolulu, 8.1. ‘ ey > el 7 Eee every cue of Priva, Disease tbat allro sure, pe | Mrs. Yoong Sant Yoy; sald to be the'tirst Chi- ‘ Te te ae tera ig tall description of el nese woman in Californin, to: embrace the Ba] #8 pottowxciucuriutee, ana erat by extn pecterel Aaa Tigt faith, bas been admitted to baptisia. | |B Fo ont eT UCAS. 123 Re Clark Ste Chlcune, He The Rev. S. A. Norton, a gradante of the Chi- -eavo Theological Seminary. bns accepted the ? pistons. of the Congregational Church at Am- ‘A private letter from Tientsia, China, an- nounces the denth of the Rev. James Mellvaine, a musinary Of the Presbyterian Board. . Th from Berlin on $ nt veeurred at Chl Naw Lu, Feb. ~_| noon and evening. Oritorios snd and Sacred Symone . ‘The Rev. Henry T. Miller, pastor of the Sixth | (eg on ae ne rant eaten tine Dey ‘presbyterianOhuren, bus gone Enst, being called |," Stare unsurpassed. “Special retes for families. by thé sudden illness of his mother, who is lying be SOUTEG ALE. at the point of death, the result of apoplexy. "The Presbytery of Waterloo, Ia., has deposed from the pulpit the Rey. -Isalah Reed, because he taught that “man is able to live without sin,” and disregurded the authority, wishes, and di&- | -Coo-y) wan cipline of the Presbytery. > ‘GEO. WALKER, . Bs JENNINGS. ~s ‘ eleran > SUNDAY. SALAD..: -tng been enlarged co three times its oetzinal capacity, A little Shelbyville boy, who fs in the habit of und refurnished throughout at an expense of over the Westto Summer Tuurists: ‘Terms reasraabies saying his prayers before going to bed, the other night asked his mother, ‘Mammn, how long will it be before I’m big enough to quit saying * LONG BEACH, L. 1; Forty-five minutes from New York. ‘Tho most fish- fonabie Atlantie: Watering Place. Rooms tury now Be enxaged by letter. ar athorwae, Iapell Meister chrel ra will ari Wwith @ eminent mustetans.. Ce eters 1, 201 SOUTH CLARK-sT., CHICAGO. ILL: Confidential Physician. Uvor twentv years in practice, devoting his entire attention te all chrom nervous, und urinary disenses. Men, younz -tl aged, oF old, safering with nervous debility, proms Ure decay, from excesses. exposures, Indiscresit or uny cause, cured safely, privaccly, at reaso! Charges. In & practice of twenty. years, wita ever form and vurlety of entunic and special dixenses TP der. his eye, bis mind. directed .to. thelr st0dF Jamillar’ with all the various theories and DM treatment recommended for thelr eure. he Has! an experience und thurough practles knowledce 25 dom abtained by.the Keneral phgsieiatt.- Zouk of) paxes, with question sist, free ne oftice, mall cents, ‘Hours, 9 to4, $ to Sundasx,J9-t0 TE “ae Se DR KEAN; RuLay: 173 South Clarkést., Chicazs. » Consult personells or b: chronic, nervuus, or speci the only poysiclia in wie city wao warrants Ropay. Muurs: Ya, m. tod p. i; Sundays YW ~ Proprietor. Manitou Springs, Colorado. * MANITOU HOUSE, CAPE ANN.—Bass Rock house. G boned, Gloucester, Muss. "Eincst sure betaine ad 5 e Ations trated book. HS SRMOWS