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RELIGIOUS. Another Critical Inquiry Into Christ’s Second Coming. - Au English Writer Maintains that It Occurred at the Sack of Jerusalem. A Scientific Investigation of the Claims of Modern Spiritism. Trance, InToluntary Life, and Human Testimony Crit .. ically Examined.. Third Paper on Scriptural Inspira tion and Infallible Trans lations. Gsnfral Notes Personals Snnday Small Talk—Service To-Day. THE SECOND ADVENT. DIP IT OCCUR XT TEE DESTRUCTION O* JERU SALEM. 'TliereLas recently appeared in London “A Critical Inquiry into the New Testament Doc trine of Our Lord’s Second Coming,” to a re view of which the Spectator In a recent number devotes almost two panes. The question of the Second Advent—one of the final issues of Revela tion—it pronounces as one worthy of the most caiefal investigation on the part of theologians. .The chief positions of the work under review ) admit of being briefly set before the reader. The author argues with great force that our Lord declared that His coming in His Kingdom would take place during the lifetime of the generation which heard His words; and that this Parousia of His was coincident with the destruction of Jernsa i lem, in A; D. 70,—an event which brought the Old-Testament Dispensation to a termination. Farther, that, ‘ according to the testimony of every writing in > the New Testament, the ;entire Apostolic .Church considered this Parousia as imminent, that they looked on it as the realization of all their hopes, and that their greau fear was lest they should bo excluded' by death from a participation In its blessings. Also, according to the author's views, the Parousia of the New Testament is a single, definite event, viz.:-the presence of our Lord in His human personality; and that, to speak of it as a spiritual presence, or a coming in the events of hlstorr. Is to assign to ft a meaning wholly different from the one Intended bv the sacred writers. No less op posed is be to the idea, so widely adopted by commentators, that it admits of being viewed as realized-from time to time In a lower or partial sense in certain great catastrophes of nlstory." but that it will receive its complete realization in a personal coming of Christ at the end of the present Dispensation. The an ther has nowhere laid down bis own theory of inspiration, but one of a.very decided character (which we think erroneous) colors the reason ings of the entire work. In conformity with it, and we may say in consequence of it, he maintains--that ft is Impossible that the Apostolic Church could have been mistaken in its'anticipations of the speedy coming, of our lord, alia of its realization within a Short inter val of all blessings which are spoken of in con nection with it, and he lays down in verv strong language that the contrary opinion is subversive. ... ' of the claims of the A Dost] es to oe,received ,as , authoritative teachers of the trutha—of- Chris tianity. This brings ns to the startling positions of the book. Assuming the truth’ of the above points, the author'proceeds : to' laydown that the second coming of Christ in His human per sonality is not a future, out a past event, and that it was' coincident with the destruction of Jerusalem: that at that period of, time all the dead saints were raised, and all the living ones changed and caught no to meet the Lord in the air, and that the judgment on the wicked actual ly took place. Further, as ail the events which then occurred constitute the great victory of Christ over His enemies. He ’ has already. In ’ conformity with ■ the . assertion of St. Paul, resigned his Messianic Kingdom (which he seems to consider to form a part of the Jewish Dispensation) to the Father; and God has “ become all in all,” —of which. If. we understand him rightly, the present state of the Church'is the realization. The author is fully ■ aware that to these positions an objection may be adduced which most people will pronounce conclusive, —viz,, that these most' stupendous events have not left a single trace in the history of the past. To this he has a ready- answer, — that the Parousia, the Resurrection, the Judg ment, etci, are events which have taken place in the invisible world. If be la asked on what grounds we can believe that snch events as these can have taken place, without one single thing which has occnrred on the visible sphere prov ing that they have,hls answer is, thatourLord and His Apostles have distinctly affirmed that they Would happen in connection with His Parousia, that this.Farousia was to occur during the life time of the existing generation, and that the ex act . fulfillment of onr . Lord’s predictions respecting ■ the destruction of Jerusalem, and the divine lodgments which were to be poured out on the anbstate Jewish nation—events which have indubitably taken place on the visible sphere of things—are a sufficient guarantee of tlie fulfillment of the remainder; and couce- I quently. that these events, respeeting'which : history is silent, have taken place in the “IJn -1 ieen World.’! Snch is the author’s theory. . ’ We anticipate that onr readers will wonder bow we can speak in strong commendation of the work which contains such incredible posi tions. Nevertheless, onr commendation is i given in all sincerity: we think many of its cou , i elusions unanswerable, and that the whole Work, even where we dissent from its condu aions, is argued with great logical power. We shall now, as far as our space will permit, notice a few of its most important positions. We. consider that the author has aforded the strongest proof that, according to the afflrma tions-of the Synoptic Gospels, our Lord declared that a-Parousia, —or manifestation of his pres- Juce,— would take place during the lifetime of the existing generation; and we concur with him tri the opinion that the habitual rendering of such expressions as “ twite e'a too alonos” etc., in onr version, by the “ end of the world,” instead of, what they manifestly mean the “end of the age,” or dispensation, has involved the whole subject in hopeless confusion. ,We are snxions'to see'whether those who are engaged 1 the revision of the New Testament will have the courage to make this necessary correction, for its absence will greatly shake onr faith in the value of the Revisers’labors. We think ■ uso-that be has snccessfuly made out that ex pressions such as ** the last times," “ the end,” and other kindred ones, which so frequently occur in the Now Testament were, lor the most part, Intended to refer not to •jj* * n d of the world, but to the last period of the Jewish Dispensation. It will be imoosslble lor ns to put the reader in possession of the tuass of evidence by which these positions are supported. We must content ourselves with wring a few brief illustrations of the author’s ban of reasoning, both John the Baptist and onr Lord commenced their respective ministries a,tile proclamation that ‘‘the Kingdom of Heaven was at. hand.” Such a declaration must » I? been intended to convey a definite meaning M those to whom it was addressed. As all these persons were eagerly expecting the speedy man ifestation of the Kingdom of the Messiah, to them these words coaid have conveyed only one mernlng,—tlmt this Messianic kingdom was • going to be immediately set no. This idea runs throughput the whole of the Synoptic Gospels,- the contents of which may be briefly described ns an explanation of its nature, an enunciation ~z Its laws, and a correction of the popular er rors which were entertained respecting it, united account ol those actions of onr Lora which, . opinion of the writers, established bis claim to belts King. Thle character he directly bua • at tie termination of his ministry, and ms doing bo was the ground on which he was oomtantiea by the authorities of the Jewish na “on, whom, while in the act of condemning him, heassured that, “from that time” (“np’ ar/i,”— f, al ‘’hereafter,” as in our version), “they nncrtild see him aittiug at the right hand of Power, and coming in the’ clouds of heaven.” these words could have been only understood PV loose that heard him as affirming a Farousia ♦i vT? kind, which his adversaries would live to behold. So completely does the idea of this Kuignoci underlie the New Testament that ennatianitv may be correctly described as the proclamation of a kingdom, rather than the in- sUtnlfon of a religion, or, to adopt the words of bt. Mark, It is “ the Gospel of the Kingdom.” lakmg, therefore, the Gospels as a whole, we .fully concur with the author that the only natu ral meaning which the hearers of our Lord could attach to his teaching, was that the Kingdom or Heaven was going to be set up as a visible insti tution within a short interval ot lime. ■ Our space will not allow us to adduce one or two sinking proofs of this position. All three synoptics concur In affirming that six days be fore Chrises Transfiguration, our Lord made the following solemn affirmation: “ Venly X say unto yon, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coining in His kingdom,” or, as St. Mark has it, “ till they have seen theKiugdom of God come with power.!’ This, and other : kindred declarations which are scattered throughout the Gospels, such as, “Verily, 1 say unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel un til the Son of Man be -come,” the author truly arsues, could only have conveyed to those to whom they were addressed the idea that the Son. of Man would come in Jiis king dom during the life-time of some ot those who . were then present; and we think! that the last of them is a deliberate affirmation,. that He would thus come before the greater part of those who heard Him would ' have passed away from this earthly scene. Several attempts have been made to get rid of the natural mean ing of such language by referring it to the Transfiguration which occurred six days after wards. We have carefully weighed the reasons by which such an internretation has been at tempted to be supported,' and we confess that we think them wholly unsatisfactory. Is It credible, we ask, that our Lord Introduced such an announcement as that Borneo! the persons then prespnt would be alive to witness au event which was to occur only six davs after, by a solemn, “Verily, 1 sav unco you ”? Butfurther, in no natural sense of the did “ the Sou of man come in his kingdom," or did “the Kingdom of God come «itb power ” at Uie Transfiguration; In fact, our ; Lord afterwards reocatedly spoke of the coming of the kingdom of God as an event yet future. The Transfig uration was in reality a very transient event, and our Lord deliberately rejected Peter’s pro-. posal to make it a permanent one. We by no means wish to deny dial it was intended to be a foreshadowing of Christ’s future glories; but, to our mind, it is clear tb&t in no event which occurred prior to His resurrection can it be truly said that the Kingdom of God came i eilh power. This leads as to notice an omission of the author, which we consider to have greatly vitiated bis reasonings, and to he one of the causes which have led him to assume some of bis most untenable positions. As we have tial ready intimated, the ideaoftbe Kingdom of Qod forms the centre of the entire teaching of the Now Testament. ' With It that of the Parousia is so closely corelated that the meaning which attaches to the latter depends on that which is assigned to the former. It follows, therefore, that it is a necessary condition of a successful investigation of the doctrine of the Parousia that It should be ureceded by a rigid analysis of the meaning which the expression “ the 'King dom of Heaven ” bears in the sacred- writings. Tet this the author has entirely omitted to do, except in a brief appendix (of only nine pages), in the middle of bis work, which is chiefly oc cupied in considering it in connection with the theocracy of the Old Testament. We are, there fore, left to gather the meaning which be as signs to this expression from bis reasonings on particular portions of his subject. Prom these we are led to draw the conclusion that he al most invariably connects its manifestation with the }ocal presence of our Lord’s human personality, which, in bis view, constitutes the only Parousia, or presence of Christ after His earthly ministry, which is known to'the writers of the New Testament. Consequently, accord ing to his view, ‘‘the Kingdom of Heaven" de notes a state of things in the unseen world which has not yet been manifested on this visible snhere. From this view we strongly dissent. On the contrary, we maintain that the true con ception of it is the visible Church, from. its foundation on the day of Pentecost until that ■ period arrives which is spoken of by St. Paul, when It' shall have realized its ideal in the com plete subjugation of all things to Jesns Christ, after the accomplishment of which the Son is to resign the Messianic kingdom to the Father. This great society has passed through sereral stages of development,'and some are yet to come, one of ’ the most Important of the past being that great event, the complete destruc tion of the old Theocracy, which . effected the final . separation of Judaism from Christianity. These great crisis in its historical development, we maintain, in opposition to .thq writey. are frequently designated in, the New Testament', as I core mgs,or manifestations oi this kingdom,—tost . above referred to bemg.pre-eihlneutly bo; But • the-conception of the Kingdom off Heaven, is in- I separably united with that of - the person of its I King; and consequently, - the mode of His “coming in His Kmgoom” can only be deter mined by the nature of its manifestation. We folly believe that the Son of man came in His Kingdom at the destruction of Jerusalem, bnt not in His human personality; and that that event realized His assertion that His enemies should see Him sitting at the right hand of I power, and coming in the clouds of Heaven." It is evident that a Parousia or manifested pres- I ence of .Christ is ssokeu of in the New Testa ment Scriptures whirl, dues involve the local presence of His human personality. As this is.a { point of great importance with relation -to tHe subject before ns, we will refer to three unques tionable instances where such a' Parousia is so ken of. According to St. Mattfaew’a Gospel, I oar Lord made the following promise to Bts disciples; “ Where two or three are gathered r together m Mv name, there am I in the midst I of them. The fulfillment of this promise I certainly involved a Parousia of Christ Simi lar, also, Is another, recorded hr the same eyan- I geliat: “Lo, I am with you always, even to the I end of the world ”; or, as the author justly cor rects,the rendering, Page.” Bat even he must allow that the realization of these promises of His presence' do not involve local mani festations ;of the presence of Christ in His human personality. So, also, in, the well known promise recorded in St John’s Gospel : “ If a man love me be will keep my sayings, and my Father will love him; and we will come to I him, and make our abode with him.” Here, I again, it Is simply impossible thata local Parousia I can be the one intended. We consider, there- fore, that the author’s neglect to ascertain the meaning of this expression by instituting a care ful inquiry into the meaning which “ the king dom of God ” bears in.the New Testament is one of the fundamental errors of his work. MODERN SPIRITISM. a. SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF ITS CLAIMS FBONODNCE3 IT A DELUSION., In a recent number of the Nor ih American JUuieu, Dr. George M. Beard subjects modern spiritism to a searching, scientific examination, and, as the resnl t oi his investigation, pronounces it a delusion. The paper is a long one; the fol lowing condensation will be found Interesting: Modern spiritism is an attempt to apply the inductive method to religion; to make faith scientific; to confirm the longings of the heart by the evidence of the senses. In thus submit ting spiritism to the inductive method, its friends forgot that to prove a religion would be to kill it,—to transfer it Irom the emotions, where it Delongs, to the Intellect, where it canfind no home. A religion proved dies as a religion and becomes a scientific fact, and would take its place side by slue with as tronomy and chemistry, with physics and geolo gy, in the organized knowledge of men. Spir itists would, therefore, have been wiser if they bad followed the example of one of the very I greatest of experimental philosophers, the late Prof. Faraday, of whom it was said that when he “entered bis laboratory he sbnt the door of bis oratory.” The security of religious beliefs consists in their keeping out of range. - Religion, indeed, is between two fires; absolutely proved I or absolutely disproved, it is destroyed; dis- I proved, it becomes a delusion, a negative fact of science; proved, a positive fact, fa both cases I recognized by the intellect and appealing to it; I like the horizon, it recedes as wc go toward it; I even the attempt to submit it to scientific study I causes It to disappear. No religion on the globe I is strong enough to bear the shock of its own demonstration. I Modern spiritism is a tripod, its three sup ports being trance, the; involuntary life, and human testimony. Ten years ago trance was a realm as dark, and mysterious, and unexplained as chemistry in the sixteenth century; the re cent demonstration oi the fact that it is a sub jective; not, as the world had unfalteringly as sumed, an objective, state, is, in its,own sphere and in its relation to our knowledge of the brain, a revolution as radical as the displacement of the Hipnarchiau by the Copernican theories of the Universe, If trance, the involuntary life, and human testimony were uoderstood-univer sally as they are now beginning to be understood by students of the nervous system, there would not, could not. be a spiritist on our planet: for all woulffjkiiow that- spirits only dwell in the cerebral cells,—that not oar houses but onr brains are haunted. It is a very trequently occurr.ng functional disease of the nervous system, in which the cerebral activity is. concentrated in some limited region of the brain, the activity of the rest of the brain being for the time sus pended. In trance man becomes an automaton; the THE CHICAGO TftiBPWE! SUNDAY, JUNE 89.' 1879-SIXTEEN PAGES ? £ the faculties that Is called the,will is displaced by a scries of meo tal aud muscular movements os purely auto matic as the beating of the heart or the opeu of a flower. In this state objective or sub jective becomes conioundcd; there is. indeed, no true objective life; the brain absolutely » i n£ * °kJ pc * 6 » persons, experiences, or mu tilating or transforming all impressions made upouit. according to what is repeated, or de sired, or apprehended,—the eye seeing what it loots for, the ear hearing what it Wishes or fears. Of all the maladies that distress mankind none are so speedily or powerfully contagious as trance; in an instant, or !□ a time too short to be.measured, it may spread, like flames in a ary forest, from one to another through a wide assemblage, until all shall simultaneously see, and hear, and feel, and experience alike;' Indi viduality Is swallowed up in a common ecstasy; a thousand brains, or tens of thousands, become as a single brain; and to none is the evidence of the senses 'of any Worth. The involuntary life which includes all those ohenomena of mind or body in their reciprocal relations that are Independent of con sciousness, or of will, or both, ami which is seen in its extremist development In the fall trance, la among the people understood but incom pletely; is In truth least ■ understood in its minor and ceaselessly operating phases. In his calmest, healthiest moments man is a bundle of reflex actions; what is done by the will, pur posivel.V) voluntarily, being a fraction too small for measurement of his whole activity; In the brain, thoughts come and go of their will more than ours; the mind is uever wholly idle, and never fully under control; luresponse to ex ternal or Internal suggestion we are always cere brating, and corresponding to our thoughts are muscular contractions and relaxations; when we thiuk, we move. We are not always or usually conscious of pur thoughts or of the bodily movements correlated to them; and oftentimes only by expert investigation can the latter be detected, the individual. himself being of all persons the least able to analyze the activity of his own functions. . Our present knowledge of trance and of the mvhluntary life unlocks half of the secrets of the world’s delusions; to spiritism its relations are numerous, and for «pccialists in this branch of ..cerebrophyslology and pathology who are also practically skilled in one of, the mostdlill cult of the arts—experimenting with living hu man beings—clearly demonstrable. Bereiu physiology finds in large part the'seientifle basis of those occult and absorbingly-interesting phe nomena that, before as well as since the birth of modern spiritism, have been at once the wonder, the terror, and the joy of mankind.* It is this which causes the table to move beneath the hands of the expectant circles, performs the writing and varied emotions of planchette, and makes the bell suspended from the band strike the numbers of any known-age or the hour of the day against the side Of the jar by which it is environed; it i's ibis that turns the divining rod, be it witch, hazel, or any flexible thing whatsoever, and so deludes the opera tor into Jhe conviction that be has found a vein of silver, or of gold, or of running water: it is this that makes thought-rending a possibility, the operator so detecting the unconscious bodily tension and relaxation of the subject operated on as to trace the direction through long and in tricate courses where bis thoughts are concen trated, and to find, with precision, minute ob jects and limited localities, thus reading the mind through the body,—mind-reading reallvbe ing a misnomer for muscle-reading; it is this that-unfolds the marvels mid all the genuine de velopments of trance-orators and preachers, bringing their nnwonted , eloquence, their va garies, and their caprices under the dominion of natural law; it is this, finally, that manes it easy, if not inevitable, that enraptured and en tranced inquiries after tidings from departed loved ones should see their faces and bear their voices, in dreams, in the darkness of night, or in the dim light oi organized seances. Tlie remaining support of spiritism, -human testimony, like trance mid the Involuntary lire, has hitherto been a mass of empiricism,—a chaos, dark, formless, boundless, inaccessible to science, the hiding-place of ail the follies of mankind; to organize and reduce it to a science Is the mission of neurology of the present mid future. Of the various causes that have combined to overthrow spiritism, the exhaustive explanation of its phenomena throngh modern neurology is, without denial, the least important. No delu sion of history, not even astrology, has been more completely elucidated bv science than has spiritism: of no one of Its facts or phenoroena can it now be admitted that it is even mysteri ous; but for. those condemned to the 'belief science comes too late to bring redemption, but is rather like the reprieve that reaches the inno cent man just after his execution,—science ap pealing to the reason, and spiritism mainly to the emotions,— they.donot. meet face to lace, but pass each other, and. both advance in their re spective wavs. A new science, Indeed, like that branch of the nervous system that relates to the trance, the involuntary life, mid that complex nroduct of the brain that we call human testimony, does not reach the consciousness as science, but rather is degraded into some aid or appanage to the delusion that it finds there, as in the tele phone the waves of electricity are transformed into waves of air and reach the brain as sound. For the average man, indeed, new sciences may graze the brain, bat do not enter and leave the' subject where they found him, with his feet fast in the stocks of bis own ignorance. Knowledge is power; but in a limited time, near at baud, at short range, ignorance is a far greater power. Although through the long 'ages iscience may conquer, yet to-day super stitions, delusions, untruth must be supreme. On young, loyal, truth-seeking minds. baffled by the former mysteries of spiritism, but open to ideas, the influence of the scientific explanation of those mysteries is doubtless great and yearly increasing, and already is making it hard to find recruits. Ridicule, meeting spiritism on its own nlans, — the emotions,—has been much mure, effective, temporarily, than science; hence the po ver of repeated exposures is. no disproof of the ab stract claim of spiritism. Similarly the charges of unpatriotism, unpracticality, and of immo rality, -continually burled" against spiritism, through the medlumshlp of the popular emo tions,.have much aided its swift decline, al though they leave the logical arguments on the side of the delusion as strong os ever. But the one cause of the decline of spiritism is genera) more tban special,—the evolution in modem society of. the . scientific, spirit, which, although not a special faculty, but a mode.of operation of the faculties, is yet al most equivalent practically to the develop ment of a new sense in man. This spirit that enables its possessor to seek for truth through the intellect alone, without the ioterfereoee of the emotions, though boro in ancient Greece, has yet been so retarded in its growth that oniv until the lost quarter of a century can it be said to have attained maturity in any considera- ble number of minds. The scientific sense ena bles one to atterlr divorce the intellect and the feelings, so that each may pursue its own course, as on entering a depot the engine is switched off from the train. It is this sense that reverses the usual operation of the faculties, and makes the thought the father to the wish. It is this sense, in a word, that marks the high maturity of the mind, and which, Indeed, if a man have not, he cannot enter.into the kingdom of sci- ence. It IS Hie development of this new sense, the highest of which the human intellect Is ca pable, more than any special discoveries or in ventions, that Is now overturning all the philoso phy of the world. In Bulwer’s'bright romance of'“The Coming Race,” we are told that the rods loaded with Vril, when pointed at frightful monsters cause them to crumble to ashes. The Vril of the present day is this scientific sense, at tlie very presence of which all forma of delusion begin to wither. SCRIPTURAL INSPIRATION. GOO IDE GOO OF THE LIVING PBE3BNT, NOT THE DEAD PAST. " To the Editor of The Tribune. Milwaukee, June 27.—The inspiration of Scripture—as defined by Methodism in par ticular and accepted by Orthodoxy in general— baring been considered in two previous articles, the suoject, although far from being exhausted, is brought to a conclusion within the limits of the present paper. As an antidote to the shal low theory and puerile hypothesis under consid eration the potent words of Dr. Theodore Christ lieb, a distinguished German scholar and divine, are pertinently prescribed. Speaking.before the last meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, he says: Above ail do not let as place unnecessary difa culties in the way and rnrnisn oar adversaries with dangerous weapons by an exaggerated raeory of fnsnirutioa,. wblca. in itseqaal application to ail lUe books of one present canon, can be justified neither by Scripture nor by historical evidence. Tbe very limits of oar present canon are not an ordinance of Divine rignt, inasmuch as no propoet ever declared toe list of Old Testament writings closed in the name of God. and no Apostle super intended ■ Uie collection of tbe New Testament books. These eloquent and inspiring utterances come from a man lit whose feet Methodist ministers, Presbyterian prcacners, and pious prelates of all denominations who stand for an infal lible book might well sit, and learn a rational as well as Scriptural theory of inspiration. There are many considerations besides those already urged that militate against the theory of verbal 1 inspiration. Among them may be enumerated the mutability of language, the pose.biiity of Xorgqries, "the probauillty of errors and interpolat.ons in transcribing documents, the unavoidable mistakes and omissions that must attend the processes of.’ printing and reprinting, translating and retranslating tie Scriptnres, tie llaoility of important and necessary documents being lost before the Bible canon was formed; and last, but not least, the absence of the indispensable element of universality. The lack of this ele ment alone, apart from all other considerations, would constitute such a revelation a most dis astrous failure, and besides would fasten a most terrible impeachment upon the character of its author. Think of bow small a fraction of the human race have any knowledge of the Hebrew or Christian Revelation; think also of the Orthodox assumption that these Scriptures contain the only “Word of God” vouchsafed to mortal man; consider the logical sequence of this as sumption^—that the Infinite Father has disin herited by far Hie greater portion of His off spring, and left them in ioDcljr orphanage u;ion the surging sea of life, to be tossed by angry breakers upon the bleak and Darren rocks of doubt and darkuess. fear and fate which sairt the distant shore, without a compass or a chart to guide tiie groping nations on their way, or lead them from the dark, disastrous night into the golden glory of a' grander day. And yet this is the painful spectacle protruded upon human consciousness la the assumption that the Bible is the only “Word of God.” It is said, however, that the foregoing objections do ■not affect the question of the original plenary inspiration of the Scriptures, but are only ar guments against its availability and usefulness. Well, let It be so.'for this is just where the ohtlosophic force of the argument piles with prodigious effect upon the main question at issue. AH the objections to the theory of ver bal inspiration are fully sustained; lor it is a fact that language has changed, Gospels and Epistles have been forged and corrupted, interpolations yhave been • Inserted by pious but not overscrnpnlous copyists and compilers, errors have been made in translation, uncon sciously,—resulting from; Ignorance, and con sciously—in the interests of dogma, and lastly, but a small portion of the human race are aware of such a revelation. In the text-book under review there is no attempt' to answer this im peachment of the . practicability of plenary in spiration based noon the foregoing array of tacts. This itn portant phase of the subject is not approached, and consequently its vital bearing upon the question is not; brought to an issue. And this constitutes.the weakness and the ruin of the author’s argument.. The failure to notice these objections is an admission of their validity and amounts to a virtual “surrendet of the fort.” Tlte potency of these objections being admitted, it follows, as the bight the' day, that the delenders of the little “fastness ”of an infallible book are Impaled upon the boros of another dilemma. Conceding to them the fact (which we do not except tor sake’of the argu ment) that the. Scriptures were originally pleiiarily inspired, they niust either admit that such inspiration, confined as it is within the narrow limits of a book—for the most part nn knqwn to the world—is a very partial, unjust, and unavailable affair, unworthy of a God; or they must abandon their nuerile position to save the character of their Deity from the de grading imputation. The obvious injustice and unwisdom of such a Revelation (for the few) is an all-sufficient answer to those who foolishly affirm'it. The Maker of the universe and the Father of all men could never have dropped into Israel’s little camp as infallible record of His will, and left it in the preearions keening of unlettered men, subject to the vicissitudes of time, the mutations of human -thought and earthly fortune, all of which are stamned indelibly upon the Bible of to-day. There are no original MSS. of the Bible in existence. AH we hare ace copies of copies, with no assurance that e-.en these are free from the errors of ignorance and the interpolations of designing dogmatists. Among the many MSS; found there have been discovered tens of thousands of various readings, some of which most mightily affect disputed points of dogma. If the de fenders of plenary inspiration expect their theory to gain a place in rational thought, they must'first decide beyond disnute which cony is the correct one. They mast also demonstrate beyond a doubt chat this particular reading of the record is the oue originally given by God, and that under His divine guardianship it bos been conied by fallible beings and yet preserved its infallibility, passed through clouds of igno rance and yet escaped error, been formulated into a canon by unlettered men without omission, and translated. 1 by ordinary mortals without mistake. Having reached the conclusion that the theory of infallible inspiration is not defensible on grounds of reason, or demonstrable on grounds of Scripture, it may be well to set forth’what is conceived to be the true theory of Bible inspira tion,—one that Is in harmony with. reason and the record, ip consonance with the facts of his-, torv and the requlremenutaf' sound logic. We find in a study of tlte Scriptures—especially the' New Testament—indications of an elevated in spiration or insight into spiritual things not common to mortals under ordinary circum stances. This iusight was a revclation’of Divine truthwithin the souls of living men in a pecul iar age. They possessed an Inward vision, an intuition of religious truth on higher places'of thought than soared the common herd. The inspiration shared by the Apostles was the gen eral inspiration of all devout souls; they were inspired in a marked .degree, for they were marked men, living In airemarkabie age, and were thoroughly consecrated' to their work. They were not Jnspired to write, but to preach and to teach, the truths of. the new religion. Nor were they infallibly illuminated, for they “spake after the manlier.of men,” and “saw as through a glass darklv,” haying the “treasure in earthen vessels.” Buglin' l inspiration was “ profitaDle,” ana this was enough. The writers ot Scripture were not manipulated from with out at their fingers’ ends, out were spiritually quickened and illumined from within at the seat of being, whencc issued their flaming words and their prophetic tire destined to create anew and quicken into life the innate energies of men. it is only when men lose. Confidence in human nature that they devite the theory of mechanical inspiration. The only basis the theory has is the wail of tiie.misanthropc, who supposes that virtue, justice, and love are not native to the human soul, but bavo to be supernaturally in- jected Irom without by the force-pump of an “ infallible revelation ” before man can have a saving knowledge of religious duty and' Divine truth. A correct diagnosis of the mental mal- ady of the apostles of plenary inspiration re veals the fact that their theory, instead of being founded on reason or grounded on Scrip! ore, is simply the necessary outgrowth of their belief in the innate depravity and spiritual impotence of the race. They imagine that man is mean at heart, at enmity with goodness and with ■ God, “ and . that continually." And so they say: “ How ds the conscience of a wicked race to be bound by a chain one link of which is weak!" Thus we see that the loom in winch is woven Uie whole web and woof of their argument is the puerile and pes simistic belief in the total depravity and innate spiritual inaninity of the human heart. -But man is not a moral wreck oi what he formerly was; be started at the lowest point of Igno rance, commenced wlth'the incapacity of inex perience, and has grandly grown from less to more, until to-day be stands upon the loftiest bight his feet have ever trod, and In bis up jrard look he grasps as ne’er before the mighty (thought of God. Inspiration is not a relic of the receding past; the Bible Is not a closed book; revelation did not perish from the earth with the expiring breatbof John, notwithstand ing the closing curse he pronounces upon all who would add to or abate irom his utterances. God is God of the lidiigipresent, and not of the dead past, and is still revealing His will and ways to men. Tiie revelation of the Spirit is Not in noisy babblings and gnttnral tones As some opine the hoary-post hath known; . Bnt in the still small voice or tender love. In gentle rays descending from above. Every child of God may have inward reveal ings of Divine light and love (according to his capacities) that shall be-to him an inspiration os true as ever touched .the heart of prophet, priest, or King. No revelation of the past cgn till the measure of man’s present need and sat isfy the longing of a tinman soul lor a more di rect and personal. communion with its Maker.' Inspiration is not a circumstance of the post, but is the property of -rail the ages and ail the peoples that dwell beneath the stars. It is a permanent potency within the souls of men, as natural as the blowing. clover, as relrcshing as the falling rain. The souls of men to-day have larger capacities, intenser longings, and more urgent needs than the. souls of those who have goneebefore. And shall not our Father in Heaven respond to man’s present needs with a greater amplitude of love than tlie past in all its waning glory has ever known? Such Is the devout belief of tbe writer in the immanence of the Sacred Spirit, such the se rene repose and filial -trust' in a Heavenly Father’s infinite and eternal love. THE PULPIT. , WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE. To the Editor of The Tribune. Chicago, Jane 25.—What this age wants from' the pulpit is not doubt,ibat faitn in God; - Humanity, forever restless and hungering for truth, are ever asking for the sincere milk of the Word; and the pulpit, failing to dispense it, is an utter failure. . v ' V The ambition of too many puloits is to glorify self, for how,often one hears “ What a.wohder ful preacher!" Instead of “ What a mighty Christ!” Whenever a preacher becomes so lib eral as to become a chronic doubter, then Skepticism rushes to the rescue, crowns btm Brains, and laments theoccupation of bis mighty Very many pulpits under the Infatuation for applause are vicing with Ingersoll in the realm of doubt for supremacy. The pulpit has be come so mercenary that her month opens and shuts agreeable to circumstances. What pulpit dare speak about the demoraliz ing effects of secret societies, whose official members belong to some lodge! How many will not lisp one word in favor of temcerance, because a good-paying brother rents his basement to’a saloon-mao! Another never mentions the crime of prosti tution because the official who passes the plate* upon the Lord’s Day would be obliged to can cel bis lease on Gherman street. • Another grows never so eloquent upon very many sins, but remains mysteriously silent as to the immoralities of the race-course; for the., model Deacon will go ** where gentlemen do most congregate” at all hazards. In the halcyon d«*vs of American slavery, pulpits so pandered to Che sentiments of their pro-slavery bearers that never a word was heard In condemnation of tlie terrible crime. The loophole through which God let the Wesleys in upon the EstabUsbt-d Church was the devotion of her clergy to the chase during the .intervals between Sundays. dvmg parishioner called in Wesleys and Whitfield to supply the established man’s ab sence. Let the American pulpit become so en amoured with pet- sins .and sinners as to keep 8 and hercandlestick will De removed. ihe pulpit is mourbmg Sabbath desecration;* let her take warning lest ner prayers be an swered, not by blotting out Sunday picnics, but by turning her faithless pulpits into habita tions for bats and owls. While the pulpit is on her annual pilgrimage to t he shrines of lasbion.aud shoddy, bis Satan ic Majestv’may become so firmly intrenched that uoon return from- vacation the pulpit, like one of old, may find his occupation gone. A 12-year-old girl plays the cornet In the Soutn Church, Pittsfield, Mass. The Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly begins Aug. 6, and lasts.fifteen days. Prepara tions for' an immense attendance have been made. , ’ Pentecost’s sermons on “ Worldly Amuse ments ” in Minneapolis created a great stir, and was productive of much newspaoer correspond ence defending dancing and theatres. Tennessee fifty years ago had a population of 420.000, and no Protestant Episcopal clergyman was within her borders- • Now the population is 1.230.000, and the number of clergymen about forty. In a letter from India Gen. Grant mentions that there is a universal testimony to the good effected by missionaries in that land. The resi dent English, be sars, speak in' the highest terms of their work. A merchant in Natal, South Africa, has re cently given SIOO,OOO to the Wesleyan Missiona ry Society, of London. This is from a man on the ground, who ought to know whether or not foreign missionary work Is worth doing. A return as to the religious persuasions of the non-commissioned officers and men of the British army shows that, of a total of 94,813 men. 62,860 belong to the Church' of Engl and, 20,872 are Roman Catholics, 7,125 Presbyterians, and 3,935 are Protestants, of other denomina tions. The Moderator of the Free Church of Scot land (Presbyterian) denies that the Church is getting liberal. She has not changed or re laxed. be asserts, one iota of what her ‘‘Confes sion ” sajs about the Scripture as the Word of God. ‘‘Deuteronomy, so far assba is con cerned, is safe.” The misappropriation of funds bv the Treas urer of. the Home Missionary Society, according to the official report of the Massachusetts Con gregational Association, amounts to SSfi,OCO, and includes all.of the Society's investments. He destroyed his correspondence ami books, so that his operations could not oe fully traced. “ The London Missionary Society,” Congre gatiohalist, was ‘* founded in 1793,” as its nro gramme .says, and must thtrefoye be the oldest inexistence.'- It has'missionarics in every part of the world; on every continent, and in ' the South Sea Islands. Its youngest-‘mfS3fon, ex ceot that just opened in Central-ATrieo, is in New Guinea. . - The London JDaihj Chronic!* says that the re port on the Jewish Mission subinlt.ted.to the As sembly of the Free Church at Edinburg showed that She cost of converting five Jews, bad been $5,521 a head; while from the corresponding re port in. the Established Assembly it appeared that some $25,060 bad been spent in proaaciuc one‘‘anxious inquirer.” • ■ ■ = Dr. Morgan Dlx, of Trinity Church,' New York, in his " Manual of the Christian Life,” warns churchmen not to attend the places ' of worshlo of other denominations .or sects. Go not at ail,” he says, “ either to hear preaching out of cariosity nor to oblige friends. Keep to the Church alone. You have naught to do with those without the Church but to pray for them ana treat them with kindness.” ' ' The worldly-minded editor' ot the Advance must have taken a vacation, for the last number of the paper does not contain any of-the “objectionable personals” of which it-has lately had so much to say; or, is there a belter day dawning,—the day when the religions press will keep clear, of snide jewelry, wretched chromos, fraudulent business advertisemenst, und sophomorical indorsements of patent medi cines and quack doctors? The Ragged-School Union, of London, ex pends about $130,000 a ■ year In endeavoring to elevate the lowest and poorest classes. It has 30.500 children in Sunday-schools, 5,489 in dav scbools, and 9,267 in nignt schools. It main tains seventy-five ragged churches, manages eighty-two lending-libraries, and seventy-five penny-banks, besides superintending mothers’ meetings, men’s clubs. Bands of Hope, and a variety of children’s meetings. The Ritualistic troubles in South Africa abate nothing of their serioasness. Bishop Merriraan entered the Cathedral at Grahamstown several weeks ago with the intention to preach the ser mon, but when the prayers were closed the Dean without loss of time began to read the text him self. The Bishoo was then heard to say aloud :from the- chancel, “BeforeiGdd and this con gregation •! protest that lam iiilcrrnptcO in mv ministrations in this place.” After saying this Ue walked deliberately from the chancel down a side aisle and passed ont ot the Cathedral. The Jeaish Occident ot this city, in a recent , number, savs: , Judaism in this connjay to a large extent is a sham and a nretense.-or. to come nearer to the trnth, there exists but a mere shadow of the former giant; such as has been photoeraohed on this Con- tincntfrom old Europe, giving outlines and fea tures, but losing the soul and expression of tbo godlv-inmged original. Onrpeoolc here arc mer chants. . traders, professionals, and money-makers. For aopearance sake they keep a sort of religion;' and dub. It Judaism. It con-Jsrs cither of some glittering phrases of free-thinkers and modified atheists or a lot of. useless, meaningless, thought less cremoninl, and between these—a three days 1 annual worship and piety—making trade and bar-. gain with the Lord. * The Dcsbv Congregational Church, Montreal. Canada, an offshoot from the Wesleyan Metho dist, is nearly completed, and will be opened for - worship on the 29th Inst. by Dr. Thomas (Meth odist), of Chicago. The Rev. James Roy, M. A., who two years ago was excommunicated from the Methodist communion for expressing opin ions at variance with Uie standards of that body, has since preached in the Academy of Music to many who were once Methodists with him and have since become tlie: Desby Congre gationalists. They have built him a church with a seating capacity for SOO., The membership is already about 150, and the Sunday-school num bers about 200 scholars., It is probable chat they will enter their new church, wuich cost $33,000, free of debt. —New York Meraiti. Is Dr. Prime, of the New York Observer, a Jesuit in disguise? ‘ That is the latest and most interesting question under discussion by'our Presbyterian friends. When the" General As sembly bad worked itself, the other day. into a high fever of excitement over the validity of Roman Catholicbaptism, the Doctor very naively bad the question laid over for a day and then brought in a resolution of bis own which de clared that the Roman Catholic forms “ a large part of the Church,” and if so, of course-its baptism is valid. But Prof. Patton.wanted the Assembly to say differently, and he- made a powerful speech on that, side. But Dr, Prime’s naper was adopted, and now it is suspected that he believes there is a larger part of Christ’s Church in the Catholic than in the Presby terian fold.— Nea York Hera'U ' ■ 'The recent Vermont Congregational Conven tion adopted the following platform, indicating a creed, by an overwhelming majority : , Msolted, That the General Convention of Min isters and Churches of .Vermont, while recognizing the entire absence of. authority in the Convention over tho churches, nnderstands that to be pastor of a Congregational chnrch indicates and requires the accebtance of the Word of God—which is our only rule of faith—as leaching the doctrines com monly called evangelical, held in our churches from the early times, and sufficiently set forth ny C. N. Ettinqee. Intellect upon so barren a theme as the In finite. Idol-worship Is a crime before God, whether It be a wooden one in India or a flesh and blood one in America. GENERAL NOTES. former 'General Councils/ notably by the Councils of Boston and Oberlin; and that tbe repudiation of any substantial part of these doctrines (held in common by all evangelical churches) is considered by us as Inconsistent with continued claim to de nominational fellowship with oar ministers and churches. What is likely to be one of the most complete and interesting- arguments In controversion ot the teachings of Col. *■ Ingersoll through his skeptic lectures which has yet been delivered in Chicago will be. given by the Kev. Samuel Ives Curtiss, New* England Professor of Biblical Literature in the Chicago Theological Seminary, Sunday morning and evening, at rue Union Park Congregational Church. Prof. Curtiss’ training In theology, his' eminent scholarship, and his power to voice his thoughts, alike fit him for this somewhat difficult task of refuting the ‘‘doctrines” of the sharp-tongued orator of Peoria. A recent number of the New York Tablet says: Should a dying sinner appear before his God without the usual unctuous but verbose appeals to his faith in the merits of Christ and •to Christ in .Uls behalf, why,, it matters nor in tbe estimation of the great majority of Protestants. The whole appliance for remedial purposes at tbe bedside of the dying, or in the ear of the healthy sinner, consists in talk; and, as U|is a cheap article, so it is practically- deemed of Utile worth or ’ conse quence. •The writer must have assisted at two or three hangings, where memoers of his own church officiated In the principal role, else he could have known nothing of the “unctuous but verbose appeals ” of which be complains. £he para graph is in shocking bad taste. TUB LUTHERAN SYNOD. At the meeting of the Swedish Lutheran Aa gustana Synod, Friday, the proposed new con stitution was presented and adopted, as was also a new catechism. , The Central Committee on Missions reported that tbe work had been carried on in all sections of the country. The Treasurer reported a de ficit of Sho3; and it was resolved to take up two collections during the year for the benefit of the .Mission Fund. lago. Editor Evander, who had been commissioned to Sweden, reported that he had been successful in securing for the students of the Augustuna Colleges who had taKen the degree of A. B. the privilege of prosecuting their studies at the Universities of Sweden without passing the ex amination of maturity. The thanks of the Con vention were voted, to the King of Sweden and Editor Evander. A letter from the Rev. A. B. Carlson, mis sionary to the Telugees in India, was read, and ordered printed. it was resolved to remove the remains of the late Prof. A. J. Llndstrom from Florida to the burial-ground of the Augnstana College, at Rock Island. ' * The salary of the President of the Synod was fixed at $1,000; that of.the Secretary at $25. After resolving to hold the next meeting of the Svnod in Des Moines, Xa., in Jane, 18S0, and passing the customary resolutions of thanks to pastors and congregations for entertainment, to the railroads for courtesies, and the press, the meeting adjourned. The theme for discussion at the next will be: - Resolved, That,-if the Bible be excluded from the public schools, this body will nut have aovtniug to ao with said schools, but will tram its children en tirely in parochial scnools. SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. The fifty-fifth annual report of the American Sunday-School Union has come to baud, and gives an interesting exhibit of the ©Derations of the Society for the fiscal year ending Nov. 1, 1879. The cash receipts from all sources were $91,137,19, and the expenditures $73,407,30, leaving a balance (appropriated, however) of $17,699.89. The following tabulated'statement, compiled from the records of the Association, shows at a glance the extent of its labor during the past year: Schools organized...... Scholars Schools aided : Teachers Scholars iliies traveled Addresses delivered.... Bibles distributed...... Testaments distributed. Famines visited The report is one of which the Union mav be rproud. It shows conclusively that united effort accomplishes more than can he achieved under the most favorable circumstances by denomina tional endeavor. PERSON AES. The younger Dr. Tyng, of New York, has been seriously ill for some weeks. The Rev. R. T. Hall, of Pittsford, Yt, has ac cepted a call to Mt. Vernon, O. .The Rev. Dr. Jessup has been a missionary in Syria for over twenty-three years. ; The death of the Rev. ildwin.Seabury, of Walpole, N. H., is announced. Aged 6d, ' < Mr. B. H. Cushman, who lately died at Farm ington, Me., left SI,OOO to the Bangor Theological Seminary. . ..... The Hev. F. F. Emerson was recently installed pastor .of the Congregational church at Am herst, Mass. The Rev. E. A. Adams, missionary of the American. Board, has returned to.his field of labor at Prague. Chaplain McCabe Is in the city for a few days, and will occupy the pulpit of St. Paul’s Reform ed Episcopal. Church this morning. Tlie Rev. tf-P. Lamprey, formerly a Free Bap tist, has become a Congregationalist, and ,ac cepted a call to West Stewartstown, N. H. ' . The Rev, J. N, Waddell, D. D., LL. D., has been elected Chancellor of the Southwestern Presbyterian University at Clarksville, Tenn. There is a mortgage on the organ of the Brooklyn Tabernacle for $3,500, and there are some wicked enough to say that the money was used in paying Talraage’s trip to Europe. Several of the English- religious papers are engaged in puffing Talmagc in a manner that would do credit to the adjective barling bill writer of the u only greatest show ” on earth. The health of Prof. John L. Tavlor, D. X)., is go seriously Impaired that he is likely to resign his position in Andover Theological Seminary, and in that case it is believed the department with which be Is connected will be abolished. The Rev. Francis Lobdell, Reclorof St. Paul’s Church, New Haven, Conn., has received a call from St. Andrew’s Church, Harlem, N. Y., which it is thought likelv he will accept. Mr. Lobdell has occupied his present pastorate for ten years. . . 'Hie Presbyterian Committee of Missions for Frecdmcn, with headquarters at Pittsburg, pub lish a drcular warnmg the public not to contrib ute any lands to one Rev. J. D. Robertson, the Principal of the Bluftoa Institute, oa account of his 44 unworthiness.’’ Stephen Greenlief, of Norway. Me., since 1866, has read the Bible through thirty-nine times. He read it through once in eighteen uays, and says that each time it becomes more interesting to'hira. Mr. Greenlief used “to be au Infidel, but is now a Methodist. The Rev. George 8. Umbleby, a graduate of Mount Union College ami of Boston Theological Seminary, has been appointed by Bishop Merrill missionary to Mexico. He is to sail for that country immediately after the hot season, and to be stationed at Orizata. The friends of the Rev. H* M. Paynter, whose departure for Enrone was noticed in these col umns a few weeks since, will be glad to bear that be arrived safely, and has already com menced bis evangelistic labors in Birkenhead Chnrcb. Liverpool. Leaving there he will visit Glasgow and other places. The Rev. A.-H. Ross, of Port Huron, has been sued Tor libel by the Rev. W. H. Utely, of Pontiab, for telegraphing to the church at'Stan ton, which was just to give a call to 31r. Utely, that the Eastern Association was about to in vestigate grave charges against him, and sug gesting the wisdom of the church at Stanton de laying action. The position of ‘ the Rev. C, H. Toy, D. IX, as Professor in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at ixraisville, was made unpleasant lor/ him by unfavorable criticisms concerning certain views which be was said to hold concern ing the inspiration of the Scriptures. He has resigned, and bis place is filled by the Rev. Basil Manly, lx IX Evangelist Moody, is enjoying a quiet summer at Northiield, Mass’. He has not settled npon his next winter's campaign, though he has re ceived several pressing invitations to visit large cities. Referring to iris stay in Baltimore, he says that be has never visited a place where he had been treated so cordially, or which be and bis family Idt so much regret at leaving, . Pius IX, left two-thirds of his private prop erty to his relatives. Not content wiih receiv ing the interest .of the bequest, they desire to get possession of the capital, and an important, legal action is likely to grow out of Uie matter. Tnrce Cardinals were made executors, uud the efforts of Leo XIIL to mediate between the con testants have , thus far come to taught. The Mastai family are, it seems, snort of funds, and have found a caoitalist who will support them in their suit against the Cardinals. At the same time it is reported that many articles of value belonging to the late Pope have disappeared since Ids death, among’ them a handsome snuff box set with jewels, which he used to keep oa his writing-table. A parishioner of a Berkshire pastor was asked' what the color of the pastor's eyes was. He didn’t really know, “for,” he said, ‘‘when ho prays his eyes are shut, and when he preaches I generally shut mine.” A bright little miss of Napa, CaL, noted for her quaint sayings, said to her mother the other day:-‘‘Mamma, when, you went to Heaven to get me did von pick out tbe prettiest baby oa God’s floor?” Of coarse mamma said yes. Messrs. Scribner & Co. recently received the * following bona fide order from a country Sun day-school chorister: “Sira: If you have any thing new in the line of sacked songs, rum <r or senitmenta', will you please send me some sam ple sheets.” Dr. Newman spoke. In a recent'scrmon, of ‘thesad funeral procession” which followed Abel to the grave. An irreverent woman in the audience nudged her companion and whisper ed: “Not such a large procession, but verv se lect. None but the first families.” V Why is It that the boy of ordinary mind would prefer to go in bis every-day clothes and sit on a muddy bank fishing all Sunday rather than to sit on a nice, dir seat in Sabbath-school for an hour, dressed up in his best bib and tucker? Girls ain’t that way. —HieubcnvUU Her ald, ' .The following startling announcement was given out by the parish clerk in a small church at Somersetshire, England: “I gees notice nex Sunday there wun’t be no Sunday, ’caasa Rector’s goin’ to t’other- parish, fishln*.” By this the accustomed congregation understood that the clergyman would officiate & few miles off. A bright little fellow of 4, the son of a former pastor of a flourishing church, who attends the infant-class in Sunday-school, received last Sun der morning a card on which were the words, “ Pray without ceasing.” After his mother had explained the text, he satd, “I guess I won’t show this to tbe minister; he pravs long enough now.” " Thisis the way they tell it in Arizona:'. Two j, men were riding together near Apache Pass. They arrived at a place where they expected to find water, but the spring bad dried uo. One of the men began to prav, the other to swear. 'Within an hour the sides blackened, a torrent of rain fell, lightning leaned down, killing the man that prayed, while the profane sinner re freshed himself, tilled bis canteen, and went on his way rejoicing. A nonplussed theologian is said to have sac up until a lace bonr fruitlessly trying to get the tangle out of the following anecdote, which Is related In Mr. Conway’s recent book; “in an orthodox family, with which I have bad some acquaintance, a little boy who had used naughty expressions of resentment toward a playmate was admonished that he should be more like Christ, who never did anv barm to his enemies! ‘No,’ answered the wrathful child, ‘but he’a a-going to.’ ” Cathedral Free Church, SS. Peter and Paul, cor* ner of West Washington and Peoria streets. The RL-Rev. W. E. McLaren, Bishop; the Rev. J. H. Knowles, pnest in charge. Choral morning prayer and celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a. m. Choral evening prayer at 7:30 p. in. —The Rev. S. S. Harris, Rector, will officiate at 10:45 a. m. and 5 p. m. in St. James' Church, Cass and Huron streets. Communion at Ba. m. —The RL -Rev. J. W. Beckwith, Bishop of Georgia, will officiate in Trinity Church, corner of. Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. William H. Knowlton, Rector, will officiate in St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. nu and' 7:30 p. m, *. —John Hedman, lay reader, will officiate in St. - Ansgarioa’ Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, Rector, will officiate in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at 11 a. m. ana4:3o p. m. Communion at 8 a. m. . : 2,137 —The Rev, Arthur Ritchie, pastor, will officiate in the Church of the Ascension, corner of Korth LoSalie and Elm street*, at XI a,'m. and 7:30 p. m. Communion at 8a m, —The Rev. C. S. Lester will officiate morning and evening in St.' Paul’s Church, Hyde Park ave nue. —The Key. B. F. Fleetwood, Rector, will of ficiate in SL Mark’s Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 d. m, —The Rev. J. 1), Cowan will officiate In SL Stephen's Church. Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelfth streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. L. Pardee, Rector, will officiate m Calvary Church, Warren avenue, between Oakley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m.. and 80. m. . Communion at 7:30 a. m.t . ‘ —The Rev. T. N, Morrison, Rector, will of ficiate in the. Church of the Epiphany, Toroop street between Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. ana 7:30 p. tn. Communion at7;3o s. m. —The Rev, W. J. Petrie, Rector, will officiate in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln andßelden avenues at.U\a. m. and7:3op. m. The Baptist Tabernacle baa removed to tho northeast corner of Wabash avenue and Van Boren street, up-stairs. B. P. Jacobs will preach at S p. m. Sunday-school at 2:20 o. m. —The Rev. G. C. Loriraer will preach in the First Church, comer of'South Park avenue and Thirty first street, at II a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Morning subject: “The Inspiration of the Almighty.” Eveningr ‘‘Self Conouest.” —The Rev. John Peddle will preach in the Second Church, comcrof Moreau and West Monroe streets, at 10:1:0 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. James Paterson will preach in tho Michigan .Avenue Church, near Twenly-tUlrd. street, actO:3Ca. ra and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. E. B. Halbert will preach in the Fourth Church, comer of West Washington and Pauiioa streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p,’ m. —The Rev. Galnsha Anderson will preach in tho University Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:3 J o. m. and 7:30 p. ra. —The Rev. R. P. Allison will preach in tho North Star Church, comer of Division and Sedg wick streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. • —The Ucv. C. Perrm will preach In the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30p. m, —The Key. W. H. Parker will preach in tho Coventry Street Church, comcrof Bioomingoalo road, at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 o. m. —The Rev. R. De Baptiste will preach in Olivet Cnnrcb,. Fourth avenue, near Taylor street, at 11 a. m. ami 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. L. Q. Clark will preach In the South Church, comer of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at 11a. m. —The Rev. 6, Sutherland will preach in the Centennial Church, comer of Lincoln and West Jackson street*, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach in the Cen tral Church, No. 300 Orchard street, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. —The Rev. IL 51. Carr will preach in the Twenty-fifth Street Cbmch, near Wentworth av enue, at 7:43 p. m. • —The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach in tho Dearoom Street Cbnrcb, comer of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. m. and7:3o o. m. —The Rev. C. Swift will preach in the Evangel Church, Dearborn street, neat Forty-seventh, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Arthur Swazey will preach in tjie For ty-first Street Church, corner of Prairie avenue, at 10:43 a. m. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell wilt preach in the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty first street, at 10:30 a. m. Evening service held at Railroad Chapel, No. 715Statestreet, at7:43p.to. —The Rev. J. IL Walker will preach in the Ro-' nmon .Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop. morning and evening. —The Rev. W. A. KcAtee will nreacb m tha Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenne and Thh tietb street, at 10:30 a. m. ■No evening service. —The Rev. Geonre Q. Wells, of Montreal, will preach in the Second Chnrcb, corner of Michigan avenue audTwentieth street, morning and evening. —Tae Rev. B. M. Collisson will nreach In too Fullerton Avenue Church at 10:30 a. m. and. 7:43 p.m. Morning subject: ‘‘Moses and the Ten Plagues of Egypt.” Evening*'“Abidingin Christ,” . t . • , „ —The Rcv.T. M. Cunningham, late of San Fran cisco, will preach in the Jefferson Pork Church, corner of Throop aud Aaoma streets, at 10:30 a.m. and 7:43 p. m. —The Rev. E. N. Barrett ■ will preach in tha Westminster Church, corner of Jackson and Peo ria streets, at 1a:43 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morn ing subject: “The Fullness of the Believer’s Blessing in Jesus Christ.” —The Kev. George Norcross, of Carlisle, Pa., will preach in the Third Church, comer of Ashland and Ogden avenues, morning and evening. '—The Rev. George Xozcross. D. D., of Carlisle, Pa., will preach this morning, commencing at 10:3(7, in the Third Chorea, comer of Ashland and Ogden arcnucs, and in the evening at 7:30 o’clock, —The Rev. A. M. McAtee preaches this rooming at the Fifth Church, comer of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. No eveningservice. . Tne Kev. Dr. Williamson preaches.in the Michi gan Avenue Church, ncaMhirty-second street, at 10:30 a, m. andßp. m. Evenmgsubject: ••War When, Where. How, and What Should People Read.” * —The Kev, E. M, Boring preaches in the State Street Church morning ana evening. —The Rev. J. C. HartzwelJ, of New Orleans, will preach in the. Centenary Church, Monroe street, near Morgan, 10:30 a. m, aud 7:45 p. m. —The Rev. S. McCheshey will preach in the Park avenue Church morning and evening. ' —The Kev. Robert D. Shepparu will preach in. Grace Church, comer or North LaSahe and Wnitn streets, at 10:30 a. m. and7:3o p. m. Momiag subject: theSaoject.” Evening: •‘ASongService.” —Tne Kev. F. C. Clendenmng will preach in tho SABBATH SMAXXi-TAIiK. CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. BAPTIST. PUESBTTHHIAX. METHODIST. 9