Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1881, Page 20

— RELIGIOUS. - The Goodly Company of Here- tics Associated with Dr. Thomas. Some Scraps of Ecclesiastical History Bearing on the Syeamore Trial. : The Assyrian Account of the Deluge, and Adventures of Sisit. “Church Fairs and the Pious Frauds Therein Committed—The Com- 4 mission Business. © General Notes at Home and Abroad—Personal—Sun- day Smiles. CREDULOUS. » She: Come to the Savior. hear you not his voice, Its gentle tones entreatitg you to come? How can you stand insensitive? your choice How fuil to make, from him no more to roam? You know—none better—bow: sinall peace doth bide Jn the brief triumphs of this fleeting life: Then why not come? Who standeth by bi: Findeth bis soul serene-midst worlds in strife. How shell you come? “Why, see you not the door Ot His own church spread wide, inviting you? Come but within, bow humbly down before ‘His ultar; sure you'll ind his promise true. Certain, the church is God's, is Christ's own bride! And Christ is God; else how could he forgive? The Hible is bis inessuge, true and trie Jt hath no word that oue may doubt and live. Ob, but you mut Lefieve! No other way, Leadeth to life in ull the universe. You must huve faith; even Christ's own mercy may Not else absolve you from sin’s dreadful curse. No, no! I will not listen; reason will Hut lend to doubt; and doubt is endicss death. Ob, friend! way perish? Christ's death will aati *The iaw for you and me, bave we but faith. CREEDLES: Hi Your creeds, dear friend, appeal not to my heart; With pain for your pain, still must | confess Nor cross nor crescent is fur me 2 part Of the Divine; yet God is God not less. ‘To me has not been given to see.as you, With eye of faith, severe, and clear. and sure; Yeuknowing uuught of God. 1 kuow Him true; Because 1 know Him not 1 know Him pure. ‘Fis name? _ Nay, even isis name I cannot tell ‘No! not Jehovah; him J know, the savaze pod Of bloody Hebrew David, fit to dwell A something higher tnan the snows Jove trod. Ido not know God's name nor dwelling-piace. Lthink He bath not given to man to know. Beis: Jam; lwas not. By His grace Lam, 1 shall be, or shall not. Wellso! Then I'm content? Well, dear, my triend, right glad Would 1, with you again th° old fach main- tain, a But since it cannot be, on! Pm not mad With joy; nor over sad is my refrain. Yes! I'm content to leave it all with God. J bave sought painfully. and cannot tnd; ‘Whate'er beiall, | bow me to His rod— Since Goa is God—to His high wilt tesinied: THE THOMAS CASE. THE GOODLY COMPANY OF HERETICS. é Dayton Journal. Dr. Thomas is a Methodist preacher who, in the City of Chicago, has been giving forth pulpit utterances for which he was first tied by a preliminary church committee, and then recently by his whole conference upon appeal. Ie was convicted of the offense of heresy. The result of this decision, unless reversed on appeal, must be expulsion from the ministry and from. the’ Chureh. Dr, ‘Thomas has taken an appeal to the Judicial Conference, composed of a jury of three contiguous conferences. If the verdict is af- firmed, Mr. ‘Ch-+-uas- must either appeal to the General Conference in 1884, abstaining from preaching in the meantime, or he must become an independent preacher, thus adding another to the thousand sects of Christen- dom, and preparing the way for the more perfect reign of indifferentism and infidelity. Such cases proclaim to young men of noble aspirations that they chuose the clerical pro- Jession at the venture of forfeiting, their manhood in some future day for peace or of submitting to a religious battle with mem- bers of their own household of faith. Every man and patriot, whatever per- sonal ideas on religion, is interested in pre- venting the multiplication of hostile religious bodies as far as possible. It cannot be that in civil governmentsecession and concurrent jurisdictions are abowinable and not to be tolerated, and yet in lesiastical ¢overn- qnent.can be commendable. . The chief cau: of infidelity is not the propagandisin of Rob- ert iegersoll and materialistic theories. | 1t found where the great Master of our holy re- Jigica placed it, in Christian divisions, and hence his lust family prayer, live times re- peice that they all may be one as My ‘ather and I are one, that the world may be- Here, Christian and church orgenic union must. take place in a historic body, upon the shnple faith in s Christ, with the frate! nity among Christians of the first century operative umonge gious people of this age The love of God and the love of man, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of aman, mnust_ be ever conjoined for a truly suc- cesstul religion. x Public sentiment is certainly with Dr. Thomas, at least so far as the temper and svirit of the pruseeution are compared with those of the accused. The prosecutors show the spirit of heresy-hunters in past nges. ‘They sneer-at Dr. “Thomas. ‘They charge n With degrading his teaching for popular t. ‘They boast of tracking him for ten yeu They aver that he is a juggler of words, and an assasin of diismother (church), that he “should: stay in. Jericho until, hi beard grows,” that he “will be so wind- broken, and spavined, and foundered that he will be ready for the boneyard.”” Dr. Thomas replied ina gentle, dignified, and moderate manner, showing that he is at least not tainted with the greatest heresy, the lack of charity or love. The accused was acquitted on the charge ot denying the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments, but convicted of heresy io the atonement and future punishment. The Doctor appears to hold to the essence of the doctrine of atonement, but does not wish to use modern metaphysical language. He thinks that Christ died to reconcile man to tiod, and emphasizes this. His view of God Isso. fultof love that he thinks the trans- ssor nly to be reconciled. A Hie makes more prominent the humanity of Christ as a man among men, iriend, brotivr, sympathizing with the distressed, the op- “pressed. and with the youngest and most abandoned of the race. He depresses not the divinity, and is not guilty of depressing the humanity of the Savior of the world. There may be slight departures: from arthodox lan- guxge, but surely not perceptibly from or- thodox thought. _fhe real ground of condemnation is his ee of a future state. Here is his offense: Personalis, [cannot limit ali of God's savi ‘work ta these few years on earth. To me this is only the beginning, und all the Vast future’ is filed with life, and love, and activity. Tho love and the Sucritice that huve passed away from our shores: the love of fathers and mothers, Wrothers and sisters: the love of patriots and Philunthrupists—it 13 all over’ were; nut bated ‘or quenched uy the waters of death, but quick- ened and glorified. All the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ is over there as well as here. The ministry of ail the angels is active there, And to that bright tuture f luok-und hasten in the dope that the lost norfound here may be found bere; that many souls found in sin bere shall Jind deliverance there; and that the day may coe serail he souks breathed into being by ei of God may be brought into herwmony Dr. Thomas has here merely suggested the doctrine of the intermediate state, as held by the vast mass.of Christendom, and as found in the prayers of the ages. Dr. ‘Thon violated any one of the, twenty-five artic of the Methodist. religion? Which? (Nov one. Has he violated the only creed of the Methodist. Church, the Apostles’ creed? Which article of it? Not one, for it nothing as to the future state of the w but relegates this subject to the domain of opinions. \What were the ‘requsitions of Jolin Wesléy for recognizing preachers in hus societivs and as called of Gud to preach ? A godly experience, a just conception of the doctrines of justification by faith, and the practical fruits of the ministry In the cony sion of sonls. Can any one fead Jonn We: Jey’s prayer book and not see there the very jdea suggested by Dr. ‘Thomas? But there is i stronger defense for Dr. Thomas. ‘The Methodist articles aretak from the English Chureh, and Jolin Wesley held the views of the Episcopal Chureh of whieh he wasa minister and in whose com- munion he died. Now, if we can. ascertain what the position of the British Church was ag to the 1uture punishment, we shall know what the position of John Wesley and the Methodist Church was as to future punish- ment—that is, whether it is an article of faith or a mere opinion, If mere opinion, a great wrong has been done Dr. Thomias as it Method! nd a minister, and the Methodist Chureh itself, by his condemnation, ‘fhe question of the duration of future punishment was agitated in the early English Chureh. Edward V1, the first’ King of England, after the usurpation of the Church of Rome had_been entirely cheeked, and the Church of England had secured her primitive independence, published, by royal authority, forty-two icles of _relizion, “asreed upon by the hops and other good men in the convention hela at London in the 552, to root out the discords of opinion tblish the agreement of the true re- articles. were repealed by Queen Mary, the Papal successor of Edwagd VL But Queen § beth, her suceessors gave royal ent to ‘thirty-nine artic eed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both piavinees, and the whole clergy in the tticn holden at London in the year 562 for avoidine diveisities of opinion and ishing of consent touching the true religion.” . "The forty-second of the articles published by Edward V1. contained these word “They are worthy of condemnation (Latin, mnatione,) who endeavor at this tine to restore the dangerous opinion that all men, be they never so ungodly, shall at length be saved when they have suicred pains for their sins acertain time appointed by God’s_ jus- ice’? The convoeation of 1962, in their re- jon of the Prayer-Book, struck out the forty-second article, which has never been retnacied, ‘This question is one of opinion, Any Methodist may hold, without ino sistency, an opinion on this subject at viri- ance with the current religious sentiment without compromising his subseription to the Apostles’ Creed or the Methodist Articles of Religion. But this question has been made the sub- al adjudication. in .the highest iastical court of the Protestant world, the Arches Court of Canterbury, To this formal decision every Methodist, Episcopal- ian, and believer in the simple creeds of a primitive faith should submitas authoritative and conclusive; that the whole subject of hell and its. modifications belongs not to the faith, the essence ot belief, but to opinions, the accidents of the religious platform of the ages. 1f Dr. Thomas is a heretic, then are Gau- Juxall, Overall, Cosin, Jolly, ‘Thor dike, Wilson, Wilberforce, Usher, Andrews, Ken (author of the duxulogy sung all over Christendom), Jerem: Taylor (author of Holy Living and Dying), and the sainted Bishop Heber, author of “* From: Greeniand’s Jey Mountains.” 2 i If Dr. Thomas is a heretic for not holding to the statements of hell, which were formn- Jated in the last century, then hereti avound in all the churches of the land, in their ministry and membership. | The doctrine of the intermediate state is held by the entire Jewish Chureh, by the Ro- man Catholic Chureh (however corrupted), by the Greek Church, by all the old Protes ant.churches of Continental Europe, by the entire Episcopal churches of England, Cana da, aml the United States, and by hundreds of the modern religious bodice If Dr. Thomas be a_heretic ely in the ascendant. ‘The new version takes it out of the verbal obscurity version and makes it patent teach- the Scriptures many think. e Journal cannot but hope that the higher judicatories will vindicate Dr. Thow- as, preserve the primitive simplicity of the Methodist body, develop the Methadis ganization wore and more in the track of lib- eral Christian thought, and prevent the ad- dition of another to the unfortunate divisions of Christendom. THE DELUGE, THE ASSYRIAN ACCOUNT AS TRANSLATED FROM ANCIENT HIEROGLYPHICS. Baltimore Sun. It is difficult ini the space at-my command to give a detailed account of the successful efforts of such enthusiastiescholars as Cham- pollion, Grotefend, Rouge, Sayce, Bragseh, and others to extend our knowledge of the language and history of Eastern nations: men of supreme Caucasian mind, who, while bowing at the shrines of knowledge in an- cient Greece, and holding in reverence the immortal names of Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, yet crossed the Mellespont into Asia, to the cradle of the human race on the banks of the Euphrates, and from thence to the Nile, thus opening, by their investiga- tions of the hierogiyphs and the cuniform character, a book of knowledge which had been unread fer 2,000 years. ‘The visitor to the British Museum in -Lon- don, after passing through the Egyptian Court, and before he enters, the hall where the Elgin marbles are preserved, will find himself in the Assyrian department, and among the bas-reliefs, representing sieges and battle-scenes, will find twelve stone ttb- Jets carved..in the cuneiform or narrow- headed writing of Assyria. The tablets are somewhat broken and defaced, Dut through the unwearied labor of Oriental scholars they have been correctly translated. These twelve tablets were found in peveh, and adorned the interior of the palace of. King Assurbanipal, who reigned 660 B. C. ‘They record the adventures of King Isdubar, who reigned in Assyria shortly after the flood. The greatest interest centres in the eleventh tablet, since it gives anaccount of the deluge, in soie respec! arto that giver in the Book of Genesis, and also states that this ac count was copied from a similar but more ancient tablet, which was kept in a_ city of Assyria ‘called Erech, probably the thost an- cient city in the world, and from these facts we are compelled to look upon these tablets as among the most ancient records now pre- served, having been written 200 years beture the birth of Moses. ‘The eleventh tablet states that King Izdu- bar meets a sailor named Urbamsi, and the: sail maship down the River Euphrates in search of Sisit (the Noah of the iy of whom they have heard, * it has es the food, and has been deciared immori the gods.” - ‘Chey meet Sisit, but are ed by astream. At the request of Sisit gives him an account of the flood, which the Assyrians haye handed down to posterity, and which we may regard as a rich contribu- tion tothe fiterature of the pr translation below is a verbatim: tran the conversation between Ladu sit, in which the latter relates the building of air ark or ship, gives an account of the food, lasting si s after Which the ark rested mountain. He entonut a dove, } returned; then a swallow, and finally a raven, which did not return. He then leaves the ark, and builds an altar to the gods. TRANSLATION. falabar after this manner said to Sisit afar ol “Sisit, the account do thou tell to me, to the midst to make war I come uv after thee. y how thou hast done it, and in the rele of gods life thou hast gained.” Sisit atter this manner said to Izdubar: “TI will reveal to thee, izdubar, the con- cealed story, and the wisdom of the gods [ will relate to thee. “The City Surippak, the city which thou hast established, was ancieni, and the gods within it. Anu, Bel, Ninip, Lord of Hades, their will revealed in the midst, and spoke to me thus: 2 “ *Surippakite, son of Ubaratutu, make thou a great ship for thyself. “++ | will destroy the sinners and life. “* ‘Cause to go in the seed of life all of it, preserve them. “©The ship which thou shalt make, — cubits shail be the measure of its Jength, and —— cubits the amount of its breadth and its hight. Into the deep launch it.” “Into the restless deep 1 launched it. - “Its planks the water within it admitted. “Tsaw breaks and holes. ids placed three measures of bit ed over the outside: ures of bitumen I. poured ‘AIL L possessed L eollected it; all I pos- sessed I collected of silver; “Ail L possessed I collected of, iLL possessed 1 collected 07 life, “phe whole I caused to go up into the ship: all my male and female servants. *y he beusts of the field, the animals of the field. and the sons of the army, all of them 1 caused to £0 U1 “4 flood of Shamas made, and— ‘4 “Tie spake saving: ‘Inthe night will cause it to rain from tleaven heavily; | “Enter to the midst of the ship, aud shut thy door.” 4 * A flood he raised and spoke, night: *1 will, cause it te rain from avily.” i heels that J celebrated his festival, “Inthe day A “The day nich he had appointed, fear 1 had. ze a ‘Lentered to the midst of the ship, and shut nity door; Se To Pde the ship to Buzursadirabi the ilot. 2 bat ‘Phe palace I gave to his hand. . © The raging of a storin in the morning arose from the horizon of Heaven extending and wide, = Vul in the midst of it thundered, * And Nebo and Saru went in front; «‘Sne destroyer Nergal overturned: “ Ninip went in front, and t downs The spirits carried destruction ; “ In their glor wept the earth; “Or Vul the flood reached to Heay “~he bright earth to a waste was turned; “The surface of the earth, like it swept; “The gods concerning the spirits were weeping with her 5 ‘The gods in their seats were seated in lamentation; covered were their lips for the saying in the Heaven md. nights passed, the ‘wind, tem}. torm overwhelmed, “On the seventh day in ifs eourse was calmed the storm, and all the tempest which had destroyed like an earthquake quieted, "The sea he eaused to dry, and wind and tempest ended. “Twas earned through the se: of evil, and the whole of mankind who turned to sin, like reeds their corpses floated. “TL opened the window and the light broke efuge. arried’ over the shore, at the boundary of the sea. “For twelve measures it ascended over the land, ‘Io tne country of Nizir went the ship. = “Tt destroyed all life from the fice of the earth. The strong tempest over the people teached to Heaven. a “Brother saw not his brother; it did not spare the people. In Heaven the gods feared the tempest, and sought refuge; they ascended to the heaven of Auu. ‘The gods, tike dogs with tails hidden, crouched down, * Spake Ishtar a discourse; “ Uttered the great goddess her speech: “The world to si has turned, and then I in the presence of the gods prophesied evil. “When L prophesied in the presence of the doer i. Lvere devoted all my people; and d thus: **Thave begotten man, and let him not like the sous of the fishes fill the sea.’ . “The mountain of Nizir stopped the ship, and 10 pass over it was not able. “The first day and the second day, the mountain of ir the sane. “The third day and the fourth day, the mountain of Nizir the same. - ‘The fifth and sixth, the mountain of ‘ir the sume. 2 ‘On the seventh day in the course of it, | “Tsent forth a dove, and it left. The dove went and searched and a resting place it did not find, and it returned. “Jsent turth a swallow, and it left. “The swallow went and searched sand a resting place it did not find, and it returned. : “T sent forth a raven, and it left. The raven went, and the corpses on the. water it saw, and it did eat, it swam, and wandered away, and did not return. +7" sent the animals forth to the four winds. cies “LT poured out a libation. “1 built an altar on the peak of the moun- tain. “The gods collected at its burning.” CHURCIL FAIR FRAUDS. TABLES STOCKED BY SHOPKEEPERS” WHO THS OF THE PROFITS. + New York Sun. “What a beautifully arranged table, and what handsome articles,” remarked a lady to her escort at a fair in an up-town church. “Lhe table contained a tine array of fancy ar- ticles. here were silver-mounted hand elas carved dressing-cases, lace neckwear, jewelry, and other goods. ‘Tow the ladies in charge must have worked to get so many nice things contributed. What a marked contrast this table presents to some of the others,” said the gentleman. “It will bring the church quite a fund by itself.7 The couple moved on, and a gentleman who had heard their conversation approached, and said: “You must excuse me, but f-cannot help setting you right on the subject about which you were . just speaking. That table. which you so admire, and think will so benefit the church, is what is called a commi: 1 table, and will not obtain for the church as much money 3 many of the plainer ones. The goods are obtained from regular business houses at the current prices. What are sold. are paid for, and what are not sold are returned, All that the church receives is the commission given by the merchant, Th sometimes reaches as high as but more frequently does not cent. From this you can easily se conunission tabie in an evening takes in 350, the profit only amountsto $5, Lf 510 is taken in at one of the tubles where the goods are contributed, the arch fares doubly well. Many ladies liketo makea great show at their tables, and adopt the commission method. Itis much easier to get them thi way than to get them for nothing, or to per- sonally make up faney articles. People are attracted by the greatest display, and, as in the present instance, the lady who has the conmnission table gets greater credit than the one who has got her goods contributed, and ats been to much more trouble, usually gotten up for a religious or charitable purpu and the money ex- pended at then nat for the articl ceived, but for the benefit of the a obj When a man spends $10 at mission table, he thinks that his money pended for this good purpose, whereas nine- tenths of it goes into the pockets of the wealthy inerchant, who really owns the ar- ticles until they are sold.”” For the past three years th ing goods.on commi: nh | gained ground, Many merehants sell thou- ids of dollars’ worth of goods in th It is considered a regular t and is courted by many tirm ; tion to receiving a fair price for their wares, alsa get a very good advertisement. Fre- auently 2 plano-manutacturing firm give $500 piano to # fair, which is rattled for at achance, there being 500 chane piano the finn gets $259 in ! chance: say nothing of the ment. aliable articles rated for in large fairs are often obtained in this way. GENERAL NOTES. Prof. Swing says: “The danee is more fatal to human bodies than to human morals, and as conducted in these d: sheuld be op- posed more by doctors of medicine than those of divinity.” The “Salvation Army” recently held-a “council of war’ at Exeter Hall, when Gi Booth said that the organization now ha stations, with 470 officers, 7,000 soldiers, people attending its meetings every week, and an income of $250,000 a year, ‘The Presbyterian papers are giving a good deal of space to the case. of Brother Donald- son, Emleuton, Pa, who was recently sus- pended by the Session for walking through a quadrille at a private party. Brother Quil- Jan says that parlor dancing bears about the same relation to ball-roum daneing that mod- erate drinking does to drunkenness. A. searcher after truth would like to know if Brother Quillan considers: moderate cating in any way connected with gluttony 2 : ‘The Young Men’s Christian suciations of the Rocktord (111) District are invited to meetin convention In that city Saturday, Nov, 19, to remain in session over the follov ing day, tor the purpose of taking counsel together as how to best prosecute the work for youns men. Prominent. workers from Chicagu and other parts of the State will be : present, among them: Watts De Gollyer, Committee; I. W. L Midler, M. Wil- Chairman State Brown, State Secretary: Patterson, George W er, and A son. Ministers and Iaymen in town there are ni ociations are cordi: to attend as delegates. “Enterta be provided for all who attend. By a recent vote of the congregation of the Sixth Presbyterian Church the pewsare made free in the évening.. There is also singing from the Gospel hymns for twenty minut before the sermon. ‘These changes have a ready resulted in a largely increased nee upon the evening service. aA writer to the Interior commenting on. the spiritual death of the Church, attributes in Which has invaded the pulpit. vanced. thinkers? devote too much space to “moral protoplasm.” “the actuality of the poten- tiallty? of divine things, and not enough to Christ. Luther’s Bible, in Germany, is being re- vised by a committee of scholars. ‘They com- pleted the revision of the New ‘Testament about ten years ago, and they are now gaged at Halle on. the tinal consideration of the Old ‘Testament. Also, the Gaelic Bible is to be revised by a company of Gavlic scholars. aA Te: die) : inment will 3 rancher described to a Sunday- school missionary the ioral condition of the that it section in which he lived” by saying was “herded, lariated, and belled by Jn this unpromising fi to work, and soon had his moral: fa enough litde ‘Texans to make a respectable Sunday-school. A strange question came up for official an- atthe reeent meeting of the. Central asbytery of Philadelph 1 the church session a dis deacons to render an account of moneys re- ceived and distributed by them, and of sueh other they may perforin in their of- tieial ? he Presbytery not only an is question in theatfirmative, but took the trouble to give thre for doing showld be inind in those who as! s shoukt be. allowed to ret as they like, without a shows a “xa ‘you-please ”. state of af- $ somewhere or other. It is not publ stated which of the ‘churches are bless with deacons who have such random ideas of aeeountability. ‘The International Convention of the Younz ‘Men's Christian Association at Cleveland fast art the second Sabbath in Novem and the week following (Nov. U3-19) as at rayer for young men and for Christian work in their behalf. A sin Jar recommendation was made by the World’s ation of the Young Men’s Christian tdast. ‘The effort in bebalf of young men is so evident that this will meet with a hearty response ich & question rkable state of ehureh dea- and spend rem "That reney designed fer and reaching young men. There has been-a remarkable growth in these organizations in the past few years, and it i y that they are doing a _bet- ter work for young men than ever before. ‘There are now 210 young men employed as general seeretari giving ali their tiine to ition work, a growth from three in 1866, and: 114 in 1578, and 16L in 1880, AMERICA: The stated meeting of the Board of Man- agers was held on Thursday, the 3d of vember. President S. Wells Wi parts of the world, and = Y : ippropriated for the work of the suciety in ‘er ‘ colportage work of the society in the st continues to prosper. ‘The evarts of 106 colportenrs for the month of September show that 29,028 families w visited by them, and 7,326 destitute famili indi ls were suppl One auxiliary society rkansas, one in braska. 5 Z mong the important foreign correspond- ¢ of the month were letters from the Ru: sian Bible Society and the Bible Soci pressing: Joss sustained by this death of President Prince, of St. Petersburg, with hi istactory information about the recep! iven to Bible distributers in) Siberia y tr Mr. Whipple, of Persia, with comprehens statements of the work of Bible distribution a was recognized in Dakota, and one in Ne- sympathy for the the from sation in Gartield; as now organized in’ his field; from Mr. of Yokoltama, with summaries and diaries respecting colpurtage; from the I gelization Committee of the Waldensian Chureh,.. respecting the expenditure’ of moneys granted to them for Bible colportage in Italy: and trom the British and Foreign Bivle Society, respecting matters of common interest in Persia, Turkey, and Japan. ‘The receipts for October were $54,113. copies of the Scriptures issued from the Bib! Louse, $4,$47, — PERSO Mr. W.C. Richards has retired from the editoria! staff of the Standard, The Rev. John IL. Jones, of Akron, O., has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church there. Iliness has compelled the Rev.-P. I. Mor- rison, of Mazomanie, Wis., to take a tion of one year. The Rey. D. D. Chapin, of Stillwater, Minn., has accepted a call to the Episcopal Church of Allegan, Mich. The Rev. O. C. Clark, of Hartford, Conn., has accepted a call from a newly-organized ehureh in Bismarck, D. 'T. ‘The Rey. Simeon Gilbert, of the Adrance, has arrived at New York on his way home from a-tour through Europe. Prof, Pattan, of Princeton, has accepted an invitation to occupy the pulpit of Albert arnes, in Philadelphia, forone year, and has entered upon the work. The Rev. J. M. Flad, an American mi: sionary who wis sent to present a memorial to King John.of A inia, reports his jour- ney from Suakin, on the Red Sea, to the ith twenty-three c: inian frontier, w y iefly with Bibles in the Am SUNDAY REVERIES. Just after election a gentleman approached the defeated candidate with “Well, llow do y nn "7 feel pretty much What do = In fact. my Lord, he’s quite a St. Paul,” saidagentleman intereeding with Bishop Blomfield, of London, for an able but, impe- euniousdivine not unfamiliar with the in- side of- debtors’ prison. “Ah,” replied the prelate, ‘in prisons oft.” * Well, Charley, what are you reading 2” said a father to hiis son last Sunday. Oh, Pn reading * Daniel in .the ions’ Den.” Father oes over and picks up the book and finds it adime novel called “Pete Joues in Africa. y s he, “this is a dime novel “No, pa, that’s only the ‘revised! of ** Daniel in the Lions’ Den.” a\ clergyman in the country had a stranger preaching for him, one day, and meeting his sexton asked, “Well, Sauders, tow did you like the sermon to-day?” “It was rather ower plain and simple for me. 1 like the sermons best that jumbles the judginent and confounds the scuse. Ah, sir, Dnever HH W one that could come up to yourself at pat. Dr. Prime relates an anecdote in the New Observer which shows some rare quall- tions for the pastorate: Iwas visiting a zreat planter In| Kentue near Lexington, while. attending the Presby rian Assembly. He wanted me to sce a couple of colts six Weeks old, and when tey were trou I said, * Morgan coll “Wh he exciaimed, “do you know a Morgan colt when you see it?” “Certainly. sald 1. or an Eclipse colt.” Well done,” said he, “ft never saw wt minister: before that knew a Morgan horse, or nny other at sight. Why, sit, you cau have 2 call to any church in Kentucky!” CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Nov. 13—Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity Nov. 25—Fast. CATHOLIC. Nov. 14—Twenty-third Sunday atter Pentecost; atronage of the B. V. Stanislaus Kostka, ov. 17—St. Gregory Maumaturgus, B.C. Nov. de Declesuon of Basilica of SS, Peter and Paul Noy. 19—St. Elizabeth of Hungary, W.; St. Pon- tlan, P.M. eee MUSIC. Exit ‘‘ Madame Favart” and Re- appearance of the Bos- ton Ideals. German Opera to Be Given at MeVick- er’s for a Short Seasou. ° Items About Musicians and Artists at Home and Abroad. A Collection of Musical Notes Which Are Not All Quavers. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. During the past week the Grand Opera-House has had 1 monopoly of the musical attractions in the city. The Comley-Barton company bave given a notable representation of * Madame Favart.” which, for compieteness and gorgeous costuming, {g not Hkely to be paralleled here. Musically the opera is uot strong. and would hardly be called a success in the hands of 2 less ellicient organization. As itis, it has drawn €x- ceedingly well, and the acting of the principal performers has been all that could ve desired. During the coming week the Boston Ideal opern company will begin a fortnight’s engage- ment. All the old tavorits are with the com- puny, and « mere mention of their names Lives a good idea of the musicss strength of the or- gunization. In the listo? members appear Mr. W. HL. Whitney, Mr. W. 1. Fessenden, Mr. W. He Macdonald, Mr. Tom Karl, Mr. H. C. Burnabee,. Mr. George Frothipgham, Mr. .G. Kammerlee, Miss Marie Stone, Miss ruidine Ubmnar, M Isurton, Miss May — Cater, and Miss Adelaidé Phillips. Moreover, it is rumored that during the second week we shail always-welcome voice of drs, Davis, The program for the tirst Monday night, und Wedni ay und uy mutinées,* The Mascotte vesday, * The Pirates of Penzance; Wedues- hight wilt oceur the first regular product in Chicugo of Lortzing’s opera, ** Car and Ca penter”: Thursday, * Chimes ‘of Normandy Friday, “ Olivette,” and Saturday, * Futinitza, wee M‘*VICKER’S THEATRE. A short opern season will be inaugurated at this thentre tomorrow night, and will last prob- ably uatil about 11 o'clock the same evening. “Boccaccio” wil be the attruction,. and its interpreters the German company, which Is seen every Sunduy uight at this theatre. The opera has already been given twice, aud has been warmly commended in these columns. 1t ig un even and pleasing representation by thor- oughly conscientious and. cupable artists, and should be well patronized ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR TUE WEER. ‘Three performances of the * Chimes of Nor- mandy" will be given in Elgin by local. tatent this week. Mr. Hy Sehoerefeld, of this city, will conduct the same. The Mendelssobn Club of Hyde Park give their first concert tomorrow evening witn u popular program. Miss Jeanie Herrick isto be the prima donna of the occusion. Mr. J. H. Haverly has added to his theatre or- chestra Mr, W. C. Bowen, the noted New York cornetist. Mr. Bowen was the principal attrac- tionat the Brizhton Hotel (Coney Island) con- certs this past summer. ‘The. mass rehenrsal of the Chicago ‘Festival Chorus, uppointed for the Isth inst., will be held on the Itth instend. Theodore ‘Thomas will be here to conduct the first mass rebeareal with orebestrn on the 25th inst. The postponed concert, dress parade, and ex- hibition drill by Bernacd Commandry, No Ke will tke place at the Exposition Build: ing Friday evening, Nov. 18, 1881, at 8 p.m. Music by Lyon & Healy's band. Miss Emma Heckte, the soprano of Prof. Swing’s church, will sing at the Lewis-Eichheim couvert_vext Thursduy; aiso with the Bee- thoven Society Dee. 15; and in Detroit during the latter part of the present monta. The program for Mr, Lewis’ twenty-ciebth chamber concert, Nov. 17, is au mteresting one. The uumbers ure: rio, Op. 3838; Quintet. songs (a), “Du Neu- sturning "3 Andaat Miss Lilian, E. Smytho's camber concert will tuke pluce Wednesday evening next ut the Woodrul! House at $o'clock. ‘The program Is of avery high order, und will be: curried out with the assistance of Frederick Boscowvitz, Edward Hememdoht, and Charles S. Lee. The comic opera written by Mi: of this city. entitied “Espiegtiirie,” promises to be a greut success. Mr. Al Henderson, ot the ‘Mellville operu company, is arranging the score for orchestra, Miss Starr is also designing the whole wardrobe for herself and company. She wilt not open in Ciicago, but in New York. The first reunion of the Becthoven Society will be held at Fairbank Hall ‘Toursday evening. The program is an interesting and Varied one, participated in by Messrs. Wolfson and heim, Mr. Curl Levinsen, Miss Mr, A.C. Ytrupp, Miss Ettie Butler, and Messrs. Kosenbecker and Alien. At Brand’s Hall this afternoon Licserang’s orchestra will imterpret the following program: March; “Jubelfeier’; overture, * Feisentiible” waltz, “im Waldes Sebatten"; ballet music, “Butter-tly Huut"; overture, Maritana"; (x) Cradle Song, (b)’Spring Song, (c) Serenade Grand’ Fantasie: overture, Feen See; Reverie: Concert House Potka; galop, * Lustig im Kreise.”” At the North Side Turner-ITall this afternoon enbecker's orehestra_ will play the fol- elections. tureh, *Greetng.to Ameri- a"; overture, “tHaymond"; waltz, “Court i rates of Pen- 3 Vurhitions om » “Queen of Saba"; Polkin un the Bas- Scotch song: potpourri, Trovatore tille " (aews): gallop, ** Indian Post. The Indies of Plymouth Church Missionary So- yy will give What promises to be a very en- bie rousical and ¢locutionary entertaininent jn the auditorium of the church Saturday even- ing for-the benetit of the society. M ep Heine, violinist, will be ussisted | by Miss Emma Hovey, soprano: Miss Mac St. John, contralto; Mr. James i. Jolnston, tenor; and Signor ‘To- loim, baritune. Miss Ada Heine will be the ac- eompnnist. For the elocutiouary part of the program Mr. P, Burbank bas. been secured. ci MATTERS OF INTEREST. On Monday, Nov. 21, at Haverly’s Theatre, “Patience” will. be performed with Arthur Sullivan's orebestrative and W. 5. Gilbert's or- iginal stage business—for tho first time in this city—by the puthorized “Patience” compan: Comley-Barton managers. The cast will include Marie Jansen, James Barton, Litngow James, Miss Fairlamb, Alma Stanley, and a chorus re- murkably strong and well drilled. ‘The costumes will be exuct reproductions of those in use in London and New York, thus giving to the pab- lic the authors’ version of this most popular work. The Mozart Society is actively at work pre- paring for ts approaching concerts. ‘The mem- bers evince the liveliest interest in the work outlined. by their conductor, Mr. Bakutkn. The London Musical World, speaking of Mr Aline Ostrood, who i3 to be the soluist at the first con- cert, says: “Mrs, Osguod sang, ‘with verdure clad” in the spititof a zenuine mistress of her art, with grace and expres cruise wholly devoid of preten afforded other treats by her e: of * Knowest Tl the Land? Heart ls Young.” ent rendering and * When the MUSIC M. Henri Litolif is just, finishing an opera in five acts, entitled "Les Templiers.” Lueca will appear as Maryarethe in Boito’s “Mefistoft * next January in Vienna. M. Suint-Sans is bard at work upon opera “Menry VIL." ‘Zhe first act is completed. The orchestral score of Spobr's best opera, his new aireudy “Jessonda,” hag just been puvlished for the first time in Leips An opera by Balfe, “ The Painter of Antwerp,” which has never been-printed, is sbortly to be published in London. Henry Litolif. having recovered from his re- cent iliness, is now engaged on a grang tive-act opera, * ‘The Templars.” The title of “The Snake Charmer” has, by cabled orders from Audran, the composer, been changed to “The Grand Mogul.” Peschkn-Leutner, who sang at the Spring Fes- tival in Cnicaxo, and immediately. returned to Europe at its closs, is reported to be engaged for a tour next year in this country. Manager Mapleson still expresses the opinion that Mine. Parti will sing in opera under his munagement before the season is over, and Tat Diva” maintains that she hus no such Intention. Frau Materna will leave Vienna for America 113. She fs bound by her: contract to xp- r{u sixteen concers. for which she will re~ ve $10,u and expenses pald for herself and two companigns. The new symphony concerts in Boston, under Mr. Hensebel, seem to be very successful, and bighly spoken of by the eritics. ‘Ine orebestm is good, and Mr. Henschel is sald to make an conductor, He, is warily praised for ifs the“ encore” nuisance. The Maurice Grau French opera company, after a successful tour of South America, 13 now on its way North, and will appear at the Globe Theatre, Noston, on the 2th inst. The season in New York will open Dec. 2, at the Acudemy of Music, Among the operas to be produced are “ Atlenst, you must admit that Wagner shows: much learning,” suid a-diselple of Hichara of Buyreuth to Kussiui. ** Yes,” replied the maestro, nd that’s the mischief of it, because if he were entirely ignorant of music, he would’t be uble to make so much that is bad.” We met Max Strakoseb, full of Gerster and business. aud called his attention to several un- important names which lengthened without strengthening bis list of artists. “Why,” we asked, “do you engnze these people?” * Vell, replied Max, * 1.do not engage dem.” “But you advertise them?” ‘Vell, dat's unnoder ting. Dat pleases dem.” “ But, if you want to adver- tise people whom you bave not engaged, why not select names that will help you—Patti, Nils- son, Kellogg, and so on: “Ab, den de pub- lique vould vant to see dem—eh? Dese people nobody never vants.” Clever Max!—Spirit of Ute Times, The Emma Abbott opera company gave its first. performance of Usigilo's “The Two Cavaliers” tust week in Washington. The libretto bas been adapted by Mr. Willium Castle, and the music of the opern Js snid by the Wash- ington Post to be “extremely takin, and, in a certain sense, classical, though of the lightest character to suit the Joyous and rollicking tone of the work. ‘The. opera is like the popular French lyric compusitions, but the dramatic part {s irranved panoramically in several sbift- ing scenes, instend of one set for etch uct, and thereby the contisuity is better and. the climax nade much oftener with a tableaux and a musi: cul cifect to match the action, while the variety of movement fs 2 great guin on the usual form of opera.” Edward I. Darling, the composer- of comic opera, *‘I'welve Jolly Bachelor bas Just been very successfully produced in Boston, is only 19 years old, and is the ocly son of the late Gen. |. Darling, of Loulsians. His mother, Mrs. Flora Adams Unrling, is a descend- ant of the old Adams family of Massachusetts, The young composer bas never had any musical instroction, but hus been a hard student of niusic, und has great natural aptitude for the study. He isa tine player, and bas a remarka— bly quick ear. Atthe age of 13 yeurs bis first published work nppeared, and sinee that time he haz been regarded with much expectation by musical people of New York, with whom be js 2 sat favorit, The opera just iven was tine hed on his eighteenth birthday, and previous to that time he had never attended more than one operatic performance in bis life. His opera is pleasing without being in any respect remark- able, except a5 a promise of what ne inay be- come under skillful instruction: and by earnest study of the art in which he is evidently a born disciple. Manager Mapleson appears to bave given bis New York operatic patrons another surprise in the presentation of Mile. Marie Vachot as 1+ member of his company. ‘The press of the me- tropolis commend her bighly.and the World says: “Mile. Marie Vachot, the young French lady who made her American début in * fH! Burbiére’ at the Acudemy of Music, is blessed with nearly every requisit’ for a successful operatic carecr. Her personal advantuges are striking. She: fs tall, lithe, and well-shaped; her features are classi al, mobile, and beautiful; ber carriage 13 grace- ful, unconstrained, and ladylike, and her gen- eral demeanor and appearance exceedingly pre- possessing. Above all, MHe. Vachot is blessed. with ‘that most indispenseble quulitication for an operatic singer, a good voice, of great range and remarkable tixibility. tis a bigh soprano voice, penetrating and sulliciently powerful to fil the Academy of Music. The mezza voce, which she uses skillfully and discreetly, is ex- ceedingly sweet, and her agilita iz uatural and surprisingly good in so young a singe: THE SMOKE NUISANCE. Full Text of the Ordinance Lately Passed by the Cincinnati Council and Which Has Now Become a Law. The publicity given to the repeated efforts in ‘Chicazo to abolish the smoke nuisance—elforts which have already been attended with some. measure of success—have borne fruit in other cities, and of lute more especiully in Cincinnati, where the following smoke ordinance has passed the Kourds of Alderinen and Councilwen, re- cold the signature of the Mayor, and become alaw: Be it ordained, etc.: Sec. 1. That every furnace employed, or to be employed. in the City of Cincinnati in the working of engines by steam, and every furnace employed, or to-be employed, in any mill, tory, Drinting-house, dye-house, iron foun- dry, gas-hou stillery, brew or mali-house, bakery. gas-works, water-works, or other build- ss used forthe purpose of trade or mugu- ‘hin the limits of said city (although a stcam-cuyine be not used or employed ther: in), shall in all cases: be constructed or alters suits.to consume or burn the stoke arisi from such furnace, and If any-person shalt bere- , Within said city Hmits, use any such fur- 2¢ Which sball not be coustructed su as to, me or burn its own smoke, or shall so neglizently use any such furnace as that the smoke arising therefrom sbull not be effectually consumed or burnt, or shall carry on any trade or business which sball occasion. anythmg ob- noxious or offensive. or otherwise annoy the neighborhood or inhubitants. without using the best . practicable means for preventing and counteracting sucti annoyance, every person so offending, being the owner or occu- pier of the premisesjor bemg a foreman or other. person employed: by such-owner or occupier, shall, upon vonviction of such otfense before the Police Court, ferfcit and pay: sum not less than $20 nor more thun 20, and upon a second con- yiction fur such offense the sum of $50, and for alt subsequent convictions for such offense the sum of S10. ‘he tines thus collected to be paid into the City ‘Treasury for the benetit of the street repairing tind. ‘lhe word “person” berein shail be construed to embrace. corpora- tions ag well as natural persons or partnership associations. Provided always that the words “consume or burn the smoke ” shull not be held in all cases to Inca “teonsume or’ burn all the smoke,” but thut the Judge of the Police Court Shull not impose the penalties enacted by this ordinance it be stall be of the opinion that the necused bas, so fur as practicable, so con- structed or altered his furnace us to consume or burn as fur as. possible the smoke arising from such furnace, and bus ctrefully attended to the same with a view to prevent the escape of smoke therefrom. ‘Sec. 2. Ag soon #8 reasonably may be, after this ordinance goes into elfect, there sball be xppointed a fit person’ to be an Inspector of smoke im said city. And it shall be Inwtul for the said Inspector, and be is hereby required to commence and aid in prosecuting informacdons or lezat proceedings against any ‘person ‘for the recovery of uny penaity or forreiture to be in- curred ‘under or by virtue of the enactment herein contained with re t to the prevention of smoke, and it shall als awful for any in- hubitant of the city to commence and prose- cute, at bis own cost und risk, any such infor- jon or proceeding: Provided, that in -the tof such information or procecdiag being dismissed for want of prosecution by the in- foruuint, or tor the insutici lence, the dismissal shall be at the mane. 3. The salary of said Inspector shall. he 4) per annum, and betore entering upon the duties of his office he shall give a good and suf ficient bond ‘in the um ot $2,000, to be approved by the Solicitor and Mayor, for the fuithful per- formance of his duti ‘This ordinance sixty days ufter its pa TO. MATTIE. For Tlie Chicago Tribune. O long and weary years have tlown Since lust I eazed on the rrow o'er the Past has thrown 1 ernst mot see. scher tong uke effect on and after se. Anus A wloom th ‘Two streams bad town to; Beneath the suoshine's xlow, ‘And purest thoughts and happiest song: Were mingled with thelr tlow. They parted! Thine on flowery way Its Iht and song retained: Mine durk with doom, bereft Hope's ray— Only its Truth remain by through the darkest hour, My sout in Faith looks {up To pierce the gloom that veil’s God's smile Wile draining Wo's dread cup. And yet the magic of thy t O'ersweeping Space und 1 Entiralis ine, a8 sweet song sung Holds Memory in its rhyme. 0 mnlisic-tone 3 the choir ‘rom mountain-top to sea, All things harmonious, bold as charms: ect memories of thee.” With ebon wings and pallid brows Have passed the shaduwed. years: Since last I looked on thy dead face Through Gi first bitter teurs. Ah! radmnt hopes within my heart Sinve that sad parting died: Hope Wailed o'er Love's untimely grave— ‘Then perished, leaving Pride. Yet still there lived within m: weet memories of thee, ~- That e'er could calm the wildest storm ‘Toat lushed Life's dreary sea. And stil! lieoked with living Faith ‘To that not distant end When softly, wth Goa's fadel Our streams of Lite shull ble Nov. 2, 1851. heart ‘samile, A. Coysg. nleys. Albeit in England »ys, the most in- timate personal friendships are, uappiiy, entire- ly consistent wiih politieal antagonisins, su that Sir Willinm Harcourt was almost the only per- sonal friend bidden by Lond nstield to the obsequies of his deeply toved wife, it seemed but little probable a few years ogo that Mr. Gladstone would be Lord Derby's guest at Knowsley. The Stanleys tire a remarkable race. ‘There is noting of the etfete aristocrucy about them. They ull do something. “The present Eurl's great-grandtather was a mighty Nimrod. His hunung expioits still survive in the memory of the sons of those who remem- ber when his sezt, “The Ouks,”" hospitably entertained, with bed end board. fifty hunting guests at atime. ‘Then, too, whut Briton would be oblivious of the mun who founded *‘The Derby"? His son loved animals us well as ne did, but not quite’ in the same way. A visitor to Knowsley forty years ago would not have likely to meet x hon or tiger taxing its in we of A Keeper ig rx. °The then Lond Derby “went in for" natural history, and hig menugecrie, the tinest ever owned by an individ. ual, cost him £5U,0w ua yexr. Then cume his son, the Inte Lord, who was absorbed in poli. tics, Homer, and horsetlesh, the disap. pomtment of whose life it was not to win the Derby, try he never so bravely. dtr, Lorillard’s triumphs were not for that brilliant “Rupertof debate” of whom “the traveled thane, Athaninn Aberdeen" used to say: “1 buve heard Pitt, and Fox.and Sheridan, but our own Lord Derbs. when be fg at his best, 18 equal to them all." “And now we bave bis son, # man of quite another kidney. A curious psychutog. jeal study—there is, under the circumstun something so rently droll about whut was ever his one weuk point, that it is better to mention it thun not. Every Englishman. knows that Lord Derby—thun whom few care less abuut money, or what money gives—was a klepto. manic. * Yes," said a wag, when Lord Stanley, us be then was, first entered the Cubinec, heur he bas entirely. conquered that weakn except thut he never can resist Dizzy’s new green Kid gloves.” [mugine a. kleptomantag whose personalexpenses would be satistled by 31,0 a yeur, and who has an income of near S1W,000F His father began as a Radical and ended xs a Tory Premier. The sou is likey enough to do just the reverse. A curious contrast, this pair. There was a story yeurs azo in” London that’ the Duchess of Cambridge said one night to the late Lord Derby at his house, “I want to be introduced to. your soa.” Lord Derby went in quest of the young mau, who, when be’ brought him forward, luoked so grave, 30 ponderous, so aged, compared with his juvenile sire, that the latter, when he led him to the Duchess, said: * Your Royal Highness, permit to introduce you tomy futher—I—f mean my son.” That Lord Derby is a great accession to fthe Liberal purty is not be questioned, {tis curious that toe oniy two great noblemen in the neigttburbood of” Liverpool should botn be Liberals, while thes bustling commercial city returns ‘Tocies. NEW JERUSALEM. Proceedings of the Hlinois Association of the Swedenborzina Church, The IUinois Society of the New Jerusalem met: again at I o'clock yesterday morning. at the temple on Van Buren street, with the President Dr. A. E. Small, in the chair. The “State of the Church,” which was under discussion at the time of adjournment the day before, was again taken up, and the Rev. 0. L, paneer read an exhaustive report on the sub- ject. ‘The officers for the ensuing year were chose as follows: President, the Key. Cyrus se: mon, Laporte; Secretary and General Superin- tendent, the Itev. L. P. Mercer, Chicago: ‘freas- urer, William Northup, Chicago; Executive Committee, J. ¥. Sermon, William Niles, Dr. L. Pratt, Jonas Rawalt, Dr. Charles Davis, W.M. Dodge, Joseph Burton, Dr. A. E. Smalt, C. C. Bonne Alexander Othicer, T. L. Forest, and M, . Bisel. A report from the West Side society showed ft | was in u-healtby and very satisfactory condi- | ton, with no debts and a small surplus. ‘The Chicago Suctety reported a purtial com- pletion of the Van Buren street temple, and hoped to have it entirely finishea by spring. [he matter of receiving and entertaining the Genentl Convention of the United States, woick, is to meet in Chicago in June next, was referred to the Executive Committee with full power to net. ‘The subject of ‘ Sunday-School Work and the Religious Instruction of the Young” was taken up and opened by the Rey. E. C. Bostock, who’ thought thut entirely too little attention bad been given to the necessity of instructing cbil- dren in the interual knowledge of the Word a3 reveuled to the New Church. ‘<A general discussion of the subject occupied the grenter purt of the afternoon session. ‘Ibid closed the business part of tbe mectin; In the evcuing 4 prepuratory service to the Holy Supper, led by the Key. L. P. Mercer, was held Iu the tempic. At Il o'clock this morning the Rev. Cyrus Scammon will preach at the Van Buren Street ‘Temple, the Key. E. C. Bostock at the Union Turk ‘Temple, corner of West Washington street and Ogden uvenue, and there will. be services at the same hour at the Lincoln Park Chapel. Ats o'clock p.m, the Holy Supper will be adminis- tel at the Van Buren Strect Temple, the Kev. Cyrus Scammon otliciating. Atv:w0 In the even~ ing, #t the same place, the Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach on * New Truth for a New Age.” = EVANSTON. z ‘The petition that is now being circulated ask {ng the Board ot Education to tuké measures for the purchase of the block of ground upon which the old Lakeside Building formerly stood, for school purposes; hus been signed by about 3 citizens of the village, and by the end of the week will probably have 400—the number re- quisit for the culling of un election. The scheme ig being opposed by some of the West-Side resi qen and it is the intention to call public meeting before an elecuon is ordered. The block “in question. is . con- trolled) by - an _Eustern insurance company, and {3 held at $24,000. Having two fronts of 400 feet euch, this would be at the rate of $10 per tvot for the cust front, and £3) per foot fur the west side. There cun be but little doubt but that, xt that price, the property is dirt cheap; but it should be Borne in mind that Prof. Church- ill, of Galesburg, claims to buve a mortgage oa itof $4,000, which hus been overlooked or .ig- nored by the: insurance company, and migut mutke some trouble about passing a clear title. ° ‘Miss Hattie Kimball of the Junior class, and Miss L. M.. Crandon of the Sophomore ctas3, re- i from the declamation contest. ‘To fill the pluce of Miss Kimball Mr. J.C. Bannister was elected. ‘The Sophomores hud no-uncondi- tioned members left. und Mr. George P. Merrick, one of the debaters, was elected to Hill the place of Miss Crandon. ‘The lonz-expected mecting ot the Philosoph- ical ussociation will take place tomorrow evel ing in the Public Library rooms, when Prof, C, W. Pearson will read a paper on “England dur- fag she American Revotudon.” ‘The Rev. W. Patton bas returned from Eastern cities wholly restored to bealth, and will oceupy the Methodist pulpit this muraing aod evening. ‘the Rev. George R. Plerie will preach this morning ana evening at the Baptist Church. whe Kev. Frederick S. Jewell will preach this morning and evening in St. Mark's Episeupal Church. The Rev. A. J. Scott will preach this morning and evening in the Congregational Chureh. ‘The Gospel temperance meeting will be beld in Unloo-Hull today xt 4 o'clock p.m. << INDIAN SUMMER, the rose of death Flusheth with fevered bloom her wasted cheek, Her voice is hollow when she fain would speak Fatmilinr words, that beur in ull she suith ‘The sail, sure tokens of expiring Ureath. A softenins light bath mude ber bright eyes meek With drenis pathetie of eternal sleep. In vain her menere form she covereth With eee inile rabes, bedecked with red and wold, 3 : ‘And draweth roundiher purple-mantled skies Of morn and evenmy, royal fold on told— No fragrant bloont Shull crown ber ere she dies, ‘A onsty shroud {fs biown neross the wold, ‘And shuddering winds of doom begin to rise. J A. THAYER. The Experiences of a Saint. From “Egypt; Descriptire, Historical, and Picture ‘enue. A certain pious shopkeeper felt an ardent de- sire to be enrolled in this venerable company, und to that end he went to a man who was une versully esteemed as boly,to bex him to procure an interview with the Kutb. After alt sorts of lests this Was promised bim, and be was com- munded to yo tu a certain gute amd to address bimeelt to the first person he might see coming outofl the neighboring mosque of El Mo'ayyud. ‘The merchant ubeyed, ana be was, in fuct, wet bY the Kutb in the torm of a dignitied old mag, who granted bis pruyer und ordered bim to take the district southwest of the Zuwelen Gate une der bis protection, with the street eatled Dard el bmar. liutnedittely the merebunt feit tbat be id become t Watec, and perceived thut-le bad insight into things hidden frou other mortals. When he reachell the district intrusted te him he saw a man selling pked beans ont of a large pot tothe passers-by. ‘The newiy-made saint took x Stone, struck the pot over.witn It, aud submitted without a murmur tom severe thrusb- ang tor the deed. When the bean-seller’s’ rage was somewhat moderated, and be set to work 10 gutuer up the sburds of bis broken pot, be Tound 0 poi us snitke. among the pieces; then he pei en with repentance that be pad beaten a Walee who had interfered to prevent bis selling food that would pave ~ puisoned his custome! ‘The next day the pour sitint limped around his district with swollea limbs, and, without thinking of the blows be bad received a few hours before, he flung over & large jor of mitk whieh was olfered for sale ata stall. Again he was severely en by tte owner, but the passers-by held the milk-sellee buck, remembering what had happened the day * before. When they searched among tne frags ments of the wilx-jar they found a dead dus at the bottom. ee On the third day the Walee dragged himself aguin to the Darvel Abmar, but painfully. fot be wat sorely beaten. Here be met aservant ° carryinz a tray on his bead with delicacies a truit intended for a feast in. a country hous ‘The saint immediately put his stick betwee? _ the min's feet, 3o that ne fell down, and all the contents of the saucers were spiltin the strect. ‘The servant flew on piu ina fury. aad gave him as severe 2 taste of the stick 03 BC himself expected to get frou bis master for Did chinsiness. Meanwhile the doxs fell upoa cates that fay in the readway, aud within a few. ininutes of the tirst mouthTuls they lay dea ‘This proved to the bystanders that the food that had been spilt was poisoned, and they earnestly implored the saint's forgiveness. ‘The pious inan rubbed his severely- beuten shoulders, said to bimgelf. that It was not worth while to s¢4-" things that were hidden from other mortals,a02 prayed to God and the Kuth to remove from him the buruen of sanctity, and to restore hits tO. his former Ignorance and. bumble condidoa. Heaven granted bis prayer, and as a sbopy 2c be gucuped the beutings he had recelvew ad 4, ee, é ! * i