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CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER- 19, 1876-SIXTEEN PAGES. THE 12 John's. Ashland avenue, near Madison street, at and wiser men. who are turned other church rule but 4 4 common senae, which The, shall be false teachers among you, wno or eight packs which have not sent in a com.

plctc return, of about 10,000 couples of houndl There arc CKJoVj couples of foxhounds; 5 couples in England, GS9J iu Ireland, and V5 in Grace The Kev. Dr. Locke will preach tures, as contrasted with other narratives in which nriviiv shall bring in damnable heresies, even he undertakes to supply, is a sort of Pope in his own Tabernacle, and has not been unsuccessful Morning sub- Church at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p.

RELIGIOUS. the miraculous holds a place, this at least may oe raid, that in the Old Testament we have these denying the Lord that ougnt them. And many shall follow their pernicious ways out to starve. The young fellows are cheaper than the more mature men. They have no families, and can live on almost nothing, me churches are mostly suffering from the hard times, and want the cheapest they can get, re-trardlessof onalitv.

The ministers who have Je "tZZllZ: rirnr and evening at in keotlana. lucre are couples of ha? riers; 1,416 couples in England, 81 in Ir1.i.,T unique characteristics. first, a aemonsirauie tinuity in the component portions, thomrh these portions are numerous, diversilied in character. and 23 in Scotland. There arc couples of staghouuds: 279 couples in Encland.

anriiii th7church of the Holy Communion, on street; between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth "-The Rev. Luther Pardee will officiate morning at Calvary Church, on.rren ave- In Ireland and 2903 couples of beaeles. THE SABBATH. To the Editor cf The Tribune. West Edmestos, Otsego N.

Nov. 13. ana range over a period oi atnou-wnu ondly, not only the presence of prophecies which can be shown to have been prior to the events to Sunday School Teachers' Meeting at Farwell say notning oi ine nuntsmen and whirm reached middle liie, and who have expensive families depending on them, have to worry along as they best can. PERSONAL. whom there are about 1,000, beine nnon nne, near oamey sure.

v'" which they refer, and to have been verinea in ue-tail by those events, but a distinct continuity will officiate at Trinity Hall. The people everywhere are interested iu the labors of the revivalists who are doiue much to turn men to God in your city, and they rejoice in their success, and pray thai wherever they the method ot these propneoea, vergence in their scope." corner of Twenty-sixth street I averaee of nearly three to each pack, it mav be 6uflicient to state broadly that the 3i2 pact taking the annual cost of each at 2 OUfl i. year, which is certainly not an extravagant esti-mate entail an annual expenditure of 350 ooq. affording sport to some 50,000 people who hunt regularly. SanPrer.

GransweredT evening, 44Re-ctnt Cnitari ArgamenU Against the Divinity of Christ. mnrntn? Kow, in that passage we no nui. i- EUicott has accurately stated either the dijilcultr felt about the Scriptures by those who have ftodied the methods of historical criticisms, or the kind of answer which, if they accepted that answer as true may eo the blessing and power of the Holy Spirit may be with them. Christians can but Bishop Ellicott on Modern UnbeliefOld Testament Narrative. The Kev.

J), imiiwiii rw and evening at St. Mark'. Church, corner of Cot- tasre Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street. xage iiroveaTciiixc in the take great satisfaction In the honor that is shown the Scriptures by Mr. Moody in all his public services, and his constant and careful THE GAME OF CHESS in fact, they would thins aaequaij.

-state it thus: 'The more we learn of history, both ancient and modern, the more we learn to accept with the greatest possible reserve the evidence of a single authority uncorroborated by independent tfSCtoSC comer of Carpenter Chess Dihectort. Chicago Chess Club, No. 6a studv of their glorious doctrines. When London he said publicly, Although not a Jew, vet I usually make Saturday my day of rest." 1 see it announced that he and Mr. Sankey and 65 Washington street; open from9a.ni.

Spcrgeon's The 10 p. m. caess piayers meet uany at the Tremont House (Exchange) and the Sherman House in a material point of view. The secret or nis spiritual success lies in the fact that he is thoroughly understood by the meanest capacity. He leaves mysteries and inexplicable doctrines to minds that love torture themselves over those terrible riddles.

He deals continually with the uuty of man toward God. and he bas the art of making men not tremble at the idea of failing in duty, but feel joyously anxious to perform the duty without reserve. Fastidious 4 4 orthodoxy" may cry, tie. but, to be honest, it must confess that this eccen trie minister has been a 44 godsend to thousands in Southwark and elsewhere. DECONSECRATION.

A CCBIOC3 ENGLISH CEBEMOSY. Moncure D. Conway, in a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial, thus describes a curious ceremony which took place in London a short time ago: The house in the Barbican in which John Milton was born has now disappeared, and very soon will disappear the church in which he was baptized. That church (All Hallow-O has been solemnly deconsecrated by Bishop Claughton. transferred from Christ to the prince of this world, and it will soon be pulled down to be replaced by a warehouse.

On the external wall of this church, whose architect, after its destruction by the great fire of London, was Sir Christopher Wren about six feet from the ground, is the following inscription: Three poets In three distant places born, Greece. Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness oi tlioiiRht iurpas.it,. The next In majesty In both the last. The force of nature could no further iro; To make a third she joined tiie former two. JOHN MILTON was born in Bread street.

Friday, the 9th day of December, lw, and was baptized in the parish church of All Hallows, Broad street, ou Tuesday, the 20th day of December, 1008. It is probable that the portion of the present building holding this inscription will be preserved and incorporated in any new edifice that may be erected. It is, by the way. rather hard on the author of the "Miltonic Theory of Creation" that he should have such a Darwinian inscription in his AYork jjn London Kew School of Deacons. testimony roranj erem for any event handed down by tradition and not first recorded on contemporary evidence and most of all, for any event of a very marvellous character which, even even if recorded by contemporary evidence and by more than one separate authority, would be received with hesitation, unless we could be sure not only the writers who recorded it had a make Saturday their day of rest in connection with their efforts in Chicago.

If this practice is All communications intended fortius deuartmt the result of their study of the BiDie, it is not should be addressed to The Tblbuks, and indoraed i i TO CORRESPONDENTS. firm faith in what tney wrote, nut muv mey uu the means of discriminating fully between illusion and We should deny that ih. mode school of historical criticism Lord Plunkett has been elected to the Church of England Bishopric of Meath, Ireland. The Rev. Wayland Hoyt has consented to return to the Strong Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

Father Beckx, who has been General of the Jesuits for twenty-three years, will probably be soon raised to the Cardinalate and it is thought that he will be the successor of Pius IX. as Pope. The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, who is drawing great crowds to his Monday lectures, declines to go to the Reformed Church at Madison avenue and Fifty-seventh street, New York. He will continue his Monday lectures.

Mrs. Sewell, who has for some years been laboring as a Quaker missionary in Madagascar, is about to return to her home in London. The church at Antananarivo passed some resolutions highly complimentary of Mrs. Sewell's work. The death of Mrs.

Lucy G. Thurston, one of the original American missionaries to the Sand-w ieh Islands, is announced. She had reached her 81st year. An account of her very remarkable life aud character was a few years since given by Mr. Nordholf iu his volume on the Sandwich islands.

A son of the Rev. Dr. Cumming, of London, lately applied to be received into the Presbyterian Church of England, fn his letter he says that he was licensed bv the Established Presby strange at all, 6ince tne seventh aay or tneweeK. is the only weekly rest by the Word of the Lord. Like godly men, who accept God's truth instead of the customs and traditions of men, I hope they find that in keeping the commandments through love to Him who gave them, they are not at liberty to trample under foot the fourth, which is a part of the Correct solution to Enigma No.

9 received from would draw so broad a distinction as the Bishop in Deconsecrating a Church The Sab-hath Day The W. H. Ovington, W. Howard HalL E. jJq timates between the Kino or evidence requisite lor miraculous events, aud the kind of evidence re Watts, and E.

Semple, city. quisite for any other events. They would say that Correct solution to Problem No. 49 received ll belief should be governed by evidence, aud tnat 'perfect law for all mankind. Sin, which is the even a very ordinary and probable event onght not from E.

S. Watts, W. H. Ovington, W. Howard Hall, E.

Semple, G. S. Powell, E. Barbe. and P.

B. city; C. Brodie, Austin. 111. R.W.Eoff to be unhesitatingly accepted as true on unony-mouf evidence of which we do not know the value.

transgressor oi tne law, is wnat nrist came to redeem men from, and the aim of the Gospel is to bring all into cheerful obedience, so that the will of God mav De done on earth as in heaven. If the evangelists, bv their example. Wheeling, W. va. J.

B. Columbus. ti that the more unlikely the event, the weightier Lorenz, Milwaukee, Wis. should be the evidence by which it is authenticated Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad Church Services. shall lead many back to keep the day honored and hallowed of God.

it will be well for the and Ohio streets. reformed episcopal. The Rev. R. H.

Bosworth will preach at Jiin-manuel Church, corner of Unorcr: and Twenty-eighth streets, morningand eVVlon-Baptist Church, Englewood, for the Trinity con- Ifev1 Williamson will preach at the Good Snepherd Church at 10:30 a. m. i and m. Morning subject: "The Secret of a 'Happy Life." Mr. Williamson will preach for the ive-formed Episcopal Church in South Chicago at 3 J.

D. Cowan will preach at Grace Church, corner of Hoyne and Le Moyne streets, at J. M. Gibson, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, will preach at Christ Church, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth 10:45 a.m. Bishop Cheney will preach at night, the Plymouth Congregational Church uniting in the The Rev.

J. D. Cowan will preach at Immannel Church, corner of Centre and Dayton streets, in the morning, and the Kev. Dr. Cooper in the evening, on Instantaneous Conversion.

Bishop Fallows will preach at St. 1 aui Church, coiner of Washington and Ann streets. Subjects: Morning. hat is the Holy Catholic Church? Evening, "Revivals of Religion benei-ble ana Scriptural." The Kev. W.

E. Williamson will preach in the South Church at 3 p. m. BAPTIST. The Rev.

J. A. Smith will preach at the University Place Chnrch, Douglas avenue, at 11 a. m. Union meeting with Grace Presbyterian Church in The Kev.

H. L. Stetson will preach at the Wil-mette Church at p. m. subject, "The Faithful Saying.

The liev. II. L. Stetson will preach in the Wm-netka Church at 10:30 a. m.

subject, "Necessity of the New Birth." The First Baptist and Michigan avenne Me.no-dist Churches will unite with the First Presbyterian in the evening, and the Rev. John Williamson will preach. The Kev. W. W.

Everts will Breach in the and that in the case of a mere tradition conveyed lor many generations by the orai testimony of fathers to their children, it is hardly possible to expect that more than very broad features indeed of the national history should be faithfully handed world. ENIGMA NO. 12. BT XE. SAMUEL LOTD.

lFJrft Black. King at Kt a King HUBS Queen at 6 Hook mt 4 Knight atQsq Pawn at 3 Fawn at tj Kt 4 Fawn at QBS Fawn at Ci It 5 White to play and mate ta three moves. down, while the individual character of the critical Horace Greelev, writing against the enforcement by law of Sunday observance, said: Which dav shall we select and maintain by the civil no'wer? The Sabbath of the Jews and Seventh- SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. KOONDAT MIET1NO AT FAKWHLL HALL. The regular Sunday-school teachers' meeting Farwell Hall Yesterday noon was well at- events is almost sure to be greatly altered in the course of transmission, even through the most loval memories and the most faithful hearts.

honor as the above. The force of nature could no further gr!" Why, Huxley himself might have Thev would say, further, that in the case teded, and the proceedings were of the usual in of the Old Testament, the older narra tery of Dunoon, at one time assisted his father, was minister of a 44 broken down" church in the North of England, and latterly had been an Episcopal curate, and had come to the conclu tives are demonstrably not teresting character. A snort lime was syeui, i devotional exercises, and the remainder of the but by their frequent allusions to events of a much PROBLEM NO. 5L BT IK. J.

H. FrXLISSOX. Black. later dale prove that they assumed their present form, at all events, in a very much later age; that rn, mi rtpvntnd to the consideration of the sion that tpiscopacy was a "aespotic tyranny. even of those narratives which may be contempo The Rev.

Dr. Nevin, of Geneva, Switzerland, lesson, which was 44 Dorcas restored to life," Acta. 31 43. rarv. the evidence is very seldom confirmed from contradicts, in a letter to the Churchman, the report that Father Hyacinthc was about to enter anv independent source, and some tunes considera i wmz.

mm bly weakened by narratives of a decidedly differ the Church of llxe eloquent lat.ner The Rev. C. L. Thompson was the leader. He said they would notice the lessons turned off from the ministry of Paul to notice the work in believes that his proper work and mission is in ent complexion as, lor jusuiuce, iu iue eue ut ue Books of Kings and the Books of Chronicles) from an independent source.

Lastly, they would say France, aud in no other country, except pro the different churches. The subject had three visionally. He will remain in Geneva, hoping that the time mav come when he can return to that this condition of the evidence, so far from be ing adeauate to sustain our confidence in their tes ii wM. Oil divisions: First, somewhat of the condition of Baptists, or the Sabbath of the other sects? And he declared it as his opinion that the majority of the American people do not believe that the Sundav i3 the Sabbath by any divine appointment. The day which God has sanctified should be kept, and its observance should be urged by His authority, and not by civil enactments and penalties.

Such a course 6hould delight all 44 who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." J. B. C. SPURGEON. HIS WORK LSI LONDOS.

The following account of Charles H. Spur-geon's great work in London is taken from a review of his latest book published in the London Athenceam, and written, of course, by a sound churchman: It is a curious characteristic of Baptist history that the "churches seem to have always posess-ed few members at the close of a minister's ca: reer, and to have received great accessions of converts under a new pastor, an increase that gradually vanished as the notelty of the new leader wore off. This was, at all events, the case on the sacred grounds of Southwark. Splits, rents, and divisions in congregations took things in that direc v.ym WTt'A iim tiiuony to very extraordinary events, is hardly the churches: second, an account of the healing Paris. He recognizes Bishop Herzog in his spiritual office, but refused to accept the Old Catholic scheme of government.

enough to warrant complete belief in any but the most broad and popular aspects of ordinary events i-ZZ'Sr. VtVA of a man suffering with the palsy; and third, an account of the raising of a woman from the and that this view is confirmed by observing that in mnrninn at the First Church, corner of Park The Baptist and Methodist Churches have written it. The strange ceremony oi aeconsecra-tion, unprecedented in this century, so far i the community has yet been informed, has considerably startled th'e public. Bishop Claughton, who performed the service, tok for his text the words of one called to follow Christ: "Letme firstbury mv father, and deduced therefrom that the duty of the Church was to abandon that whose life is ended, whose utility is past, and follow the living. It is but natural that some should suggest to tue Bishop a wider application of the same principle to the whole Church, and not merely to one edifice from whose vicinity human residences have departed.

There is a vast migration of the English mind and life represented in the five centuries which intervened between the consecration and the deconsecration of All Hallows. The Bishop who performed the consecration was a man who had power to bind and loose in earth or Heaven; he could send his people to Smithfieid flames, both temporal and eternal. The Bishop who deconsecrated All Hallows represented a man utterly powerless to effect the fortunes or menace the thought of the humblest human being. Stat nomini umbra. A Bishop now compared with what he used to be Is what may be described in Strauss' phrase as a welthist'oriche humbug." If the English Church were to deconsecrate everything which the life and interest of the people have abandoned the results w.uld be rather important.

Still the ceremony was impressive, all the more because of the excited man who shouted out to the congregation to keep their hats on, as it was an act of desecration, and whose last word when thrnst out of the door, was to protest "against the deecration in the name of God!" He was a fair type of the multitude who cannot distinguish between desecration and deconsecration. proportion as the Old Testament history approaches times in which it relies on contemporary records. avenue and Thirty-first street. Baptism at the close. In the evening the congregation will unite u'lth tno Kifrh Pr.HhvIfriatl within a week each lost one of their most emi the number of the marvels dwindles, aud with the dead.

The Church at this time was only about forty years old, and there was a lull in the per-lecution which beset it in its earlier stages. It had a little time to edify to build up in the exception of a jew predictions which may or The Rev. N. E. Wood will preach mornlngand may not be of the kind whose accurate fulfill nent men, the Rev.

Richard Fuller, of the Baptists, and the Rev. J. P. Durbin, ol the Methodists. At the funeral of Dr.

Durbin it was related, in proof of his eloquence, that on one occasion he preached on the 44 Day of Judgment," kvening at the Centennial Church, corner oi ian-nln nil.IpfFpraAn r't ment can be adequately tested, there is 111 i mk mm wm A PPi HP IP wm fHi ill I no great marvel to record Now to the force of the knowledge of the Gospel. When a church or difficulty thus raised by historical criticism, lr. The Rev. Galusha Anderson will preach at the Second Church, corner of Morgan and Monroe streets. Subiects: Morning.

"A Continual Re an individual walked in the fear of the Lord it Ellicott reply seems to be quite insufficient. It and the congregation, temhea Dy tneir pastors vivid description of the approaching hour, aroso was the beirinnine of wisdom and is true, we think, that the early history of the vival;" evening, The Prodigal Son The Famine tn the Far Country. rower. If the churches were to be multiplied in in a shriek of wild panic, rushed to the win scripture narratives is very distinct in character from all other early history- It is true that a most The Rev. D.

B. Cheney will preach morning tion, and, a quarter of a century ago, "the an- dows, tore open the shutters, and wrenched the staples from the walls, in their frantic efforts to Chicago, and Christians to be increased in the Northwest, it would be because of two things that thev walked as in the very presence of God, cient society in Southwark was apparently fast approaching extinction. Chapels and exchequer and evening the Fourth Church, corner oi waan-ington and Paulina streets. The Rev. J.

W. Custis will preach at the Mich let the mid-dav sun in on tneir inward gloom and that they received the Holy Ghost lor and terror. The holes in the wall are still to be boxes, were equally empty, and probationers prov igan Avenue Church, corner of Twenty-third service. Adverting to the lirst niirucle men ed unequal to the task of filling them. At length.

seen. White. White to play and mate in two moves. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 49.

tioued in the lesson, he said there was a divine news came oi a clever, guileless, simple-minded street Subjects: Morning, 4 4 The Gilt of Love;" evening, "Jesus the Son of God." The Rev. J. D. Burr will preach In the morn lad, aged ly, who was marshaling heavenward a purpose that brought the Apostle and the sick man together. It was so in all Christian work.

DISTANTLY CONNECTED. (As amended with Black Pawn at 5.) ing at Immanuel Church, in orchard street, near poor scant' handful of Baptists, at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire. His name was Charles Hadoon Spurgeon, and he jumped, by no means eagerly, at Black. Sophia. PRESBYTERIAN Priest Now tell me, Doolan, truthfully, how takes 2..

Any move the invitation to preside the JNew rark Mreet White. 3.. Kt mates unique, characteristic, complete, anu grapme realism in its pictures of human character and life, with a permanent confidence in the hidden guidance of a divine hand, runs all through it. It is true also that there is "continuity the component portions," if we mean by continuity, continuity of faith, continuity in the attitude of mind with which calamity and prosperity are alike regarded, continuity of expectation in looking towards a still more glorious future. All this is true, and is, as Dr.

Ellicott says, very remarkable. But all this is very insufficient to remove the doubts which historical critcism casts over the trustworthiness of ail tradition, and in a less degree over all unverified historical chronicles except in relation to the Tery broadest features of the national life, which doubts are as clearly legitimate in relation to Hebrew history as to any other. Do the nnique features of that history, for instance, prevent much of its chronology from being contused, not to say impossible? many of its statistics irom being incon often do you go to the chapel Pat Well now, The Rev. E. A.

Barrett will preach at Westmin The miracles of the Bible were first acts of benevolence; second, the evidence that the persons performing them were the accredited mes-Bengcrs of the Juord; and third, they were types of spiritual disease and spiritual healing. The woman Dorcas was given to alms-deeds, like Chapel, which was six times too large for any congregation that then dropped into it. shure oi'll till yer riv'rence the truth. Faix I go ster Church, corner of reona and Jackson streets. Evening subiect: "Christ the Mediator." ihe young gentleman reply to the invitation is SOLUTION TO ENIGMA NO.

10. as often as I can avoid. The Rev. James Maclaughlan will preach at Black. the Scorch Church, corner of Sangamon ana Adams many of the Chicago women who were helping A little boy in the infant-class of a Sunday- moves worthy of the complete letter-writer.

It is strongly marked by consistency, logic, and a tender simplicity: Had I been uncomfortable in my present situr ation, 1 snould have felt unmixed pleasure at the streets, morning and evening. Evening subject "Elisha. school was asked by his teacher whether he had on the revival cause, it was ooservaoie mat the Anostle did not perform the miracle in his White. to Kt 3 2. to 3 mates Ch mates 2.

moves If 2. -K moves learned anything during the week. 44 Oh, yes, RELIGIOUS 3IISCELLANY. THE church in general. Arrangements are being made for calling the next National Congregational Council in 1877.

The Presbyterian Church at Bridgehampton, L. dates its history from the year 1640; the Presbyterian Church of Hempstead from 1644. A Congregational mission is now maintained on the coast or Labrador for the benefit of the shoremen and visiting American fishermen. The Rev. S.

R. Butler, of Northampton, is the missionary. The Primitive Methodists report, as the result own name, but in that of Christ. Had Peter The Rev. Charles I Thompson will preach at the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and said he.

44 What have you learned?" lost faith lie would not have been able to raise the woman from death; but his faith to tramp your partuei's trick," was the reply. Thirtieth street, at 10:30 a. m. Union Gospel ser vice in the evening. prospect jfrovidence seems to open up before me; but having a devoted and loving people, I feel I know not how.

One tiling I know, that I must soon be severed from them by necessity, for was firm, and the miracle was per De Witt Talmage is at home again, greatly relreshed by his vacation, and the first Sunday CHESS IN PHILADELPHIA. Flayed last fall between Messrs. Bock and Alb The Rev. .1. T.

Matthews will preach at the Reunion Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop, in the morning, and the Rev. J. H. Walker in the they do not raise sufficient to maintain me in com sistent with the facts narrated? a considerable portion of its politics from being colored by party feeling, and written from antagonistic points of view? How are we to rely on a history so full of he preached he knocked the stufiins out of the roni. The notes are by Mr.

W. N. Fotter. cushion and pounded the bare pulpit until the evening. Evening subject Hating Christ.

The Rev. Edward Barr, of Frankfort, Ind. fort. Had they done so I should have turned a deat ear to any request to leave them, at least for the present. But now my Heavenly Father drives me forth from this little garden of Eden, and whilst 8TELSITZ CAM BIT.

White Ma. Bock. will preach in the morning at the Eighth Church, people outsiue came in to see wno was piaying the bass drum. Burlington Hawk-Eye. 1 see must go out, I leave it with reluctance, and these incidental defects as is the account of the Exodus, for example, for the historical accuracy of miracles of the most unique kind: How are we to take an authority that comes inta conflict with itself, perhaps as often as even the history of corner of ashington and Robey streets.

Iso even ins service. of thirty-one years of labor in Australia, 300 churches and numerous preaching-places, with tremble to tread the unknown land before." Persons of light minds may, perhaps, smile at The late Dr. Norman McLeod used to tell this story as a specimen of a boy's theology J. 44 Atamma savs that good angels keep good an average attendance of 35,000. There are also this.

To them it will seem a little in the vein of There will be union services at the Fifth Church in the evening. Prof. John H. Hewitt will preach in the morn 15,000 Sunday-school scholars. bovs." Aunt 44 Shall I leave the candle burn another Christian letter-writer, who informed a correspondent: "I will be with you (ly.

V. on on Monday; but at all events, on Tuesday." Others Herodotus, tor marvels which, though much less puerile, and more worthy of the occasion, than the marvels of Herodotus, would yet need as great a consensus of testimony as any which the cond tions of modern history could suppiy in order ing at the Fourth Church, corner ol itush ana superior streets. No evening service. Eleven conferences of the Methodist Protestant Church have occurred iu calling a general Convention for 1S77 to consummate a union may remember the old Scottish lady, in Gait An nals of the Parish," who. afflicted at the announce The Rev.

Henry T. Miller will preach in the morning at the Sixth Church, corner of Yincennes and Oak avenues. Subject: 4 At the Forks of the to win belief from a modern historian? What, for instance, to take a practical illustration, can we say of the evidence for the with the Methodist Church. Botu of these bodies are small non-Episcopal Methodist branches, which were separated by the slavery ment of her young, favorite pastor, that a call from the Lord would take him to a distant parish, asked him if he wonld get a greater stipend formed. The news of the miracle spread through Joppa, and many believed in consequence ihereot.

They had not seen the miracle periormed, but they had heard the report of it, and placed faith in it. It was a cheering sign of religious progress that the silent messages in tne newspaper reports oi the revival were bearing good fruit. Jlany were being brought to a knowledge of the truth through the newspapers who lived miles away from Chicago. They were in the presence of miracles now that just paled those ot the Bible. They saw men raised irom the grave where corruption and biu had held them in adamantine chains, cloLLed and in their right minds, showing the almighty power ol GoU to save.

The religion ol Jeiu.s Christ was but one illuminated miracle all the time; it was the miracle of the love of God to the children of men. A tidal wave had come, and they ought to be borne on its crest. icu, he believed, had one grand opportunity in liie to be saved, and he urged them "to accept the gift now. It would make their lives a blessing to countless souls, aud be the richest joy to their hearts to know that, like Dorcas, they uad been lowly and humble and served others. Alter a hyrun had been sung, the discussion of the sub'ect was continued' by the Kev.

Mr. Road. mon Gospel services in the evening. METHODISf. question.

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takes 31. to 4 ch ch in the new district. The reply was in the affirmative, and the oid lady's comment thereupon was to the eti'ect that, if the stipend bad bon less, the The Rev. S. H.

Adams will preach at Centenary Church, Monroe street, near Morgan, morning and evening. Morning subject: Significance of the KttoBS 0 4 3 toQS (a) 8.. tikes takes Kt to 3 takeB 14.. to Kt 2 H4 20. takes (f) 22..

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Lowrv, the converted Lord mignt have calleujn vain, for the minister Jewish Burnt Offering. would not have heeded it. The Rev. Dr. Tiffany will preach at Trinity sweetening of the waters of Jericho by Elisha? Can the brief narrative in which no contemporary evidence is even alleged, and which bears on its very face the proof of having been recorded long after the incident was supposed to have taten place, pretend for a moment to tate its place among the events of authentic history? Unless the documents in which it is contained can be proved bv any a priori proof to be inspired, and Dr.

Ellicott noes not even suggest this. the most that can lie said is that it is similar in character to many other traditions in the same history, and not more marvelous than they. But is that a ground on actress. The church is nightly crowded, and the altar filled. The pastor, the Rev.

J. W. Weston, cnurcn, Indiana avenue, near Twenty-iourtn street, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p.

m. from broken-down health, is unable to render The Rev. S. McChesney will preach at Park any assistance. Avenue cnurcn at a.

m. ana p. m. A union Gospel service of the West-End Bap tist, Methodist, and Congregational churches will 44 Financial embarrassments is what they call it in the Berkeley Street Church, Boston. be held in the Western Avenue Church, corner of Whatever it is, it drives away the pastor, the Rev.

William B. Wrkrht. the church of Monroe street, The Rev. John Williamson will preach in the which even a remarkable non-miraculous event would oe accepted as historical if it appeared in any other history than a book of the Old Testament: which Dr. H.

M. Dexter, editor of the Conarega- ing Are you frightened J. 44 Yes no yes; leave it burning." Aunt 4' What are you frightened for?" J. 44 Rats." Aunt 44 Think, dear, about the good aneels." J. 44 Can they kill rats?" San Antonio Herald.

In Ward No. 5, a few evenings ago, a fond mother undertook to teach her little boy the Lord's Prayer. The little fellow repeated the words after her until she came to: 44 Give us this dav our daily bread." Then he paused, aud seemed to be thinking very hard. At last he said 44 There ain't no use asking God for that bread. You can't humbug God that way, ma, for He is everywhere, and He knows we have done eat supper, and He must have seen that big plate lull of biscuits in the safe, and if we try to fool Him He'll catch us out on the fly, first pop." There are a number of middle-agedgentlemen, who, thinking themselves endowed by nature with oratorical ability, visit Sunday-schools to display their speech-making qualities.

One of these gentry had a round of four or five schools which he visited regularly and as regularly bored, ending his orations invariably with Amen! While visiting one of the schools, the Superintendent, out of courtesy, asked him if he desired to say a few words to the school. 44 Wa'al, yes, I'll say just a word or two and, straightening himself up, he began: "Wa'al, chil'un, the Superintendent wants me to speak to ver! Neow, what 6hall I say what shall I talk about A bright little fellow, about four years of ase, sitting in the front seat, who evidently had heard the orator before, jumped to liis feet, and lisped out loud enough to be heard all over the schoolroom: 44Thay and thit down morning at the Michigan-Avenue Church, corner of Thirty-second street. The congregation will Parkhurst. lie said the lesson tiiey should de tionalist, was pastor. Its whole history has been Bock surrenders.

rive was that all might serve the Lord in a unite witk the Fifth Fresbvterian in the evening. one of struggle against duhculties. fal Mr. Steinitz rjlaved here asuinst Mr. Rosen practical way.

Many mmisters of churches tuat The Key. William C. Willing will preach iu the Following the example of the Mohammedans could uul oav small salaries had oeen com morning at the Langley-Avenue Church, corner of pelled to give up their lite-insurance policies. of Bombay, a number of the Mohaminedaus of For our own parts, while we accept what Bishop Ellicott says of the unique character of the Old Testament history; while we cordially believe that its continuous and indelible realism in painting man, and its constant and deep belief in the providence of God afford a testimony at once to the honesty of the narratives and the deep foundation of hebrew history in a genuine revelation, we can not recognize any feature in it which should assure us against those great mistakes of detail which oc xnirty-ninth street. No evening service.

The Kev. John Atkinson will preach at Grace He suggested that many could house impecuni Madras held a public meeting upon Oct. 7 to ex- ous pastors during the Convention this weeK, Dress sympathy witn lurkey. ine corresponu- Church, corner of LaSalle ana hue streets. Evening snbiect: "Wash and Be Clean." thai, in the Baden Baden Tourney, 7..

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and in doiu that they would be doing God ent of the London Times, however, expresses The Kev. A. W. Patton will preach morning ereat service, for the ministers would be so the opinion that the bulk of the Mohammedans ana evening at the Vt abash Avenue Church. The Rev.

George II. Peeke will preach in the stremrtnened bv the power of the Holv Spirit of India know little and care less about 1 uriiey. The Roman Catholics report a great miracle at that they would return to their charges and per cur in all otber history especially as we do find here and there those remarkable inconsistencies between one part of the history and another which are characteristic of all human authorsuip. aud (b) An important rejoinder, which leaves Black form miracles in GoU's service. morning at the Western Avenue Church.

CHRISTLAN. A. J. White will preach at the Central Church, After entering upon his duties, Mr. Spnrgeon soon made his influence felt in Southwark chapel.

He had asked those in authority to have regard to his youth and inexperienc, and to judge leniently any of his hasty and unpremediated words. He soon made that once half-empty edifice as hot as the black hole in Calcutta. His own sonl lacked elbow-room, and up went one of the first of the pulpit sky-rockets which he delighted in exploding, it took this r'orm By faith tne walls of Jericho fell down, and by faith this wall at the back shall come down, too." This offended an aged and prudent Deacon," who, in somewhat domineering tones, said to the modest youth: Let us never hear of that again 1" What do you mean?" rejoined the young and inexperienced lad; "you will hear no more about it when it is done, and therefore, the sooner you see about doing it the better." The result was that vestry and schoolroom were laid into the chapel, while the congregation assembled at Exeter Hall. Mr. bpurgeon speaks with bated reverence of the aged, prudent, and interfering Deacons of the oiden time.

"Since our sojourn in London." he remarks, we have seen the last of a former race of Deacons fine, gentlemanly men, rather stiff and unmanageable; not quite to our mind, but respectable, prudent grandees of dissent, in semi-clerical dress, with white cravats. His present staff of Deacons he describes as peculiarly lovable, energetic, warm hearted, generous men, a description which he seems to make the more readily, as we may hope to live with them another quarter of a century." The Deacon who gave his young minister the first rap of the knuckles had been in authority under Dr. Kip-pon, and under a later pastor, James Smith, whose dytug words may ba said to jump with Mr. Spnr-geon's humor, and are thus recorded: I am just like a packet thut is all ready to go by train, packed, corded, labeled, paid for, and on the platform, waiting for the express to come by and take me to glory. I wiu I could hear the whistle now This is much in the Spurgeon way, with less audacity.

When he speaks of his present Deacons as hearty and good yoke fellows, we are reminded of an ob Munich, Germany. A nuu, who was a confirmed with the superior game. Dr. Everts also made a few pertinent remarks cripple and could not walk, was consciously ira especially ot the authorship of an uupracticed and (c) The Pawn cannot be protected aeainet a sec corner Van Buren and Campbell avenue, at 3 on the topic pelled to swallow som? threads of a relic of the easiiv believing age. It seems to us that ond attack.

Nevertheless, 11.. to ti was historical criticism makes an unanswerable p. m. MISCELLANEOUS. Frof.

Swing said the miracles seemed to him to have been appointed to hold up the idi Weak: to 4 wonld consolidate Black's case against the habit of assigning anything arments of a priest who was shot by the Paris louimuae in 1S71. As soon as she had eaten the threads she was restored to complete health, The Rev. S. K. Konler will preach in English at like very high authority as to detail to sucii his position and give him means for a successful Church in its first uays while it was weak.

As soon as Christianity became known by ex tories as the earlier narratives of the Old Testa the Sinai Temple, corner of Indiana avenue and Twenty-first street, at 10 p. on "The Origin and all her lameness vani6hea. (e) very tempting, but not quite sound. Black and Significance of the Sabbath and Its Indispensa- crauilv Mat, ment, ana that no one can reasonably believe in any very hign authority for them except on some snch ground as infallibility of the Church, whose scriptures they form. But as we cannot The second General Convention of the New Jerusalem Church in Germany has been held at Stuttgart.

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Shepherd will preach at the corner or wenty-tiitn street ana Indiana avenue at 11 a. see anv proof of such infallibility, and, indeed, ministry, among whom was the Rev. E. (I) Best; 11 20. takes Kt, Black wins ny toRGch, 21.

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Oue of the five candidates ordained the rest, aud was (if) All this is very ingeniously played, and air. The Christiana will meet at the ChaneL No. 318 the whole, the kind of hesitation which historic himself ordained in turn hy one of the new min est cnicago avenue, stop. in. Alberoni deserves all praise for the rare qualities which he displays in this fight against heavy numerical odd.

isters. The Society has 177 members. jurs. u. it.

rapett win preacn at the Tabernacle, No. fll Sonth Green street, morning and evening. (h) White throws the eame away; to save nis criticism has taught us in accepting the details of Old Testament history especially the early history is well justified. Not the less we should maintain that the coherent belief of the prophets and historians in the divine purpose which formed Israel into a distinct people, and molded it for a The Boston Moody and Sankev Committee perience in the hearts of the people its miracles were taken away, and it had stood ever since in its own name. But after the literal miracles "Were withdrawn the spiritual miracles camp miracles to heal those palsied stricken with Bin.

Last Weauesaay when coming into this room, he met a man whom he knew to have been stricken with sin for ten years and yet some one of the Peters going around had managed to raise him into the full light of Christ. ltot a single infirm person, however, would rise from the palsy of sin uuless unless a human servant stepped in. God did not iuterlcre direct in such cases. One of the great lessons to be derived from the topic was that between every sick soul some human being was standing to carry to it the salvation of Jesus Christ. Mr.

"Bentley and Bishop Cheney also made short addresses, after which the meeting closed With the benediction. The Disciples of Christ will meet at No. 229 Oueen he sacrifices the The following line est Randolph street at 4 p. m. have received in subscriptions toward the erection of their proposed tabernacle.

The of play gave White an easy won game, 1 think: Mrs. ora l. lappan will lecture before the First Society of Spiritualists at Grow's Hall, morn work of erection will begin in a few days, ing anu evening, subject chosen by the audience. 26. takes 29..

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Manning is the Chair and White is out of danger, and has Rook, two Bishops, and two Pawns for the Queen. promptu inspirational poem. servation we once heard him make, which showed at least his sympathy for humankind and intelligence. When in difficulties, he could only be understood, he said, and be helped by fellow-men about him; indeed, if in liaptist business perplexities, the angel Gabriel were to come to him with an offer or ine ev. u.

o. Barnes will preach in the Han CHESS IN BERLIN. son Street Chapel, corner of Paulina street, in the morning, and at the County Hospital at 3 p. m. The Kev.

Edmund Belfonr will preach at the FRENCH DEFEXS SK. man of the Committee on Preparatory Services D. E. Snow is the Treasurer of the building fund. The Rev.

Dr. Burgess, of Springfield, criticises Bishop Stevens (Protestant of Pennsylvania, fur ordaining recently a deaf- English Church of the Holy Trinity (Lutheran), aid, he would say, Ga oriel, go back to your singing, and leave me with mortals, who understand my condition and need." In the same ser corner of North Dearborn and Erie streets, at 11 mon in wnich the above observation was a a. iu. ana 7:30 p. m.

The liev. W. F. Stewart will preach at the Tay sermon preached in "our brother's chapel in a lor School-House, South Chicago, in the morning. Ihe Kev.

Dr. Hibbard will preach at the New western suburb. Mr. Spurgeon remarked that the crowded congregation before him comprised more thau "our brother's ordinary audience." Such superfiux he humorously characterized as being Black Herk StOLX. K3 H4(?) takes QP KttoBa (a) takes 10..

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oyie, 10 tne mimsiry. lie says: 44 The Apostolic canons forbade the ordinat.on of those defective in the senses or grievously maimed, but permitted them to olflcTate if by accident such results were reached alter ordination, or if it were the result of persecution. These canons are not regarded as binding upon corner of Washington street and Ogden avenue, at ter, and declare it to the rest of the earth; and that their national character had been formed if not exactly by the experience described, yet by extterience more or less closely resembling it iu the confidence it had given them in the mighty hand and outstretched arm of Jehovah for the very purpose for which it was ultimately used by the Divine power. It is quite one thing to say that all these curious old books, full of the evidence of human imperfection, not only on the subjects treated, but in the persons who treated them, are to be implicitly trusted as accurate records, though they neither claim inspiration for themselves nor show any trace of completeness and exceptional accu.acy, and quite another, and a very different thing indeed, to accept them heartily as the reflection of a true faith, extending through many ages, in the guiding hand of a God who was not only teaching the people whose history they embody the lesson of righteousness, but filling them with the expectation of a destiny which would, through their race, life, and light, and hope in a broad stream of regenerating power into the Christian vagrants," and. he added, with his Respect for the body ecclesiastical does not Ere vent the traveling of this story through the ntrlish papers The Bishop of Lichfield bath a taste for walking, and on one occasion, some time ago, he walked from a church in the back country to the railway-station, where he was to take the train for home.

On the way, he happened to observe a group of men sitting: together on the trround, ana immediately resolved to 44 say a word in season to them, after the fashiou of the Caliph Haroun or the average district tract distributor. 4 Well, my good men," said his Lordship, in-cofpiito, 44 what are you doing?" The response of one of the men was not calculated to please and encourage the amiable prelate. 44 We bin a loyin'," he said. 44 Lying said the horrified Bishop. What do you mean Why, yer see," was the explanation, 4'one of us fiin a kettle, and we bin a-tryin' who can tell the bissrcct lie to have it." "Shocking!" said the Bishop, and, improving; the occasion, he proceeded to impress upon the sinners the enormity of lyinz.

He informed them that he had been taught that one of the greatest sins was to tell a lie, and, in fact, so stronjly had this been urged upon bim that never in the whole course ot bis liie bad he told a lie. Would that we might relate how those wicked men were moved and charmed by the recital of such saintliness Alas no sooner had the excellentx Bishop made this announcement than there was a gleeful shout: Gie th' governor th' kettle Gie th' governor th' kettle CHURCH SERVICES. congregational. The Kev. E.

F. Williams will preach at the Forty-seventh Street Church at 10:45 a. m. Service at the Forty-fifth Street School-House at 3 p. m.

The Itev. W. L. Blackburn will preach at Plymouth Church, Michigan avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, at 10:30 a. m.

The congregation unite with Christ Churck, corner of Twenty-fourth street and Michigan avenue, in the evening. The Rev. D. N. Vandefveer will preach morning and evening at the I'nion Park Church, corner well-known refined playfulness, that he should like to send such vagrants away "with a Ilea in their KJ p.

111. The Kev. J. Ieham Bliss, of Burlington, will MODERX UXBEMEF. BISHOP ELLICOTT REVIEWED.

The London Spectator of Oct. 2S carefully, and ta the main justly, reviews Bishop Ellicott's views on modern unbelief in an article well worth perusal. It is as follows The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has been delivering this week a aeries of thoughtful addresses on the prevalent unbelief of the day. in which be describes that unbelief as rather a vague and driftless tendency than a fixed state of rami; nay, toe uuoelievers. he says, have so completely succeeded in suspending their judgments that they hardly believe even in their own unbelief.

He traces this condition of things chiefly to three causes, to the impres-ion. produced by the historical criticism of modern times, of the vast un-tertaiutv attending ull ancient history, end es ear." Wc remember, too. that some nortions of preach St. Paul's Church, Hyde Park, morning us, but the policy oi the Church may be seeu in paradisiacal pleasures for the faithful elect would consist in the consumption of lumps of delight them." (a) Kt to 2 is better. (b) An elegant and, what is better, a corraa CALENDAR FOR TIIE WEEK.

The Rev. Knowlcs Shaw, Evangelist, and re move. uiiwwBuuuo cic uiauc wmi a ury simplicity that seems common to "Baptized believers." It will be remembered that, in 185(1, when Mr. Spurgeon was preaching to (O to 4 ch wonld not avail against the rr cently pastor of the First Christian Church, corner Indiana avenue and Twenty-fifth street, last week a meeting with the Fifth Street EPISCOPAL. Not.

19 Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity. CATHOLIC. ply to 3. The best was takes U.Hhaci zeUuny. persons in the Music Hall in tiin Snrrov Gardens, a panic was followed by a rush, in Ao.

19 Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pente world. cost; Elizabeth of Hungary, St. "CHESS BRILLIANT." BUT LOPEZ. Christian Church in Covington, Ky. The effort resulted in 104 being added to the church, all but six or eight by confession and baptism.

Among the converts were four Roman Catholics. The house was thronsred from the commencement, and great interest was maniiest throughout. Mr. Shaw, after a brief sojourn with the church here, has again left, to hold a rontian, f. Al.

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14. In last Sunday's Tbtbcsb the Rev. Brooke Ilerford attempts to vindicate himself. As a specimen of his remarkable logic, let us take the following: 4' Martin Luther, in his celebrated reply to Eck, has this excellent sentence 4 It is certainly impudent in any one to teach, as the philosophy of Aristotle, any dogma which cannot be proved by his You grant this. Well, then, it is a fortiori the most impudent of protracted meeting witn the Cnristiau Church in South Bend, Ind.

The Association in Ireland for tne Advocacy of the Sunday-Closing of Public-Houses bas opened its winter campaign with undiminished visor. At the annual meeting which was held in the first part October, letters of approval were read Irom the Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Cullen, Lord O'liagan, Mr. Lowe, M. Mr. Gladstone, and many other prominent per Black mates in five moves.

BUILDING. I will liter. Mm unfa a mrlM mn which built Wl house uioa a rock. which seven lives were sacrificed, and many were grievously wounded and mutilated. The chapel minutes thankfully record that, in this sad calamity, the lives of their beloved pastor, the deacons, and members were all preserved." Mr.

Spurgeon himsclt sees in the calamity a means to an end: "It turned out, in the Providence of God, to be one of the most powerful means of turning public attention to special services, and I do not doubt it has been the mother of multitudes of blessings. To the special services held by this admirauie logician, he says, "all classes came, both high and low. We have before us a list of the nobility who attended the Music-Hall." but, he auds, "as we never felt any great elation at their attendance, or care to have their presence blazoned abroad, we will not in sert the names. It was a far greater joy to us, savs Mr. Spurgeon, that hundred, came who were led to seek the Lord, and to find eternal life in Him." The Baptist minister detested the wicked aristocracy he received their alms, but he was not to be deceived by their liberality.

He showed himself to be almost as acute as the famous monk of Prague, who professed to be able to tell an honest man from a knave, simply by the smell. Although Mr. Spurgeon's book is often marred by bad ta-tL-, vulgarity, and an offensive familiarity with Providence, there remains the irrefutable proof of his having accomplished much. Out of the old chapel, with its scanty congregation, has sprung the Tabernacle, holding its thousands, and in connection with it has arisen the Pastor's college, sufficiently endowed to send Baptist missionaries to the ends of the earth. What the one solitary Calvmistic missionary, who is set down at work in China, can ba doing among the millions of yellow heathens, is not told, but we readily give him credit for courage as great as that of Francis Xavier.

To the other achievments named above must be added the Orphanage, which is open, as far as its means will allow, to the narentlesa. irre all things to aflirm in the church and among Christians anything that Jesus Christ Himself cnuysoemus, m. Xov. 25 St. Catherine, V.

M. AUTUMM-W1NDS. Autumn-winds are stealing round. Summer breezes fly ine; Lnscions fruits bedeck the ground, Flower and leaf are dying. Leaves ah who can paint their glo Garnet, browu, and vellowj Blending sweetly ere they eo, A picture warm and mellow.

Huntsmen now have left the moor. Game have gone to burrow Farmer Jones, his labor o'er, Will turn no other furrow. Cackling birds seek milder climes Lowing herds wend Snails lie furled for other times, Clouds roll fiercely onward. Suns once torrid now are cold. Nature's harvest ended Lo the Seasons must grow old, Man and months are blended.

Should he then with less provide For a sojourn endless Death and Hell may soon divide Will he journey friendless pecially all history involving stories of miracles; to the advance of scientiilc notions, which seem to dispense with the creative energy of God; and to he new intensity with which the enigmas of life, the moral and metaphysical difficulties involved in the origin ol eviJ, are urged ipon the imagination of all of us. So far as regards the last two heads, we very much agree with the Bishop's remarks. So far as we have yet seen them, they seem to be both acute and fair. But on the subject of historical criticism we cannot at all concur with the Bhthop, who leemt to us to do injustice to his opponents and to miss the point of the difficulty with which he has to deal. The leading position of the recent historical criticism "ha always been the siimc, says the Bishop.

44 that any narrative of facts which involves the miraculous element in it must, for this very reason, be regarded with the greatest suspicion. It is urged that early history in its earliest forms is found to involve nearly always the miraculous, but that investiiration and close examination have never failed to show that the evidence on which the alleged miracles rest is totally untrustworthy. If this be so with all ancient history, why. it is said, is the ancient history of the Jewish people to be supposed to form any exception to the general principle? by. too.

It is added, is the same miraculous element in the history of the ew Testament to he regarded otherwise loan as marking a prinut facie reason why the aarrative should not be regarded as historically cred-'bler The answer to these oojections ishap-jily clear and reasonable, and has of late been set 'orth with considerable ffvrce and cogency. The answer, roughly stalTd, is this: The narrative the old Testament, and still more that of the Sew Testament, is so essentially diuerent in aature and character from that of the early and legendary narratives with which they have been compared, that the presence of the miraculous clement in the one sussests no uet ground for concluding, merely because that element is present in the other, that the associated narrative is consequently mythical and untrustworthy. If the narratives are essentially diaerent in character, then the very utmost that can be is this, that the presence of the miraculous may raise a presumption against the credibility of the narratlve, mtfr.nnt tounv tnvt'Htiiration of the nature oi bas not taught." Does Mr. Herford pretend to say that these two cases are parallel! Christ says in plain words to His Disciples, 44 He that heareth you, hcareth Me," and again, "It is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." On the day of Pentecost the Apostles were "filled with the Holy Ghost," which should 44 guide them in all truth." of Ashland avenue and aslnngton street. The liev.

L. T. Chamberlain will preach morn-in and evening at the New England church, corner of Delaware place and Dearborn street. 'i he liev. Burke F.

Leavitt will preach morning and evening at Lincoln Park Church, corner of iloliawk and Sophia streets, unitarian. The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach at the Church of the Jlessiali. corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-third street, a. in.

on "Inspiration;" at 7:45 p. in. he will lecture on "The liible Teachings of Heaven and Hell. The Kev. E.

P. Powell will preach in the morning at the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Lafun streets. Subject: "The Necessity of Positive Keligion. No evening service. The Kev.

Mr. Forbnsh will preach in the morning and the Kev. Robert Collyer in the evening at nity Church. cnitersalist. Alow shall we build Upon the rock of Truth.

When? While time is still for us To-day. Howr With honest purpose lay in youth Foundation sure, nor time nor death can sway. The superstructure raise with jealous care; In Justice lay each stone, as in cement; In Wisdom place each fitting portion where The best bestowed for nse or ornament. Buttress all firmly with a faithful life; Polish with Love each tower and finial; Finish with Charity; in bold relief Let this great virtue modify the whole. Then, when the storms of Life affright his soul Whose house is trembling on the shifting sand.

The building built for God remaineth whole-It stands secure, and shall forever stand. November, 187U. C. B. Cabix.

DISILLUSION. Hence, they spake ana wrote as they were moved bv the Holy Ghost. Did Aristotle thus inspire the expounders of his philosophy If not, can Mr. Herford's ar- sons. In regard to the amount of drinking in Insh cities, the Recorder of Doublin stated at a recent licensing session that Dublin was fast becoming a sink of intoxicat ion," aud that something must be done to check tne drunkenness of the working classes.

The Congregation Bnai-Sholom having beeun the erection of their bouse of worship on Michigan avenue, between Fourteenth aud Fifteenth streets, and it now being about completed, for the purpose of assisting iu its finishing, the lady members and their lrieuds have made arrangements to hold a grand lair, which is to be opened Monday evening, Dec. 4, and kept open every evening during said week (except Friday) also, Tuesday aud Thursday afternoon. The ladies have been quite busy for the past two months with the necessary preparations to make the affair so attractive and interesting that success may confidently be expected. The Presbyterian papers undertake to prove that there is a demand for more ministers basing their position on the fact that that nearly all the new ones from the seminaries find places. Out ot eiehty-seven 44 new crop ministers from the three" principal seminaries, Union, Princeton, and Allegheny, seventy-seven have procured situations as" pastors.

It is true enough that these new mtn have been located; but "there is another fact which bears upon the case, namely, i that their pastorates have been seemed at tiie gument be considered fair Does he not plain ly seek to bedazzle the eves of unwary readers? Mr. H. professes, I believe, to accept as true The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach at the Chnrch of the Redeemer, corner of Washington and Sanga what Christ Himself has taught, but this is a mon streets, in the evening, on "The Laws of mere pretense, lor sucn an admittance, as a Christian conversion." The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach at the Englewood Old School-House in the mominsr spective of creed and without any canvassing for votes.

It is clear that Mr. Spurgeon cannot only work upon the feelings of his audiences, but can get to the bottom of their purses. He can Chicago, IU. Stella S. Coatswobth.

necessary consequence, establishes the authority of the Apostles, and, in fact, the veracity of the whole Bible. To let "every man preach the Gospel as he understands it" is a very loose The Cost of JEnzIisSi London Standard. foundation to stand on Detween tnat ana infi uo more man open nearts and wring shillings from the brethren; he has found a sister voluntarily furnishing tens of auc statistics as 10 the number of nackn delity I would rather choose the latter. The 130 asanas or pounds lor really useful purposes. inexiev.

ur. nyuer in preaca at tit. fanl Church, on Michigan avenue, near Sixteenth street. Tne tnird of the course of lectures to young men will be delivered in the evening. Subject: The Vonn Man in the Street; or, The Temptations of Life.

The Rev. J. W. Hanson will preach at the Church of the Redeemer in the morning. EPISCOPAL.

whole Bible or none at all. If the Christian re k- uom are, perhaps, but. before taking her money, he ascertained that auewcr to tnose wno maintain that ligion has no better foundation than Mr. The golden light has faded, paled to gray. The foolish ureaiu is ended, lio your way I The rose you gave me withered on my heart! Your love was like the dead roae.

We must part. All words are idle mockery pass them by! Kecks not or true or false. Love scorns tue lie. Shadows for sunshine, gold to gray, Aalies lor roses, ti roar war 1 jou ihe narrative, but that it is on the results of a uuntinzisontne uecime. It must be remetn- gives it, we cannot justly blame infidels for investigation of the document Itself that the e- lirououncine it a stupendous fraud.

none of the heirs of her own household suffered unjustly by her gifs to him. Mr. Sonrgeon has won thousands of hearers, as well as of pounds. We can very well see that Mr. Spurgeon, having no wicu meu pacs, some of which hunt nve and none less than two dav a cision must ultimately be formed.

Now, without entering urtiier into the nature of the Holy Scrip Is not the prophecy of Peter fulfilled, that The Bev.Wi II. Hopkins will preach at St. altogether, and taking into account some seven.