Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1881, Page 7

* WILLOUGHBY, HILL & CO. offer tomorrow noon a new and “mysterious” trinkét, the proper “Present” for one entleaan: is ‘give | another. Ladies have no use for it, The cost is fifty cents, and “Charlie” and “John” will thank you for one. Tis an article never before offered ee sale in Chicago, and just the “ticket” for a Christmas Present. r For particulars call.on Willoughby, Hill & Co. Monday noon. Coe LT Time after time this fall Willoughby, Hill & Co. have been sold down close on Overcoats and Ulsterettes, and all the manufacturers of New York, Boston, ana this city*have been, and are today, “badly stuck” with too many. Most al] the retailers are stuck,--got too many (they adver ; < they charged tog much profit at the first of the season, and as they didn’t sell them (Willoughby, Hill & Co. vertise that it is so),-~and the reason is did) they could not buy new ones at the extremely low prices maade now by these OVERLOADED MAN UFACTURERS. Willoughby, Hill & Co. are buying every day; and are making some splendid purchases for “SPOT CASH,” and offer-you the same goods at splendid bargains for spot-cash. “Oh,” we CERTAINLY éan save you much money. |“ Don’t-o-don’t” you buy withou, looking at ours. We are almost sure we can save you five dollars. We have six hundred more to come Tuesday, just splendid, on Tuesday Eight New Styles of Frock Suits, made up on purpose for Holiday Trade. ‘The prices Will be $15, $18, $20, and $22. They are all right, and Willough- py, Hill & Co. think a good deal of their word. \ a3 The “magnificentest” assortment of Gentlemen’s “NECK WEAR,” “SUSPENDE tell us the prices are “Keno,” and the assortment unequaled. - , ; IMMENSE CLOAK TRADE, actually doing more business than ever, and the season most ovér. Why is it? Our lady callers know just why ’tis. They take’ special pains to find out who is selling the BEST STYLES at LOW PRICES. We don’t have any poor styles. We are buying for SPOT CASH daily, and AWFUL. ‘CHEAP. The Cloak Manufacturers aré losing money hand over fist, and Willoughby, Hill & Co. and their customers are making it. Another lot of Seal Garments - me lett last night. Ifyou are going to buy a Seal let us save you $50 or $100. Try and see if we can’t save you money. We ern Styles, ' . ALSO COR. BLUE ISLAND-AV. AND TWELFTH-S -will be shown tomorrow. We hadn’t 0 will if we can. WILLOUGHBY, HILL & CO, D ALSO 420 MILWAUBKEE-AV. . Open till 10 every night thi * , ealers in Mod at $15 and $ CORNER CLARK AND MADISON STREETS. Ss week by “El — ectri city.”’ The healthiest place to buy goods in Chicago, and the cheapest if you w ant DECENT GOODS. 18. We will also show :. RELIGIOUS. Some of the Odd Prayers of Cler= gymen Interested in Politics. “-Bmist Benan's Seventh Volume ‘on the History of the Origin of Christianity. ~ The Political and Social Revolution Brought About in the Third Century. “ Geiieral. Notes at Home and Abtroad— Personal Mention—Sunday . Musings. ~ - «© JESUS HELD HIS PEACH. : Amid His peopie stood the King, False witnesses broight forth thétt Hea, * é High priest iutied bis questioning. ° Against th calin of thtse sad eyes: - > The surging Council mob pressed nedr, = ."_ Where wrath ang bate made swift increase, And brutal insult, gibe and sneer, Fell iast—but Jesus “ held His Panos” And we-the followers of the King— ~* gy Thrust back the words we inay not speak, But swift bencath a sudden ating .. J the fire leaps up to eye and oheek!, + Weciehet our lips above the rofl sion-Waves that will rot cease, cad hame It Christian self-control, ButHe-our Master“ held His peace.” = Itfs too hich for us, dear Lord! 2 >< AVe rflark the pattern’s Hoe of mold; ord, e 7. PECULIAR PRAYERS. i+ $08 OF THE ODD, PETITIONS OFFERED BY CLEKGYMEN INTERESTED IN POLITICAL ate Jew York world, y “In the last nimbér of Plymouth Chimes, Mr“Beethear’s Sunday-sctoo! paper, ab- ‘eared the following item, which may per- haps sirprise the cagual reader! “1A teacher ‘ho belipved in piinute answers to prayer, Ghee told # class her experience in buying a Dotnet, She had always a gréat @lslilie to eatot shopping. This time, however, She barticilarly prayed to be directed in inatter, and svent, feeling that God Himself ‘wouldhelp hér. “At the first store slie saw atonce what pleased her, and felt that she haa divitiely. giided.. Perhaps when thé bad tisen into this high state of depend- Puce her ‘mind was thus s6 strengthened aid made clear=that inthis way, if in none more © Urddte Goa did fietp Her,”’ With tliis ex- «v Mbl6 from a rettgions journal desigued for a the listen ion of: the young, if may not be deemed ifeverént for a secular journal in- sie: fended for the perusal: of inaturer folk to Bore notes :on prayers recently col- : from the columns of its contéinpora- _ ties. Politiéal prayers havé been coining into hion “during the last two years: they Ofer cletiéal partisans an excelléut oppor- wc tunity for getting in ‘their work even before .° fie Chairman of the State Committee has balled the convention to order. “The elé- Muent and-vigorous prayer” with which the ‘ Of Republican Convention was opened : Year-will notbe torgotten; it is gratify- Haagoatect it was “received with ap- Bi ; But the Chaplain of thé State « dese Of Reprensentatives in that same city tsa credit for a deptrture from the tare te of official petition When he begged = berg ret ie Oninipotent would give the mem: Th More wisdom aiid greater promptitade.” “Pag however, Was less, yigorous than the ta lvaniun Chaplnin’s. request:*.. 7 Hore te’. these Jegislatyrs more “brains! Bild; uns! {nore brailis! £17 Which, beit eg ‘Was followed bya fervent * Amen)” : ofthe reporters’ table.~ Another prayer dirtig as burport was delivered. ti -Afaiue ‘have wos legislative deadlock: Lord, BEGta re eesion, on our bewildered Repre- seed Senators: They have bevn FS and liave hatched nothing. pois fet them arise frou guelr. lest ahd 4 Sty! home, and. all the, praise shall Seietine* The successful fusion ti poilue 2st year furnished:a themo for many, Spleen Prayers, “Notably at Barigor, where poten ian having in his preliminary elfurt eee acta x " Invoked Teave! ~ Bis concluding petition to avenge "this, dis Pee Lrought. upon tie. Commonwealth,” Shag NH, these. positions is s0--diilicult “man goe, might fancy the reverend gentle- Proteins on, as a certain worthy college anions did ou a neniorabdle occasiofi inan appez Staie, “Paradoxical as. this: may trues Lnto Thée, O Lord, itis none the less At a recent prayer-meeting in Spring- - Drayers Were offered for “ the | President,- the Cabinet, ad espécially the Postmaster-General.” Political prayers are by no means new things, The story goes thet when Parson Eaton, of ffarpswell, was : [invited to officiate as Chaplain at” Bowdoin’ Cominencement during the last war with Great Britain, when party feeling ran high, his opening pétition was to this offect: Lord, Thou hast commanded us to pray for our enemies; wilt Thou bless the Presi- dent of these United States?” Very goodin its way, but not any better than the petition which Revolutionary tradition reports a cer- tain Tory to nave inade in his church, which had been surrounded by the lines of the Continental army: “And as for him who was once thy servant and whoin profane men call Gen. Washington, we pray that Thou wouldst spare him the wrath of..his folluw- ers, and remove him speedily ‘into the min-, sions of the blest.” Itis uot.surprising that at Ipswich last year a Tory clergyman should have omitted the prayer for“ the High Court of Parliament at the time assem- bled,? and justified the ontission on the ground that the Radical Parliament was past praying for. Tho Republican authorities i-Franoe. have had 4 good deal of tréuble in’ inducing the ecclesiastical authorities to pay due at- talihon. to. the.Republi¢ at the altar. During thé Hundred Days Napoleon experienced the same difficulty and could 6btain nothing more satisfactory than a prorise to Puy, neither for him nor for Louls. XVIIL, but to main- tain On the part uf Heaven thatstrict noutral- ity. désited by the pious hunter when about tw engage the. ‘‘bar.” Political praying, as Tedders of *iludibras” will remenibor, was atits hight during thé strife between the King and Parliament. “We thought it not atniss,7- Tan one prayer, “to call upon ‘Thee this evening and let’ Thee kbow how affairs stand. We do somewhat long to om Theé, and if Thou pleasest to give us Such and such victories we shall be guod to Thee in something else when it lies in our way,” “I hear, QO Lord,” ran antothér, ‘that the King hath set up his Parliament at York against the Parliament and the City of Lon- don, Look Thou ution them; iake their cause into Thine OWN hand; appear Thou in the canse of Thy saints.” $¥ho. has forgot- ten the words of Lincoln's inaugural on this saine subject of conflicting -petitions In war- |* thue?. goad -deal of amusement was caused five or six years a0 when the Chap-. Jain of Congress telegraphed a correction in his prayer to the Associated Press. Soime- whiat the sauié dileina 4fOse at i recent Festi- val in Peterborougt Cathedral, England, where the Bishop. preached about Henry a_"cruel and voluptuous tyrant,” and a “spoiler of the houses of learning and religion,” and then the Dean prayed and ac- knowledged the gratitude of the congregn- | tion for the niuniticence of Henry VUL, who founded it for the glory and advancement of rélizion, pure living, iristruction, and benevo-~ lence. itis only a few days since a clergy- man up in Westeliester County prayed, *O Lord, help. us in our, attempt to elitinate Thy word,” a petition not unlike the Statély introduction,, ‘O self-sufficient, all- _Gulicisht, insufficient Lord)” — 7 RENAN ON CHRISTIANITY. THE OLD WORLD.ON THE. NEW CHUnON—IN- {VILIZATION AND ART AND RELATIONS WITH SLAVERY. | ‘The seventh volume of M. Ernest Renan’s j¢,' History of the Origin of Christianity” has ‘Just been publishéd 2b Paris, bearing the sub-title of Marcui Aurelius. and the End of the Oid World.” Ibis a singularly inter- esting volume, the sad, philosophic Cesar, indulgent father of a Commodus and coifitl- ing husband of a Faustina, moving in the twilight of réligions and. societies, being a- character after Renan’s own heart, and has a furtlier attraction in the acute comments on aontemporary potiticsand systems which will repay the student skilled in reading between the lines. One chapter in particular may be cited as Bure to provoké < discussion, that de- cribing ,‘ The Political and Social-Revolution ‘Brought About by Christianity,” a transla-— tion of which; ina condensed form, is ap- pended: : Thus (says Mr. Rertan), as the empire sinks, . Christianity tisés, Dariig the tlilrd cent-: ury Christianity drains antique svciety like avampire, draws away-all its forces, and brings about that general enervation against which the patriotic Emperors struggle in, vain, tig not necessary for Christianity to, attack with open force; it has but to shut it- éelf up in its churches. “1t avenges itself. by Hiot serving the stats. Such is the Wariate’ nowadays waged by our.own Conservatives. O-| The aruiy, the niagistricy, the public service need acertain number of serious and hon- éfable men, aid when the cusses whidh might furnish thein. shut..themselyes up in apsténtion, the whole: body politic suiférs. The Ghurch it the third century by-fote- stalling life exhausts apd bleeds the .civic body. ‘The societies’. kill society. The.an- |. tlaue life, sltozether virile ind out of doors, ithe life of, glory,” civism, heroism, of the foruui, the x 3 quished -by: the: Jewish life, anti-military, ’ sveking the. shades, walled in. -Politics ate not based on. the supposition that men are |. FEmovett from earth. When tian resoives to aspire ouly towards Heaven lie lias no longer aecountry here; uo nation cannot be made- with inonks, and scotii ahd hate of the wor do not prepare fitly for the struggle of life. India; the country of ascetics\has from time’). immeinorial - lain open to every Conqueror; so it was with Egypt in some respects... The -|- inevitable. consequence of asceticism is. to pring all that is. not. relizious to be regarded . as frivoldus and inferior. Christianity will ameliorate the morals of the Old World, but! -ardent love of civilization anc ‘sgorn of the artisan and peasant, ‘feeding travelers and theatre; the gymunasiuin, is yan- }. ‘ian from a military and patriotic standpoint will destroy it.» When the martyr is asked’ his nationatity he ‘replies, “fam a Christian.” ‘The Church forms the believer and not the citizen. So it is with islamism and Budd- hism.- The coming of these great universal religions made an end of the ancient idea of country; one no longer was Roman or Athe- nian, but Christian -or -Mussuliman; men’ arrayed themselves by their worship, not by. their fatherland, and divided upon heresies, not upon questions of nationality. ‘This is what Marcus Aurelius saw clearly; this is what made hin regard Christianity with such scanty favor. ‘The Chureh seemed to hin a State within a State—avowed itself a complete society,'superior to_ the civil or- gunization.. The Christian owed nothing to the Empire, but the Empire owed him every- thing, since only the presence of himself and his fellows Scatiered throughout its domains Preserved them from celestial ire, He did not rejoice over its victorivs, and Its great disasters were to him put the seal aud con- firmation of the prophecies concerning the. destruction of the.world. .‘I'he cosmopolitan- isnr of the St0tes had its dangors, too; but a0 Greek culture served’ as a counterpoise to the excess of their isolation. In many respects the Chris- tians certainly were loyal subjects. ‘They never revolted; they prayed for their perse- cutors; they affected the most ‘absolute Le- gitimist principles. God. giving power to whomsoever He would, who so possessed it officially was to be obeyed without question. But this apparent political orthodoxy was at the bottom only the worship of success. Lib- éral politics owe nothing—never will owe anythi to Christianity, and the idea 6f Tepresentative governuient .is the opposit of that ‘expressly enunciated by Jesus, Paul,. Peter, and Clement, The most important of ‘civic duties~that of ‘military service—Christians could not discharge, ag it implied not enly the shed- ding of blood, but acts deemed idolatrous. There were, without doubt, not a few Chris- ‘tian soldiers in the second centuty, butsoon the incompatibility of the two professions revealed {Self and the soldier left the army or became a martyr. “It was held to be doing snough for “the Emperdr to pray for him. ‘The notable. decadence of the Roman army At the close Of the second century and dur- mg the third was caused by Christianity. Through | belhg too consistent, Oriental Christianity has lost all, military value, © 1 thm has profited therepy and, there has beén given to the world the sad spectacle of. that, eternal Christian of the East, everywhere the same despite the difference of races; ‘always beaten, always massacred, ineapable of look- ing an armed man in the face, and perpetu- ally stretching out his throat to the sword. The Christian, too, shunned the magistracy and the public service. ‘To accept its honors and function would be to testify to inith In a lost world rank with idolatry. A law, of Septimus Severus permitted” the ‘ adépts the Jewish . superstition” to hold; oflice without conforming to obligations con- trary. to their oreed. They declined to avail themselves of it. ‘They. declined to appear in the courts} they raised the.wall against niixed marriages; they forbade believers to walk In the streets or engage in public con- versation; even their travelers, instead of patronizing the inns, went to- the churches, where, they were entertained. Numberless arts and callings were interdicted, especially sculpture and painting, and herein is to be found the explunation of, one of the: most singular facts Of history, the disappearance | of sculpture in the first half of the third century. Art was what Ctiristianity first slew; wealth was slain more slowly, but the act was none the less decisive. Chuistianity was before 41} else an immense economic revolution. . The first became the last and the last the first. Far from establishing effective equality among its eftizens, the Roinitn Em- pire, while throwing wide the gates of the city, created a notable ditference between the Fich and the poor, the. honestiores and the huuuilinres. The politient equtality of all was proclaimed, but inequality was. inttoduecd in the law and especially In-the penal code, Poverty made Roman eitivenship well nigh an_ illusion, and the great mass of Roman citizens. were poor. ‘Tl8 error Of ‘Gresce, had not disappeared. Curistianity at fitst did nothing for the peasant—indeed it -worked to his injury by the institution of the episcopate, but it.exercised a ‘great influence on the re- habilitation of the laborer,. ‘The honest day- Jaborer, indeed, was the ideal Ghristian, . Avarice for the primitive Church was, tle deadly siv, and in the majority of cases what ‘was called avarive was merely thrift. Alms- ‘ivihg wns régardéd as a strict duty; the. Church itself became charitable institution, TS i@ poor. The rich man was sacrificed all alone the ne. Few wealtliy folks entered: the Church, where | their position was 4° difficult one.’ ‘The poor, ; proud of thé prontises of the Gospel, treated them - with” something . like ~brroganee, and their fortune was <a-derdgation ‘for which atonement could only be made by alinsgiving or iurtyrdom. Community. of 208s, if it had ever existed,. existed no ‘longer; ‘the Apostolic: life; the ideal-of -the primitive Church of Jorusalen, wis a dream lost in the | distance, ‘The believer's property was but‘ half his property; he placed little value upon. it, and tte Chutett in’ reality partictpated in it equally with bim.* Inthe fourth century the struggle becaine fierce; the rich, nearly all holding to. the nticielit worship, resisted- vigorously, but the poor-earried the day. fh the Fast,where.the action of Christianity met‘ with Jess opposition, there were no longer any ; Wealthy men“after the mlddle of the fifth cent- ury, Syria and Egypt becatne countries where || all the property Was held by the Church of ihe vonyent. ~ ‘The Arab cdriqueror, after'a few | baitles on the frontier, found-only. a herd! of tien to ba driven. -In-the West the Ger- manic invasions and other causes prevented the complete fiuiph of pauperis, but hu- fife=human: living—tvas suspended for , 5 a thousand years, Extended industry be-; came inuipossible, banking and insurance were interdieted by. the sprvad of false ideas -concerning usury. The Jew alone could deal inmoney. Ie was forced <to--become rich and denounced for possessing the fortune to which he was condeumed. This was the #reat error of Ch Better had it said.to the puor:e “ Enrich yourselves at the coSt of the wealthy !”. thang td. proclaim. the “hiullity of rich It cut eapital at the root, forbade that most legitimate df things—in- terest—and, while apycaring to guarantee the well-to-do in their possessions, striped them of the fruits thereof. The product of the world’s Iabor was: considerably lessened. ountries like Syria, where extra. comfort olves “unremunerative spains and: labor, slavery is a condition:bf material civill- ion, sank a step in thojsecial scale. The birds of the air, the flower of the field, which neither sow nor spin,’ yet through their beauty Woceupy the foremost place in the hicrarefiy of crented beings—these were the types antiounced. 5, Grgat isthe joy:0f the or when they ‘ate*prom: Jed enjoyment withautlabor ~~ aes | “fhe aim of Christiani the perfecting of lumi mehitation of the sum-of thé happiness of in- dividuals. Man tries to-do away. with all: |) possible inconvenience when he. regards as serious things the earth and the fow days he |) passes thereon, Buit wlien he js told thatthe earth is about to und and thatfife is but the insignificant prelude to ah eternal ideal, why: should he strive to beautify It? ‘This appears most clearly in the relations of Christianity with slavery. it contribiited notably to con- sole the slave and render hig lot better, but it did not labor directly for the suppression of slavery. ‘The great school of Antonine juris- consults was. possessed of. the iden that slav- ery was an abuse which niust be gradually Sappressed, but Christianity. never says, “Slavery is an abuse.” Being an essentially religious movement, all inthe social organi- zauons of the time which was not linked with idolatry seemed to it worthy of preser- yation.” To protest against the established institution of slavery would have been revo-. lutionary. .The rights of nan ure in naught & Christian thing. ~‘There is not a wort in the aficiont Christian literature inciting revolt .to the slave ‘or counselling eufranchisement to © the — slavcholder, or. even agitating the question of public: right: The frightful lot of the slave did-not touch them. as it touches us; for the few. hours that life lasts what matters it? Submission and cotiscientious attach-" Ment on one side, gentleness and fraternity On the other—to inculcating this is contined in effect the morality of primitive Christiani- ty, Slaveg and freedmen were numerous in the Church, but it never advised the Chris- tian slaveholder to free iis brethren. Later, St. John Chrysostom is almost alone among the Fathers in advising enfranchisement as a good action, and stilf later tne Church held Slaves and treated them as other owners did harshly enough, their condition being ren- dered nore intolerable by the ‘facts that the property of the Church could not. be alienated and that the Church was a inaster that never died and freed the slaves: by will. The rdle of Christianity on the question lavery was that of an ‘enlightened ‘Conservative who sserves radicalism by his principles while he holds an ultra reactionary language. When it showed the slave capable of virtue, heroic in martyrdom, the equal ‘of his_iaster, and possibly his superior, in the Kingdom of Heaven, the new faith was making slavery impossible. ‘Co giveamoral value to the slave is. to, abolish boudage, .and. the assemblies of thé Chureh alone would have sufliced to run the cruel institution. Antiquity had only. preserved slavery by“excluding the slave from the patriotic worship, -What Christian- ity Tounded was equality.before God; it did not abolish slavery, but it suppresed the ens- tenis of sinyery. ‘Those who have pretended to see in itthe revqlubonery, doctrine of the righis of man—to See in Jesus a precursor of ‘Toussaint Louverture—have been utterly mis- taken, “Christianity never, inspired: a Spar- facus, but if was not by a Spartacus that slavery was “abolished *Indeed, ancient slayety hevery was Abolished—it fell, or rather was: transformed. ‘Che inertness of. East after the triumpli of Christianity. ren~ dered slavery superilueus. ‘The’ barbarian invasions produced an analogous effect in the West. The slave was the almost useless relic of a world of Inxury and leisure, and siavery became rural and fmplied a bond between man and the soll, whiGh was one day to be- come property, "As: for the philosophical principle that man. should. only belong to “himself, it was to appeat as 2 social dogina long afterwards. Seneca and Ulpian had pro- claimed it in theory; Voltaire, Roussean, an the French Revolution: made it ,the basis of the new erced of humanity. GENERAL NOTES. 5 ° * The French Protestant Chureh is contem- plating a revision of the Bible for use i t country. eye aru "The Chureh of England Missionary Society has tecently sent’ seventeen female mission-: aries to labo among the Hindoo women. - The Moravinns- have-beon exceedingly act-: ive in their missionary’ labors.: Through their “labors over 73,000 heathens have been fathered into the fold... 2... eae cod “ Dri McCosh, President of Princeton Col-: lege, says\ that” there. is a.great falling off. inthe number of theol the seminaries in the eou : The Bishop of: Rochester recent address, said" i ‘as_by.no means clety or the aug- “7 intend tor the future néver to” confirm | 7, children under 12, unless special. application has been nade to me beforehand, and ‘sanc- Mon obtained for their being presented.” Far: Lam honestly uneasy at the increasing num- ber of children of tender age presented for the rite, Quite appreciating the motives for presenting them early; and conscious that no cast-iron rule is free from difficulties, I still feel that capacity for grace is the ‘one thing to consider, and that, in the gréat majority of instances, capacity depends on years7? Some of the Cleveland clergyinen object to Fornistiliye the newspapers with the’ man- uscript of their sermons, unless the editors pledge that they shall not be set up until aft- er Sunday midnight. ‘The first Episcopal services in Hamilton County, Winois, wereheld in April, 1880, and there were only six communicants, present. A inonth ago the Bishop of Springfield con- secrated a large and cominodious church in McLeansboro, that county. .,°°.- In several parishes in England the old cus- tom-of using bags Instead of plates for col- lecting the offerings of the congregations has been revived. ‘The result lins been disas- trous fo the church finances, for-those whose pride would allow them to plaice nothing but gold-orsilver gn’a plate unbesitatingiy drop Copper pence and -evelr haif-pennies.into-the bag. <A Liverpool clergynian lately preached) an effective sermon on the text: “ Alexnuder, the cappersmith, hath done me much harm,” an ‘ical Britons are regretting that they: have no ¢oin like our nickel, which is-a dig- They will appreciate the -remark of. a Ne York millionaire, who confessed that he never fulty realized’ the importance of the nickel until in his old age he became a regular at- tendant at church, : The Free Church of Scotland, by a vote of 125 to 20, has resolved to force the question of its disestablishment on the country and Par- liament. The views of the majority are that the present establishment is.not at all an es- tablishmeut in numbers or in dignity, but a caricature of one; that it represents a mi- nority of the people of ‘Scotlana: that it uses its pecuniary resources. in -order to inerease its membership; that the state of its doctrine and discipline is scandalous; that it does uot Maintain Presbyterianism in‘ honor. and credit; that it has practices which are pre- Jatical and ritualistic, and that it hinders the Free Church in its efforts to overtake the des- tituté population, the influence’ of Jand- lords being used throughout the country to Weaken and in some cases to extinguish the Free Church. > The Foreign Missionary Board ‘of the Re- formed (Dutch) Church has Jaid out its work for the year with a view of spending nearly $70,000. Of this amount only $20,000 has as yet been collected. The fiscal year ends.on the 30th of April next. ‘The board makes an urgent appeal to its suvporters to have the rest, of the money ready in time.” There Is immediate need for about $15,000 to meet pressiny demands. Two young men from the ‘Theological Seminary.at New Brunswick have offered to go as missionaries in the serv- ice of.this board. They are native Jitps, and will be sent to labot in Japan: Two others from the same seminary are going to other foreign countries. ‘Lhere is not so much dif ficulty in procuring men to-go as mission- s as there is in raising the funds with ar Which to pay.them., A very interesting brochure onthe Revised New ‘Testament is that published a few days ago by Dawson Bros., Montreal. It the pen of Canon Norman, Vi of ‘the Bishop’s Cotleze, Lennoxville, Can. 'The author belleves that the time had ar- rived for a revision, in view of the advance made in Biblical criticism and the increased aunber of manuscripts at the disposal ot the eri While heydoes not agree with all the emandations made by the Enylish revis- ers—inany of which he pronounces simple verbal changes at the expense of the pure and rhythmical English of the King James translators—he is yery frank in stating that the great bulk of the Soxtections ate of, posi- tive benctit, and he trusts that tle tine is uot far distant when another revision will be un- dertaken, so as to cure the defects nuw com- plained of. ‘Che emendations of the Ameri- ean revisers he does not concur. in, with few exceptions, for the renson that they are *in- clined needlesly to modernize the languaze of Scripture and the liturgy.” : The Independent complains bitterly of the grasping avarice of the American Bible So- ciety, and says: “As concerns its ‘avarice, for legacies, it enjoysa bad distinction among other(benevolent societies. ‘There are. fre- quent cases occurring where a manifest: in- justice is done to the fauiily of the- deceased in the ‘bequests of‘his property. He may have had a fead with his wife and children; he may have been. bitter and unreasonable, and wade his, will the whip to lash’ them; or he may have given reasonable bequests froin alarge estate. to benevolent societies ‘and Jeft his family as residuary legatevs; but,’ through a. subsequent “shrinkage of proper- ty, there niay be nothing left’ to his widow orchildren, if the payments shall be.made to the cliarities as directed. Int these casts it is the: guneral custom of benevolent: socie- ties to consider the equity and not the law of the case, and, maké~a_ proper, compromise with thé natural heirs. * But to. this custom the American Bible Society Is a dishottora- ble exception. -it has the reputation of yield- ing nothing, and of demanding the blood with its pound of flesh. We stppose® the chief, fault must rést :v*th its counsel and Its J... Committee on Legac:es, wut the whole Board ‘| of Managers must bei: -e responsibility of what they do not prevent?” - x ‘PERSONAL, ee ed "The Rev, W.,P: Law has accepted. the ree- , torship of Onrist.Churen; at West Davenport, . Dr. Emilio Fuentes, an infloéntial ex-priest of the*Koman Catfonc’ Church'in Mexico has become a member of the Methodist Alis-_ sion In the Clty of Mexico. ‘The Rey. B. iutehins, of Albion, IL, the most aged priest in the Episcopal Church in this State, is quite Ill, : oe Se Next month the Bishop of Central Pennsy!- vania will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the diaconate. Hosea U. Soloinon, who enjoyed the repu~ tation of being the best English authority on the ‘Talmud, recently died at an, advanced. ‘The Rt. Rey. F. D. Fauquier, Missionary Bishop, of Aigomu, Canada, died: last week after a Short illness. He was consecrated in ‘The -Rev. W. E. Phillips, chaplain of St. Luke’s Hospital, in this cify, fs seriously ill, and‘fears for his recovery are entertained by his friends. mH . SUNDAY MUSINGS. ‘ In the registers of the Varish of Heanor, Derbyshire, is the entry of the baptism of “twitrchtidren;*Jeru-7amd Satem;?=dated: about i100 yearsago. - = . The Canadian Methodist has an inquiring mind who asked: “Is it right for a Method- ist minister to eat fow! won ata rafile?”* To which the learned editor replies: That de- Pends on the age of the fowl!” Pee At St. Thomas, Canada, a preacher was annoyed by snoring in the church, and he had several members arrested for interrupt- ing divine service, but the Judge acquitted thei on the ground that when a nian rented a pew he couid do what he hada mind to in it. The pew was like a berth ‘in a sleeping- ear, and a man could sleep in it or sit up and. listen to the mocking bird. ‘The. preacher says he will quit the business an ply for ‘a position as porter of a sleepuig-ca at In 1877 Bishop Bowman went to Boise City, Idaho, to hold conference. One Sunday aft- ernoon he got the Sapbath-schvols together and had i splendid thue talking to the chit dren. He was an admirable teacher and soon hail all the little ones ansWering ques- tious. He tried to. explain-the operation of the mind through the brain, but finding it difficult to make them understand, he -put his fore-Anger on the top of iis baid head, saying, “What is here?” After & myment’s dead silence a little “boy screamed - out, “Nuthins!” ‘ a By This anecdote, according to the London Daily News, enme 76m Mr. Spurzeon’s lips: He narrated a recent meeting with-o youn: gentleman, who said, “ Why, I do more goor in the world than you, sir, You only pro- mulgate your own Opinions.” Mr. Spurgeen —"Really? But. what may you do?” “The youth—"T breed and run race-horses.” “Mr. Spurgeon—“ Perhaps you can construe me 2 riddle, Why doesn’t the Devil ran express trains.to hell?” ‘The sporting gentleman, after sieclaring that he bblieved in neither the one nor the other, gave it up.’ ‘Be- “cause,” said,Mr. Spurgeon, “ young rentle- at, there faster nowadays by run- es. i 2 ld 'Scotch minister after a wretchedly. deneal rétired’ gloomity to his study, and, ‘When a brother dominio valle, was found dismally absosved in his sermon: for the next Sunday. Saeki a woes “And hoo fs .the warld’'wi ye today?” agkeil the newcomer. 2 3 x “Everybody will be dommed;” was the Floom! swer. : ‘een TS “ Heeh, mon; you're noo weel in the stum- mich,” answered his friend. “Come and,sup wi the wife and bairns.” || "= if ‘The minister went and enjoyed’ a: delight- ful repast. After supper, as he''s#tt over a moderate glass of toddy, his friend asked cheerily : - : Rie “Thao fs it wi ye noo?” * aes “We'll all be Saved,” was the *eptg: “all but our cook... She maun be'domuneéd't7? — 2 fo ee ‘CALENDAR FOR THE WERK: EPISCOPAL. Doe, 18—-Faurth Sunday in Advent. 1 Dec. 21—St. Thomas. ~ Dec. 23—Fast. * CATHOLIC. Deo. 18~Fourth: Sunday in Advent. Dec. 1S—Expectation of the B. V. M. (from Dec. ' 18). Dec. 20—Vigil of St. Thomas. Uec. 21—St. Thomas, Ap. Dee, 2—Feria. E 4 Dec. 23~Ferla; Fast. Ne Dee. *1—Vigir of Ubristmas; Fast: TO —. For The barca Tribune. Forget the cruel pas! = Remember only that which speaks of fay: aT ibome uiput ane briug aelondicesdey; Night fices so fust. a ee Keep falth in God, my friend! Heaven must send you many happy morns, -- Because your life has held these cruel thorns. Remember, life must end! Ocan you read the fut See Only by toiling up Life's rugged si Raswiedge is guined of joys that wil not sleep; ~, Sweet as Love's youth. Set ‘Deo. 12, 188L. - Avis GRAY. —— oo English Robber sc Romie. ‘ ia tandiag the” other éventnic . A gentleman was si 8 even in of ‘of the shndowy urtades‘of the Coliseum at Home, when be wis somowhat brusquely cnustied -by a passing figure. With & quick in- stinet he clapped his hund to bis watch-pocket. ‘His wateh was pone! He darted after the thief, who: turned sharply round, at the same time ‘clutching a watch. ¢f*Give me that watch!” A. dash!—the ‘stolen property was recovered.“ The Startied robber disappeared, and the Fentleman, went: home to boast of .his. adventibe and bis “prowess!” Woat was his consternation, 62 en- terlng his bedroom, to tind his own watch, which By be bud forgotten to-put on, staring him in the fave from the raantul-piece! He had been the ‘thief, und the other wretched mtn bad stumbled over him tn the dark, und when overtaken and Stopped was imorely clutching tis own watch, -> which be had not the nerve to reseue from the tourist. ‘That tourist is now known to a wide and admiring circle of friends us the * fandit of the Coliseum. EDUCATIONAL. ‘The Chicazo Institute. of Fducation met yesterday forenoon in the Board of Education roams on Fifth avenue, Prgdent Howland in the chair. S 1: Absence of the Rev. Dr. Anderson, who Was to réud a prayer before! the Iustitute, Gen. Stiles wua culled on by the President to address: : the institute, and the General spoke briefly. on. the teaching uf morals in the public schools. He did not think any text-book was necessary for - the teaching of morals. ‘There were enough Spocial studies ulready, He wus yiud the Bible had been exciuded from the achools because, though it contained many exccltent precepts, it ulso contained many bad onzs. While it was be- -Hered . by many wood_poople, it_was disbelleved. by others equutly good. - Teachers shout tacul- cate temperance in uil thitigs, froguilts, honesty, jndustry, und urber virtues, because they were Fight, ahd nov lccuuse they would be followed by results in another world. He would use tho bus" own itoguaze: “It pays best te play fair.” Tho teaching of morals inthe. publie. schools should be done without interferriug with the opinions of thase who vo -belfeve. in rovelac tion «oor the ‘exiztenve of a Supreme “Meing. There should be no ciash on either side. He bad remarked that faroneely religious peo- ple were alvuys Intensely intulerunt, and teat: Intny OF the yrent Wilts Were caused by a con~ ict of relizivus opiniua.. -He suid’ we Bible was a vniaable book, and he shoutd be sorry to. loge the one In ols possession, but thare were “muuy things in it he would construe as be would the contents of a law-buok. “In reply to 2 ques ton us to what be would do or sy ton boy who swore in his presence, the General sald be would, Teil the boy it was ungentlemaaly, and not that be would. be. puntshod "for “it hereafter. He thought tt possible and destrable to have: more detlait’ aug efficient’ moral In- struction in our schovis than’ fs uuw given by appealing to the puplis’ better sense of right and : Wrong, and ror because the-Bible taunt it. dir. Jeremiah Mahony was {avited tuspenk on the subject, He belicved preaching was out of Place in our public schuuls. ‘The best madral exe erclso was ® recitation well conducted.- He re- gurded it aga fortunate thing for himself that in his youth be escaped frum'that'systemn of dogmatic thevlogy which Is often neid up us the ‘only correct one to teuch. : : : HR. SLOCUM REFERRED to the sugvestions of the’ Citizens’ Association relative to incufcating in the minds of pupils a \, belief ina Supreme Being and the truths uf: the Ten Commandments, Mr. Slocum said ail veweh- ors recoznize these facts, all text-bonks teach - them, and the Citizens’ Association muat be Iy~ huraut.of the character of the teachers if it wa3 supposed those things were not taught. A teacher mado a grent mistuke, however, who regurded reliizion the prime object of his teach- Na “a E ‘Miss Slants sald that one stup towards the Im- provement of moruls in the schools would be some plan to separate the thoroyghly und al- ‘most hopelessly bud children from the ‘ones, She thought the State should bave sep- arate schools for the black and white Sheep. Mr. Kirk regretted the Introduction vf the Rible and Delly. questions in Gen. Stiles’ re- marks, though agrecing with many of tho spcak- er’s conclustous. He wanted to gu 0n the record asa believer Iu the Bible, and-sakd1t- was the support of eniigbtenment In this conntry and other civilized nations. Puptis should betaught that it was aguinst morality todo a wrung .uct. Home intlucnce was often the couse of a pupil's {minorality. He instanced n case of. a gentle= man who lectured bis son because the Intter ewore. ‘The father sald, © My son, itis not only wrong, but it ig damned usgentiemanty.” He did not think this was the proper teaching for t boy. Sir. Lewis, of Hyde Park, took exception to the rcsulutions of the Citizens’ Association. He snid that the great majority of young criminals of this city were taught dogmatio thedlogy, and were well versed in tho catechism, ‘yet it did not prevent them from commuting crimes, Other studies were made subotdinate 6 theology, aud that was a mistuke. Though ‘wv firm beltever in the Bible, he did not ut: Its -Oxputstun from the schoois. He belived the best time to deat with children, and-train’ their’ minds’ in the proper direction, was between the ages of 3 and 5, and tho State will wake up some diy and tind this out. Schools for children too -young now to. be admitted must be provided, and wood results will follow. 4 * + Mrs. Young belfeved some pian ought to be devised to kcep the bad and good children apart ia the school-yard. {0 the school-rogm they are under tho teucher’s eye, and no evil results ¢an foltow, but before school hoursand at recess all the harm is done... After some: brief femarks by Btessrs. Vail, Beitield, and Nightingale the - institute ad- journed. © “ STATE ASSOCIATION. 2 ‘The lilfnois State Teachers’ Association will meet in Springtield Dec. 27-29. AN rajtronds will return members at ono-third rates. - Hotels . will provide for €2 and $1.50-per day.: The Cul- eye Quurtet has been engaged to furnich mu- ‘slofor the entire session, which feature alone ‘eiVabondantly reward olf for thefr attendance. Bie Excellency, Suelby 3. Cullom, will: address: tho. agsoeiation on Tuesday eveaing, and Presi- lent Gustman will present a paper. which will .foltowed by brief speeches, by the State Superintendent and others.” Bendatain F. Tay- lor, thé renowned suthor ana lecturer, has been secured. for.* Wedni evening: auother equally: noted speaker. will: lecture Thursdas evenmg.. The Hon. Newton -M.i Bateman, of Knox, College: the » Rev. - Joseph: Cummings, DD. Li D., of the Northwestera University: and ilichara Edwards, LE. D..: will. also deiiver act ‘on important thomes during. the .:ses- sion. Papers on vital subjects, sucn:us “The ‘Township Systém,"*:* Stata and: County Super- Bstoo aesmeaticna = What Shalt Be taught in'rne Grades,” will be presented by A-Jt Yavin, W..B. Powell, Leslie Lewis, 0.1. 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