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EEIiIGIOUS.
-Preaching and Politics” De
fined by a Reverend
Congressman.
jjjgjjop Pratt, of the Mormon Church,
Defends the Attacks on
Polygamy.
fie Protestant View of the Sym
bolism of the Bread
and Wine-
Worship Without Gifts-A Plea
for Generous Contri-
buttons.
Genera! Notes, Personals, Sunday
Salad, Services To-Day.
EFFECTUAL PRAYER.
An old man there, at Mamre’s altar,
Detains from wrath, the Eternal King,
He makes the cherub’s falchion falter,
Tbe storm-cloud droop her raven wing.
Eternal Wrath will not o’erleap that prayer,
for Vengeance smite while one saint cries,
‘•Forbear!”
heavens deny the thirsty region,
Bacb dry throat gasps to Baal in vnint
There rose one faithful heart's petition;
That feeble human breath brought rain.
Teach our Elijahs, Lord, to wield such power,
And mightily plead down thy Spirit's shower.
Spent Israel yields before her foemen;
* Again she backward rolls the day.
Tb’ uplifted hands are Victory’s omen—
Strange, but resistless, weapons they!
Beln on the battle, Christians! Lift the rod!
Who fights with praying worms, must light with
God!
la midnight’s silence, cries of sorrow
Give God no rest His Church to spare;
Andlo! the victim of to-morrow
Stands free and safe before them there!
Tesaints, thlskey to Satan's dungeons try— .
gin's chains shall tall—Guilt’s portals backward
fly.
Enter tho Holiest, happy nation!
Blood rent for you that open way,
Faith’suttoranc/is supplication;
Adoption’s sweetest right—to pray.
The boldest comersiarc most welcome there:
He knows Jesus best, who proves Him most by
prayer.
-London Christian.
PREACHING AND POLITICS.
VIEWS OF THE REV. J. HYATT SMITH, M. C.
The Sunday previous to tho departure of tho
Bev.J. Hyatt Smith, M. C., of Brooklyn, he
preached in the Lee Avenue Baptist Church on
ti-**Xew Life as a Congressman and a Clergy
man." In the course of his sermon he said:
*lt is tho privilege of the true saint to be a
pnwerforgood in every department of life.
There be those who believe that a saint cannot
properly do anything Outside of strictly church
work- But tho interests of Christ's Church are
Intimately involved with those of the State, and
particularly so in a Republic like ours. It is a
dangerous advice that Is often given that no
righteous man should go into politics. lie should
£o into politics, but politics should
not go into him. This Republic was
conceived in prayer, and it is only
right that godly men should continue to have
asaarc* in its government. The late War wrought
agreat change in the minds of many good peo
ple, among them tho Quakers, who at last came
to believe that it might be right in this great
emergency to draw the sword. Before the War
It was often said that the minister must teach
only Christ and linn crucified; but when the
terrible clouds gathered, and tho Nation’s life
was in peril, then the ministers did preach and •
sanction war, and it they had not done It they
would have been hooted at. Clergymen wore
pronounced then. The white heat of war
iroucht them out. It was not only the privilege
of the minister to preach and urge others to go.
lut he could and did go himself, and be fougnt,
too. in many a battlefield, that the Republic
night lire.
’•The attitude of the pulpit has not changed.
A clergyman can still properly go anywhere
where he can fight God’s battles, and there is
need for fighting now in the halls of legislation
of this country. 1 go to SVashington to preach
aswclifl!? fight. 3 shall exchange with Brother
Chittenden—G od bless the man—and 1 know be
will do a good work here. Why shall 1 not go
into the council of the Nation?' Ministers have
gone there before. The great Witherspoon did
good sendee for his country. There are great
Interests at stake. There are the vexed ques
tions as to the South and the colored race to be
dealt with. The rights of the pbople as against
monopolies are to be asserted, and it behooves
every citizen, no matter what his party, to take
tnns against this terrible evil. The people, not
parties, elected me, and God helping me, 1 will
be the people’s man in every emergency. I will
Pol speak, vote, or act with or for any parti*. I i
will never ask when a bill comes up what party
others it, but rather, is it for the country’s
r*d? If it is, I will work for Its passage with
my little strength, if the people do not like
fiu?. let them elect a cheaper man.
“Xlie clergyman I? not then lost In tho Con
gressman; he is brought out into fuller activity.
Ip my late interview with the Chief Magistrate
me say here that my visit to was no
purrimage to. the modern political Mecca, in
cope ©flavor, but in response to an invitation
mna Gen. Garfield/, I said to Iho President
elect, ‘General, I hope you are the Chief Magis
tnaeof this Republic, and not of any* party or
iuruony Ho looked at me earnestly in rcply
“t* find bis two great eyes looked like twin Re
publics, and said. • 1 am tho Superintendent of
*fitS£rcai farm for four years, and. with God’s
P*lD.lrnean to raise aua reap a great crop of
prosperity for the people who havq put mein
Then. changing his figure, Gen. Gur
th’ifiVPtmued, * I propose to put my forces in
meneid.and when they are disposed to suit me
loreeg* l ° k° l( * t * iem thus as against hostile
ikli W£^, Proud to hear him talk in this strain. I
said to fatm that in my capacity as Con-
I would be glad to be of any service I
fjf? w the furtherance of bis plans. For this
ridiculed by the editor of a news-’
carrying out of great projects
Public good even the smallest Instru
(««,!.■ ~2 re not-utterly useless. Perhaps
tn this editor might be of some service in the
•Md cause. I
ttOEJIOXISM DEFENDED.
SHARP REPLIES TO PRESIDENT GAB
0. FIELD’S STRICTURES.
of tho Mormon Church, arrived
* ew York from Salt Lake City a few days ago.
thn as^ a Herald reporter what he
ughl of the allusions to the Mormon Church
M? den . 1 Gar9eld ’ s inaugural address.
Gsrfi saf a the Bi-hop, “that President
ti * 9 * ads to realize what a complicated ques-
U P or Polygamy is. Of course
* ulde * or us to resist the United
«f»? Goverxiincul *but what is tho remedy for
»iih on^ If euchMormon should be content
*!_ oae w ife, what is to become of the other
sacredly wedded in accordance with our
Irotn, t9 ° present system of polygamy is
cbUdrp U * > ’^' oraen ' v^*^c^e^t worse than widows,
th«*a “ separated from mothers, and
u ~a tne children iilegitimatized.”
presMirM^ 66o suggested in Congress that the
fc™ Ji ormon should uotbeinter
fiQould bo prohibited.”
tfainti OftCU beani of euctl a proposition.
Sonnon tfif meD amoUff us maintain that every
<ausei»« c S° en * er f inl ° Polygamy does it be
-1,6*1?* 011 * We assert that we have
.Jr® belief, and if not pro
at least should not bo interfered
9 Said ?*at in mau F Mormon lam
kvehjjflhere is a plurality of wives attempts
. fflndc on the part oi the wives to es
pr^vent^M marna2 ' e tics, but have been
”.? tE0 * Tile drives of the Mormons
'.hey can* dlßSo * ve tbe marria S’° tie at anytime.
TttrjjQ-- prevented from leaving the
a C *' ultcd States Court would see
* se flbvth 6< V a t9ls res P e °t it any force was
to retain them against
J*ndeand Q 7,T t c J. do -Quiteoften leave their hus
?°*u have tm»M° - ; e l rrilor - v altogether. Mor
tfioee with their drives tho same as
wno are the husbands of but one
P res «nt l- Tn h»--d States law pro
r^ T Ktea? Clicalli ‘ a dead letter?’* ‘
J^htUonamt uot been eniorced because its
*as V lested - Reynolds,
“dieted for polygamy, was found
guilty and sentenced to the Penitentiary for two
jears. His time has but recently exnircd. la
s , imllarl - r Indicted* and son
tenctd to fit e j ears in the Penitentiary, we have
pone further than we did in the ileynolds case
Kfited StaS?™ l^ 1 , ? 0 , m the dcSlsC of the
Mrn^nVh»Sf,? 'Strict Court, which sentenced
It The rnm?h.?I eme . Cou r t . of tho United States.
m™SiSKI?f dits dMisim ,re bare
cau=e?” y ° U StUI recefvln ff converts to your
t ave missionaries lu England.
Denmark. Scandinavians and
quite fr equenUy, The first in
?ln!-,?T C nL 0f emigrants this year will
n C r a nivV^ rp Ji 0 f iSu tlle foiled States on tho 16th
of next month. They will be root by our agent
f? nt *° Dtah Immediately upon their
arn\ ai. Mormon emigrants that come to us are
not all recent converts. Some of them have
been Mormons for twenty years, but have been
pre\ ented Irom joining us hero because of their
poor circumstances. Their relatives in Utah,
however, send for them as soon us they begin to
brespor with their affairs in our Territory.”
“ »»hat is tho general avocation pursued bv
Mormon emigrants on reaching Utah?”
‘ people are mostly farmers. The soil of
Utah Is very rich, and shows no signs of wear
ing out. Our market is right at our doors; those
engaged iu tho mines taking all that we can pro
duce.
“Are your capitalists investing in mines to
any great extent?”
-.Not at all. There is considerable money put
into stock-raising. There are, also, some heavy
investments in railroads. lam myself engaged
in railroad business, being a Director of tho
Union Pacific Railroad. Ou r Board of Directors
meets in this city next week.”
“ V hat do your people think of Gov, Murray’s
action in giving to Mr. Campbell the certificate
of election as Delegate to Congress.”
“V e believe it was the Governor’s Intention
to have given the certificate to the present
Delegate. George Q. Cannon, and then let the
House of Representatives decide tho ques
tion. This has been the practice heretofore.
Mr. Cannon’s seat in former Congresses has
been contested and tno seat given to him.
A few Intimate friends of Gov. Murray
persuaded him to give tho certificate to Mr.
Campbell, telling the Governor that he would
become very popular all over tho country and
gain tho friendship of the Administration. Such
an opportunity to strike at the Mormons should
not be lost, they told him, and he yielded to thoir
persuasions. Mr. Cannon will contest tho seat,
however, and 1 think will secure n report in his
favor. We have nothing against Mr. Campbell,
.who Is very much liked by our people.”
“As a general thing the Mormons and Gentiles
agree pretty well together?”
/’Oh, yes; we have no differences. The Gen
tiles come to Utah to do business,- and we cheer
fully meet and transact business with them,
harmonizing our interests and making warm
personal J Headships.”
“ How arc the morals of the people of Salt
Lake City?”
“ Better than other people’s, we think. The
social evil was a thing unknown until recently.
We suppose wc shall have to put up with it as
other communities do and regard it as a neces
sary eviL”
THE REAL PRESENCE. *
PROTESTANT VIEW OF THE LORD’S SUPPER,
The Advnuct,
Perhaps our universal and strong Protestant
repugnance to tho Komish doctrine of the Beal
Presence in tho bread and wine of the Lord’s
Supper has deprived us of some comfort and
strength which the real spiritual presence of
Christ with his people is fitted to affohl. The
gracious promise before His ascension, “Lo! I
am with you always." ought surely not to be de
prived of Us precious siguilicance and power,
because the figment of iransubstantiution as
serts the corporeal presence of our Lord at cer
tain times in a certain ordinance; nor should
the error about an impossible kind of presence
make us forget another presence that is true and
real. No heresy should cheat Christians out of
the truth.
The second of two able papers in tho literary
representative of Congregationalism abroad, tho
last British Quartern/, brings out with unusual
j clearness tho most consistent view of tho Lord’s
j Supper as held among Protestants. It maiu
| tains a “real presence of Christ in His own
| memorial feast without asserting any traus
; mutation of elements, or addition thereto.”
! Luther came perilously near transubstantia
tiou in asserting a mystical union of Christ with
the bread and wine. Zuingle swung oil’ to the
opposit extreme, a symbolic representation in
them, to remind ns of New Testament history.
The elements set memory to work,, he held; and
tins is all. Christ Is no more with us at the
table than is Zuingle himself, or Luther,
or President Edwards. The "Reformed”
doctrine—so called to contra-disimguish
it from Lutheran, Zuinglian, and Romanist—
leaches that the elements bring us a real spirit
ual presence of the atoning Savior, above and
outside of themselves. Christ is verily in tho •
midst of His people when they gather about His
table according to his own command, lie is not
visibly, tangibly there: nor is the mere symbol
alone there; nor does something which is not
He undergo a mysterious transmutation iutothe
body and blood, or a mystic unification there
with. The elements remain as they were; but
besides them, and besides the believers present.
He Himself, as a spiritual being, is there. The
Master Himself manes one among us.
All this is more than—us well as difi’orcnt from
—what is often termed in literature an ideal or 1
imaginary presence. Of an absent or departed
human being, or of an unreal being, we affirm
one of these. Vivid historical portraiture may j
produce the one. Poetry may effect the other.
But it is neither the poetic gilt nor the fine his
toric sense that apprehends our Muster and
Lord as with us. it is faith, as the religious ex
ercise of the whole man. Imagination and
fantasy, or’tho picture-making faculty, are
powerless. Culture of tho secular sort can
never attain unto it. By word-paint
ing at the sacrament, or 1 by manufact
ured rhetorical phrases, it can never be
called up. Heart must speak to heart. An
experienced redemption, an atonement received
as saving, is tho only thing that will answer.
Christ is a real person and all-divine. All
power is given unto Him in Heaven and on earth.
Omnipresence is His. He can hold personal
communion with us. and faith is that which
holds communion with Him as a personal and
present Savior. He never lads at IDs table to
grunt His people in covenant with Him this real
presence, if they exercise real faith. Where two
or three are gathered He Is in the midst. If any
where, certainly there; if at any time, certainly
then.
This is something Vrotostants should make
more of. Only the English Tractarians have
made the real presence a watchword, and with
them it means something partly Romish, partly
Lutheran. They hold to the efficacy of the ofii
cittting priest, and to the mystical unification of
the elements with the body and blood. The view*
we have indicated recognizes the ellieacy of
faith in tho Church and tho spiritual presence
of her Lord. “There has alwuysbeen a tend
ency* toward this view when the currents of re
ligious life have been and deep." The in
crease of that life has been marked by increase
of communion with a present Savior. For the
sake, then, of spiritual life, let us strive after
communion with Him. "Were the bondage of
standards removed, there would bo practical
unanimity on tho basis of Calvin’s doctrine,
when tho current of spiritual life ran deeply."
For tho sake, then, or Christian unitv, let us
strive for it. On the first and second Sabbaths
of this month His visible Church partakes of
tho visible sacred feast. In the visible emblems
shall the Lord's body be “discerned”? Or shall
holy feeling audspirituai experience run so low
that there shall be a mere historical remem
brance of Him? Shall the new-comers at the
sacred table share only in a vague and perplex
ing ceremonial, or really and truly meet their
Lord?
WORSHIP WITH GIFTS,
A PLEA FOR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS.
The O’wrr* r.
The Lord needs and requires the service of his
people, not alone in their persons, but with their
worldly means. Iu Heaven we may worship only
spiritually, but on earth worship, in truth, re
quires physical as well as mental exertion. The
work of the Church militant is carried forward
by human effort and by human means. ‘ Provid
ing and maintaining places of worship, the
preaching of tho Gospel, the printing of the
Word of God, the care of rho poor, the visiting
of tho destitute and the prisoner, the giving of
every cup of cold water,—all these are part of
the work which the Christian Church has to do,
and which can be done only by contributions of
money.
The duty of giving money to the support of the
Church work is universally acknowledged. It is
not universally practiced. One reason for the fail
ure is found in the fact, that, while the duty is
recognized, it is not so clearly regarded as an act
of worship. Many good people are even shocked
at the idea that me formality of putting money
in the contribution-box should be called an act
of worship and considered a purl ol the public
worship of God. It sounds to them like a
dangerous bit of ritualistic service. Probably
this feeling has led to the informal and shop-like
way of treating the collections in some places.
Many churches have entirely abolished the dol
leciion from their services, regarding
it as a mere matter of worldly busi
ness and no part of the service of God
in tils sanctuary. In other churches the
collection is taken up, and the plates, or
boxes, or bags are stowed away somewhere out
of sight, before the formal service is resumed.
The congregation are taught by the manner of
the collection that worship has been temporarily
suspended while the money has been collected.
There may be honest dillerence of opinion as
to how much formal ritualism is good in any
part of public worship, but there is no room for
difference of opinion m this, that the giving of
money to the Lord’s work should form a regu
lar, decorous, and solemn part of the public
service, and that old and young should betaugbt
that it is an act of worship. The copper mite, or
the gold or the gift, whatever it be, is ottered to
God for bis acceptance. It Is not a tax im
posed by Him and collected by Ills command.
Those who pay it with reluctance, as extorted by
law, or to be seen of men, do no worship. For
such givers it is of no account that there is not
in the method of receiving it any formal indica-
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tion that it is an offering of one’s substance to
tho Giver of all property. It may not suit tho
ideas of some congregations to adopt tho for
mality of churches which practise tho recitation
of passages of Scripture, with accompanying
music from tho organ, and tho uplifting of the
collected gifts before placing thorn on tho com
munion tabic, or altar. But there is no offense
to some Christian souls in a custom now widely
provelcnt, which consists In tho reception by tho
minister of tho gathered collection, while the
congregation rise and sing a doxology. How
ever it be accomplished, no one can doubt that
those results ought to Co reached,—viz:
1. Christian congregations should be taught
to give money as an act of worship In their pub
lic services.
2. They should give as giving to God, and not
to tho Trustees of tho Church or os a matter of
ordinary business.
3. The reception or collection of tho gifts of
the people In public worship should be as solemn
and as much a part of the service as any other
act of worship.
4. Pastors and people should unite everywhere
to make this part of the public service what it
ought to be.
y. m:. c. a.
PROCEEDINGS OP THE EVANSTON SESSION.
The second day of the Young Men’s Christian
Association Convention opened in the basement
of tho First M. E. Church yesterday at 6:30 a.
m. There was a good attendance despite the
stormy weather.
The day.’s meeting opened at 8:30 a. m. with a
half-hour’s u conversation meeting,” which was
led by N. J. Hammers, of Evanston. It consist
ed of prayer and song and relation of expe
rience.
At 9 a.m. Mr. Ira B. Cartwright, of St. Louis,
spoke on “ What Is the Legitimate
Work of tho Young Men's Christian As
sociation.” The work of the Association Is es
sentially tho same as that of tho Church, though
it is personal and reaches vast numbers that tho
Church could never reach. It goes among tho
laborers and unchristian men who never fre
quent places of worship. When ho closed a
member asked what was the duty of a member
of both Church and Association when the
two duties connected. He was answered by Mr.
Ilemiugway, that the Church always comes first.
Tho Association is tno “ right arm .of tho
Church,” and is to occupy the field untilled by
tbo Church.
Prayer and song followed, when Mr. T. S.
Johnson spoke on “ Tho Bible in tho Associa
tion." The Bible is the head of the Association
us it is of the Church. By that we must stand
or fall.
At 10 o'clock. “ What Work can associations
Most Profitably Prosecute During the
months," formed a topic for discussion lor Mr.
Cl. S. Avery, of Rockford. Though tho series of
lectures, reading-rooms, gymnasiums, and
prayer-meetings are arrested during the sum
mer, there is yet a resource in the parks and on
tho streets. Tho speaker had seen hundreds of
people brought togetner in a park by singing
and preaching in the open air. School-house
work can bo prosecuted during the summer.
Dawn parties and rambling parties, when young
men walk into tho Holds with a botanist or ge
ologist. Bible ami botany can be pleasurably
united for study. The summer is us good a timo
to work as iho winter, if we only do what tho
season favors.
After a song a few minutes were given to in
troductions. Each person in the audience rose
and gave his name and any connection he hud
with any association. Tho "General Secreta
ries” and "Presidents” were in the majority.
AtlOdJO "The Organization and Importance
of Committees” was discussed by Mr. A. T.
Hemingway, of Chicago. Tho aim has always
been to have every man work with hisown kind,
—clothiers with clothiers, railroad men with
railroad men, Germans with Gormans.
The work of tho Convention has be
come vastly diversified, and it must
be mostly done by committees. Those com
mittees are a most important work. In many
places the committees must be adapted to the
place. Evanston must look after students, and
Decatur after the laboring man. Tho pastors of
the churches must always be taken into active
work and counsel.
The Rev. S. E. Wishard, of tho Third Presby
terian Church, Chicago, gave a Bible rending,
illustrating how tho Word should be on all occa
sions the prime authority and solo resource.
*• Association Literature ” was u topic for Mr.
L. E. Brown.
The Conference took a recess at 12:C0.
A much larger attendance characterized the
afternoon meeting. Tho students generally,
having no recitations, came in, aud a number of
ladies were present.
The necessity and methods of our work in
educational institutions was spoken of by Mr.
L. D. Wishard, of New York, the Secretary for
Colleges. The work in colleges originated ia
Virginia aud Maryland twenty-two years ago.
There arc now Associations in 115 colleges,—
one-third of all the colleges in Amer
ica. The College Associations aim to
do their special work in tho following depart
ments: Prayer-meetings, Bible study, individ
ual work, college neighborhood work, aud tho
development of tho homo aud foreign mission
ary spirit by visitation of secretaries, corre
spondence, and distribution of literature. These
Associations are universallyapproved by college
Presidents.—notably President Porter, Mark
Hopkins, Dr.-McCosh, and Prof. Patten.
Mr. G. S. Avery, of Rockford, read a short’
paper on “How to Raise Our Finances.” All
methods are questionable which follow worldly
standards of propriety, with tho idea of purchas
ing power. When wo need money we should go
directly to those for whose benefit we indirectly
work.
Mr. I. J. Davis, of Decatur, had the topic,
” How Can tho Ladies Assist Us?” His own As
sociation had found them useful on committee
work, in visiting tho sick, in spcakmgto young
men. in relieving the boor, in aiding in socials
and all kinds of entertainments, in furnishing
association rooms, in raising money, aud in
many ways which only suggest themselves to a
woman.
A question-drawer was then opened on a vari
ety of questions on topics mostly concerning tho
management of local associations,were prepared
and answered by persons designated by the
Chairman. This closed the session for the after
noon.
The evening session opened at 7 ;30 o’clock
with a praise service led by Mr. Georges. Avery,
of Rockford.
Mr. Wishard gave the evening address on the
“Relations of Colleges to Home and Foreign
Missions.”
• The program for to-day is as follows: 9a. m.,
consecration meeting; -t p. m., M. E. Church
Gospel mooting,—“Personal Work,” by L. D.
'Wisimrd: </ p. m.. Children’s meeting in the
Presbyterian Church; 0:15 p. m.. Union Young
People’s meeting, by A. W. Patten; 7:JO p. zu.,
general service.
GENERAL NOTES.
There is a society in Berlin for the propaga
tion of tho Jewish faith, which is a now thing in
Israel’s history.
Tho death-list of ministers of tho Presbyterian
Church has been very large since the meetingof
the General Assembly nine months ago. It
numbers seventy-one, against seventy-six in the
previous twelve months.
The Canterbury Convocation bos been pro
rogued till May 17. The upper house passed a
resolution deprecating legislation, and declaring
that the authority to settle matters of ritual is
inherent in the Episcopal ollioe.
The earliest printed Bible known was sold on
Feb. !•) in London lor £7iK) It contained
the Old Testament only, and was printed at
Metz by Gutenburg in 1452, being believed to be
the first book ever printed by movable types.
A special meeting of the Synod of the Northern
District of the American Province of the Mora
vian Church has boon called to meet in Bethle
hem. Pa., iu May, to consider important financial
questions. The regular meeting ot tho Synod
occurs in 3SS.J.
Mr. Robert Arthlngton, of Leeds, has lately
offered tho Church Missionary Society tho sum
of £5.0011 for investment toward providing a
fund for the maintenance ot a steamer and a
stair of agents on tho Upper Biuue and Lake
Chad. Grave fears are entertained for tho
safety of tho Society’s agents on the Victoria
Nyanza.
In a book entitled “Tho Lord’s Prayer and
the Church,” just published in Loudon, Mr.
Unskm having propounded tho question,
“ What Is a Clergyman of the Church of En
gland?” proceeds to suggest, to his readers tho
question “Whether tho Gospel cannot be put
into such plain words and short terms as that ft
plum man may understand it, instead of leaving
it to be gathered out of thirty-niuo articles
written by no means in clear English.”
% The religious, representations called mysteries
are still kept up iu France, though a relic of the
Middle Ages. The scenes are borrowed from
Old and New Testament alike. Not long ago
one of these was given at a secondary theatre in
Marseilles, representing tho “ Awakening of the
Shepherds at Bethlehem,” the ‘.‘Coming of tho
Wise Men,” the “Predictions of tho Prophets,”
and similar Biblical scenes, but owing to indis
cretions on the part of the actors a tumult en
sued. and was only repressed by the appearance
of the police, who arrested several prominent
performers.
A graduate of the last class in the Theological
Seminary ut Moreau Park writes to the Pro
fessor of New Testament Interpretation:
**J never prepare a serin on or a Sabbath
school lesson from too New Testament without
carefully studying the Greek text,—otteri muk
ini', by means of a Greek Concordance, a critical
comparison of the uses of Important words
found in the text. This lam compelled to do,
as I have in my congregation several unusually
intelligent Biblical scholars: and they would
nut tolerate ignorance of the ‘Word in their rep
resentative. .... In my judgment, a care-
f uJ, prayerful siu/Jy of the inspired text lied at
the very foundation of all Scriptural theology
;and Scriptural teaching.’*
The Rev, Mr, Hale, of Baltimore, writing of
his visit to the Old Catholic Congress, of Baden-
Baden, eays: “in Hvo consecutive Sundays I
used live different liturgies. At Baden-Baden,
with Bishop Reinkaus, an .Old Catholic German
liturgy; at Paris, with P£re Hynclnthe, a French
liturgy; iu Lincoln, the Anglican liturgy; in
Inverness, the Scottish liturgy; and la Queens
town, the Irish liturgy.* Thus,** he continues,
“ In a little over six weeks 1 was welcomed as a
brother churchman bv renrf»«*nratic<»B nf six
churches besides our own, with all of whom we
are In communion. Besides this, I enjoyed
fraternal intercourse with the Hollandlsh Old
Catholics at Utrecht, and had attended service
with my old friend, tho Archpriest Prilejaeff, In
the Russian Church at Paris. ’
EDITH O’GOBMAN.
ID the Editor of The Chicago Tribune .
Chicago, March 10.—I presume my time could
be belter occupied than In noticing or refuting
a base calumny; still human nature has a limit
to its power of endurance. It can stand just so
much and no more. Tho charges made in a re
cent issue of The Tribune by some person (can
she be a woman?) bearing tbo cognomen of
Edith O’Gorman against the Catholic Sisterhood
are so terrible that I, who sat at their feet in
my infancy, listened to their wise ana loving
counsels through my chlldhood,'who, in short,
for the space ot eleven years regularly attended
their schools, cannot now tamely sit and hear
those I lovo so well calumniated by one who
sayssbo has been amongst them; yes, amongst
them perhaps,—certainly not of them.
Strange if tho person in question can find no
other branch more onobling, more suitable to a
pure woman’s calling, than endeavoring to prove
to her contemporaries of tho nineteenth century
that womau possesses even less purity than tho
men of tho present day are willing to give her
credit for. _ ,
For tho past fifteen years I have been
separated from tho educators of my
youth, but their lessons of purity and
wisdom are still fresh In my memory,
and will, with God’s help, be trasmltted
to ray little ones, and surely, with thoir father’s
dying"charge, “Mary, take good* euro of our
children,” still ringing in my ears; and with tho
experience 1 haVo naturally gained in my jour
ney through Uf6, it would bo impossible for me
—their mother—to teach my darlings what X had
learned in a convent were not tho knowledge
gained therein pure ns the snow us it falls from
Heaven and ero It touches and becomes defiled
by contact with our terrestrial hemisphere.
Not a tow of my revered teachers arc now be
fore their Maker, watching, perhaps smiling, at
the efforts of their old pupil in vindication of
the right. And hero I fcarlesly assert that tho
charges made by “ tho escaped nun ” arc basely
calumnious. No purer woman exists than she
who severed the ties that bound her to homo
and loved ones, bade adieu to runic and fame,
consecrated her young and noble life to tho
services of her Maker, and stands to-day silent
and humble, in tho lowly garo, with the lowlier
title of the “Sister of Charity.
And when our life-work is done, and God calls
us all home, “Edith” will behold at His right
hand countless numbers of pure and spotless
souls whom here below she publicly slandered.
Mary F. Clark, Lincoln street.
PERSONALS,
Dr. Herbert Newton says there is nothing in
the canons which prevents an Episcopalian from
holding Univcrsalist views.
The Uev. L. T. Chamberlain read 2,000 volumes
of Sunday-school literature to make a selection
of 000 for n school in Norwich, Conn.
Miss Valeria Stone, of Malden, Mass., gave,
the past year, to educational institu tlons of the
Congregational denomination, no Jess than
$1,039,750.
Moses Coit Tyler, Professor of English Litera
ture in .Michigan University, is about to take or
ders In tbo Episcopal Church. He is a graduate
of Vale and Andover Seminary, and was for two
years pastor of tbo Congregational church at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Tho Bishop of Barbadoes, Dr. Mitchinson, has
accepted the valuable college living of Sibson,
Leicestershire, vacant by the death of Mr. Page,
and is on bis way to England to be inducted.
The living is in tho gift of the Master and Fel
lows of Pembroke College.
Lady Harriet Beutinck, as sister of the late
Duke of Portland, receives, by his, will about
$200,000 per annum. Of her first year’s income
she has pledged $60,000 to varioys Protestant
missions and institutions In Naples, Italy. Of
this, $20,000 goes to tho British Hospital and
$20,000 to tho Protestant school lor Italian young
ladies of the better class.
Missionary Scott labors among tho people who
reside along the shores of Lake Van in Eastern
Turkey. He recently had u small steamboat
sent to him from England. On launching and
lilting it up, a day of trial was set, and tho na
tives were invited to come and seo it. The ex
citement was as great as that which prevailed
along the shores of tho Hudson River when Ful
ton made his first steamboat trip. The crowd
continued from morning until night, and the
great topic of discussion among tho beholders
was who was the wisest and most learned, Solo
mon of old, or tho missionaries of modern days.
Tho steamboat will be a great help to missionary
work, as it will enable Mr. Scott and his helpers
to reach places which they could not otherwise
reach, except by tedious journeys over rugged
country.
SUNDAY SAIiAB
When tho deluge came K(jah saved his bacon
by taking Ham Into tho Ark.
Adam and Eve were ejected from Eden very
unceremoniously; they were snaked out.
A plumber who was about£to_die said: “My
only regret at dying is because where lam go
ing water-pipes never freeze up.”
A gentleman who recently patented a fire-es
cape has died, and a wicked person suggests that
he may have abundant opportunity to test his
invention.
A recent writer has said that many people
regard religion very much as they would small
pox. They desire to have it as light as possible,
and arc very careful that It docs not mark them.
A little girl living down-town was saying her
prayers the other evening and had just finished
“Give us this day our daily bread,” when a pre
cocious 4-year-old brother exclaimed: “Say
tookies, Mamy ’”
“ Do you really believe that an ass ever spoke
to Balaam?” queried a man who prided himself
on his intellect. Coleridge, to whom the ques
tion was put, replied: “My friend, I have no
doubt whatever that the story is true. 1 have
been spoken to in the same way myself.”
“ A collection will now be taken up,” said
the minister; “ Deacon Swipes, will you pass,”—
and that good man waking suddenly with his
hands full of hymn-books responded: “ No, I'll
order it up by thunder,” and then the minister
dealt him a dreadful look and the good mau
passed out.
“Do I look like a rabbi?” asked Col. 11. B.
Andrews, Vice-President of the Sunsetrouto,us
a San Antonio newspaper man came in and
took a scat on the edge of a chair. “Do you
look like a rabbi?” Why, Colonel, what a singu
lar questionl What makes you think you look
like a rabbi?” “O, nothing, except so many
people come to me to see about their annual
pa ssovet the road.”—Galveston iteitv.
CHURCH SERVICES.
EPISCOPAL.
Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, corner West*
Washington and Peoria streets. The Rev. J.
H. Knowles priest in charge. Tho KL Ucv. ’W.
E. McLaren, S. T. 8., Bishop.. Holy com
munion, Ba. in. Choral morning prayer and
celebration of the holy communion, 10:30. Sun
day-school and children’s service, 3 p. m. Choral
evening prayer, 7:30.
—The Rev. Frederick Courtney will officiate in
St. James’ Church, corner Cass and Huron streets,
at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. ra.
—Services will be held m Trinity Church, cor
ner Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth streets,
at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
—Services will be held in St. Andrew’s Church,
corner West Washington and Robey streets, at
10:30 a. in. and 7:30 p. ra.
—Tho Church of tho Good Shepherd, corner
of Twenty-fourth street and Genesee avenue
(Lawndale), will be consecrated by the Bishop of
Illinois to-day. Services at 10:3-) a. ra. Ho
will be assisted by the Rev. B. F. Smith, Rector.
—The Rev. John Hedmnn will otliciate in St.
Ansgarius’* Church, Sedgwick street, near Chi
cago avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. ra.
—The Rev, CUutou Locke will ofliclato in
Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, near Six
teenth street, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. in. Seats
free in the evening.
—The Kcv. li. F. Fleetwood will otliciate In St.
Mark's Church, corner Cottage Grove avenue
and Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. ra. and 7:30
p. m. .
—The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will otliciate In the
Church of the Ascension, corner North La Salle
and Elm streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev. Luther Pardee will oflieiatc in
Calvary Church. 'Warren avenue, between Oak
ley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m.
and 7:30 d. m.
—The Rev. T. N. Morrison, Jr., will officiate in
the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, be
tween Monroe and Adams, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30
p. m.
—Theßov. W. J. Petrie will officiate in the
Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and
Bolden avenues, at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m.
—The Rev. James E. Thompson will officiate in
St. Thomas' Church, Indiana avenue, between
Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets, nt U a. m.
and 7:45 p. m.
—Mr. T. B. Townsend will conduct services In
St. Luke’s Mission, Nos. 037'and 930 Polk street,
at 10:45 a. m. aud 7:30 p. m.
BAPTIST.
The Rev. E. M ingren preaches mornlug and
evening in the Second Swedish Church, on But
terfield street, near Tliirty-iirst.
—The Rev. Kerr B. Tapper will preach
morning and evenlmr in the Second Church, cor
ner of Monrue and Morgan streets, aud at 3 p.
m. in the Church of tho .Messiah, comer of Mich
igan avenue and Twenty-third street.
The Rev. G. C. Lorimer, D. l).. will preach
morning and evening at the First Church, corner
Park avenue and Thirty-tirst street. Morning
subject: “ civilization and Christianity.” Even
ing; “ Christ, the Refuge.”
. —TheLiter. J. W. Polk will preach in tha Prov
idence Church, North Irving place, at 11 a. ra.
aud t :3U p. m.
—The Rev. W. M. Lawrence will preach in the
second Church, comer Morgan and Monroe
streets, at 7:30 p. m.
—ThcUev. B. F. Jacobs will preach la the
Baptist Tabernacle, First Regiment Armory,
Jackson street, nt 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev. J. E. Hamilton will preach at the
corner of Thirty-sixth and Dearborn streets at
30:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—Tho Rev. D. B. Gunn will preach In tho
South Lock Street Church at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30
p. m.
. —The Her. Joseph Rowley will preach in the
North Star Church, corner Division and Sedg
wick streets, at 10:45 a. «n. and 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev. E. B. Hulbert will preach la the
Fourth Church, corner West Washington and
Paulina streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p, m.
—Tho Rev. J. T. Burhoe will preach in tho
University Place Church, corner of Douglas
place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30
p. n>.
— l The Rev. C. Perren will preach in the West
ern Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue,
at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—Tho Rev. W. H. Parker will preach In the
Coventry Street Church; corner of Bloomlngdale
road, at 30:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—Tbo Rov. R. De Baptiste will preach in Olivet
Church, corner Fourth avenue and Tuylorstreet,
at JI a. m. and 7:45 p. m.
—Tho Rev. A. K. Parker will preach In the
Centennial Church, corner Lincoln and West
Jackson streets, at 30:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
—Tho Rev. E. O. Taylor will preach In tho Cen
tral Church, 200 Orchard stoet, near Sophia, at
30:45 a. zn. and 7:30 p. in.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Rev. Henry T. Miller will begin a series
of sermons to-day at tbo Sixth Church ou ev
ery-day religion. Sermon this morning on
“Patience.” Evening service at 7:30 p.m.
—The Rev. A. E. Kittredsre preaches morning
and evening In the Third Church, corner of Ash
land and Ogden avenues. .
—The Rev. Herrick .Johnson, D.D., preaches
morning and evening in the Fourth Church, cor
ner of Rush and Superior streets.
—The Rev. S. E. Wishard preaches morning
and evening in the Fifth Church, corner of In
diana avenue and Thirtieth street.
—The Rev. Arthur Swazey, D. D„ will preach
in the Forty-first Street Church at 10:45 a. in.
—The Rev. W. A. McCorklc, D. D.. of Prince
ton. N. Y., preaches in tho morning in tho Sec
ond Church, corner Michigan avenue and Twen
tieth street.
—The Rev. E. C. Oggel preaches in tho West
minster Church, corner of X'eoria and Jackson
streets, morning and evening.
—The Rev, J. Maelaugblan preaches morning
and evening in the Scotch Church, corner Sanga
mon and Adams streets.
—The Rev. If. M, Coillsson preaches at 10:30
a. m. in the Fullerton Avenue Church, near
North Clark street.
—Prof. Franklin W, Fisk, D. D., conducts
morning service in tho First Church, corner In
diana avenue and Twenty-first street, and even
ing service lu Railroad Chapel, 1410 State street.
—The Rev. W. T. Meloy preaches morning ami
evening in tho church corner Monroe and Pauli
na streets.
CONG REG ATIONAR,
The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach
in Plymouth Church, Michigan avenue, between
Twenty-Ufth and Twenty-sixth streets, at 10:30
a. in. Mrs. M. 11. Hunt, of Boston, will speak in
the evening at 7:30; subject; “ The Peril of the
Hour.”
—The Rev. E. F. 'Williams will preach morning
and evening at tho South Church, corner of
Droxel avenue and Fortieth street.
—The Uev. E. P. Goodwin preaches morning
and evening in tho First Church, corner Ann
and Washington streets.
—The Rev. George H. Pcekc-will preach in tho
Leavitt Street Church, corner of West Adams
street, ut 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning sub
ject: “Man a Debtor to Man”; evening: “Brah
manism,”—second in tho course on great relig
ions.
—The Rev. C. A. Towle preaches morning and
evening in Bethany Church, corner of Paulina
and West Huron streets.
—The Rev. Arthur Little preaches morning
and evening in tho New England Church, corner
Dearborn avenue and Park place. Morning sub
ject: “Tho Abuse of Light.” Evening: “Tho
Relation of tho Dccaiog to the Subsequent His
tory of God’s Chosen People.”
—The Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D: f will preach
morning and evening in the Union Park Church,
corner of Washington street and Ashland av
enue. Morning subject; “Miracles.” Evening:
“Tho Value to a Man of tho Inheritance of a
Good Name.”
—The Rev. B. F. Leavitt preaches morning and
evening in tho Lincoln Park Church, corner of
Sophia and Mohawk streets.
—The Rev. Evarts Kent preaches morning and
evening In the Clinton Street Church, corner of
Wilson street.
—The Rev. A. J. Scott preaches morning and
evening in Evanston.
—The Rev. W. H. Brewster preaches morning
and evening in Blue Island.
—The Rev. Hiram Day preaches at 11 a. m. In
Glencoe.
—The Rev. John Ellis preaches morning and
evening in Hinsdale.
—The Rev. W. W. Macombor preaches In
Lawndale.
—Tho Rev. W. A- Lloyd preaches in Ravens
wood.
REFORMED EPISCOPAL.
Bishop Cheney preaches at the Presbyterian
Church at Englewood this afternoon at 3:45.
—Bishop Cheney preaches ut Christ’s Church,
Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street,
morning and evening.
—The Rt.-Rev. Bishop Fallows will preach In
St. Paul’s Church,corner of West Washington and
Carpenter streets, morning and evening. Sub
ject in the evening: “ Tests of Christianity.”
—The Rev. F. W. Adams will preach morn ing
and evening in St. Matthew’s Church, corner of
North Clark and Centre street.
METHODIST.
Tho Rev. Br. Williamson will preach in the
First Church, corner of Clark and Washington
streets, at 10:350 a. in. and 7:30 p. m. Morning
subject: “The Microscope and Immortality.”
Evening subject: “The Conditions on which
Christ Heals Men.”
—Tho Rev. W. A. Masken preaches at Trinity
Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. Robert D. Sheppard will preach
morning and evening in (5 race Church, corner
North La Salle and White streets. Morning sub
ject: “Children and the Church.” Evening:
“Peter.”
—The Rev. A, C. George, preaches morning
and evening in the Centenary Church, on Mon
roe, near Morgan street.
—The Rev. G. It. Van Home preaches morning
and evening in the Michigan Avenue Church,
near Thirty-second street. Morning subject:
“The Fountains of Happiness.” Evening: “The
Triple Contlict.”
—The Rev. A. Gurney, B. 8., preaches morn
ing and evening in the Ada Street Church.
—The Rev. J. W. Richards preaches morning
and evening in Emmanuel Church, corner Har
rison and Paulina streets.
—The Rev. J. Lcnebarger preaches morning
and evening in Grunt Place Church, corner Lar
rabec street.
—The Rev. R. M. Hatfield, D. 8., preaches
morning and evening in the Langley Avenue
Church, near Thirty-ninth street.
—The Rev. George Chase will preach in tho
Fulton Street Church, corner Artesian avenue,
morning and evening.
—The Rev. Joseph Caldwell will preach in the
Halsted Street Church. No. 780 South Halstcd
street, at K);:tO a. m. ano 7:30 p. m.
—The Rev. T. U. Strobridgo will preach
in the Park Avenue Church, corner Roney
street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. in.
—Tho Rev. .T. W. Phelps will preach In St,
Paul’s Church, Maxwell street, near Newberry
avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. in.
—Tho Rev. J. H. Ailing will preach in the’
Simpson Church. Bontletd street, near Archer
avenue, at 10:30 a. mi and 7:30 p. m. ■
—Tne Rev. W. Thatcher will preach in tho
State Street Church, near of Forty-seventh, at
10:30 «. in. and 7:30 p. in.
—Tho Rev. Frank M. Bristol will preach in the
Wabash Avenue Church, corner Fourteenth
street, at 10:30 a. in. ami 7:30 p. in.
—The Rev. J. M. Caldwell will preach in the
Western Avenue Church, corner Monroe street,
at 10:3J a. in. and 7:30 p. m.
—Tho Rev. W. Craven will preach in the Win
ter Street Church at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. ra.
—The Rev. H. Kellogg will preach inAsbury
Chapel, on Kossuth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30
Rev. B. Bell will preach in the Blxon
Street Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. O. 11. Cessna will preach in the In
diana Street Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. W. T. Hobart will preach in the
Jackson Street Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. F. Porter will preach in the Lin
coln Street Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. W. U. Norton will preach in the Mil
waukee Avenue Church morning and evening.
—The Rev. J. M. Wheaton will preach in the
Northwest Church morning and evening.
CHRISTIAN.
The Rev. J. W. Allen will preach morning and
evening at the South Side Church, corner of
Prairie avenue ami Thirtieth street.
—])r. Mathowpon will preaeh morning and
evening in the Advent Church, 01 South Green
street.
— l The Ucv. O. A. Burges? preaches morning
and evening in the First Church, corner of In
diana avenue aud Tweury-tifth street.
—The Rev. J. H. W right will preach morning
and evening in the Western Avenue Church,
between Van Buren and Harrison streets.
LUTHERAN.
The Rev. William A. Schaeffer preaches this
morning in the Wicker Park Church, corner of
Iloync and Lc Moyne streets.
—The Rev. Charles Koemcr preaches morning
and evening in the English Church of the Holy
Trinity, corner of Dearborn avenue aud Erie
street.
NEW JERUSALEM.
Tho Rev. W. *T. Pendleton preaches this
morning in Lincoln Park Chapel, near corner
Menomonee street, and in the evening m the
Union Park Temple, corner West Washington
street and Ogden avenue.
—The Ret. L. P. Mercer holds services in
Hersbcy Music-Hall at 11 a. m. Subject; “Ef
fectual Prayer.”
UNITARIAN.
The Rev. Brooke Hcrfortl will preach at the
Church of tho Messiah this morning. Subject:
“A Unitarian’s Thoughts About Christ,” Lect
ure in tho evening on “ Islam, or the System of
Mohammed.” . ,
—The Rev. E. I. Galvin preaches at the Third
Church, corner-of Monroe and Latlin streets,
this morning. Subject: “Man and Woman.”
—The Rev. G. C. MHn preaches In Unity Church,
corner Dearborn avenue and Walton place.
UNI VEI IS AX, IST.
The Rev. W. 1 1. Ryder preaches morning and
evening in St. Paul’s Church, on Michlgan.av
enUe. north of Eighteenth street.
Thft Itnv. W. 14. Crow nroo/ihoa nmminxr end
evening In the Church of the Redeemer, corner
of Washington and Sangamon streets.
TEitPEIIXSCE.
_ The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
hold daily Gospel meetings, Sundays excepted,
m Lower Farwell Hall at ap. ra. Entrance. 150
Madison street and Arcade court The leaders
for this week are: Monday. Mr. A. T. Hemlmr
way; Tuesday, Mrs. Charles Goodman: Wednes
day, Mrs. M. A. Williams: Thursday, Mrs. Isa
bella Jones; Friday. Mrs. W. G. Waddell; Satur
day', Miss M. A. Baker. A Gospel meeting is held
in Good Templar Hall. No. 10S0 West Lake street
every Sunday at 4 p. m., conducted by the Wom
an's Christian Temperance Union. All are in
vited.
—A temperance meeting will bo held at tho
corner of Noble and Ohio streets at 4p. m. Good
speakers will be present.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Messrs. John Smith and Carino, from Scot
land, will conduct evangelistic services in tho
Gospel meeting room. No. 319 West Randolph
street, at 3 p. m. and 7:45 p. m.
—Union Park Hall, Xo. 517 West Madison
street. Bible class at 3 p. m. and lecture for
Christians at 3 p. m. /
—North Side Gospel meeting at No. 436 Wells
street at 7:45 p. m.
—South Side Gospel meeting in Gospel Hall,
No. 3913 Slate street, at 7:45 p. ra.
—The Rev. William T. Meloy will preach at 3
p. m. In the chapel of the Washingtonian Horae.
—D. Stoner will lecture before tho Eclectics at
213 West Madison street at 7:30 p. m. Subject;
U our Future Religion.”
—A Spiritualists and medium meeting will bo
held in Grimes’ Hall, No. 13 South Hoisted street,
at 3 p. m.
—The Rev. I. C. Cartwright preaches morning
and evening in the reading room, corner Twen
ty-fifth street and Portland avenue.
—Elder T. W. White, of tho Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, will
speak in Castle Hall. Gl9 West Lake street, at
10:30 a. m. and 7;30 p. m.
—The Rev. Dr. Hirsh will lecture this morning
in Sinai Temple. Subject: “Four Elements of
Religious Culture.”
—The Disciples of Jesus tho Christ assemble at
229 West Randolph street ut 4 p. m.
—Oliver Long will address the railway em
ployees at the reading-room. corner of itinzio
and Canal streets, at 3:15 p. ih.
—Tho First Society of Spiritualists meet in
Falrbunk Hall, corner of State and Handdulph
streets, at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond,
trance speaker, will make the address. Bible in
terpretations through Mrs. Richmond in Mar
tino's parlor, corner Wood and Walnut streets,
at 30:45 a. m.
—The Rev. George C. Needham will preach iu
tho Chicago Avenue Church, corner of LaSalle
street, morning and evening.
—The Uev. Robert Shourds, of Evanston, will
? roach iu the West Side Tabernacle, corner of
[organ and Indiana streets, morning and even
ing.
—Central meeting of Friends meet at 10:30
a. m. in the Athentcum Building, Dearborn
street, near Randolph.
—The Chicago Cnildron’s Progressive Lyceum
meets in Castle Hall, No. oil) West Lake street,
at 12:30 p. in.
—The Rev. Dr. Mathewson will preach in tho
Advent Christian Church, No. 91 South Green
street, morning and evening. Subject: “The
Man of Sin*’’ /
—Col. George R. Clarke will lead the Gospel
meeting at the Pucilic Garden Mission, corner of
Clark and Van Buren streets, this evening.
CAEEKDAR FOR THE WEEK.
EPISCOPAL.
March 13—Second Sunday in Lent.
March 14—Eleventh Day of Lent.
March If)—Twelfth Day of Lent.
March Id—Thirteenth Day of Lent.
March 17—Fourteenth Day of Lent.
March 18—Fifteenth Day of Lent-
March 19—Sixteenth Day of Lent.
CATHOLIC.
March 13—Second Sunday iu Lent.
March 14—Ferla.
March 15—Foria.
March Itfr-Fcria.
March IT—St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland.
March IS—St. Gabriel, Archangel.
March 10—St. Joseph, Spouse of the B. V. M.,
audPatronof the Universal church-
MARRYING A TITLE.
Tlic Sorrow* of an American Girl Who
Wedded an Italian Count—Further
Particulars of a Late Florentine
Scandal.
Special Correspondence oj The Chleaao Tribune.
Florence, Italy, Feb. 20.—Talk about Amer
ican Slavery in the old times before the War;
cruel, barbarous, and inhuman as that was, the
master always in self-interest took great care
of the health of his chattel; but a case of great
cruelty and excessive hardship has lately come
to my knowledge in this city, through the cour
tesy of the American Consul, which seems to
reverse the old order of things in slave-limes in
America, and which. I hope, will prove to be an
other warning to managing American mammas.
There appears to be a mania among our fash
ionable and' ambitious aristocracy to bring
their beautiful daughters to Europe in tho hope
of catching a title, or rather to sell their chil
dren to secure one.—for that is about what it
amounts to. Here, then.inthiso'er-truetale, as
I gather it from tho official documents on file in
the Consular ofiice in this city, and from repre
sentations made to me by Col. Crosby, the Con
sul himself, 1 give simply the facts, leaving out
the details except so fur as they may help to
make the alfair, in all its horror, more clear to
the reader.
Some years ago, no matter how many, a
wealthy, young, and beautiful lady from tho
South, loving the glitter of a title better than
the true love ot a good man in her native land,
met and was married to an Italian Count, repre
senting one of the oldest and most distinguished
families of Tuscany. I wish the Consulbadnot
requested me not to mention names on either
side, fori would like to “put a whip into tho
bonds of every honest man, to lash the rascal
naked through the world.”
The income of the girl’s fortune was placed
exclusively and absolutely in the bands of the
husband, and was ample for the support of the
Count and Countess. He took good care, how
. ever, to spend tho greater part of it on himself,
placing his wife on a rather short allowance. In
the course of time, from some cause, which,
from what followed, may safely be left to the
Imagination of the reader, the poor woman sick
ened, and, under tho strain most likely of her
unhappiness, her mind temporarily gave way,—
not seriously, but In a mild form. Had the hus
band loved her and carep for her as his vows
and his duty required, ho would have had her
properly cared for in his own palace; but
no,—that did not suit his Highness, as it would
possibly involve considerable expense. Occu
pying as he did a high position In society, it was
an easy thing to secure an order to incarcerate
bis weak, unfortunate, and suffering wife in an
insane asylum. There are at. least two of these
institutions close to Florence, admirably and
humanely conducted, where patients who had
been tenderly reared could have, consistent
with their cure, all the luxuries to which they
were accustomed, by paying a reasonable price
for them. Our high-born Count was not dis
posed to do this, but, In bis avarice, bad this
lender American woman thrust into one of tho
cheapest and most miserably-conducted asy
lums in Italy,—a long distance from her former
friends and associates, and where the expense
of keeping her would not amount to more than
a few francs' a day. He and his family and
friends were careful to spread the report that
tho Countess was hopelesly mad, so as to pre
vent her friends from making any effort to see
her. Ho hud a high old time, living on tho fat
of the laud, and spending his wife’s money;
while she—poor thing—was incarcerated in an
insane asylum, without even tho necessary com
forts of life, and with no associates of her own
rank. _ „ , , ,
In the meantime the poor Countess had almost
dropped out of the life and thoughts of those
wh'o formerly knew and admired her.. But God,
who hears tho prayers of tho weak* and op
pressed, no matter how many bars and bolts in
tervene, brought her a friend in. a very unex
pected manner. Some time in October last our
Consul here. Col. J. Schuyler Crosby, had occasion
to visit this asylum, in company with a phy
sician, to see a gentleman at one time connected
with the Consulate; and, in passing through the
grounds, observed through a grated door a
number of female patients, and among them the
poor, unfortunate Countess. She happened to
notice him, and, having Known him previous to
her incarceration, she rushed to the gate and
begged him for God s sake to have her released,
staling, “lam no more crazy than you are.
He, knowing that insane people frequently made
such statements, and having heard so often that
tho poor lady was hopelesly mad. was disinclined
to believe her story, until, after several minutes
conversation with her.—much to tho terror of
the guard, who had strbt orders to permit no
one to speak to her.—ho became convinced that
she was reullv telling the truth; and, from that
moment until he finally secured her discharge,
helettnostoue unturned to release her from
her terrible position. And just here let me say
that no bloodhound ever followed a trail with a
keener scent than docs this same Col, Crosby
when he discovers a case of crime or wrong
doing, or it is brought to his knowledge. Ho
never tires or yields up the pursuit until he has
exposed tho wrong-doer. , ‘
His next move was to send an American lady,
an old friend of the unfortunate Countess, to
see her, and assure herself that her story was
true, ana to inquire as to her health and condi
tion. Her report was convincing that a great
wrong had been committed upon her old friend,
and that her mind had been unbalanced but a
few months after her Incarceration; the re
mainder of the time she had been perfectly
sane. Think of it for a moment! For at least
eighteen months the poor woman bad been
rigorously confined among a lot of crazy peo
ple, cut off from all her friends, and denied tho
tu’iviiocro of communicating with aor one but
her keepers, and they were instructed to turn a
deaf ear to all her supplications.
Col. Crosby at once called upon the Count, and
demanded, in the first place, that he should
direct her removal immediately to a better
asylum, near Florence, where she would be
treated at least to the comfort and cleanliness
that her situation demanded, and where she
could have the opportunity of scelmr or com
municating with her friends. But this be
found the Count unwilling to do;
and, after many entreaties and interviews, find
ing neither the Count nor bis agents willing to
release the unfortunate lady, the Consul con
cluded to write to her father in America, in
forming him of the exact condition of bis
daughter, and securing his authority for him to
act as he deemed best in the premises. It may
bo proper, in this connection, to remark that the
father had promptly and punctually forwarded
to the Count the income from her forture,—
about sl’>,oUo per year,—but had declined to ac
; cede to the Count's request, at the time of their
marriage, to band over to him his daughter's
entire fortune in a lump.—a course usually in
; sisiecl upon by foreign Lords when they con
descend to marry American girls. As soon,'
therefore, as the father learned for the first
the Consul, of the treatment hifl
daughter had been receiving, he cut otf the sup
plies; and this so exasperated his Highness that
: positively refused to give bis consent for bis
wife s release, actually having the Impudence to
demand lU,ooo francs for so doing.
The Consul, at length receiving the proper
authorization from the father, entered upon an
investigation of the case with renewed zeal, and
soon made the astounding discovery that the
Count had paid but little towards his wife’s sup
port while at the asylum; and that, while
he had been enjoying himself on his wife’i
money, there was nearly 5.000 francs due
for her board for more than a vear. The father
in America having placed funds in the Consul's
hands to pay all bills, he now addressed the Count
most feelingly, knowing that his wife being an
Italian subject he could not adopt extreme
measures, but threatened to ventilate the whole
story if the Count refused to agree to have her
discharged. This brought the Count to terms,
and, after much haggling, he reluctantly gave
his consent for the release of his poor, unfort
unate, and much-abused wife from custody.
The Consul at once procured a competent, faith
ful. and experienced woman as a companion,
and, having secured the report of an expe
rienced American physician, many years resi
dent here, that the Countess was physically well
and mentally in u condition to traval anywhere,
either by land or sea, he telegraphed the Amer
ican Consul at Havre to secure tlrst-class passage
for the Countess and companion to Xew York;
and the same steamer which brings you this let
ter will place this much-abused and deeply re
pentant victim of u foreign marriage in the arms
of her old father and on the ehores’of her native
land.
Moral— Managing American mammas, don’t
marry your daughters to fortune-hunting for*
cign Counts. 1. R. X>.
ROBERT LINCOLN.
X ICcmlniMcenccs of 111#
Hay* at Harvard.
To the Editor of the PhiUul* lph(u Times.
On the 20th of July, 1804, Robert Todd Lincoln
was graduated from Harvard College, within
twelve days of his -Ist birthday. Out of his
ninety-six classmates over sixty were older
than himself, and ot these not a few were from
three to sLx years his senior, and yet of all these
sixty there was not one whose counterfeit pre
sentment executed at the time indicates
more of manliness, maturity, and fixity of char
acter. The face is reassuring, with its serene,
courageous outlook, revealing besides a sober
comprehension of the situation and an inherit
ance from his father of “ clear-grained human
worth and brave oid wisdom of sincerity.”
• One of tho most vivid recollections of those
days is that of young Lincoln as be hied with
nimble and elastic step across tho college-cam
pus, the shrewd, good-natured glance of his
eye, the quick and abrupt nod from right to left
as he greeted passing friends, his cheery' voice
as be bailed some crony or another with soma
odd nick-name of his own fresh coinage. It is
an old tale that be stood well and was liked, but
in gauging tho estimation in which bo was held
we might as well, once fur all, leave his sonsblp
to the President out of tno account.
Of course, his parentage gave him celeb
rity, but in tho democratic communi
ty of Cambridge that was all. It
fixed all eyes on him, but it was a very Insignifi
cant factor in determining his essential impor
tance. His own unassisted traits of cbaractei
were all that he could safely fall buck upon,
and these stood him in very good stead, bit
genial manners making him popular, bis unas
suming dignity', sterling talents, and earnest
purpose winning him general respect. Whcchei
In the recitation-room or in the debates of th«
“ Institute,” he always acquitted himself fairly,
—what he said and what he wrote alike evinced
a quick understanding, an active mind, a sound
judgment, and the proofs of these, conjoined
•with a push and force, a poise and self-posses
sion, iftadc it clear he could get along in the
world independent of the adventitious aids «
position and intlucncc.
Besides, be brought a keen relish to his text
. books that is often lacking in students who take .
'a higher standing. The incisive phrases of Tac
itus and the rollicking humor of Aristophanes
might elicit the quickest response from his ap
preciation. but he did not neglect the drierpages
of philosophy or physics. Certainly, while there
was nothing very brilliant in bis scholarship,
there was. on the other hand, nothing perfuac
loryinhis habits of study. Perhaps be was a
greater reader than a student. At any rate, the
college curriculum was far from supplying the
whole of bis mental pabulum; through all his
four years he was exploring the fields of English
literature, from Chaucer, through tho dramat
ists, down tQ tho ** Xcnveomes.” and finding food
for thought, as well as merriment, in Rabelais,
“ Le Diablo Boiteux,” and the like.
To do all that he did required the greatest care
In husbanding his time, and “sporting his oak”
became at times a measure of absolute neces
sity. For ho and his chum were very’ attrac
tive company, and his numerous friends were
repeatedly dropping in, if for nothing more than
to help him color his pipes. For It may well be
understood that the popular son of a popular
President would be the recipient of more
presents than he could well keep count of.
These Included knickknaeks of every conceiv
able Kind Just suited to a student’s taste, and
just the thing to litter up mantel-piece and
tables and to decorate the walls,—gifts from
friends and gilts largely from tradesmen who
were eager to seek recognition as purveyors
of odds and ends in general to his Excellency,
tho President's son. Here were meerschaums
without number, of all sizes and nearly aU of
verv elaborate workmanship, and these meer
chaums his friends were very' kind and very
assiduous in helping him to color. But pipes,
don’t imagine, were the sole attraction. Did any
one seek to drive away dull care, the sole thing
needful was to drop in when work was over at
the familiar don. Hollis 25. It was enough to
hear tho latest and the host yet of Bob’s in
imitable anecdotes,—they were in the blood,—or
theabsurdest quips and quiddities of his droll
roommate. This Vorick’s rebellious risibilities
only Ibe strongest effort of tho will could Com
pose to the constrained solemnity of chapel ot
lecture-room, uml it was a well-attested fact
that his catching grins were just the sovereign
est thing on earth to cure the blues.
On Friday nights during Junior and Senior
years Bob was one of tho choicest spirits at tho
meetings of the “Hasty Pudding Club,” a club,
by* tho way. Instituted, so tradition toils us, to
perpetuate the glorious memory of Miles Stand
ish. that sturdy’ Puritan Captain, and his Incom
parable gastronomic service to mankind. In de
vising that sybaritic luxury, mush and molasses.
In ibis time-honored club'he filled the august
position of Vice-President, which had been dig
nified and adorned by such predecessors as
Horace Binncy, Washington Allston, Dr. Hedge,
ex-Presideut Felton. Francis Parkman, and ou?
own townsmen S. M. Felton and Edward Joy
Morris. Here he also put to good use bis famil
iarity with the attic stage, and no array of “all
the talents” on a play' night was complete with
out his stellar radiance. And to this day tradi
tion speuketh loud under tho Cambridge elms of
bow Lincoln used to enact the villainy of Old
Daddy IFj/Rc, In Hnruwicko's “Bachelor of
Arts,” or illustrated theswlngmg passion of that
cruel patient Hnsset. in the “Jealous Wife-’ Of
such were tho uneventful but happy days of bis
youth, “the golden time, the happy, the bright,
tho unforgotten,"—so happy, that when he re
calls them the “roses must surely blow and the
nightingale sing by tho calm Bcndemecr. C.
MIGNON.
For The Chicago Tribune. v v ’
There is bliss iu her eyes, there Is bliss in hev
voice.
To lift my fond soul from the world’s busy noise:
An invisible river of blissfulness streams
From her through my pondering thoughts and
my dreams.
Lovely flower. Just sprung from the bud where
tho fair
New-born blossom was hidden with cnvlouscare.
Full of fragrance, and sweetness, and diamond
dew, *
Is my rose, and my lily,* my violet blue.
Tender dove! fair and shy, with a heavenly
grace.
And the sweetest, tho meekest, the loveliest
face I
Yet queenly, and lofty,and pure like the snow,
is my graceful, my charming, my slender white
doe.
Mild, angelic, yet unlike tho Angels above,
la whose bosom; no room for tho passion of
love;
But aloft, far alqft, from life’s mean paltry
pelf—
Though striving, and erring, and frail, like my
self.
Ah, my beauty!—no beauty to everyone’s eyes—
With a bright, sunny smile, tike Italian skies.
And a soul.overtlowing with kindness and love—
Thus ray angel, my llower, ray beamy, my dove.
Chicago. D. B. vo.v Schwerin.
Shaker sarsaparilla, dandelion, yellow dock
mandrake, garget, black cohosh. Indian hemp.
Prince’s pine, and tho berries of juniper and
cubeb united with iodide of potassium made by
the Society, arc the ingredients of the Shakerr
Sanasarilla. *
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